Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death (2006)

Seguimos con el 3D, pero con una jugabilidad un poco más tosca, o esa ha sido mi sensación. Ese sentimiento de exploración se ha perdido un poco, pasando a ser un juego algo más lineal, cosa que no tiene por qué ser malo. Este, al menos, no se buguea. Muchos rompecabezas pecan de ser inventados obligándote a mirar cómo narices son porque no tienes manera de sacarlos por lógica o con las pistas que ya tienes a mano, pero, por lo demás, un juego bastante apetecible de jugar. Visualmente no es un portento, ni tampoco es algo horroroso, teniendo en cuenta la fecha del videojuego, aunque, me hubiese gustado que, quizá, hubiesen seguido en la línea de los dos originales. Una historia entretenida, pero con una cantidad de conveniencias de guion increíbles, sobre todo al final. Ocurre cosa tras cosa que te tienes que reír de lo absurdas que son, fastidiando en sí lo interesante de la trama. Su música, como siempre en esta saga, acompaña bien. Y sí, sobre todo, la música de acertar y avanzar en la investigación. ES. MUY. SATISFACTORIO. Nota: 05/10.

Lo recomiendo solo a los fanes de la saga. El final medio chafa y algunos puzzles y acciones por hacer dan dolor de cabeza.

I didn't like the 3th game in series and somehow that game is now good when i played this on. No autosave, i lost hours of progress and simply quit didn't want to start from the beginning. Controls are awful, no support for controller. No way to skip dialog and npcs are repeating same sentences every time. Absolutely worst game in series, still haven't played 5th entry but this is absolute disaster.

Wirklich nur begrenzt zu empfehlen, wer die ganze Story mitbekommen möchte. Das Spiel wirkt halbherzig rübergebracht mit so vielen Bugs. Bin froh darüber, dass der fünfte Teil wieder bei den ursprünglichen Entwicklern liegt. Die Story ist gut gemacht und mochte ich, aber die Technik ist eine Katastrophe. In den Credits sind ein dutzend Tester aufgelistet. Die haben den ganzen Tag anscheinend auch nur Däumchen gedreht.

I had rather mix feelings toward this installment of Broken Sword, it is a fantastic game for what it's worth, the puzzles were challenging at times but not too hard, the only thing I didn't like was how clunky the controls felt and the ending felt rather rushed and incomplete (it felt like a bad ending and that there should've been another ending but no that was literally it. Would I recommend it it? If you really love the series sure, but otherwise it's a hard maybe.

Janky, but fun. Go in knowing there will be a 2006 sprinkling of racism and misogyny. A romp of a story.

BON JEU de recherche d'indices pour avancer et ne pas oublier de faire Sauvegarde à chaque tableau. Je recommande

it's stuttering but I'm patient with it til the end. Good story though

PUZZLES ARE HARD

Lackluster through and through. After the rough transition to 3D in BS3, I had higher hopes with another 3D installment that it would be better. While the controls were far more tolerable here, most of the charm of the series is completely absent here. Playing this one with a guide is a must, the toughest puzzles are far too convoluted and require constantly referencing vague riddles. The sounds were fine, but the voice acting suffers in this version. Voice lines are pretty limited too, it's rare to get more than one line out of an interaction and towards the end of the game things become basic or reused. There's quite a few bugs getting stuck on parts of the world in later levels especially. In the final level there's a softlock regarding this which was solved with an alt-tab fyi if you make it that far. Going onto BS5 next, which if it's any good, I'd say to just read a summary or watch a playthrough of BS4 to get things in a far more condensed fashion as there's very little different you'd get out of playing.