The Testament of Sherlock Holmes Review (dantedoomsday)
If your game doesn't start when I press play then that's an automatic thumbs down. Seems like this issue has been around for over a decade. I found a thread from 2013 that talks about the issue, and this game came out in 2012. The devs clearly didn't care about fixing it. The way I fixed the issue is at the bottom of this review.
Once I got the game working, I enjoyed the story. I got stuck a few times and needed a guide because I was missing a single clue that prevented me from progressing. Some clues require pinpoint accuracy on where to click to get them.
Bonus: for a brief period of time you get to play as Toby the dog!
The 3 children that pop up throughout the story are the most frightful things I've ever seen in a video game.
A possible solution if you click to play the game and it doesn't start. The info below is from two Steam discussion threads for the game. They both had a link but I'm not posting it. If you just google the specific NVIDIA drive below then you'll find it. *You may need to use another browser if it doesn't let you download it from the browser you normally use.
1. Please uninstall the current NVIDIA PHYSX drivers:
- Open Computer then click Uninstall or change a program.
- Uninstall the NVIDIA PHYSX drivers and restart the computer.
2. Search the internet, download, and install the NVIDIA PHYSX 9.12.613 drivers:
- Save the file PhysX-9.12.0613-SystemSoftware.msi on the hard disk.
- Once the download done, run PhysX-9.12.0613-SystemSoftware.msi and follow the instructions.
3. Run the game.