Few more Broken Sword Impressions for Foolz. 

Once you are past the new beggining, you start noticing little differences. 

Firstly the audio does take a hit on the non-new sections. It's never as bad as some reviews have suggested, it's slightly muffled. But you rarely struggle to understand what they are saying and the text is always on screen anyway. So its really no problem. The game itself, visually the art is rich and clear, no transfer problems here. 

They haven't followed through on the animatics I described earlier. On the original game you have static close up facials when they talk, barely animated, not like the first hour of the game. 

Otherwise, there are some cool new puzzles, that are quite difficulty in places. I have to reiterate, the built in hint system is indispensible and should be instituted not just in all graphic adventures but in all games where you can get stuck and not understand why. 

This puzzle pissing you off? Here's a hint. Still don't get it? Another one. Can't be bothered, well here it is laid out. Still can't do it, skip it. Genius. 

It lets you try all you want to and give up when you want it. It eliminates uncessary frustration and searching for solutions online and its completely optional. 

Love this game, its even got me Jones-ing for Fate of Atlantis on this Staff of Kings game. In fact I may buy the Broken Sword trilogy on PC now. Then the xbox sequel. 

Some budget publisher needs to come along and start doing cheap Wii bundles because the games work SO well lazily on your sofa and with a TV screen. 

gamingeek said:

So whats the buzz on this game? Anyone looking into it?

I am. Although the fact that it turned out to be a beat em up like God of War turned me off a bit.

bugsonglass said:

professor layton also did the hint thing very well.  there are 3 hints for every puzzle which you use coins to use (coins are very abundant).  hint one is pretty vague.  hint two more straight forward.  hint three either starts you off or gives you a pretty good idea of what you need to do.

it's just one of the great touches in that wonderful game

 It's not just the puzzles, its stupid obtuse graphic adventure stuff. You know how you are suppossed to work out the developers logic and do things in the order they want you to? So if you arse around and there is a stupid solution like: oh I'm suppossed to talk to this guy and THEN ask about the.... yeah. 

Stupid stuff like that minor annoyances are addressed so you never get stuck for hours because you didn't click a pixel or initiate a certain piece of dialogue. The system knows exactly where you are and what should be done next if you get stuck. 

Archangel3371 said:

Woo hoo! I picked up another Wii game today, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. The last time I spotted a copy of it was about a month ago going for $50 but I spotted a lone copy of the game priced at $30 so I figured that was good enough and grabbed it. I'll probably try a bit of it tonight but will mainly get really into this weekend.

 Hope you enjoy it and get House of the Dead next. Try dual wiedling. 

robio said:

Archangel3371 said:

Woo hoo! I picked up another Wii game today, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. The last time I spotted a copy of it was about a month ago going for $50 but I spotted a lone copy of the game priced at $30 so I figured that was good enough and grabbed it. I'll probably try a bit of it tonight but will mainly get really into this weekend.

Interesting.  I actually saw RE:UC for $25 at Blockbuster this afternoon and debated whether or not to pick it up.  Guess the game is finally coming down in price.

it's been going for around half price or less for a good few months now on european websites.  on the subject of purchasing decisions this is precisely the kind of game to interest me once it reaches the impulse buy price point

gamingeek said:

Did some more updates. First Red Steel 2 pic in the thread.

i think it looks promising.  but i do have a fondness for cel shaded graphics

BIOSHOCK!  Would you kindly? Mind blown.