Broken Sword The Shadow of the Templars (PC) - Playthrough/Longplay

[@86mjeed]

I actually play this video to help me sleep peacefully at night .. that’s how much i love this game ❤️

[@edrftable]

Im too 😊😊✌️✌️

[@lochmarnegoat9812]

I've always wanted to make a 10 hour video of the ambient background noise from this game to sleep to. Maybe I will.

[@edrftable]

@@lochmarnegoat9812 hahaha😄cool

[@firgasz2920]

how old are you? The game is more than 25 years old.

[@86mjeed]

@@firgasz2920 36

[@etherealbeauty_sf3799]

This game was the core of my childhood and I still love it!!

[@TheMusicRoomWA]

This and Monkey Island were the first 2 adventure games I played, on console (Sega CD and PS1). It's still my favorite genre and it's probably because of the nostalgia. The games suck ass mostly. lol Even Broken Sword, my favorite adventure game, has the goat puzzle in it (as well as many other headaches). So yeah, they're annoying but I love them anyway. Kinda like kids. ;)

[@ArttuTheCat]

I have also played BROKEN SWORD on my PlayStation 1 many years ago 😺👍🕹️. I have also played THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND and MONKEY ISLAND 2: LECHUCK'S REVENGE on my Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

[@joeboyd8702]

I played this in 1998 on the PlayStation. Great game. Almost like a movie. I still have not been to France.

[@shaunflavour6366]

It's been culturally enriched since 98. You'll love it

[@joeboyd8702]

@@shaunflavour6366 I haven't played a computer game for a very long time. Watching this was like ASMR to me.

[@shaunflavour6366]

@@joeboyd8702 me neither. Just resident evil. Love the nostalgia. Wish they would remaster broken sword!

[@RetroPixelLizard]

@@shaunflavour6366 There's the directors cut which includes a bonus prologue chapter. Except the Director's Cut Is garbage from what I heard.

[@rovhalt6650]

France does not exist anymore. In 20 years it has been almost completely destroyed

[@Rufus345]

Remember when this was all that mattered? You could really lose yourself in a game and not worry about jobs, bills, and responsibility. And what a world and what music to lose yourself in at that.

[@RetroPixelLizard]

I do, but that no longer happens with me now. :(

[@shintoCAVS]

This brings back so many memories! I used to play this game alongside my grandmother (yes, my grandmother!), together with Monkey Island III, when I was little. I remember crying when the protagonist gets killed outside the hotel, I wasn't used to characters dying in point-and-click adventure games! I also remember being kinda obsessed with Latin and the ancient world in general thanks to this game (and Age of Empires too, of course). Now, 20 years later, I came back to see the old manuscript... and find out that the sentence in Latin is wrong! It should've been "Per disciplinam meam, lucem videbis".

[@Isewein]

Yeah it's kinda odd they didn't run that by a classicist. Likewise, in the DC the Latin inscription at the entrance of the secret meeting room is also lacking appropriate accusatives. There's a couple of mistakes in the Spanish too. Same In general, the game is quite historically grounded, so it's a shame those linguistic lapses undermine that somewhat.

[@frosty818]

I always laugh when George says “did I show you my tool?” And the guy says “it’s like mine but that one is smaller” 😂 I missed that as a kid

[@lakonikos8791]

“Do me a favor, won’t you? Keep an eye on my hole” right at the beginning.

[@SuperAlex6450]

Thank you for this video, I’ve been using it to fall asleep to for the past couple weeks and I just finished, I’ve never played point and click computer games, so I like listening to them as I fall asleep. There is a charm in the music and dialogue that I like.

[@SicKno-i5r]

Looking forward to the Remastered (Reforged) version 👍

[@barbi.hojita]

OMG I've been looking for this game for years I couldn't find it or remember anything about it except the blonde protagonist in the green jacket and the Parisian cafe. Thank youuu! I played this all my childhood :D

[@coreyd5659]

This is such nostalgia, I played this as a kid on a Gameboy advance 👌

[@TheMusicRoomWA]

Ohhhh that version. I've tried to get into that just for fun but I always end up going back to the PS1 version. I never play it on PC even. Just Playstation like when I was a kid.

