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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2019
I bought the original Consulting Detective series of games when they came out in the 1980's. They were great fun to play, but the production quality of the game materials was generally poor; there were frequent spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors; and there were inconsistencies between what the clues said and what Holmes said at the end of each case. One overlooked such deficiencies because the game was so fun to play. When I saw that new editions had come out with higher production quality, I snapped them up in the hope that modern digital editing techniques and a thorough review of the case materials would fix the deficiencies in the original series. Sad to say, while the new game materials are FAR superior to their 1980's originals, very little has been done to fix the other problems. There are still numerous spelling, punctuation, grammatical, and typographical errors, which are all the more glaring given the high quality of the game materials. There is simply no excuse for misspellings and grammatical errors in the age of Microsoft Word, nor is there any excuse for not having gone over the original case files to fix inconsistencies between facts presented in individual clues and facts presented by Holmes at the end of each case. My real rating for this product is 3.5 stars. I just couldn't give it a fourth star given my disappointment over putting out an updated edition of an otherwise great game without fixing the problems in the original.
