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''Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse'' is the fifth game in the ''VideoGame/BrokenSword'' series.
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''Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse'' is the fifth game in the ''VideoGame/BrokenSword'' series. \n The game was released over two Episodes, with the first being released in December 2013 and the second in April 2014.
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* UnrevealAngle: We never get to see the ominous "Manet painting" at Hobb's atelier which George and Nico find rather peculiar.
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* UnrevealAngle: We never get to see the ominous "Manet painting" "[[Art/LeDejeunerSurLHerbe Manet painting]]" at Hobb's atelier which George and Nico find rather peculiar.
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* KeyUnderTheDoormat: DoubleSubverted. Nico believes the key to her neighbor's apartment to be under the doormat but it's not there. It's hidden under the door mat's floor board.
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* KeyUnderTheDoormat: DoubleSubverted. Nico believes the key to her neighbor's apartment to be under the doormat but it's not there. It's hidden under the door mat's [[LooseFloorboardHidingSpot floor board.board]].
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* LooseFloorboardHidingSpot: Nico thinks the key to her neighbor's apartment is located under the doormat, when in actuality it's under the floorboards that are under the mat.
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* LooseFloorboardHidingSpot: Nico thinks the key to her neighbor's apartment is located [[KeyUnderTheDoormat under the doormat, doormat]], when in actuality it's under the floorboards that are under the mat.
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* LooseFloorboardHidingSpot: Nico thinks the key to her neighbor's apartment is located under the doormat, when in actuality it's under the floorboards that are under the mat.
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George can read Latin in the first game (the manuscript stolen from Khan), we mentions he studied law school
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* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: George can read Latin which apparently he learned back in school. Comes in handy when translating Father Simeon's document and the inscription at the cave.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: You can listen to the song called "Jasmine" at Henri's apartment in Paris and Hobb's studio in London. Also, George and Nico's smart phones plays music from VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky.
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* GruesomeGoat: George has to deal with a territory goat in Spain.
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* ExactEavesDropping: At the summit station George, Nico and Eva are overhear Langham mention to one of his goons that they haven't found the Tabula Veritatis yet and are about to torture Marques. That's when Eva decides to follow and try to save her father.
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* ExactEavesDropping: At the summit station George, Nico and Eva are all overhear Langham mention to one of his goons that they haven't found the Tabula Veritatis yet and are about to torture Marques. That's when Eva decides to follow and try to save her father.
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* KeyUnderTheDoormat: DoubleSubverted. Nico believes the key to her neighbor's apartment to be under the door mat but it's not there. It's hidden under the door mat's floor board.
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* KeyUnderTheDoormat: DoubleSubverted. Nico believes the key to her neighbor's apartment to be under the door mat doormat but it's not there. It's hidden under the door mat's floor board.
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* {{Epigraph}}: The game features excerpts from [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} The Testimony of Truth]] and [[FriedrichNietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's]] "Beyond Good and Evil" before the game's opening.
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* {{Epigraph}}: The game features excerpts from [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} The Testimony of Truth]] and [[FriedrichNietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's]] Creator/FriedrichNietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" before the game's opening.
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* {{Epigraph}}: The game features excerpts from [[{{Gnosticism}} The Testimony of Truth]] and [[FriedrichNietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's]] "Beyond Good and Evil" before the game's opening.
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* {{Epigraph}}: The game features excerpts from [[{{Gnosticism}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} The Testimony of Truth]] and [[FriedrichNietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's]] "Beyond Good and Evil" before the game's opening.
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* {{Gnosticism}}: The theme for the game.
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* DoomedAppointment: At the cafe [[spoiler:Father Simeon]] tells George that he has more to tell him about the Gnostics and Lucifer later at the galery. Guess who turns up dead before the meeting?
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* DoomedAppointment: At the cafe [[spoiler:Father Simeon]] tells George that he has more to tell him say about the Gnostics and Lucifer later at the galery.gallery. Guess who turns up dead before the meeting?
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* ForegoneVictory: It makes sense that [[FridgeLogic the game happens to be a prequel]].
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* BondVillainStupidity:[[spoiler: Gehnen Jr. kills Marques after taking the Tabula Veritatis from George. He leaves George and Nico being trapped in the chapel.]]
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* BondVillainStupidity:[[spoiler: Gehnen Jr. Langham kills Marques after taking the Tabula Veritatis from George. He leaves George and Nico being trapped in the chapel.]]