[@alexkrycek3359]

November 2023 checking in. Still my sleep aid.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

in the 90's and 00's i was a kid and kinda poor so i noticed one day in the game store that I could get 3 games for the price of 1 on something called the Help! charity compilation set. On playstation 1 in the UK i got Road Rash, Myst and this game for £20. To this day i have no idea who the Help! charity were (they are probably long gone) but i'm glad I got such a bargain on 3 cult classics

[@paulrudge2661]

I still have this!

[@Maxcartervalmont]

Been watching this like its a Netflix show.. haven’t seen it since i played it in the 90s

[@stafdhaese]

Man i mis these types of games i played broken sword 1 and 2 so many times

[@LarryLooseman]

I really wanted to play this again but couldn't get it running well as my monitor is native 4k. This is perfect, I've been watching it in bits here and there. It's like relaxing with an audiobook. Big fan of asking everyone about the manhole opener.

[@RetroPixelLizard]

You should try running it in ScummVM if you got the original.

[@tobiasmiddleton7714]

@@sbdreams what's the link?

[@NemoNautilusEra]

@@tobiasmiddleton7714 Hope you found it in between, but in case, and for others, I think the GOG (Good Old Games) version would work with ScummVM. And it's on sale right now for less than 2 bucks.

[@lakonikos8791]

Back in 1999 when I first played this I couldn’t completely read English. I’ve learned many words through this game. I’ll be forever grateful for the people who conceived this story that stood in my imagination. “Paris in the fall. The last months of the year and the end of the millennium” These words never left my mind. This and the beautiful music.

[@RetroPixelLizard]

I once knew a guy from Finland who learned English from Police Quest.

[@L.S-.]

Full marks to Rolf... as his voice is so soothing... I would actually love Hazels voice as Nico more.. That duo is the best and I love you both!

[@pedrovideoproductions3587]

My fave pc game of all time, this is a masterpiece this definitely relaxes me and helps with my sleep

[@bratpollution1371]

Thank you! The opening line “Paris in the fall” has replayed in my mind since the 90s and I thought I would never figure out which game it was from

[@LucarioLover12]

Just finished the game and your walkthrough helped a lot. Thanks. Such an amazing game

[@Turi6070]

I'm glad being with ya almost 7 Hour's :3

[@solitarymaninblack]

I had just thought about this game now. Used to play it back then. Fascinating. A work of art.

[@alexkrycek3359]

I say! You there, flunkey!

[@Tismeabbie]

If you didn’t know Hazel was both Nico and Lady Piermont 😬 I can’t get ‘hello George, what can I do for you now’ anytime I see Nico

[@alexkrycek3359]

@@Tismeabbie she is quite wonderful!

[@NirreE]

Just love how he proudly tells those around him about the random things he finds 😅 "Look what I found buried in the rubble" "It's a plastic pen top, George....." " Yeah, fantastic, isn't it ?" 😂😂 Great childhood memories 🤗

[@reloadpsi]

I only recently learned George is played by one of the soldiers (Lieutenant Briggs) standing behind Tom Hanks in the LCA at the start of Saving Private Ryan (and the one who gets blown in half while he's being dragged up the beach.)

[@hardcase10]

He's also in Mission Impossible I as Donle, they guy they try to keep out of the vault

[@eclectic_gamer]

brilliant I love the art style and the animation so many varied and interesting characters and locations, pretty much perfect game we just need more like this.

[@enilenis]

Love the Broken Sword series. Beat all games on all platforms. I even bought Vita for the mobile release. Love the Wii adaptation, with puzzler reworked for the controls. Opening mechanisms with tactile feedback was magical. When I first got BS2 demo on a Windows Game Sampler 2 CD, I replayed it over and over. The artwork was and is mesmerizing.

