Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4) It’s a novel approach that unfortunately only partially works out. Now Sherlock can decide if a crime truly was justified and how he will punish the guilty. Throughout Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, there are frequent loading screens where you’ll see the titular detective flick through Dostoyevsky’s work and it seems to have had an effect on him. Eventually, besieged by guilt, he confesses to his crime and accepts his punishment. Doestoyevsky’s anti-hero believes that even murder is justified if some benefit can come of it, that even a wicked act can have some merit. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s weighty novel Crime and Punishment, the central character robs and murders a loan shark and pawn broker but justifies the act in his own mind because he will use the money for good.
Frogwares has changed the formula with mixed results
