The Case of the Silver Earring also needs something. Initially, the game impresses with attractive settings, decent voice acting and the promise of a thoughtful mystery to be solved. Unfortunately, this becomes bogged down by static scenes, poor character movement control, obscure pixel-hunting and the wearying need to redo conversations. As regards gameplay and mechanisms, Silver Earring is dated, not in the same league as the Law & Order series, for example. What I had hoped would be a relaxing, intellectual, drawing-room kind of experience became, instead, a tedious, boring, sometimes very frustrating exercise I was glad to finish. In my final exam for the game, I found Holmes to be barely acceptable.