Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened - The Whispered Dreams

This is a waste of money. Sure it adds some side missions if you want to call it that, but it's nothing more than badly integrated busy work that bloates the play time and makes you backtrack a bunch. The reward you get for these is xp but once you collect all the xp needed to unlock the bonus content, getting more xp becomes worthless. I probably don't remember all of these quests but here's a short list of the ones I do (the times given are how long it approximately took me to complete them on my first playthrough):

Chapter I:
- You're send on a treasure hunt to collect dolls. This takes you about 10-15 minutes to complete. You run around the entire map of Chapter I and are rewarded with a few lines of information about the dangers of child work in Victorian Era London and xp.

Chapter II:
- You're send to investigate an outbreak of a disease. It takes you about 10 minutes if you don't get lost and you're rewarded with some xp.
- There's a supposedly haunted warehouse and Sherlock Holmes investigates it. This quests takes you about 10-20 minutes and is the best one of them all.

Chapter III:
- Once again you're given text documents that reveal places you have to go to (very similar to the side quest in Chapter I). This takes you across the entire cellblock area in Chapter III. If you have all the documents and do it in one go then it takes you about 5-10 minutes.

Chapter IV:
- Time to collect Wanted Posters spread across the entire map. 15-20 minutes. This is one of the worst and most tedious, honestly.
- A man claimes he's about to die and Sherlock investigates the death omen. If it weren't for the back and forth in the last quarter of that task, this would be a fun one as it utilises every skill Sherlock Holmes has. It takes you around 20-30 minutes, I think.

Chapter VII:
- Mycroft has a quest for Watson. Watson goes to the location, looks around, tells Mycroft what he found. 5-10 minutes at most. This one has the feeling of a quest that should have been longer depending on what you decide to reveal to Mycroft, but regardless the quest ends after you return to Mycroft. This is an utter waste and just so useless. Maybe Frogwares should have connected this to the main quest as there Mycroft reveals information to Watson about the main case. This side quest would still suck, but then the player would have an incentive to go and do it.

I'm not trying to be mean to Frogwares here. I have a soft spot for them and I enjoyed my time playing The Awakened remake overall, but I think these quests are weak for the most part. I don't necessarily need side quests to connect back to the story, but these quests give me the distinct feeling Frogwares wanted to get some more play time and not in a good way. I didn't mind the doll hunting in Chapter I, but they recycled the idea in Chapter III and spread it out even more. Many of these quests make you travel across the map between investigation scenes or will send you back and forth between two places. The Mycroft quest especially feels like a waste of time as it sends you to one location and then back to Mycroft and it doesn't matter which dialogue choice you make, the quest ends there. I feel like they wanted to make more with it as the player learns basically nothing when doing this quest and has no conclusion. I have a hunch as to what it is about, but it's not even discussed in greater detail. I think they wanted to set Moriarty up in this quest, but they do it so badly that it could be about anyone. Maybe the devs ran out of time, but then they should have removed it entirely.