History VideoGame / TheTestamentOfSherlockHolmes

A 2012 AdventureGame by Frogwares, and the 6th entry in the ''Adventures of Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' series.

* NiceHat: Holmes wears a top hat while Watson wears a bowler hat.
** About halfway through the game, you have to examine a hat to identify its owner. The characters comment multiple times on its high quality.

* TaintedTobacco: After finding the body of the man missing a finger, Holmes and Watson look around his home and find eveidence that he was involved in the murder of the bishop. They also find opium paraphernalia. They perform an autopsy and discover that his opium had been laced with the same poison that had been used on the Bishop.

* NotQuiteDead: Moriarty survived the bomb explosion and confronts Holmes with a revolver.

* {{Denouement}}: Before the last act, Holmes delivers a lengthy explanation to Watson about what was going with his strange behavior and faked death.

* AlwaysOnDuty: When Holmes calls Scottland Yard from the fair at night, Lestrade is available on the other end.

* ConstructiveBodyDisposal: Holmes find the corpse of a magician walled up in a mill.

* HatePlague: The early stages of the game introduce a nasty poison that causes the victim to go literally insane with rage. The rage poison becomes a reoccurring plot point, but you don't find out how it all fits in into the plot until the final chapter.

* InsufferableGenius: Holmes, natch. Actually a plot point, as while he's more than capable of solving cases single handedly, his manner in which he goes about it is steadily becoming more and more cold and harsh and has started to ruffle some feather's, Watson's included. [[spoiler: You find out in the intro to the final chapter that Holmes is doing it deliberately.]]
* InsultBackfire: At prison, when Watson calls Schielman [[YouMonster a monster]], the latter takes it as a compliment.

* MaliciousSlander: Farley spreads rumors about Sherlock Holmes being involved in recent crime cases.
* MasterPoisoner: Schielman.

* WhatTheHellHero: Grant, Watson's old friend, delivers this to Watson for trying use the morgue in a manner that suggests he thinks that because he's in a good financial state he can do what he likes in the poorer districts. Watson might have accepted this if Grant hadn't suggested Watson understands the risks they face in Whitechapel. Watson then ''quickly'' turns it back around, angrily berating Grant for talking to ''a veteran'' and a man who deals with the criminal underworld like he doesn't understand risks. He goes on to note that if Grant did his job properly, Whitechapel might be in a better medical state.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It turns out [[spoiler: Moriarty]] has a daughter that he holds dear to. [[spoiler: His dying wish to Holmes was that he would take care of her.]]

* FramingDevice: The game is set around a group of young children who have found and are reading Watson's old journals. These primary-school aged children apparently find the saga of blood, death, betrayal and murder to be enthralling. [[spoiler: Since the children happens to be Holmes and Watson's grandchildren, perhaps they would be interested in this kind of story.]]

* GPSEvidence: Holmes is able to locate the hospital in Whitechappel by it bheing the only one close to a cemetary.

* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: Professor Moriarty]] apparently has a daughter whom he cares very much for. So much in fact, that he's willing to give her up to be adopted by his worst enemy only because he knows he'll bring her up right.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]: Holmes [[spoiler: fakes it pretty convincingly. Moriarty, however, is not so lucky]].

** In a more traditional sense - there are several items around their Baker St apartment from their earlier adventures.

* [[spoiler: TakeOverTheWorld]]: [[spoiler: Holmes earnestly believes that, once he's seized control of Britain, then this will be Moriarty's next step. And he'd probably succeed too because, well, ''he's Moriarty''.]]

* VodkaDrunkenski: The Russian brothers.