[@TomLilletveit]

The way the music add tension and release to this game is, well, I cant come to think of any game that does it better than Broken Sword 1.

[@wedesoft]

The artwork and music of this game are so amazing.

[@harlowisla]

Nostalgia

[@nameless.greyceo]

Damn I wished I played this back in the day, love games like this, I so hope they remake it as these games are amazing on first play through

[@RetroPixelLizard]

There's the directors cut which apparently Isn't good, but the franchise Is still going with six being supposidly In development for VR.

[@nameless.greyceo]

@@RetroPixelLizard hell yeah

[@nevemsenki5592]

@@RetroPixelLizard Hi! Why do you think that the directors cut isn't good? It was free yesterday on GOG so I bought it and I plan to try it. :)

[@Tismeabbie]

@@nevemsenki5592 they added in bits and its jarring that the same VA wasn’t used for Nico. They also added heads in boxes for dialogue and it just ruins the charm the original had and some are interesting artistic choices for the character renders. If you get DC on steam you get the original too and that’s all I replayed as tried the directors cut when it came out and I personally feel they tarnished it with the changes and add ins. But each to their own, hope you have played and enjoyed it

[@nevemsenki5592]

@@Tismeabbie Ok, thank you for your answer.

[@rerucchi]

Thank you for the video, i thought i'd lost the game to time! I've only played the director's cut on ipod years ago, and i'm interested in the original version since everyone says it's better

[@Jay_SUBZ3R0]

2:28:23: “Give me your hand.” “Get lost!” Hahahahaha!

[@Miakel]

7:45:20 instead of going into the tower, you can walk left and inspect the grave stones. You don't need to but I like to explore

[@angusking1593]

7:35:03 One mistake here, if they had passed through Newcastle half an hour ago they'd still be 2 hours away from Stirling by train.

[@JamesCarmichael]

This game brings back more memories than my therapist :D

[@robinbox7461]

i even did not realize it toke me 8 hours to play this wonderful game. I

[@Xanthemew]

3:06:49 Am I the only one who is questioning the entire circumstances about a dead guy in the hotel room? How did he die? Why is he not taken elsewhere?

[@deyon100]

This game is amazing still holds up today

[@ProjectRedfoot]

I remembered this game just by seeing the word "Broken". It's so funny how the brain works!

[@eif3157]

Did you realise that sargent Moe is apparently death but he appears in BS5? XD

[@eif3157]

@@beanbunny607 yes!!! I realised that!! Hahaha thanks for telling me though!

[@kejiri3593]

Actually if you pay close attention to Broken Sword 2 storyline (this happens after you rescue Nico. But she tells Moue didnt die. So thats why he is back in Broken Sword 5)

[@ozgurkuzu2202]

Frantic movie.

[@angusking1593]

7:55 has Mary Bale been in Paris about the time this was based?

[@ptaylor81]

5:39:51 Am at that point on the playstation. But there's not enough time to grab the shocker and use it before he shakes my hand. Just can't do it, proper frustrating

[@KevinGeneFeldman]

I played half way through the entirety of......the Directors Cut.....before realizing I was playing an absolute garbage version of this game.

[@RetroPixelLizard]

How garbage is it exactly? I been tempted to buy it, but the choice of screenshots worry me.

[@KevinGeneFeldman]

@@RetroPixelLizard having only played half of both, the directors cut lets you play segments of the journalists story and shes modeled in fake 2D 3D. A lot of the animations have been cut down for no fathomable reason, they've inserted really awkward looking flash looking animation into the pre existing 2 2D animation cutscenes, dialogue has been rewritten in many cases for the worse, dialogue is now in tiny little boxes at the very top left and right of the screen next to still portraits (horrible), many puzzles are simplified like the pub and the goat, you can't die and one weird difference I noticed is the totem pole doesn't fall and break through the glass in the tripod display case in the directors cut.

