Crimes and punishments follows everyone's favorite sleuth through a series of distantly related cases, allowing you to not only have your parlor scene, but decide what should happen once you have your man.The graphics are nice and feel very much like the PBS series. Nothing is razor sharp crisp and everything has a softness to it that feels very appropriate. The voices are spot on and the actors actually put some decent emotion into their characters.The gameplay is somewhat hit and miss. The mini games feel a bit forced, and while the option is always present to skip, the mini games are so difficult to understand sometimes that the difficulty of the puzzle isn't issue, its that the puzzle mechanics aren't clearly explained. I spent five minutes trying to put a plank in place on a hole shaped exactly for it, not realizing I had to put the plank in place last, I guess.The moral choices are nice. You quickly learn that the first "victim" is a drunk monster, so is it really a crime? Well, it depends on who you finger, as you can get the culprit wrong by chaining together a logical sequence with only one or two clues out of place. The difficulty though is somewhat artificial. The clues are somewhat bizarrely put together and some of them are so obvious that you think they can't really mean for you to put "rain" and "wet" together to get Holmes to go "Indeed! Rain IS wet!" But are otherwise decent, and the game does at least tell you when you have 2.