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Adventure Game Scene of the Day - Monday 30 June 2014
Chronicles of the Sword (1996) is an adaption of the King Arthur legend released for PC & Playstation. Fully voiced, in 3rd person perspective you control Sir Gawain to help defeat the evil Morgana.
Although it was praised at the time for it’s ‘nice puzzles & lovely graphics’ I thought it was one of the worst games I’d ever played & actually finished! I found the story to be a badly constructed mish-mash but did wonder whether it was intended to be more humourous than the ‘serious & ordinary adventure’ it was described as? I was amused by Morgana’s alcoholic guard, Merlin’s portrayal as a ‘thug’ with a dodgy Welsh accent & Queen Guinevere, already in an affair with Sir Lancelot, being more than friendly to Gawain. As for the fairy that Gawain meets in the game I just found the character silly & not funny at all! Has anyone else played this?
It’s nice to hear someone who has actually played an obscure game like this.
Well done, Chrissie.
Everybody wants to be Cary Grant.
Even Me.
-Cary Grant
Has anyone else played this?
No, but I’ve always wanted to give it a whirl.
I remember a local review, commenting on the muscles of the main knight:
“In the end, there’s only the big historic dilemma if knights at King Arthur’s castle ate, not only roasted meat with wine, but also steroids, since Gawain’s muscles makes even Schwarzenegger shy.”
Recently finished: Four Last Things 4/5, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout 5/5, Chains of Satinav 3,95/5, A Vampyre Story 88, Sam Peters 3/5, Broken Sword 1 4,5/5, Broken Sword 2 4,3/5, Broken Sword 3 85, Broken Sword 5 81, Gray Matter 4/5\nCurrently playing: Broken Sword 4, Keepsake (Let\‘s Play), Callahan\‘s Crosstime Saloon (post-Community Playthrough)\nLooking forward to: A Playwright’s Tale
“In the end, there’s only the big historic dilemma if knights at King Arthur’s castle ate, not only roasted meat with wine, but also steroids, since Gawain’s muscles makes even Schwarzenegger shy.”
Even these ones?
Is that Morgana?!
Recently finished: Four Last Things 4/5, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout 5/5, Chains of Satinav 3,95/5, A Vampyre Story 88, Sam Peters 3/5, Broken Sword 1 4,5/5, Broken Sword 2 4,3/5, Broken Sword 3 85, Broken Sword 5 81, Gray Matter 4/5\nCurrently playing: Broken Sword 4, Keepsake (Let\‘s Play), Callahan\‘s Crosstime Saloon (post-Community Playthrough)\nLooking forward to: A Playwright’s Tale
I have not played it. But I checked youtube just now and lo and behold! there’s a playthough. The guy who made it says at the beginning: “I’m fairly confident it’s the worst game ever made. I play a lot of terrible games and I go out of my way to find them, and this is by far the worst.” LOL!
Maybe we should do a Special Week of the most terrible games ever made, Chrissie. And invite this guy over.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
Maybe we should do a Special Week of the most terrible games ever made, Chrissie.
So, we’ll probably have Midnight Nowhere on the menu.
Everybody wants to be Cary Grant.
Even Me.
-Cary Grant
Has anyone else played this?
I played the PC version not that long ago, and thought it was pretty bad. But I was surprised that a game released in 1996 used CD audio tracks for the speech. I thought that method had been abandoned years earlier.
Also, they had the clever (?) idea of doubling the amount of speech by storing one set of voices in the left audio channel, and another in the right audio channel. So if you try to listen to it in a CD player, you’ll hear two voices talking over each other which, judging by the troubleshooting section in the manual, didn’t work on some combinations of CD-ROM players and drivers.
Maybe we should do a Special Week of the most terrible games ever made, Chrissie.
So, we’ll probably have Midnight Nowhere on the menu.
Is that a request?
I played the PC version not that long ago, and thought it was pretty bad. But I was surprised that a game released in 1996 used CD audio tracks for the speech. I thought that method had been abandoned years earlier.
Thanks eriktorbjorn for the info! & hey! you’ve played it! I didn’t even realise until quite recently that the game had been released for PC as well as Playstation which is the version I played & still have.
Maybe we should do a Special Week of the most terrible games ever made, Chrissie.
So, we’ll probably have Midnight Nowhere on the menu.
Is that a request?
God forbid.
Everybody wants to be Cary Grant.
Even Me.
-Cary Grant
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