Ranking Summer 2016's Video Games From Worst To Best

13. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

I really wanted to like Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter. There was so much potential for Frogwares' longtime series to continue building on the momentum of 2014's severely underrated Crimes & Punishments.

Then, like a solid rock band putting out a song with 'mainstream radio appeal', they redesigned Watson into more of an athletic, Jude Law/Guy Ritchie-type, opted to factor in a number of first-person platforming elements, amped up the action with some naff set-pieces, took the game's formula open-world (ish) and neglected to polish up animation across the board.

Not the best way to deliver a sequel, I must say.

Where Crimes & Punishments easily outdid L.A. Noire for pure, proficient detective work, multiple endings for cases and elaborating on how Sherlock thinks before making deductions, The Devil's Daughter focussed way too much on aping the silver screen adaptations of the character, which by me, are the worst versions of everything longt-time fans love about the character in the first place.