![]() ![]() ![]() Like most point-and-click adventures there’s a lot of text to read, but here the text is charming and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. The retro graphics look crude at first, until you notice the incredible details - bushes that shift in the wind, the small forest animals that dart out of your way. You play as a warrior woman named Scythian, on a mysterious mission that’s not entirely explained up front. But the artistic design and innovative touches make this unlike any game you’ve ever seen. On the surface Sword & Sworcery looks like a point-and-click adventure game, circa 1995. Look beyond the big budget titles, to those Indie games that are the modern equivalent of Lancer paperbacks and Fantastic magazine. Games like the amazing Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. It just means that if want to find the truly original, the weird and different, you need to wander a little farther afield. God help us.īut that doesn’t mean that the soul of Sword & Sorcery has been wholly compromised. It has permeated our culture, become strangely mainsteam. It shows up in Disney movies, in role playing games, and virtually every online multiplayer game ever made. You can’t walk into a movie theater or game store without tripping over Sword and Sorcery. Sword and Sorcery was something underground, forbidden, even dangerous, like pornography and posters of Weird Al Yankovic. Too many lurid colors on the cover, too much nudity. Sometimes it would show up at the supermarket in one of those spinning paperback islands, but good luck getting your mother to buy it for you. When I was a kid you had to dig around in the 50-cent bin at the used book store until you unearthed a battered Lancer paperback, or a worn copy of Fantastic magazine. We find Swords and Sorcery in unusual places these days. ![]()
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