YMMV / Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper

• Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: While no means a badly-made game, the core game play consists of thoroughly typical Point-and-Click mechanics (with the exception of a few interesting investigation sections) with a few odd puzzles, such as getting a key item by attacking a woman with a horde of cats that feel a bit like padding. The game's graphics are also rather unimpressive and the voice acting at times can be underwhelming. It is, however, one of the best researched, plausible and respectful depictions of the Ripper murders in any media, managing to create an effective horror story out of these more mundane elements that completely eschews the more fantastical and outlandish elements seen so frequently in media about the Ripper, while simultaneously seamlessly weaving the tale into the canon of Sherlock Holmes without coming off as a hackneyed crossover for the sake of it.
• Jossed: While the game presents one theory as to the Ripper's identity (which they then devote a paragraph-long disclaimer to stating that it doesn't actually reflect what any of the development team's ideas are), it goes out of its way to dismiss the letters as fradulent and notably doesn't even mention the Royal Conspiracy theory once.
• Nightmare Fuel: While plenty of the deaths are violent, with none of the true-to-life gory details left missing, the final murder discovered by Holmes is by far the worst. We don't see much of the victim, but whatever Holmes sees, it's enough to send him into a Heroic BSoD. In real life, the final victim of Jack the Ripper suffered the worst mutilation out of them all and the photos of her unrecognizable corpse still horrify today.
  • It becomes Fridge Horror when Holmes mentions that he has a photographic memory, and you realize that he's going to carry every detail of that crime scene image to his grave.
• That One Puzzle: The Police Bag puzzle early on has tripped up many players and forced them to use a walkthrough.