Completed Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.

Quite enjoyable adventure game. The historical plot is interesting, the game is pleasing to play and the music is very nice. Apparently was performed by the London Metropolitan Orchestra according to the end credits. Too bad it's pretty low quality.

Little too disney-esque for my liking though, pretty cartoony characters with very hammy fake accents. Humor left me cold too. There are also moments where you can get yourself killed, they weren't too bad overall but one of them was rather tedious as you have to click through some dialog and watch some unskippable animations every time you fail and need to try again. I definitely prefer the LucasArts approach with unkillable protagonists. Rubber tree!

So pretty alright all in all. Besides the previously mentioned things and the kinda weak last stretch of the game I had a good time with it.

That's it for my adventure bender for this summer though, still have a bunch I want to revisit so I'll probably continue next summer.

Sombrero wrote on Today, 14:31:

That's it for my adventure bender for this summer though, still have a bunch I want to revisit so I'll probably continue next summer.

Broken Sword sounds interesting. Back in the day, I was never much into adventure games. I think I only ever completed Simon the Sorcerer 2. I did try a few others as well, but I quickly lost interest. Now that I'm older, I can appreciate the genre a bit more, so maybe I'll give some of these a second chance.

Anyway, during the summer heat wave, I can't be bothered with playing anything that requires sitting at the computer for extended time periods. So only console games (or PC titles with controller support) work for me until the heatwave subsides.

Completed Tomb Raider 2013 and already started Rise of the Tomb Raider.

I need to finish Rise and Shadow to make room to get Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars Squadrons and X-Wing Alliance installed and running here...

Joseph_Joestar wrote on Today, 15:39:

Broken Sword sounds interesting. Back in the day, I was never much into adventure games. I think I only ever completed Simon the Sorcerer 2. I did try a few others as well, but I quickly lost interest. Now that I'm older, I can appreciate the genre a bit more, so maybe I'll give some of these a second chance.

Yeah, even the best of them require you to enjoy puzzle solving, have patience and occasionally willingness to bang your head against a wall, definitely not for everyone and especially younger folk. And that's with the best of them, I love the genre but I still would rather go clean a public toilet than play, say, King's Quest 1 or 2 without a guide in hand. You won't believe the utter bullshit those have!

I'm not sure would I recommend BS1 as a first stepping stone though, while I find BS1&2 rather pleasant the puzzles do tend to be a somewhat overdesigned and/or suffer from moon logic.

Anyway, during the summer heat wave, I can't be bothered with playing anything that requires sitting at the computer for extended time periods. So only console games (or PC titles with controller support) work for me until the heatwave subsides.

Precisely why I save adventure games, city builders and such slow, easy to hop on and off relaxing games for summers. Especially this summer, it hit 30°C inside my apartment during the worst of it.. a new record I hope won't get broken anytime soon 🤪