Definately the best in the entire series! :)

Ok, here is the review...

Save the world from cults, power maniacs, false worshippers like 5 times;

But still your relationship with Nico stays idle... Even computer nerd gets gothic girl and your many companions are married or in relationship...

And oh yes, you save 'GOD' but here is the spoiler at the end

You cant kiss Nico because someone who make goat kebab interrups that moment

10/10 would despair again.

Certainly the best Broken Sword game so far, and one I can easily recommend--although with some reservations.

Despite loving adventure games, I can say I've never really been a big fan of the Broken Sword Series, the first one was alright, but due to the similar subject matter felt a lot like the third Gabriel Knight game, but with worse puzzles and less charasmatic leads. The second Broken Sword game makes my list of worst adventure games, and the third was fun enough, but its pleasure came in the unusual platforming and stealth areas at which other games have done much better. So it was that I never really jumped at buying this one.

That turns out to be a mistake. First of all The Serpent's Curse is gorgeous. I didn't mind a bunch of simple puzzles that did little other than waste my time in the first act, just because I loved seeing every environment. So much attention to detail in the art too I loved the inside of Bijoux's apartment for instance, which caught her personality even better than her dialogue did.

In the second act the puzzles improve quite a bit. It does in that act include one puzzle they should have axed involving a cockroach that is on the level of the cat hair mustache in GB3 or the inflatable duck to get the railway key in Longest Journey. However, that excepted, Act 2 has a very nice assortment of puzzles including some particularly memorable ones in which you must decode a map and decipher a hieroglyphic language.

The plot is fairly interesting throughout, if a bit safe. It goes exactly the way you'd expect and never really explores new territory, but that is okay if it's a story you don't mind hearing again. And it is one which allows the artists to dazzle you. Also on the negative side is a number of tiresome comic relief characters and an uninspiring will-they-won't-they dynamic between the leads. Especially considering they have before.

I must agree with reviewers that you control George too much and Nico not enough. There really should have been more balance here and in one place where you DO control Nico, it makes little sense. There is a scene in which George and Nico must pose as insurance investigators. George is an insurance investigator in his daily life, yet Nico--who is a reporter--takes the lead? Later, or possibly right before that scene, George interrogates a man who has come to see Nico because of a report she wrote on a robbery--wouldn't it make more sense for Nico--the reporter--to have conducted that interview? It is bizarre. And then, of course, there are numerous scenes throughout where it wouldn't matter which character you control except that it is almost always George. Ah well. I suppose it is a little thing really.

Buy this for the art and the puzzles in the second act. There is also a story and some characters, those shouldn't annoy you enough to keep you from enjoying it.

Alright so after I had upgraded to windows 10 the game was not playable for me anymore because of a programm called "Open AI" that windows 10 is simply not installing or overwriting or whatever. So I had to search the programm isntall it and then the game wa playable again.

I find it sad that the community has to figure this out and that nobody from the company helped with an issue many people seem to have after going Win10.

Anyway, the game is good. The usual moments of "why the fur are they doing this or that" of the regular adventure game can be found. The remastering did not hurt the game at all from its original glory that it used to have. I played all the Broken Sword games back in the day and this one fits in quite nicely, even though i feel like George is a little more annoying than usual.

All in All Broken Sword is a good game if you get it running.

The Broken Sword series had a middling time of it after the breakout first title, now considered a classic piece of gaming from the 90s. Between then Charles Cecil has dabbled in tone and format; The Sleeping Dragon was a foray into console platforming, while Angel of Darkness experimented with a decidedly mature narrative. But The Serpent's Curse is thankfully a more cohesive affair, one that stays closer to the series's earliest roots. Once again you assume the role of resilient lawyer George Stobbart and his opportunistic on/off journalist girlfriend Nico Collard. This time, while back in Paris, they witness a murder during a robbery at an art gallery. Cue convoluted religious infractions on the plot, casual globe trotting and some mystic revelations and the fifth game in the Broken Sword canon just about hits standard mileau. And though not nearly as well written as the first two games, with neither the profundity and humour to be seen across the many characters, The Serpent's Curse is still a charming adventure that fans will be proud of.

A beautiful game that really captures that nostalgic feel and atmosphere of the first two games.
Even if you get stuck on one pf the more difficult puzzels you can ask for tips, which makes it more enjoyable, because it doesn't break the flow of the game.

Adventure done right. GFX, sound, story, style, humor, ui - all great. Every Adventure should follow this formula.

Great game with a mixture of hard & easy riddles. I enjoyed whole storyline and gameplay.

P.S.Try not to use "hint" buttons guys. You're supose to figure it out yourself.

amzing oystery puzzle would love more of these

The most ridiculous puzzle design I've ever played. WTF is this?
The delay between conversations breaks the immersion. The story is good but I just can't continue playing because of the these reasons.