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* CluelessDetective: Inspector Navet displays no talent whatsoever at solving the crime despite the praise we hear from Sergeant Moue.
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** Several characters from the first game make an apperance: Laine, Moue, Fleur, The Hendersons and Clarissa Piermont.
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** Several characters from the first game make an apperance: appearance: Laine, Moue, Fleur, The Hendersons and Clarissa Piermont.Piermont and the Hendersons.
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* ExactEavesDropping: At the summit station George, Nico and Eva are overhear Gehnen mention to one of his goons that they haven't found the Tabula Veritatis yet and are about to torture Marques. That's when Eva decides to follow and try to save her father.
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* ExactEavesDropping: At the summit station George, Nico and Eva are overhear Gehnen Langham mention to one of his goons that they haven't found the Tabula Veritatis yet and are about to torture Marques. That's when Eva decides to follow and try to save her father.
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* GladIThoughtOfIt: Navet's reaction after George got his crime reconstruction machine to work.
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* HelpfulHallucination: [[spoiler:Marques appears in George's dream alongside Father Simeon and Hobbs. Marques tells George that Langham must be stopped from using Lucifer to destroy Jehovah, that he has to protect the balance and that he has the answer in his hands.]] When George wakes up, he holds the medallion in his hand.
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* HelpfulHallucination: [[spoiler:Marques appears in George's dream alongside Father Simeon and Hobbs. Marques tells George that Langham must be stopped from using Lucifer to destroy Jehovah, that he George has to protect the balance and that he has the answer in his hands.]] When George wakes up, he holds the medallion in his hand.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: After the CableCarActionSequence Shear ensures Kat that nothing's really got broken. Cue the cable car's door falling off.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: After the CableCarActionSequence Shear Shears ensures Kat that nothing's really got broken. Cue the cable car's door falling off.
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* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: Used twice.
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* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: Used twice.twice (without mirrors):
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** [[spoiler:The [[BookcasePassage: fireplace]] and at the back of the library of Castell del Sants.
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** [[spoiler:The [[BookcasePassage: fireplace]] [[BookcasePassage fireplace]]]] and the secret door at the back of the library of Castell del Sants.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A RunningGag through this installment is that several characters believe Nico and George to be a couple which they vehemently deny.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A RunningGag through this installment is that of several characters believe believing Nico and George to be a couple which they vehemently deny.
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* SummoningRitual: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, Gehnen Jr. attempts to summon Lucifer to destroy Jehovah and rule mankind. The plan is interrupted when Nico discovers the light for George to use in reflecting the Ouroboros medallion.]]
* TakeMeInstead: Eva wants to spare her father's life and suggests this to Gehnen. [[He takes her AND [[KickTheDog kills the old man]]]].
* TakeMeInstead: Eva wants to spare her father's life and suggests this to Gehnen. [[He takes her AND [[KickTheDog kills the old man]]]].
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* SummoningRitual: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, Gehnen Jr. Langham attempts to summon Lucifer to destroy Jehovah and rule mankind. The plan is interrupted when Nico discovers the light for George to use in reflecting the Ouroboros medallion.]]
* TakeMeInstead: Eva wants to spare her father's life and suggests this toGehnen. [[He Langham [[spoiler:He takes her AND [[KickTheDog kills the old man]]]].
* TakeMeInstead: Eva wants to spare her father's life and suggests this to
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** The trick works on Shears soon after though whom she can bring to commit a MookFaceTurn.
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** The However, the trick works on Shears [[spoiler:Shears]] soon after though whom she can bring to commit a MookFaceTurn.
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** Nico distracts Inspector Navet with a [[ABloodyMess fake blood spot]]. Later she [[OutfitDecoy distracts]] a sniper at Castell del Sants.
** The trick with radio to distract the guard at Montserrat's chapel.
** The trick with radio to distract the guard at Montserrat's chapel.
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** Nico distracts Inspector Navet with a [[ABloodyMess fake blood spot]]. Later she [[OutfitDecoy distracts]] uses a dummy]] to distract a sniper at Castell del Sants.
**The George's trick with the radio voice to distract the guard at Montserrat's chapel.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: The dime George took from Medovsky and later handed to Adam was worth an incredibly large sum of money.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: George's response to [[spoiler:Gehnen when the latter shoots Marques and takes Eva with him after being handed the Tabula Veritatis.]]
