Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death Reviews

I understand why this game is disliked, it definitely lacks the charm of the 2D games, but the story and writing are good. I personally enjoyed it more than 3.

Control system is fiddly Can't skip dialogue The crypt is buggy at the hourglasses and after falling down the pit Lame ending with no conclusion to the plot that is uncovered

The series started off strong but then tried unsuccessfully to change its winning formula. In this entry, there are too many spatial puzzles involving the pushing/pulling of boxes, and not enough adventure game puzzles. I made it just over 5 hours before deciding to uninstall it.

I should have written this review back when I had just finished the game, but I was so annoyed at the game that I decided to leave it alone. What are my annoyances? For one, no hint system… this game DESPERATELY needs a hint system. Half the time the solutions make NO sense at all. I played most of the game with a walkthrough guide open. The puzzles were so unfun most of the time that I’d rather just follow the walkthrough instead of even attempting to solve it. The puzzles I liked were those classic Indiana Jones puzzles where you have this ancient text that gives you a riddle, and you have to apply that to the current room you’re in. Massive con on the other hand… unskippable dialogue. Remember I mentioned ancient texts that give you a riddle? Well… did you forget something from the final line? Well, now you have to sit through the entire monologue from George reading the text. One puzzle: it was actually so difficult to keep it all in my head that I had to write down what he was saying so that I could read it on my own when solving the puzzle. The Hacking minigame was fun at first… until it became so complex that I—without a hint system—had to just look up the solutions on the internet. I feel the jokes rarely landed. There is SOME fun in this game, I would recommend this game if you get it on sale and have a walkthrough open. No outfit changes anymore. The last game put a high standard, I guess, with several outfits per playable character. There is a glitch near the end of the game where your character spawns in a corner with your companion standing next to you… so you can’t get out. Restarting that level won’t fix it. It took me a while to find a solution. In fact, this seems to be a quite common bug and for some reason, the only solution recorded was in a franchise review, somewhere in the middle of the video. I made a short 1-minute video in hopes that if someone gets stuck, they can quickly find the solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7-1KF00piI Basically, just run downwards. The final puzzle… I still have no idea how you’re supposed to solve it. The solution in the walkthrough says to look at the ancient text… but the solution image it shows is NOTHING like the clue in the text. I looked it over many times, and it just… I don’t see it at all! I DON’T KNOW! I mean, I solved the puzzle since I just copied the walkthrough, but I don’t understand how we get to that solution using the in-game clue in the ancient text. This game is so annoying that even writing this review is starting to make me mad. I BARELY recommend this. Like I said earlier, get it on sale if you must play all the games. The 5th game is MILES better than this. So either power through this game, or straight up skip it and play the 5th game, you won’t be missing out on much.