Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case

Game can be beaten from start to finish, including the platinum trophy. Although, it has quite a list of issues.

On rare occasions English and German subtitles don't match the spoken dialogue word by word. The differences in German are more noticable.

During the opening dialogue on the ship the cutscene very briefly faded to black twice, as if you would blink.
In the following scene, you have to investigate a cabin. However, you character is placed behind a wall at the beginning, so you almost can't recognize where he is at until you move.
Despite already knowing one of the characters by name, the dialogue window still just calls them "Passenger".

On several occasions, skipping to the next portion of a dialogue seemed to be registered twice and at the end of the conversation the final portion was automatically skipped.

During one dialogue, Poirot asks his assitant to distract the person behind him. In the background you can see the model of that NPC simply disappear as it is likely respawned at a new location for story purposes. The camera angle then changes for you to continue investigating something. After clicking on it, you can see the NPC being teleported back to its previous position.

On several occasions, lip animations or spoken dialogue were missing.

When transitioning between rooms, Poirot sometimes turns around 180 degrees when the door opening animation takes place. In one instance the animation plays despite only transitioning into a corridor without a door. And sometimes the animation simply doesn't play at all.

During investigating a painting in the church, Poirot's model is standing between the camera and the painting, covering a large portion of what you are meant to look at.

During chapter 7, you can softlock the game during investigating the two paintings in the church. You need to move a certain part of the paintings in a specific position. Even when moving to the right position, the dialogue will say "Nothing happened", but you will hear a click sound and you will leave the investigation view. If you then re-enter the interaction view of the same painting, no dialogue or options appear on screen and you will be stuck in the view. Required a restart of the game.

At the beginning of chapter 8, you get stuck on the steps to the subway, if you attempt to walk towards what was before the spot to initiate fast travel. Requires a restart of the game.

Voice languages: German, French, English
Text languages: German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Korean, Czech, English, French, Italian

Review copy provided by Microids.