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: George's response to [[spoiler:Gehnen when the latter shoots Marques and takes Eva with him after being handed the Tabula Veritatis.]]
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: The dime George took takes from Medovsky and later handed hands to Adam was is worth an incredibly large sum of money.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: George's response to[[spoiler:Gehnen [[spoiler:Langham when the latter shoots Marques and takes Eva with him after being handed the Tabula Veritatis.]]
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: George's response to
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* AlmostDeadGuy:
** [[spoiler:Father Simeon]] who is barely alive enough for some final lines to George.
** [[spoiler:Marques]] is able to give a final clue to George about Eden before passing on.
** [[spoiler:Father Simeon]] who is barely alive enough for some final lines to George.
** [[spoiler:Marques]] is able to give a final clue to George about Eden before passing on.
* BedsheetLadder: George and Nico use the painting's sheets to escape from [[spoiler: the [[HollywoodFire burning art studio]].]]
* BehindTheBlack: George and Nico don't see [[spoiler:Hobbs]] lying dead on the floor of his room while they should be having a good look from their angle. It's only after a screen scrolls that they see what the player sees.
* BehindTheBlack: George and Nico don't see [[spoiler:Hobbs]] lying dead on the floor of his room while they should be having a good look from their angle. It's only after a screen scrolls that they see what the player sees.
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* ABloodyMess: Nico distracts Inspector Navet by messing the pizza sauce on the floor.
* BedsheetLadder: George and Nico use the painting's sheets to escape from [[spoiler: the [[HollywoodFire burning art studio]].]]
* BedsheetLadder: George and Nico use the painting's sheets to escape from [[spoiler: the [[HollywoodFire burning art studio]].]]
* ABloodyMess: Nico distracts Inspector Navet by messing the pizza sauce on the floor.
* BondVillainStupidity:[[spoiler: Gehnen Jr. kills Marques after taking the Tabula Veritatis from George. He leaves George and Nico being trapped in the chapel.]]
* BookcasePassage: Opens up at [[spoiler:the fireplace at Castell del Sants after you turn the plinths in the right direction]].
* BondVillainStupidity:[[spoiler: Gehnen Jr. kills Marques after taking the Tabula Veritatis from George. He leaves George and Nico being trapped in the chapel.]]
* BookcasePassage: Opens up at [[spoiler:the fireplace at Castell del Sants after you turn the plinths in the right direction]].
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* ButThouMust: George has a choice whether [[spoiler:he'll give the Tabula or lie to Langham. No matter what you choose, Langham will kill Tiago anyway.]]
* CableCarActionSequence: In episode two.
* CableCarActionSequence: In episode two.
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* ButThouMust: George has a choice whether [[spoiler:he'll give the Tabula or lie to Langham. No matter what you choose, Langham will kill Tiago Marques anyway.]]
* CableCarActionSequence:In episode two.At Santa Cova.
* CableCarActionSequence:
* ClearMyName: George says he must be doing this after accidentally becoming Navet's prime suspect.
* CluelessDetective: Inspector Navet displays no talent whatsoever at solving the crime despite the praise we hear from Sergeant Moue.
* CollapsingLair: Nico's explosives cause Eden's cave to collapse. Our heroes can make it out JustInTime.
* CluelessDetective: Inspector Navet displays no talent whatsoever at solving the crime despite the praise we hear from Sergeant Moue.
* CollapsingLair: Nico's explosives cause Eden's cave to collapse. Our heroes can make it out JustInTime.
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* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: ''The Serpent's Curse''. WordOfSaintPaul says that the game takes place after ''The Smoking Mirror''.
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* ConnectTheDeaths: The locations [[https://static.trueachievements.com/customimages/045524.png on the map]] found at the library point to the place where the Tabula Veritatis is hidden.
* ContinuityNod:
** Georges's opening lines about "Paris in spring" echoes his opening line in the first game.
** Several characters from the first game make an apperance: Laine, Moue, Fleur, The Hendersons and Clarissa Piermont.
* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel:''The Serpent's Curse''. WordOfSaintPaul says that the this game takes place after ''The Smoking Mirror''.''VideoGame/TheSmokingMirror''.
* ContinuityNod:
** Georges's opening lines about "Paris in spring" echoes his opening line in the first game.
** Several characters from the first game make an apperance: Laine, Moue, Fleur, The Hendersons and Clarissa Piermont.
* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel:
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*** This is then contradicted in the second episode of the Serpent's Curse when [[spoiler:Duane mentions the "Rome Incident" from Angel of Death, which George seems to have forgotten about.]]
