History Trivia / BrokenSword

** ''The Sleeping Dragon'' was supposed to be released on [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]], but it was cancelled.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://brokensword.wikia.com/wiki/Broken_Sword_Wiki Broken Sword Wiki]].

* TalkingToHimself: In the second game, Rolf Saxon also voices a goat in Quaramonte City.
** In ''Director's Cut'', Hazel Ellerby plays both as Nico and Imelda Carchon.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Rolf Saxon and Hazel Ellerby are friends and schoolmates in real life. Hazel is the one who asked Rolf to play as a main character.

* NamesTheSame: The name Ultar has been used in Revolution's previous games. In ''VideoGame/LureOfTheTemptress'', he's a drunkard customer in Turnvale. In ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky'', his name is written in crayon on one of the closets in security's headquarters.

* FanNickname: Some fans called the stealth segments in ''The Sleeping Dragon'' and ''The Angel of Death'' as Metal Gear Stobbart.

** Cecil admits that he likes the French waiter from BS5 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/9hqosy/hi_im_charles_cecil_founder_ceo_of_revolution/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=comments_view_all according to AMA interview on Reddit in 2018]].

** Cecil admits that he likes the French waiter from BS5 [[hi_im_charles_cecil_founder_ceo_of_revolution according to AMA interview on Reddit in 2018]].

* DarkhorseCasting: Averted. The actress who played Nico, Sarah Crook, did not actually audition for the role. She was one of the supervisors of the audition, and asked Charles Cecil if she could try out for the role after a string of applicants Cecil regarded as unsuitable.

* TheRedStapler: Many fans learned about the UsefulNotes/KnightsTemplar and appreciate goats just because they played the first game.

** The rest of the games, sans ''The Sleeping Dragon'' are not released in Japan.

* PromotedFanboy: Kelly Willoughby was a huge fan of ''Broken Sword'' series and wrote letters to Revolution that she wanted to work in their company for many years. She was hired as a producer in ''The Serpent's Curse''.

* TechnologyMarchesOn:
** In the first game, George used the engineer's telephone or phone booths to call Nico or some people.
** Averted in the second game where General Grasiento has an old-fashioned computer at the police station.
** The third game shows Vernon and the lady secretary using a bulky PC.
** In the fourth game, George and Nico are using their PDA to make phone calls, hack securitues and create notes.
** In the fifth game, George and Nico are using smartphones to contact each other as well as their bosses. Nico has a brand new computer that looked like an [=iMac=].

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** [=BS3!Flap=] and Chico Garella are [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Watto]].
** Richard Langham is [[VideoGame/{{DreamfallChapters}} Kian Alvane]].

** Chico Garella is [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Watto]].

* FanNickname: The stealth segments in ''The Sleeping Dragon'' and ''The Angel of Death'' are called Metal Gear Stobbart.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: A few examples in the early games, but unfortunately averted in the third.
** Also, a lot of the random junk you could examine in the original is taken out in the Director's Cut, averting it here as well. A lot of the time, it really is just some funny observations or unimportant descriptions. But an entire character gets cut at one point.
** At one point in ''Sleeping Dragon'' you find a "large iron key" ''twenty feet away'' from a "large iron gate". Response to using one on the other: [[ICantUseTheseThingsTogether "There was no reason to try that"]]... A RedHerring is one thing, but you'd think it could at least get a unique line of dialogue.

* ExecutiveMeddling: ''The Sleeping Dragon'' and ''The Angel of Death'' had a fair share of meddlings. Revolution wanted to create those games in 2D but publishers demanded that they should be in 3D.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Rolf Saxon and Hazel Ellerby are friends and schoolmates in real life. Hazel reprised her role as Nico for ''Director's Cut''.

** ''The Sleeping Dragon'' was supposed to be released on {{Gamecube}} but it was cancelled.