Rate top gamesThis has always been a game that has interested me as a Lovecraft fan. I always meant to check out the original 2007 version but never did. After playing Chapter 1 I decided to check this one out and found it to be lacking. Pairing Lovecraft with Holmes has always seemed odd to me and this game shows that in a few ways. There isn't much of what I expect from Lovecraft. There is a cult, there is some creepy vision stuff and some paintings of the Deep Ones. There isn't really anything that focuses on the cosmic dread besides those vision sections which are just puzzle and platforming segments. There is also this aspect of Holmes going crazy and questioning reality which isn't really earned. The aspect of Holmes' hungry for knowledge and answers being used against him in this way is very Lovecraftian but all the pieces just don't fit well together in my opinion. I also didn't enjoy the cases very much. Most were just filler with no real drive like in some of the previous games. I found it enjoyable overall but the usage of Lovecraft was just odd.