[@Xanthemew]

@@KevinGeneFeldman Also they censored the car crash with Fitzgerald by removing the blood. The reason for all these cuts is that the game was once ported over to the Nintendo DS and the small cartridge couldn't hold as much data. So a lot of filler talk and gameplay stuff, as well as graphical quality was cut down to make the game fit. The Director's Cut Version is based on that DS port instead of the original game.

[@bonyack]

@@KevinGeneFeldman The worst part is that they removed the deaths. They're handled very well in Broken Sword, especially compared to other adventure games and were usually funny to boot. Confronting Moerlin at the Bull's Head for example doesn't feel nearly as rewarding if the game doesn't let you fail at it.

[@paulchapman4241]

At 3 hours on the ps1 you literally can't get the towel to the plaster of Paris quick enough to make the mould before it's dried out. Been trying for 5 hours 😩

[@RetroPixelLizard]

I hope you're holding the button down to move the cursor faster.

[@paulchapman4241]

@@RetroPixelLizard aye but George ambles around so slowly it doesn't help lol

[@ervinspahija3171]

You need to water the towel 2 or 3 times...

[@rickylucas849]

If you water the towel 2-3 times im sure it doesn’t dry out

[@groovygreet]

I'm here because of the goat

[@leo.kasper]

I started to play this game on my GBA Emulator today, I already found the parchment(? and I just can say it looks like a really wonderful game. I'll come here when I get stuck :D

[@jamesfraser1622]

I like how George calls everyone their last name

Not Nico though

[@matrix91234]

Formality, but George is a lawyer so he probably is used to it would be my guess. Interms of professionals (well except Andre)

[@matrix91234]

@ I also think its Americans are more polite interms of job professions there, so saying "Sir, Mr" is more a bigger case there, where Europeans i feel are more casuals.

[@davidgodrei2047]

4:17:40 :DD Ah...Well... :D

[@segaoldschoolsega925]

i’m stuck at the place where im looking at the stained glass at the church

[@RetroPixelLizard]

Just Imagine the old monks on the pews...

[@theaspiegamerplays5673]

What software did you use to record

[@Craulz]

great video man

[@drowningin]

I was so confused. I bought the game on steam, and it seemed nothing like the game I remembered. Thought I got the wrong game. Search it by title and see the game I remember. Why is the newer version of Broken Sword 1 so radically different? Also does the newer version reach where this game starts it just has more or something? Can someone explain, I am very confused

[@chdelgad]

« You speak very good English for a French girl ». I would have added : « You speak very bad French for a French girl » 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@reloadpsi]

It's an odd one - I think Nico's accent was more convincing in this game than the second one, but her voice in the second one was much more assertive. Maybe it's all the years of speaking it so colloquially.

[@matthewwilliams3827]

Better than the uncharted games.

[@iraf.official]

😎😎😎👌👌👌

[@WahyuPratomo89]

I played this game as a kid,.very intrigued by the stroy but can't get far enough because i didn't know where to click, or choosen the wrong choices,.and now i am too lazy to play. So here i am just watch it like watching a very long movie

[@Kruncklenucker]

Cluefinders for adults!

[@davidprice5678]

The cover art really does not fit the tone of the game

[@lambda6369]

sacrebleu

[@virichosa144]

Why u keep asking everyone about that fuckin sewer key it's so enjoying hahahaha shiit

[@virichosa144]

Why you keep showing that fuckin tool to everyone and u do it 2 times hahahha I get so annoyed.... hahaha

[@RetroPixelLizard]

Showing that tool to everyone Is a running gag of this playthrough.

[@123TauruZ321]

Graphics looks good and all that .. but it looks like a horrendously long game .. so much dialogue.. just off-putting.

[@PaulHipToBeSquareAllen]

not for some people.

[@HasekuraIsuna]

I remember having the demo on this on a demo disc back in the 90's. Gotta say I'm impressed with how much voice acting and colourful characters they crammed into this game.