Broken Sword - The Shadow of the Templars (Directors Cut)
I got this free on GOG a while ago and hadn't played it so on my quest to play some of the Top 100 adventure games, it was next on the list.
When they released the Directors Cut they added about 2 hours of content to it and changed some of the graphics and audio of the game.
The original game had a classic opening sequence that is ruined in this directors cut of the game. Instead of starting with a birds eye flight over Paris and meeting George we start the game controlling Nico on a investigation of a murder by Mime.
Although it is nice getting more of a back story on Nico, it kinda ruins the flow of the story for me. Nico was a mysterious sassy journalist that you slowly get to know in the first game, building up the relationship between her and George. The story that starts this game ends up going nowhere and fizzles out as the game switches to the original George controlled game. It seems like a pointless exercise that doesn't add a lot to the plot.
It would probably have been better if they had included it at the end of the game as a DLC flashback Nico centric adventure rather than try unsuccessfully to integrate it into the main game.
That aside the new graphics and audio are reasonably well done and the original game is still a cracking story with decent characters in it and some challenging puzzles.
4/5
