Broken Sword
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Sep 14, 2026
Yann MarganGUEST
but I ha- I, I really like this extra step of, um, of thinking by, by yourself what's go- what's going to happen, and that's what hooked me on, uh, my first adventure games.
Yann MarganGUEST
Um, my f- first one I think is, that I really remember, was, uh, Broken Sword.
JohnnyHOST
Mm.
Yann MarganGUEST
The first one.
Jim MiddletonHOST
Needs no introduction.
Jim MiddletonHOST
Co-founder of Revolution Software, obviously creators of the Broken Sword series, the Steel Sky games.
Jim MiddletonHOST
Welcome to the Retro Asylum, guys.
Jim MiddletonHOST
Great to have you with us.
57 MINS LATER
Tony WarrinerGUEST
You know, so if, you know, if you, if you read my book, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll see a lot of stuff that wasn't good, you know?
Jim MiddletonHOST
Yeah.
Tony WarrinerGUEST
Once, once, once it gets to, like, Broken Sword III and it becomes, like, ca- chaos, you know? In, in, in, uh, the hand of evil on, on the, on the backers.
Jim MiddletonHOST
[laughs]
Tom NeenanHOST
Ooh.
Tom CrowleyHOST
Broken Sword, Shadow of the Templars, which also is another one Stephen Poliakoff could have written.
Tom CrowleyHOST
Metal Gear Solid by Stephen Poliakoff.
Tom CrowleyHOST
And Zelda, Breath of the Wild.
25 MINS LATER
Tom CrowleyHOST
There's such a divorce between storytelling and gameplay.
Tom CrowleyHOST
Do you know what I mean? It's making the gameplay not gameplay anymore.
Tom CrowleyHOST
Anyway, that's why I've put Grim Fandango and Broken Sword on my list.
Tom CrowleyHOST
Because, well, something like Half-Life, I would say is...
TomHOST
You're just over the water and Andorra's bloody beating you.
TomHOST
In the classic point and click adventure on PC and PlayStation 1, Broken Sword, there's a section of the game set in Ireland with some really bad Irish accents and some really stereotypical Irish names.
TomHOST
But there is an infamous puzzle known around the globe in this game that stumped a lot of people.
TomHOST
What is the infamous puzzle?
PushingUpRosesHOST
I don't, yeah.
Matt AukampHOST
So, "Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit" was a, was an adventure game that came out in 2022 that was, uh, like, um, it was very "Broken Sword."
PushingUpRosesHOST
Yeah, I s- I, I can see that.
Matt AukampHOST
Um, it, playing it felt very "Broken Sword." There were some weird se- "Broken Sword," but with some weird set pieces.
Matt AukampHOST
Like, there was-
PushingUpRosesHOST
Mm
Matt AukampHOST
It was a very cool game, and they just announced their second game, "Crowns and Pawns: Amber Road."
PushingUpRosesHOST
Okay, nice.
AndyHOST
Yeah.
DaveHOST
And it's like Broken Sword with guns and ghosts.
AndyHOST
yeah you have the inventory and the inventory is live you don't pause to access your inventory it continues whilst you're playing which can be a bit of a prick later on especially in the second game but you basically you collect stuff and then it's pretty much it's very much a lot of the puzzles are lock and key with the key not always being a key and the lock not always being a lock you take one thing to another thing put them together and hey presto a door opens yeah
DaveHOST
there's a lot of that going on there are some other puzzles that are
Francisco GonzálezGUEST
If you post a screenshot, someone's going to say, oh, that reminds me of Monkey Island.
Francisco GonzálezGUEST
Oh, that reminds me of Broken Sword.
Francisco GonzálezGUEST
Okay, that's fine.
Francisco GonzálezGUEST
But I'm not going to say yes.