This is the actual game then, looking just like the intro except slightly higher resolution (and with more dithering). Not many point and click adventures on that handheld.Īnyway, the clown pops into the café, swaps the guy's briefcase with his beeping accordion, and then legs it back outside as fast as his clown shoes will take him. It probably would've helped on the Game Boy Advance port though, as it tries to tell its story with still shots alone and that doesn't work so well.ĭid I mention that this came out on the GBA? Because it did. They've also added an unnecessary narration for people too busy to point their eyes at the screen. It's worse on the Director's Cut version, which is even more frantic with its extra shots and picture-in-picture comic book cutaways. It's like they were trying to squeeze as much story in as they could before the animation budget ran out. I often find that cutscenes drag on a bit, but this one could really take a moment to breathe. Then a clown comes over and practically shoves his balloons in his face! Our hero barely has a chance to smile at the waitress bringing over his cup before she bumps into this other guy cosplaying as a spy and loses all interest in him. though maybe that's just because I associate video game animation with him after his work on Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. It doesn't have the highest quality video compression, or even animation quality to be honest, but it's still pretty damn good for a 1996 adventure game. I'm sorry the image is blocky, but that's what the intro looks like. There, I think I've just broke the record for the amount of games I've mentioned in an intro! I'll say Monkey Island as well just to make sure, seeing as it's inevitably going to get brought up at some point anyway.Īlright, I'm going to give Broken Sword an hour or two and take lots of screenshots, while writing up what I've been doing and what I thought about it.
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Plus it's the second graphic adventure I've played this year about the Knights Templar, as I took a look at Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade back in January. This is Revolution Software's third adventure game, after Lure of the Temptress and Beneath a Steel Sky, but I've also written about In Cold Blood as I'm getting to them all out of order. In 2009 it got another subtitle: Director's Cut, as the game was remade with extra content for PCs, phones and the Nintendo systems of the time.
I guess shadows and Templars just didn't seem as marketable back then in those pre DaVinci Code/Assassin's Creed days. In America the game was originally given a different subtitle: Circle of Blood. Wow, I haven't seen that film in forever, I should give it a rewatch some time.
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Not to be confused with Shadow of the Beast, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadows of the Empire, Shadow of Memories/Destiny or the Christian Slater/John Travolta movie 'Broken Arrow'. This week on Super Adventures I'm playing Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.
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