Good gracious I love this game series.
Cast your minds back all the way to 1996, we got a shiny Playstation for christmas, included with it is a disc called 'Demo 1' amongst demos for things like Wipeout 2097 it had a video for a game I'd never heard of 'Broken Sword - The Shadow Of The Templars'
I must've watched that trailer more than a few times, I remember much later playing a demo of it, played that to death too, I remember being able to play it properly and fully enjoying it, the cast, the story... the friggin' goat puzzle and I've enjoyed the series ever since.
Broken Sword 2 was also fantastic, I've played both Broken Sword 1 and 2 countless times, alas the later sequels 3 and 4 are not as good, so imagine my surprise to hear that they're Kickstarting a 5th game, naturally I was hyped, it was going back to it's older style, with the original (for the most part) voicecast, I hadn't backed it since I didn't have the means to at the time, it remains one of two kickstarters I wished I could've backed.
So it got released last winter, I've finally picked it up on a half price offer and I've just finished it after about 4 hours and at the end of the first episode I can safely say it's a great addition to the series,.
The puzzles are not too challenging if a little long winded but that was and still is the nature of Point And Click adventure games, I'll talk more at length about Broken Sword V when episode two is out and I've finished it.
I do like point and click adventure games, I've throughly enjoyed series like The Secret Of Monkey Island, even more recent titles like the brilliantly dark 'The Wolf Among Us' or the enjoyable 'Back To The Future' game, I always enjoy good storytelling!.
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