Posted on: July 9, 2015
Hanglyman
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The Angel of Disappointment
This game takes everything that's good about the Broken Sword series and ignores 90% of it. The characters and environments are somehow worse than the respectable ones in BS3, the locations are rather mundane and boring, the plot is bland and relies heavily on a completely unexplained substance that might as well be called "magic powder", and worst of all, the puzzles suck- most of them consist of either annoying pixel hunts or complete guessing, with absolutely no hint as to what you're supposed to be doing and an inventory of around 20 items, most of which are useless. The puzzles that do make sense are usually too easy and ultimately unsatisfying. The game's strengths are the voice acting and a few characters that are actually likeable (Archie, I'm looking at you), but the dialogue has been severely trimmed down compared to previous games and isn't as well written. A plus is that the stealth portions of the game now rely mostly on puzzles rather than running around with bad controls (and the parts with running are pretty easy), and the infamous box puzzles from Broken Sword 3 are used very sparingly here. Unfortunately, they've been replaced with a hacking minigame that is used way too much. While more interesting than the boxes, it has its problems. The hardest hacking puzzle is part of a two-part timed puzzle, and if you run out of time during the second part, you have to do the hacking all over again. Other hacking puzzles require use of a double-sided mirror icon, which you are never told about and which looks so similar to the regular mirror icon that you might not even realize it exists. The controls are broken- often the inventory won't appear or the game will refuse to acknowledge that you're clicking on things. One cutscene ends with you stuck in a pedestal and I'm still not sure how I managed to eventually get free. There are stairs that you can go up but not down- better not save up there or you'll have to start the entire game over! Unforgivable.
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