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''Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper'' is a 2009 game developed by Frogwares, which pits the famous detective against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The fifth game in the ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesFrogwares'' series, the story takes place in VictorianLondon and the major focus is on the district of Whitechapel, where the infamous murders took place. This puzzle/adventure game has a surprisingly large amount of historical accuracy, as real evidence is used to help deduce the identity of the killer, and the player, as either Holmes or Watson, can interrogate real suspects from the period.

Not to be mistaken for the Creator/SueMary fanfic ''Fanfic/SherlockHomesVsJackTheRipper''.

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!!This game provides examples of:

* AdventureGame: Within that genre, though the exploration is downplayed to mostly exploring different areas of London.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In reality, Creator/ArthurConanDoyle only introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world the year before the Jack the Ripper murders took place, and it was not until 3 years afterwards (i.e. in 1891) that the fictional detective was well known to the public, incidentally this was also the year the case was filed away.
* BakerStreetRegular: As usual, Sherlock gets help from his orphaned street urchins.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Apparently, Sherlock Holmes managed to find Jack the Ripper, but kept quiet about it.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Holmes solves the Ripper case, but covers up his investigation to avoid the potential anti-Semitic violence that would have erupted if the Ripper's identity was made public. Jacob Levy, the real "Jack the Ripper", is never formally apprehended, but is instead imprisoned by Whitechapel's Jewish community for the remainder of his life.]]
* CameraPerspectiveSwitch: The player can choose between first- and third-person perspective at any time during the game.
* ContinuityNod:
** References are made to Sir Bromsby from the Case of the Silver Earring. As the game is set in 1888[[note]]The first Holmes story was published 1887, but was itself set in 1881[[/note]], it also contains nods to future adventures, such as Watson noting how he and Holmes should visit [[ArchEnemy Switzerland]] one day, and the French champagne from a "young admirer", signed Raoul d'Andresy[[note]]A pseudonym of Literature/ArseneLupin, the antagonist of ''Nemesis'', a previous game set in 1895[[/note]].
** The apparent contradiction of these events with those of ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' is explained at the end. [[spoiler:Holmes suggests that to cover up their involvement in the case, Watson should come up with a ludicrously fictional adventure putting them far outside of London, chasing after a supernatural hound with glowing breath. Watson dismisses him, saying that ItWillNeverCatchOn.]]
* CureYourGays: Inverted with Tumblety, who shows men his collection with the goal of turning them towards masculine relationships.
* DepravedHomosexual: Francis Tumblety.
* DisposableSexWorker: Holmes has this attitude at the start of the game. [[WhatTheHellHero Watson calls him out on it]] pointing out that the victims were forced by circumstances to work the streets, and that they are still people who deserve justice.
* AFoggyDayInLondonTown: Not all the time, but it shows up in the setting occasionally during investigations.
* HeManWomanHater/ EffeminateMisogynisticGuy: Tumblety, who really despises women.
* HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath: Holmes, of all people, goes through this upon uncovering the scene of the final murder. He point-blank refuses to let Watson enter the room, for good reason.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: All main characters in this game, save Holmes and Watson, really did exist at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Lucy, who is very concerned about her alcoholic uncle and offers him shelter at her place.
* ImAHumanitarian: Considering the letter about the kidney. In addition, [[spoiler:the titular Ripper, a bitter ex-member of the Jewish community, secretly sold some of the organs he stole to his fellows under the guise of kosher meat.]]
* InformingTheFourthWall: It's that kind of game, so it's to be expected.
* InVinoVeritas: Gets quoted by the Great Detective after a drunk reporter reveals information essential to the case.
* {{Jerkass}}: Holmes does go into this mode at times; Watson flatly tells him to knock it off at one point.
* LadyDrunk: There are lots of these in Whitechapel (a pretty bad neighborhood at the time). Danny is a prime example.
* MistakenForGay: Watson gets this when asking about Tumblety (who's got quite the reputation).
-->'''Walter Sickert:''' Are you... intimate?\\
'''Watson:''' Um, no... what do you mean by that?
* MissKitty: A DownplayedTrope example with Bella. She cares for her prostitutes but is a ruthless businesswoman.
* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:Holmes' confrontation with Jack the Ripper is surreal and disorienting, and ''you don't get to hear a single word of it.'']]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After finding the Ripper's final - and most heavily mutilated - victim, Holmes seems dazed at first, and appears to have come the closest he's ever come to being psychologically traumatized. And after he finishes his subsequent clay reconstruction of what he found, he actually makes a ''joke!''
** A milder example occurs at the start of the game: Sherlock finds himself needing to do a chain of favors in order to get important information from the police. In a rare moment of frustration, he bitterly jokes that if he needs to do one more favor, the next murder will be that of Watson. Watson can't help but gulp nervously.
* OrganGrinder: One can be seen and heard around Whitechapel.
* OrganTheft: A feature of the crimes as matching the real Ripper, removing the organs of his victims.
* PointAndClickMap
* PoliceAreUseless: Hoo boy. For starters, they tear up two witnesses' written down testimonies, as well as dismiss a third witness, because the times, while consistent with each other, don't agree with the coroner's time of death. Holmes has practically to do all the investigating on his own. Sadly TruthInTelevision, which is why the Ripper was never caught in real life.
* ProductPlacement: Bizarrely, this appears to be the case with there being distinctly modern bottles of both Bushmills and Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey in the game. What makes it more striking is that Tullamore Dew was only known by that name after 1890, a full two years after the game is set.
* RedHerring: The subplot involving Francis Tumblety and his uterus collection turns out to be a dead end.
* SerialKiller: Holmes is on the trail of one of history's most notorious serial killers.
* ShoutOut: On the seemingly innocuous piece of paper [[spoiler:that mentions a previous conviction of Jacob Levy]], [[Creator/MontyPython a man named Ron Obvious is listed as having caused an incident relating to Chichester Cathedral]].
* ShownTheirWork: In spades! The game shows off many real ripper suspects and references many others as one-offs. The district of Whitechapel is accurately modeled, and the walls contain many real advertisements from the period. References are made to historical events other than Jack's crimes as well, such as a warehouse fire the night of the first murder. Furthermore, Holmes' and Watson's rooms at Baker Street contain many, many references to the original stories.
* SickeningSlaughterhouse: Sherlock comes across a messy slaughterhouse in his search.
* SolveTheSoupCans: Notably averted, compared to some of the game's predecessors--the random quizzes of the past have been replaced by more story-integrated deduction sequences.
* StockUnsolvedMysteries: This centers around the Jack the Ripper killings, of course.
* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: Like in the real case, this is averted after Holmes eventually deduces he wasn't, despite the persistent belief of this by investigators of the time.
* TheVoiceless: Except for some panicked breathing and maniacal laughter, [[spoiler:Jacob Levy, a.k.a. Jack the Ripper]] is never heard saying a word in the ending scene. He's only heard to talk once, during [[spoiler:Annie Chapman's murder]].
* VomitDiscretionShot: Watson didn't take the description of the final and most grisly murder scene too well. Especially as he had just finished eating breakfast...
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Sherlock's young assistant Wiggins. The voice actor seems to understand that he's a Victorian street urchin but to be uncertain whether he's supposed to be from London or New York.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: {{Title Card}}s at the end tell us what happened to Jack the Ripper after the case was closed.
* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Crippling poverty is a day-to-day fact for people in the Whitechapel neighborhood.
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