Fun, smart humour, nice characters and cool puzzles. Very enjoyable cartoonish game.

User Rating: 8 | Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror PC
By merchitO | Review Date:
Gameplay, humour, and graphics, also the puzzles, are very similar to the first game of the series. You still deplore the fact that Nico and Georges seem unable to run and slowly walk from one point to another. Developers should have done a running-when-double-click upgrade for the second part of Stobard's adventures. Anyway, the game is never annoying, with the exception of a laborious labyrinth in the jungle, of which tediousness the gamer should have been spared.
Graphics and animation are very well done. You will like the character's personalities, their relationships. Also the dialogues are very pleasant and smart. The story itself was less compelling than the story in Circle of Blood, due to a lesser accent put on suspense and mystery.
Technically, it has nothing more than the first game of the series. So if you should play only one of them, you would better chose Circle of Blood. But if you really enjoyed the first and want more of the same thing, you will not be disappointed with The Smoking Mirror.

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