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The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is an adventure game in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series developed by Frogwares and published by Focus Home Interactive. Developers Frogwares have described the game as their "biggest and most beautiful game". After being delayed from an original 2010 release,[2] the game was released in Europe on 20 September 2012 and in North America on 25 September 2012.[3]

In London, 1898, Holmes has just successfully solved a new case by retrieving a priceless set of jewels that had been stolen. Unfortunately, the jewels' owner reveals that the necklace Holmes returned to him is a pale imitation and everything seems to incriminate the detective. During the next sequences, Holmes tells Watson he has an immediate appointment with the Bishop of Knightsbridge. Upon arriving, he discovers that the bishop has been tied up, burnt and mutilated. A new character named Inspector Baynes also appears.

A true descent into hell starts for Sherlock Holmes when London begins to have doubts and starts to lose its trust in him who is incapable of refuting suspicions or of disproving the charges against him. Even Doctor Watson's unshakable faith in his friend starts to waver as the famous detective avoids Scotland Yard, begins behaving strangely by engaging in night escapades, blackmail, and destruction of evidence, and raises further suspicions.

The main premise of The Testament of Sherlock Holmes comes in the desire of the Frogwares development team to truly explore Holmes as a character. In previous games as in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books, the cases were always about truly devious criminals. In this game, as players get further into the storyline, it starts showing Watson's own point of view and investigation that Holmes takes increasingly darker approaches to solving crimes, up to a point where he commits murder.As Sherlock Holmes in an open world environment, the player faces an open investigation, and decides which leads to follow, and which to ignore. Players can handle and inspect clues, re-enact crimes and use the game’s deduction system to make their own decisions about the innocence and guilt of suspects. Different questioning approaches can change the course of an interrogation by letting the player catch suspects off-guard, or gather valuable information. And as more events happen that call into question the nature of Holmes' changing character, you take on the role of Watson and are required to figure out if the famous detective is capable of such brutal actions or if something deeper is at play.

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