This is without a doubt the worst Sherlock Holmes game in the whole series for me. I hate it. I hate Arséne Lupin from the bottom of my heart and I want to never ever see him again!

Visuals are fine, but filled with a few graphic glitches like walking through a closed door. Music is of a classical genre, but as there repeat only a few tracks it can get tiresome in the long run. Voice acting remains varied between good and bad. Gameplay is still the same, now for the first time the game begins with a tutorial and most of the game elements get introduced. You can again choose to play from first or 3rd person view (and yet again I have found the first person view more appealing). Big improvement is that when you are required to answer one of the many questions you can freely access Sherlock's diary and check the notes! What hasn't improved much is that sometimes you can answer very vaguely and sometimes you have to answer in precise wording. This inconsistency usually leads to a big confusion and later frustration.
If you ever become stuck you can use the in-game guide which is pretty neat. It won't spoil you right away on the puzzle as it will offer you hints and by them you can try to solve it. Sadly the answer doesn't offer an insight on how exactly you should have realized such a solution (and I would love to know in some cases).

Main focus of the game is puzzles and there are a lot of them. You will spend all the time going from one puzzle to another without a proper break. There is a huge amount of backtracking in every location you visit (Tower of London and Museum are the most ridiculous) and after the second location I just wished for it to be over soon… seemed to me like an eternity.

The beginning is quite promising. During breakfast Sherlock and Doctor Watson are going through new mail, when they stumble upon a letter by famous French thief, Arséne Lupin. In it he states that in a few days he is going to rob England of its five most valued items and by doing so he will utterly shame the Englishmen. As Sherlock can't stand such impudence, he accepts this challenge and promises to catch Lupin before he can fulfill his threat! Hints hidden in the letter lead our duo into the National gallery. There we have to deduce which one of the paintings is gonna get stolen. Even though we run around the gallery like idiots it's fun. We get to learn some facts about the presented arts and the riddles are quite reasonable.
The second area, Tower of London, stops being fun and instead turns into despair. Our main objective is to search for birds in the location, but the area is so insanely large that discovering them is almost a miracle. I thought that they would be making some sounds that would lead us to them… yeah, they do, but only if you step on the right but utterly tiny spot! The bird is on the ramparts, you search underneath them, but nothing happens so you go to search elsewhere… though luck, you just missed that spot! I have spent soooooo much time there running like stupid… it was really frustrating.
But don't worry, the next area is even better. British Museum turns into a torture. Lupin leaves behind notes with poems which should point yet again on his target. I liked the poems… at the beginning, but there is no end to them and I started to really hate them. You will find dozens of them in the museum. You will be yet again running around like crazy, doing one puzzle after another without a real sense of joy upon their solving. On one good clever puzzle there are three more stupid ones which mostly don't make any sense!!! I have really tried to solve most of it on my own, but with a few puzzles I had to consult a guide. Maybe if I tried to think about it for a few days… weeks… months… I could have done it, but to be honest I couldn't be bothered and just wanted it to be over already.

The rest of the game continues in the same vein and looks like a satire to the whole franchise. Doctor Watson probably underwent a lobotomy, because he is acting so stupidly that every time he is on screen you want to give him the final blow of mercy!
I haven't enjoyed this one. If you decide to try out Nemesis beware of the huge number of puzzles and riddles and their overall unbalanced difficulty.

This isn't typical Sherlock's point-and-click adventure game as it's basically a hidden object game, even though we got to investigate a murder. Although there is no voice acting, the scenes are mainly "stolen" from their previous games (especially from The Secret of the Silver Earring), music is on loop and it has mostly negative reviews on Steam I have enjoyed it in the end much more than the full-fledged Nemesis.

Highlights of this game would be for me the investigation of the suspects, where we searched for clues right on them, and the final deduction where we have to connect all the dots. Most of the puzzles are enjoyable and of good quality, nothing you'd get stuck at for too long.
Sadly you can't change game resolution and it's rather small. Biggest problem of the game are the hidden object scenes, which are usually crammed with items. Our search is based upon shadows of the required items and their position corresponds with their position on the screen, so that can give you a hint where to search for them. Some of the items are just ridiculously small or blending with the background… casual game can turn into frustration in a moment.
You can play with a timer on for a challenge or at your own pace without it. At each location you can see what items to collect and if there are any puzzles to be made.

It's far from perfect and you can definitely find better HOGs out there, but I found it enjoyable. Don't buy it on its own though and grab it in the Sherlock bundle.