Posted on: January 5, 2012

ArseneLupinIV

Games: 13 Reviews: 5

Give me an eh!!

The Broken Sword series is one of my favorite series of mystery games. From witty dialogue to outside the box puzzles, these games always seemed to scratch my itch for good, challenging entertainment. Unfortunately, this game didn't rise to the level of the previous entries. It's still a pretty good game. I like the new method of control, was a fan of the switch to 3D, and thought it was a fairly good story. The dialogue and voice acting were also still top of the line. What I didn't like was some of the repetiveness of the puzzles, especially the computer hacking puzzles. I thought some more back story was needed about what happened to George and Nico after the events of Broken Sword 3. The ending was also very flat and lacked a true sense of finality. At the time, there was talk that this would be the final game in the series, but I certainly hope a part 5 will be created for a true final chapter. For fans of this series, I would recommend one playthrough for the sake of completion. After that, I suspect you might not play it again.

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Posted on: May 26, 2013

Rixasha

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Games: Reviews: 1

Somewhat disappointing

It's been a while since I played the Broken Swords 1-3. I don't remember them well, but I'm sure I enjoyed them more than this one. I haven't really met an adventure game where the 3d worked, and this is no exception. There's no control over the camera, and oftentimes you wish there was. It also often pans while your character is moving, frustrating attempts to click on things on the go. Once my character got stuck and couldn't move anymore, losing me an hour worth of progress. Many of the puzzles make little sense, and there's a handful where I didn't even bother to study the clues, as they were faster and easier to solve by trial and error than actually trying to understand them. One puzzle (escape from being tied to a chair) struck me as being simply absurd. I suppose the story is allright but nothing special and suffers from the Templars and their supposed holy treasure having been done to death already (perhaps they weren't so much back when the game was released). The end of the game is also as abrupt as it is unsatisfying.

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Posted on: January 3, 2015

joruss

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Games: 166 Reviews: 2

Horrible so far...

It's no wonder they finished the series back in the days on this one. I started my adventure with BS2, finished it thrice or even four times during my life, enjoyed it every time almost the same as when I was playing for the first time. Then years later it was BS1 finally remastered to its deserved quality. I kept myself away from these 3D-thingy as I perceived them as betrayal of a great concept (which returned with BS5) so I played BS5 episode 1 last year, but episode 2 was late to show so out of the boredom I gave it a go and went for BS3 which, once you learned the new keyboard-only controls, eventually came out very good. Despite blurry textures and coarse scenery It was more like watching slightly interactive movie. Finishing BS3 on a high I went instantly for BS4 and the tragedy began. I'm currently about 20% in but here's couple of annoyances so far... - Moving back and forth between two locations is required to get to next level. - Silly and unintuitive puzzles (Bugs eating clock, anyone? Random mp3 player appearance? ) - CAMERA MOVEMENT - this one is the worst. When your character moves the camera follows and switches constantly from one camera to another. if you try to click on something during that movement, you're doomed. - Controls - while BS1,BS2,BS5 utilises only mouse, BS3 only keyboard BS4 utilises both (badly though) You move with cursor keys but the "run" key is "left control" which is out of reach when one of your hand is on said cursor keys and the other is operating mouse. - Controls take two - There are several items you must use right-click and then select non-default action. 95% of items don't have that, but if you forget about that 5% you'll be stuck for hours. I'll finish it out of sentiment for the whole series, but I'm not willing to spend long hours dwelling over some messed up puzzle, so I have walkthrough at hand. Sadly - very handy.

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Posted on: August 9, 2019

KingDaveth

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Games: 110 Reviews: 10

Boy oh Boy

Just 3 minutes of playtime because the game is a unstable mess and won't start up. And I don't care enough to even try and fix this game. I recall a time a long time ago where I got the game to actually work and I beat it. It's not good, feels really rushed, once again the characters are ok, mostly George, Nico, and Flap and that's about it because they're returning characters. The rest of the cast are ok at best. The controls are worse than the third game and the writing does not save this game like in the 3rd game. Everything about this game is just bad and it's about as noncanon in my head as 2.5

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Posted on: February 20, 2024

EwigWandernd

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Games: 738 Reviews: 263

Couldn't get warm with it

While I think it's really good this game didn't have as much crate pushing as the third installment of the series, somehow the writing and humour didn't work for me. I can't really explain why, but somehow I preffered both 1 & 2 as well as 5. The story overall was rather nice though.

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