Even at the young age he’s portrayed in the game, the world’s most famous and out-of-the-box thinker already sported a bunch of eccentricities, and it falls to Jon to push him to actually engage many of Chapter One‘s cases. Considering that in the books Holmes only met Watson well into his career as a detective, in the game Jon serves as a similar purpose to the more emotionally driven, war-scarred doctor. Yes, you read that right: Sherlock has an imaginary friend in this game. There’s a deeper mystery surrounding that death, and it’ll be up to Sherlock (and his imaginary friend Jon to a degree) to get to the bottom of it. In Frogware‘s Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, we get to see a much younger version of the famed detective as he’s fresh from the boat onto Cordona, a Mediterranean island where he supposedly spent his childhood in order to pay respects to his departed mother. If there’s one thing in common with all of these, regardless of how well they’ve done, is that Holmes can take a variety of forms and still be an extremely compelling vessel for whatever story he’s used in. He’s been portrayed in cartoons, comics, movies, TV shows, and in a number of video games, to various degrees of financial and critical success. Sherlock Holmes is one such character, a persona that’s so strong and has been around for so long that he’s thought about more as a celebrity than merely a literary figure created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle more than a century ago. It’s not at all hard to think of a fictional character that managed to leap from whatever medium they happened to be created in and on to actually start to feel real, thanks to the love of their audience.
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