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster of ''The Serpent's Curse'' depicts George holding a dangling Nico from a gondola by single hand while a Russian mobster attempts to shoot them. [[spoiler: In the second episode, that scene doesn't happen and instead there's Nico on her own hanging in gondola by two hands and casually talks to Shears]]. Not to mention that many fans thought Mrs. Piermont will have an important role in the game.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster of ''The Serpent's Curse'' depicts George holding a dangling Nico from a gondola by single hand while a Russian mobster attempts to shoot them. [[spoiler: In the second episode, that scene doesn't happen and instead there's Nico on her own hanging in gondola by two hands and casually talks to Shears]]. Not to mention that many fans thought Mrs. Piermont will have an important role in the game.
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*** This is then contradicted in the second episode of the ''The Serpent's Curse Curse'' when [[spoiler:Duane mentions the "Rome Incident" from Angel of Death, which George seems to have forgotten about.]]
* CoversAlwaysLie: The posterof ''The Serpent's Curse'' depicts George holding a dangling Nico from a gondola by single hand while a Russian mobster attempts to shoot them. [[spoiler: In the second episode, that scene doesn't happen and instead there's Nico on her own hanging in gondola by two hands and casually talks to Shears]]. Not to mention that many fans thought Mrs. Piermont will have an important role in the game.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster
* CurtainCamouflage: Kat hides in the closet to avoid Langham and his henchmen.
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* DeadArtistsAreBetter: El Serp.
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* DeadArtistsAreBetter: El Serp.DeadlyDelivery: The pizza delivery guy in the opening cutscene who steals the painting from the gallery and kills Henri on his way out.
* DistantPrologue: The game opens with Marques leaving Castell del Sants with his mother to escape from fascists during Spain's civil war of 1936-39.
* DoomedAppointment: At the cafe [[spoiler:Father Simeon]] tells George that he has more to tell him about the Gnostics and Lucifer later at the galery. Guess who turns up dead before the meeting?
* DistantPrologue: The game opens with Marques leaving Castell del Sants with his mother to escape from fascists during Spain's civil war of 1936-39.
* DoomedAppointment: At the cafe [[spoiler:Father Simeon]] tells George that he has more to tell him about the Gnostics and Lucifer later at the galery. Guess who turns up dead before the meeting?
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* EnemyChatter: [[spoiler:three of Langham's henchmen are talking about their boss outside the Eden.]]
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* EekAMouse: Nico reacts this way when seeing Trevor.
* EiffelTowerEffect: The Eiffel Tower is clearly visible through the window at Henri's gallery.
* EmergingFromTheShadows: Shears in the final scene.
* EnemyChatter:[[spoiler:three [[spoiler:Three of Langham's henchmen are talking about their boss outside the Eden.]]
* EiffelTowerEffect: The Eiffel Tower is clearly visible through the window at Henri's gallery.
* EmergingFromTheShadows: Shears in the final scene.
* EnemyChatter:
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* {{Flashback}}: The opening shows that the fascists invade the mansion during the civil war in Catalonia, Spain.
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* {{Flashback}}: The opening shows ExactEavesDropping: At the summit station George, Nico and Eva are overhear Gehnen mention to one of his goons that they haven't found the fascists invade the mansion during the civil war in Catalonia, Spain.Tabula Veritatis yet and are about to torture Marques. That's when Eva decides to follow and try to save her father.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Navet's reaction after George got his crime reconstruction machine to work.
* HelpfulHallucination: [[spoiler:Marques appears in George's dream alongside Father Simeon and Hobbs. Marques tells George that Langham must be stopped from using Lucifer to destroy Jehovah, that he has to protect the balance and that he has the answer in his hands.]] When George wakes up, he holds the medallion in his hand.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Hobbs knowing that Henri was dead indicates to George that Hobbs was more involved in the case then he led on.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: After the CableCarActionSequence Shear ensures Kat that nothing's really got broken. Cue the cable car's door falling off.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: After the CableCarActionSequence Shear ensures Kat that nothing's really got broken. Cue the cable car's door falling off.
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* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest:Fleur gives George a blue yarn ball and says it will become useful for him in the future.
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:Henri, Bijou and Mr. Hobbs]].
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:Henri, Bijou and Mr. Hobbs]].
