The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 hr 14 min · 10 segments
This week Anna and Paul played Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror and then they tell you like, allll about it. Mangia! Play our adventure game!…
What if all of the information out there for all of the new remakes pushed down the information to past the first page of Google? Because nobody ever goes there.
Did you look
there?
Of course not.
I'm not some sort of animal.
Nobody does that.
Exactly.
Because I think it got convoluted because...
And that's just it.
And that's the same with this one.
I don't need to go over them all.
But these games have been remade a lot.
People really love...
the first two games in this series a lot.
Well, that's another thing.
I think that the Broken Sword series, to a degree, transcends the adventure genre a little bit.
There are certain games that have this escape velocity where they've kind of escaped the confines of the niche part of adventure games, and they made it out just a little bit onto the broader world stage.
And they're not looked at as like...
Yeah, I don't know.
That's the best way I could put it.
They've escaped the confines of our niche little genre and became somewhat known by it.
Unlike
us.
Right, yeah, yeah.
What if all of the information out there for all of the new remakes pushed down the information to past the first page of Google? Because nobody ever goes there.
Did you look
there?
Of course not.
I'm not some sort of animal.
Nobody does that.
Exactly.
Because I think it got convoluted because...
And that's just it.
And that's the same with this one.
I don't need to go over them all.
But these games have been remade a lot.
People really love...
the first two games in this series a lot.
Well, that's another thing.
I think that the Broken Sword series, to a degree, transcends the adventure genre a little bit.
There are certain games that have this escape velocity where they've kind of escaped the confines of the niche part of adventure games, and they made it out just a little bit onto the broader world stage.
And they're not looked at as like...
Yeah, I don't know.
That's the best way I could put it.
They've escaped the confines of our niche little genre and became somewhat known by it.
Unlike
us.
Right, yeah, yeah.
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