I've played almost all of Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes adventure games because I love detective mechanics in games, and Frogware does these really well.

You can adjust the difficulty to your liking, which is a great feature.
I love the puzzle solving aspect, so I chose the higher difficulty for that, but left the indicator for interactive places enabled (which would usually be disabled on the higher difficulty) because I don't enjoy just clicking everywhere to find the one interactive spot.

I enjoyed the puzzles for the most part. Especially the mind palace, where you have to combine two to four clues to solve aspects of your case, occasionally was a bit tedious since you have to read through all your clues to find the correct ones to combine. Reconstructing events based on the evidence you collected was always logical and fun.

What I didn't enjoy was the mechanic for asking people questions. You have to 'pin' a clue you want to ask about before you can talk to people. Most of the time the clue you need to ask about is marked, which is a good thing, you wouldn't want to have to try out ten or fifteen different clues. But then, if i can only ask one question to one specific person, why do I have a choice at all? I tried multiple clues with multiple people at multiple times, and as far as I can tell, any choice is an illusion, and there is no point to try to ask other questions than the marked one.

This is true for most of the game, it is completely on rails. You have to do A, then B, then C. There is zero need for exploration. If you find an address, you can just as well go there directly. If there is any need to visit other areas, you'll find a hint that tells you to go there, eventually.

The game has a point system that opens up "bonus content," mostly different outfits. I have no idea what the purpose of these is supposed to be because half the time you can't even change your outfit, and there is no in-game use for it, either. You can't look up how many points you got in a chapter, or what the maximum number of points would have been. You have to be in-game to look up how many points you have, so you do not even know your final number. Why have points at all?

On a more positive note, I did like the story, it is sufficiently spooky for Lovecraft.

I recommend SH:TA for people who are fans of the Frogware Sherlock Holmes games.

Last chapter is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

I loved the atmosphere and voice acting the most. Character development was great. The ending scene was a bit too sudden but I do recommend it.