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* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest:Fleur InvisibleWriting: An inversion at the cave. [[spoiler:When George holds Gehnen's map up to the flame, the writing on the map starts to react to the heat and disappears leaving behind only five letters which help to identify the location of the Tabula Veritatis.]]
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Fleur gives George a blue yarn ball and says it will become useful for him in the future.
*LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:Henri, Bijou and Mr. Hobbs]].KeyUnderTheDoormat: DoubleSubverted. Nico believes the key to her neighbor's apartment to be under the door mat but it's not there. It's hidden under the door mat's floor board.
* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: Used twice.
** George uses colored lenses to direct sun beams onto the fresco at Castell del Sants' hidden chapel.
** At the cave, he uses the medallion to cast differently colored light onto the wall paintings across the room.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Fleur gives George a blue yarn ball and says it will become useful for him in the future.
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* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: Used twice.
** George uses colored lenses to direct sun beams onto the fresco at Castell del Sants' hidden chapel.
** At the cave, he uses the medallion to cast differently colored light onto the wall paintings across the room.
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* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler: Langham threatens to shoot Tiago if you refuse to handover the Tabula Veritatis. [[ButThouMust Whether you give the Tabula or not, Tiago will end up dead.]]]]
* AMinorKidroduction: Subverted. The game opens with Tiago leaving Castell del Sants with her mother to escape from fascists.
* AMinorKidroduction: Subverted. The game opens with Tiago leaving Castell del Sants with her mother to escape from fascists.
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* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler: Langham threatens to shoot Tiago Marques if you refuse to handover the Tabula Veritatis. [[ButThouMust Whether you give the Tabula or not, Tiago Marques will end up dead.]]]]
*AMinorKidroduction: Subverted. The game opens with Tiago leaving Castell del Sants with her mother MoonLogicPuzzle: Using Trevor to escape from fascists.transport a pin to the back of the machine and thus short-circuit the cable-car system qualifies as such.
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* NiceKitty: George backs away slowly when getting too close to the hostile goat at Castell del Sants.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Some fans notice that Medovsky looks like UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin.
* ParodyNames: Interpol detective Richard Langham from ''The Serpent's Curse'' is a nod to [[Creator/DanBrown Robert Langdon series]].
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Some of the achievements certainly qualify, especially if their requirements are [[PixelHunting finding small]] items.
* ParodyNames: Interpol detective Richard Langham from ''The Serpent's Curse'' is a nod to [[Creator/DanBrown Robert Langdon series]].
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Some of the achievements certainly qualify, especially if their requirements are [[PixelHunting finding small]] items.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Some fans notice that Medovsky looks like UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin.
NotWhatItLooksLike: When Navet finds George "redhanded" with the body of [[spoiler:Father Simeon]], George utters this line.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: George plays the dumb American tourist to get information from the goons regarding the closed down monastery.
* {{Ouroboros}}: The serpent eating its own tail is revealed to be a Gnostic symbol and forms part of the painting and also of the Tabula Veritatis.
* OutfitDecoy: Nico uses a helmet on a stick to distract a sniper at Castell del Sants.
* ParodyNames: Interpol detective Richard Langhamfrom ''The Serpent's Curse'' is a nod to [[Creator/DanBrown Robert Langdon series]].
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Henri's password for the CCTV system is [[spoiler:the date of his birthday]].
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: George plays the dumb American tourist to get information from the goons regarding the closed down monastery.
* {{Ouroboros}}: The serpent eating its own tail is revealed to be a Gnostic symbol and forms part of the painting and also of the Tabula Veritatis.
* OutfitDecoy: Nico uses a helmet on a stick to distract a sniper at Castell del Sants.
* ParodyNames: Interpol detective Richard Langham
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Henri's password for the CCTV system is [[spoiler:the date of his birthday]].
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* RansackedRoom: [[spoiler:Adam's apartment has been ransacked and Tiago is kidnapped by Shears.]]
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* RansackedRoom: [[spoiler:Adam's apartment has been ransacked and Tiago Marques is kidnapped by Shears.]]
* SecretPassage:
** [[spoiler:The [[BookcasePassage: fireplace]] and at the back of the library of Castell del Sants.
** The entrance to the cave at Montserrat.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A RunningGag through this installment is that several characters believe Nico and George to be a couple which they vehemently deny.
