As a very big Sherlock Holmes fan, when I read they were gonna showcase Holmes' first case, I immediately got excited thinking they would adapt "A Study in Scarlet", an excellent book. But alas, they decided to reinvent the wheel without any necessity to do so.

I don't take issue with anyone who wants to do something different, that's actually good. However, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a master writer and storyteller, I extremely doubt the lead writer and/or any of the other writers are on the same level as him.

I will still try my damn hardest to keep an open mind, however the developers deciding to make this an open-world - for no reason - will only make the pace of the game feel much, much slower than what most people would consider is already a slow pace compared to most games, this is an investigative and very talkative game with little dynamic gameplay, then there's the side-quests which I'm almost certain they will add many of, which in turn will make progressing through the game even more slow.

I don't want to be negative, even though I'm beeing it, but it's really hard to think of good things for this game. This is a game from the developers of The Sinking City, a very mediocre game with a less than stellar reception by both critics and consumers. When one adds up everything, it's very hard to not think this will be a very horrible mess, but I hope to be proven wrong and that the developers can make an excellent Sherlock Holmes game, fingers crossed.

So, Sherlock has Schizophrenia now?

my ex would have said: "his eyebrows and and hair don't match" 
and I agree :D