Paris in the fall. The last months of the year, and the end of the millennium. The city holds many memories for me. Of cafés, of music, of love... and of death.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Killer Klowns from Outer France
So, it seems that there’s no LP on the Codex for this game, or my Google-fu is really bad and I can’t find it. Whatever, if Crusader Kings 2 has dozens of LP, why should be a problem another Broken Sword thread, right?
Obligatory Wikipedia intro:
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (also known as Circle of Blood in the United States) is a 1996 point-and-click adventure game developed by Revolution Software. The player assumes the role of George Stobbart (an American tourist in Paris), as he attempts to unravel a conspiracy. The game takes place in both real and fictional locations in Europe and the Middle East.
Broken Sword leans more towards the story than the puzzles. Although this is a dialogue-heavy LP, I’m not going to write/paste all the dialogue options for all the NPC in the game, only what’s relevant for story advancement purpose, or funny. I you don’t like too much talking and prefer something more succinct just post your comments and suggestions and I’ll change this to make it shorter fuck you.
There’s going to be a lot of spoilers on this thread. So if you haven’t played the game and don’t want to ruin it, stay away, because I’m not going to use spoiler tags. You’ve been warned. So without further ado lets play...
So here's the intro of the game. It's actually pretty cool. You can check it on its full glory on this Jewtube video:
Shadow of the Templars was the best Broken Sword game. From here it was pure decline. The second one, Smoking Mirror, although it was a fun game, it wasn't as good as SotT. The last two games were awful (IMHO).
There's some conspiracy theory that the lost of quality of subsequent Broken Sword games, was because the lead writer, Dave Cummings left Revolution during Smoking Mirror development. There's even a thread about it on the 'Dex.
We skip a bunch of the credits...
Meet George Stobbart, our protagonist. An incredible annoying and meddling kwanzanian. He's on vacation through Europa, and it happens to be in Paris, the start of our very fine adventure.
:patriot:
Although at first, George's flirt with the waitress is successful, he's immediately friendzoned when the intentionally ambiguous woman meets this old gentleman.
Our hero's moment of depression gets interrupted by this accordion-wielding, disturbingly-looking clown.
This should be an emoticon on the 'Dex, by the way.
The clown takes the old man's briefcase, leaves the accordion, and proceeds to run out of the Café an into an alley. Maybe it was just a covert exchange of things.
Huh?
OH SHI....!!!
Well, it seems that our hero didn't make it. He just died in the intro sequence.
Nah, he was just unconscious.
And so it begins our adventure! Next update: Killer Klowns from Outer Paris, Part 1.