I expect that barely anyone would notice apart from me anyway. Many of the actors seem to speak in London accents which don't seem to quite fit, or have an accent which sounds too modern, but I suppose that is hard to mask. To me, even though I had seen a documentary on Jack The Ripper in the past, it never conjured up the world and setting and hopelessness of the surroundings that this game got across. There is a lot of detail, and it really gave the game the right atmopshere for investigating this mystery.
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The street furniture, the smog and filth, the prostitution, the gin-soaked population, the clothing, the prevalance of illness and medical practices of the time, and quietly negative attitudes between different people towards each other, all seem to fit well. Graphically, the streets of late 19th century London have been faithfully recreated (well, from what I imagine from historical pictures and from living around English buildings of around the right age). It seems like a great deal of research went into this game. The authenticity of this game is excellent. I liked it, but if you are the type of gamer who feels like a game requires action scenes in order to be enjoyable, you probably ought to give this game a miss. Most of the gameplay is walking around examining and picking up objects and talking to people, with many minigame puzzles to solve. I played in 3rd person all the way through. The game is played with you playing as Holmes or Watson (whichever is appropriate to the scene), in either 3rd person fixed-camera perspective or 1st person view - switchable at the press of a button. Watson investigate the real-life case of Jack The Ripper, which was contemporary to when the stories were set. It's a pure puzzle adventure game in which Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's famous fictional sleuthing duo of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. It was quite a short game, and not that difficult. I played the Xbox 360 version of this from start to end, gaining all 1000 achievement points in the process. It was going cheap in the January sales though, and I felt like playing a detective game as a warm-up before Heavy Rain comes out. "Sherlock Holmes VS Jack The Ripper" sounds too much like a "I wonder what would happen if you get these two famous names." type simple fanfic. The title of this game almost put me off it. I'm just interested because it looks like another Dogtanian or Willy Fogg. The DVD box says on the side: "Hayao Miyazaki and Kyousuke Mikuriya's Sherlock Hound The Complete Series", though it appears that Miyazaki only had involvement in a few episodes. Sherlock Hound's car seems to be as much of an assistant as Watson! The first episode seemed to be quite action oriented, but the second episode had more eagle-eyed detective work. Well, actually Inspector Lestrade might take some getting used to, hehe. The British accents don't sound overdone, which was a concern I had.
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There are only 4 names so they're doubling up, but it's very good considering that they are also probably from the 1980s. The cast aren't so bad, they're voice actors whose names I recognise from US cartoons, not specifically as anime dub actors.
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It cost £17.99 for this 26 episode 5 DVD box set, and the series is presented as dub-only. It's an exclusive to the shop HMV, and although the release date is the 1st of February 2010, my preorder copy arrived today. The series was dubbed into English and was renamed "Sherlock Hound", and is now being released by Manga Entertainment on DVD after all these years. Like "Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds" and "Around the World with Willy Fogg", it features animals as the main characters. In Japan, it was known as "Meitantei Holmes". In the 1980s, there was a cartoon series that was a Japanese-Italian co-production, very loosely based on the Sherlock Holmes stories.