Broken Sword: Point and Shit Adventure

This game has to be one of my favourites of all time. The characters are hilarious, the story gripping and nostalgic feeling that makes this game one of my most re-visited games ever. However I see it as a success that these games no longer get made.

Paris in the Fall

The point and click adventure is from a by-gone era. Broken Sword is possibly the most iconic of these games except that monkey island game but I didn't play so it's not important.They literally don't make them like they used to and for good reason.

We are presented with a 2-d world in which the items that we need to progress stick out of a prerendered background. We collect these items and attempt to use them logically to solve puzzles. Sometimes however there is no logic to the puzzles and we find the games are a case of trial and error, with it weighing heavily on the error part. 

The P.A.C. (point and click) requires immense amounts of patience as a fair portion of the puzzles aren't given any clues or hints at how they can be completed. A great game always rewards a player when they do something outstanding and unique. Games like Hitman in which you can get (to an extent) creative in the ways in which you kill your targets. However P.A.C.'s sometimes give us the cold-shoulder as we attempt to do something outside the box.

 I'm sure I can use that

tail sock for something

This is why these games will never be 'The Best' or 'innovative' because the puzzles and gameplay are played out like 1+1=2. We find a clue, apply it to a puzzle and you get the reward. In the likes of COD and FIFA the gameplay is unique and different everytime you play it. Not even online does this happen, single player is the same because difficulty levels give these games more dimensions.

The P.A.C.'s have evolved with the likes of the Sherlock Holmes games, but in essence they are the same with the exception of the Walking Dead and even then... They'll always have a soft-spot in my heart but I don't expect I will to force my children to play it, Resident Evil and Doom on the other hand...

My kids are going to have

such a good time!