* ShoutOut: In the final scene when George sets the bush on fire, he notes "[[Film/ApocalypseNow I love the smell of Bret in the morning.]]"
* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:Medovsky gets killed offscreen in the cable car by Shears.]]
* SecretPassage:
** [[spoiler:The [[BookcasePassage: fireplace]] and at the back of the library of Castell del Sants.
** The entrance to the cave at Montserrat.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: A RunningGag through this installment is that several characters believe Nico and George to be a couple which they vehemently deny.
* ShoutOut: In the final scene when George sets the bush on fire, he notes "[[Film/ApocalypseNow I love the smell of Bret in the morning.]]"
* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:Medovsky gets killed offscreen in the cable car by Shears.]]
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* StarvingStudent: Bassam tries his best to enter college by selling strange trinkets from different countries.
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* StarvingStudent: Bassam SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: George can read Latin which apparently he learned back in school. Comes in handy when translating Father Simeon's document and the inscription at the cave.
* SummoningRitual: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, Gehnen Jr. attempts to summon Lucifer to destroy Jehovah and rule mankind. The plan is interrupted when Nico discovers the light for George to use in reflecting the Ouroboros medallion.]]
* TakeMeInstead: Eva wants to spare her father's life and suggests this to Gehnen. [[He takes her AND [[KickTheDog kills the old man]]]].
* TalkingYourWayOut:
** Nico trieshis best but fails miserably when they are trapped at Montserrat's chapel. The guard would just not listen to enter college by selling strange trinkets from different countries.her.
** The trick works on Shears soon after though whom she can bring to commit a MookFaceTurn.
* SummoningRitual: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, Gehnen Jr. attempts to summon Lucifer to destroy Jehovah and rule mankind. The plan is interrupted when Nico discovers the light for George to use in reflecting the Ouroboros medallion.]]
* TakeMeInstead: Eva wants to spare her father's life and suggests this to Gehnen. [[He takes her AND [[KickTheDog kills the old man]]]].
* TalkingYourWayOut:
** Nico tries
** The trick works on Shears soon after though whom she can bring to commit a MookFaceTurn.
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* TrustPassword: Kat trusts Pearl's voice only after Pearl starts singing a specific song to her.
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: George brings this trope up in discussion with Eva. She tells him she owns a bar which to him explains why she knows how to use a gun.
* UnrevealAngle: We never get to see the ominous "Manet painting" at Hobb's atelier which George and Nico find rather peculiar.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Bijou hides the key to Henri's safe in her decollete.
* WeNeedADistraction:
** Nico distracts Inspector Navet with a [[ABloodyMess fake blood spot]]. Later she [[OutfitDecoy distracts]] a sniper at Castell del Sants.
** The trick with radio to distract the guard at Montserrat's chapel.
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: George brings this trope up in discussion with Eva. She tells him she owns a bar which to him explains why she knows how to use a gun.
* UnrevealAngle: We never get to see the ominous "Manet painting" at Hobb's atelier which George and Nico find rather peculiar.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Bijou hides the key to Henri's safe in her decollete.
* WeNeedADistraction:
** Nico distracts Inspector Navet with a [[ABloodyMess fake blood spot]]. Later she [[OutfitDecoy distracts]] a sniper at Castell del Sants.
** The trick with radio to distract the guard at Montserrat's chapel.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: George gets increasingly unnerved by bumping into goats [[RunningGag again and again]].
* WorthlessYellowRocks: The dime George took from Medovsky and later handed to Adam was worth an incredibly large sum of money.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: George's response to [[spoiler:Gehnen when the latter shoots Marques and takes Eva with him after being handed the Tabula Veritatis.]]
* WorthlessYellowRocks: The dime George took from Medovsky and later handed to Adam was worth an incredibly large sum of money.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: George's response to [[spoiler:Gehnen when the latter shoots Marques and takes Eva with him after being handed the Tabula Veritatis.]]
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'''''Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse''''' is the fifth game in the ''VideoGame/BrokenSword'' series.
!! These tropes can explain everything:
* AccidentalProposal: Try showing the diamond ring to Nico. Go on.
* AcmeProducts: Inspector Navet's crime reconstruction machine.
* AlmostKiss: The ending has George and Nico after their escape in the Gnostic temple. However, they're interrupted by Shears.
* AnimatedActors: The Kickstarter trailer features Charles Cecil directing the beginning of the game. After that, George and Nico talk about their previous adventures from the first two games.
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Medovsky and Richard Langham]].
