Flash Review #5: "Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper" (2009)

By contrast to the previous game, this entry takes a sudden swerve into the harrowing, with the added knowledge that the crimes Holmes and Watson are investigating actually happened. There’s an unexpected emotional realism (only partially let down by the graphics) when Holmes is visibly disoriented by shock upon discovering the mutilated body of one of the victims. While you can question the good taste of rendering real crimes in such detail for a game, it reaches a surprisingly convincing and well-researched conclusion, avoiding the usual “a conveniently famous Victorian was the Ripper!” solution that you often find in fiction.