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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars
90m - 90m
1 - 5 Players
Ages 14+
In storytelling games, players are provided with conceptual, written, or pictorial stimuli which must be incorporated into a story of the players' creation.
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Deduction
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alman25
This game has received monumental praise and acclaim, especially from those who love SHCD and have already played the previous iterations. Unfortunately, I appear to be one in the minority of those who doesn't think this game surpasses or even comes close to being on level with the previous box sets. I can tell there's a lot of love and passion coming from writer, Dave Neale. He has written on this forum about the previous sets over the past several years and I can tell he put a ton of time and effort in making this the best set he could. While ambitious, I wasn't impressed with these 10 cases at all. The standouts being cases 4, 5, and 7. Everything else left me feeling underwhelmed. I appreciated that Neale was trying to write mysteries that don't all revolve around murder like the original cases do and he made some creative puzzles and challenges throughout to mix things up. However, I didn't find that any of the new wrinkles added any new excitement for me. I felt that they were nice to have and appreciated the thought, but ultimately, to me, it comes down to how enjoyable the stories are and they did not deliver for me. This set seemed to be more streamlined, trying to broaden to a larger audience and appeal to people new to SHCD. These cases felt much shorter, being easily completable in 2-3 hours. I remember previous cases taking closer to 4-5 hours to play. Due to the shorter play time, I felt the stories weren't as well fleshed out and rarely finding a 2nd or 3rd plot very engaging like the original cases often had. Also, I noticed that each case had at least one question that took large leaps of logic to solve, while this is prevalent in SHCD, I felt that Neale seemed to go out of his way to ensure that all cases would be severely difficult to get a perfect score on. None of the 10 cases played here will crack my top 5 of SHCD all time and I just have fonder memories from previous sets, especially from Vol. 1. The 10th and final case is epic. I appreciated that this was treated like a finale as opposed to just another ordinary case. However, it felt more choose your own adventurey than usual and less mystery solving to me. There are multiple endings, but each ending is easily viewable so I was able to see which ending was the worst and which was was the best before uncovering them. Also, the satisfaction from the final case is dependent on deciphering 2 challenging codes. If not successful, then the investment in finding out what happens the rest of the way becomes minimal. I hope going forward, if they print another set in the future, the writers have a story arch that is developed over the entire 10 cases culminating into a finale similar to a tv show. I also hope that the cases have more fully fleshed out stories with 2 or 3 plots that compliment the A plot as well.
Coralouwho
NOTE there are 3 games of almost identical name. (Was actually looking for "The Original Sherlock Holmes and His Baker Street Irregulars" https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/310196/original-sherlock-holmes-and-his-baker-street-irre) #LetterS #Detective #Co-op
AdioRadley
I rented it and played two scenarios. We got stuck during the first one and it dragged on for a while. During the second one we realized that there were certain locations that were always at least a little helpful (221 B Baker's Street, Scotland Yard, The Times Newspaper) and we found a much clearer path toward the solution. Really enjoyable, as long as you don't get too hung-up about solving the case in fewer steps than Holmes did. Just read the clues and have fun.