And oh boy are there a lot of them.įorget, if you want, all the other stuff-this is Chapter One's greatest hook. For the most part, the bustling island just lets you get on with the good stuff: solving cases. Instead, it's evocative of LA Noire and Mafia, where the cities are just elaborate stages. Cordona is very far from Arkham's Gotham or Assassin's Creed's gargantuan spaces, however, for which I'm incredibly grateful. The Dark Knight and Sherlock have even more in common now that the latter has joined the ranks of open-world protagonists. What is Batman if not an American Sherlock Holmes in fancy dress? And his best mate is an imaginary dude who likes booze and dinosaurs. Chapter One's Sherlock is less refined, less in control, and is still trying to complete himself.

In Crimes & Punishments, we had the middle-aged, stoic veteran of countless cases, deerstalker on his head, trustworthy Watson by his side, in complete command of his preternatural crime-solving powers. It dawned on me, somewhere between having visions, bantering with my sidekick, and putting crooks behind bars, that Chapter One is a superhero origin story specifically.

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