Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

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Description

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is a classical point & click adventure. It abandons 3D graphics and direct control which were used in the two predecessors and returns to the style of the first two games. The only major technical differences are a higher resolution and that the characters are modelled instead of drawn. Like every Broken Sword game the plot is inspired by historical events: everything centers around the painting La Maledicció. George Stobbart and Nicole Collard witness as a masked man steals La Maledicció and kills the gallery owner. Both have their motivations to solve the crime - George works for the painting's insurer, Nico is a reporter and the police are incompetent - and so they unravel a conspiracy which is somehow connected to the Gnostic Gospels.

The game uses an intelligent mouse cursor: a right click on a hotspot results in looking at the item and a left click triggers an item-specific action. Of course this is the main ingredient of the puzzles: collecting items and using them on other items in order to solve problems. On some occasions there are also logic puzzles from a zoomed-in view on an object, e.g. connecting cables of an engine in order to repair the car's horn. Another important part of the game are conversations with the various characters, some of them known from previous instalments. During the course of the game the controlled character switches between George and Nico. A help function supports players who are stuck.

The original release only included the first half of the game and the second half was patched in later. The first half is set in Paris with two trips to London. The Vita version was released as a bundle (listed here) and also with the first episode separately (listed along the Android/iOS version).

Retail PlayStation 4 releases include an 8-page color prologue comic in place of the manual.

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Alternate Titles

• "ブロークン・ソード ウロボロスの呪い" -- Japanese spelling
• "Сломанный Меч 5: Проклятие Змея" -- Russian spelling
• "Les Chevaliers de Baphomet 5: La Malédiction du Serpent" -- French title
• "Broken Sword: Uroboros no Noroi" -- Japanese title
• "Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Season Pass" -- GOG title
• "Broken Sword 5: La Maledizione del Serpente" -- Italian title
• "Broken Sword 5: La Maldición de la Serpiente" -- Spanish title
• "Broken Sword 5: Klątwa Węża" -- Polish title
• "Broken Sword 5: A Maldição da Serpente" -- Portuguese title
• "Baphomets Fluch 5: Der Sündenfall" -- German title

Part of the Following Groups

• Broken Sword series
• Crowd funding (successful)
• Game Engine: Virtual Theatre
• Games made into comics
• Physical Bonus Content: Comic
• Setting: City - London
• Setting: City - Paris

User Reviews

Yeah, well .....	Windows	piltdown_man (206337)
Ahhh, that old warm feeling of adventure...	Windows	Mastran (571)

Critic Reviews

Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Dec 20, 2013	77 out of 100	77
Retro Gamer	Windows	May 22, 2014	75 out of 100	75
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Dec 05, 2013	74 out of 100	74
Jeuxvideo.com	PlayStation 4	Sep 08, 2015	14 out of 20	70
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Windows	Apr 28, 2014	7 out of 10	70
Games TM	Windows	Feb 06, 2014	7 out of 10	70
Jeuxvideo.com	Xbox One	Sep 08, 2015	14 out of 20	70
4Players.de	Windows	Apr 30, 2014	70 out of 100	70
4Players.de	Windows	Dec 20, 2013	62 out of 100	62
Common Sense Media	Nintendo Switch	Sep 21, 2018		40

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Funding

The game was financed by crowdfunding. Revolution Software asked for $400,000 and received $771,560. The campaign successfully ended on September 22, 2012.

Related Web Sites

• Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse (official website)
• TrueAchievements achievement guide (The TrueAchievements achievement guide for Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse)
• Wikipedia: Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse (Article about the game in the open encyclopedia)