Posted on: September 22, 2016
pearnon
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Coasting on nostalgia
Maybe it's because I played the previous entries so long ago, but I didn't really remember Broken Sword being so unsubtle in its approach to humor and borderline fourth wall-breaking gags. Or that it introduced semi-important characters in such haphazard fashion (Eva), giving them a cardboard cutout personality, only to flip it around in the end by way of character growth, as it were. Or it allowing itself to be so unserious that a character, which by all rights should be thinking their partner had just been killed, then promptly indulges in wisecracking while, unbeknownst to them, their very much alive partner indulges in an impromptu philosophical discussion with their shooter. These things took me out of the story, so jarring were they, along with the contrivances to get the characters from one country to the other, and the on-the-nose nostalgia, with cameos for the sake of all-too convenient cameos, which almost feel like padding in a game that, by itself, is rather on the short side. It's also a very easy game, especially for P&C veterans, with only a mean-spirited bit of semiotic lateral thinking late in the game providing any real challenge, and no real memorable puzzles to speak of. Which is fortunate, as the interface (both modern and classic versions) is terribly dated and unwieldy, especially when compared to the innovations brought about by other recent P&C titles. The plot is nothing to write home about, like someone looked up Gnosticism on Wikipedia and decided it'd make for a cool story background, came up with a disposable villain who shows up late and leaves you indifferent, and couldn't make up their mind as to how the titular characters reacted to the whole thing, alternating between an obnoxious, arch tone of secular contempt, and a sporadic newfound spiritual fervor. All in all, a disappointment. Not an unpleasant one, mind you, as it still has that Broken Sword charm, but a disappointment nonetheless.
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