Review for Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse. Game for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One, the video game was released on 01/01/2013 The version for PC came out on 04/12/2013 The version for Nintendo Switch came out on 21/09/2018 The version for PlayStation 4 came out on 04/09/2015 The version for Xbox One came out on 04/09/2015
In a videogame world populated for the most part by FPS, open world and adventures, getting your hands on a classic point & click returns a very special feeling. Let's add that we are playing the title in question on a console like Switch and everything is even more strange and out of place. But, anticipation of what will then be the conclusion of this review, Broken Sword 5: The Curse of the Serpent is necessary, and it is necessary to see it on the current Nintendo console more than on all the others on which it has landed.
It would be useless to say, but it is always better to specify it: in the course of this review we will not analyze the game itself, but we will evaluate its version for Switch, how it has been adapted and how it behaves a òunta & click genre on a fairly particular console .
Paris, the city of murders (?)
Let's start from the beginning. The story begins as the most classic thriller of the nineties, with a flashback that shows us the theft of a painting during the Spanish Civil War, a painting that will then be at the center of the events. After the short introductory film, the story moves to the present day, inside a Parisian art exhibition in which (obviously) the American lawyer is participating George Stobbart and her friend and reporter Nicole Collard. Within a few moments we witness the theft of the same painting, “La Malediciò” by El Serp, with consequent murder of the curator of the exhibition.
From here, alternating between the point of view of George and Nico, our investigation begins in search of the killer, who between travels and discoveries will lead us to unveil the mystery that lies behind the cursed painting. Personally I love the series, especially the second chapter that I have stripped both on the old PlayStation and on iOS, and I found this last chapter perfectly in line with the canons of the series, from comic dialogues to dubbing in Spanish, from interaction to narration. .
The incipit of the plot certainly does not shine for originality, but offers a good narrative inspiration, which as it unfolds reserves some nice surprises. As anticipated, Broken Sword 5: The Curse of the Snake has already been extensively reviewed in its original version, divided into part 1 and part 2, and also in the counterpart on PlayStation 4, so we refer you to the previous reflections for a picture (ahahaha ... , Ed) general about the game, the plot and the mechanics. Let's focus on this last port.
Switch and Point & Click
Why did we first define the game as "necessary" on a console like Switch? Basically for two simple reasons: the first is the very concept of the console, the second is more linked to the videogame genre.
The bipolarity of the Nintendo console really does justice to Broken Sword 5: The Curse of the Serpent, especially in its portable version; the combination of touch screen e controller it's great, allowing you to appreciate and enjoy the game with a feeling that you absolutely don't mind. Of course, we are far from the experience with the mouse that characterizes the genre, and which undoubtedly represents perfection in terms of gameplay, but the high definition, combined with the large screen, allows to overcome this lack without major problems. The game is also fluid, with animations, never jerky, which give a bit of nostalgia throughout our adventure.
An adventure that was missing and that we were delighted to be able to re-appreciate in this end of 2018. As written at the beginning, the market is gradually becoming uniform, bringing out more and more games with a strong multiplayer component, frenetic and immediate, at the expense of genres that they have been real pillars of the gaming world. Few now know what it means to catapult into an old-fashioned graphic adventure (thus excluding titles like Life is Strange), to spend hours and hours in the same room looking for that little clue that we just can't find; or the times we went crazy in the inventory looking for the right combination between two or more objects that could do for us. Broken Sword 5: The Curse of the Serpent in this edition for Switch is an excellent opportunity to look out over a genre in danger of extinction, a genre that does not attract and that now lives on re-editions or emulation.
How to end this rant? If you are a fan of point and click adventures then don't miss the opportunity to enjoy this pearl on Switch, practically the perfect console to enjoy a title like this. You will immerse yourself in a well-written story, not striking but not obvious, with dialogues that at times will kill you with laughter and with a dubbing that, despite not being cared for in detail, manages to provide a more than appreciable feeling. If, on the other hand, you are not really an expert in graphic adventures, try to give it a chance anyway, you may find that in all these years you have snubbed what could be one of your favorite genres.
► Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is an Adventure-Point & Click game for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One, the video game was released on 01/01/2013 The version for PC came out on 04/12/2013 The version for Nintendo Switch came out on 21/09/2018 The version for PlayStation 4 came out on 04/09/2015 The version for Xbox One came out on 04/09/2015
