Review: Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Part II (PC)

Be sure to read our review of Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Part I prior to perusing this review of Part II because this writer assuredly is not going to repeat himself. Probably.

Part II of Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse picks up the thread from Part I immediately and pushes George Stobbard and Nico Collard to parts unknown as they race after a Gnostic mystery that may or may not plunge the world into chaos.

Review: Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Episode 1 (PC)

The Broken Sword adventure game series was always riding somewhere in the middle of my "To Be Played" pile. As long-time fan of adventure games, leaping in now with The Serpent's Curse, the fifth game in the series (well, the first part of it anyway), there's this definite undertone that someone with experience of the previous titles is going to get more out of this game. I didn't feel lost, but there are definitely some characters from previous games that have returned.

What starts out as a "run of the mill" art theft, which includes the killing of the gallery owner, spirals into something deeper involving the Gnostics, a weird painting, hidden symbols, and the best kick to the head of Gabriel Knight III's horrible cat fur moustache puzzle ever. The adventure pairs George Stobbard (American insurance man) and Nico Collard (French reporter) to unravel the mystery surrounding the theft that kicks off the game.