Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Reforged is a remastered version of the 1996 point and click classic. Note, however, this is not the Director’s Cut, which was released in 2009. This is important because the two versions are very different, with the Directors Cut having a lot of exclusive content. Nico Collard, instead of simply being George Stobbard’s sidekick and love interest, gets her own game play sections in the Director’s Cut. Plus there are numerous puzzles that don’t appear in Reforged. On the plus side, the story is a bit more streamlined here because Nico’s sections often didn’t quite match up with George’s story line(you essentially had two beginnings, for example).
Broken Sword: Shadow of The Templars Reforged, therefore, is the original game, just with better graphics and sound. You play as George Stobbard, an American Tourist in Paris, who witnesses a clown exploding a cafe with an accordion bomb. This sends his off on a grand with adventure involving the Knights Templar with the alluring Nico. All the puzzles are here and there are hints if you get stuck. Although, this game really doesn’t suffer from the absurd puzzles present in Sierra games. Controls are easy and logical as well.
Broken Sword is a classic series of games, with the fourth one being the only one we don’t talk about. Shadows of the Templars Reforged is a great way for newcomers to experience a solid point and click adventure. Though if you have played this before, especially if you played the Director’s Cut, there’s no reason to play this at all. Classic point-and-clicks were one-and-done affairs. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Reforged gets a Recommended with an eight back-end score.
Overall: Broken Sword Shadows of Templars Reforged is a great version of a classic point-and-click. But not necessary if you’ve already beaten this.
Verdict: Recommended
No eShop Page is available, as the game is not out yet and its not clear when it will be. When it does come out, I will update this review.
P.S. For A Sci-Fi point and click, try Monolith!
Game received for free from the publisher!