* ABloodyMess: Nico distracts Inspector Navet by messing the pizza sauce on the floor.
* BedsheetLadder: George and Nico use the painting's sheets to escape from [[spoiler: the [[HollywoodFire burning art studio]].]]
* BlackoutBasement:
** George enters to a garage in Vera Security office and has to PixelHunt in the dark to find the light switch.
** George and Nico are trapped in a [[spoiler: cave in Santa Cova Chapel]] and they have to find the light source.
* BoxAndStickTrap: George catches Trevor using a matchbox, with tea biscuit as a bait.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: George asks Fleur [[spoiler:how to get rid of Sergeant Moue from the shop's door]] but Fleur responds in this question:
--> '''Fleur''': Don't you want to play the game yourself?
* BrokenRecord: George discovers a [[LampshadeHanging broken record]] that Bijou accidentally destroyed.
* ButThouMust: George has a choice whether [[spoiler:he'll give the Tabula or lie to Langham. No matter what you choose, Langham will kill Tiago anyway.]]
* CableCarActionSequence: In episode two.
* CaughtOnTape: George watched the footage about the theft of the painting in Henri's office.
* ConcealingCanvas: At the start, there's a broken alarm system hidden in the stolen painting. Later in the game, George and Nico find "La Malediccio" behind [[spoiler: one of the canvasses in Mr. Hobbs' room.]]
* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: ''The Serpent's Curse''. WordOfSaintPaul says that the game takes place after ''The Smoking Mirror''.
** Interestingly enough, this is the first sequel since ''The Smoking Mirror'' to actually get a number in the title: 5, to be exact, even though naming it ''Broken Sword 3'' wouldn't technically collide with ''The Sleeping Dragon''.
** Which makes it a bit of a headscratcher when we remember that the third entry in the series (chronologically fourth) did not feature the smartphones that the characters are seen to possess in both the fourth (chronologically latest) and the fifth (chronologically third) game.
*** This is then contradicted in the second episode of the Serpent's Curse when [[spoiler:Duane mentions the "Rome Incident" from Angel of Death, which George seems to have forgotten about.]]
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster of ''The Serpent's Curse'' depicts George holding a dangling Nico from a gondola by single hand while a Russian mobster attempts to shoot them. [[spoiler: In the second episode, that scene doesn't happen and instead there's Nico on her own hanging in gondola by two hands and casually talks to Shears]]. Not to mention that many fans thought Mrs. Piermont will have an important role in the game.
* CreditsMedley: The first half of the ending music is based on the opening theme.
* CreepyCockroach: George keeps a cockroach and names it Trevor. Many [=NPCs=], however, hate to see it.
* CurseCutShort:
-->'''Eva''': I think it's a crock of sh-\\
'''George''': Okay, that's enough.
* CypherLanguage: Gehnen's telegram and [[spoiler: the Tabula Veritatis.]]
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: El Serp.
* DrowningMySorrows: Bijou suffers this from the loss of her husband. At the same game, Ramon drank a lot of brandy [[spoiler: from remembering the deaths of Xavier and Hernandez.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything: George lampshades about it [[spoiler: after he opened the bag he found in Langham's truck.]]
* EnemyChatter: [[spoiler:three of Langham's henchmen are talking about their boss outside the Eden.]]
* {{Epigraph}}: The game features excerpts from [[{{Gnosticism}} The Testimony of Truth]] and [[FriedrichNietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's]] "Beyond Good and Evil" before the game's opening.
* {{Flashback}}: The opening shows that the fascists invade the mansion during the civil war in Catalonia, Spain.
* FoodAsBribe: Georges gives a pizza to Laine in order to ask about the code in Henri's office.
* ForegoneVictory: It makes sense that [[FridgeLogic the game happens to be a prequel]].
* {{Gnosticism}}: The theme for the game.
* {{Guyliner}}: George can use Bijou's make-up [[spoiler:to disguise as Henri and convince Bijou to give the safe key]]. It gets more hilarious when he uses lipstick.
* TheHeretic: According to Father Simeon and the Dominicans, the Gnostics.
* HollywoodFire: At the end of the first part, [[spoiler: George and Nico are trapped over the rooftops in Mr. Hobb's studio.]]
* HollywoodGlassCutter: George cuts the window in Henri's office using the engagement ring he found in the safe.
* InsuranceFraud: One of the main issues.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest:Fleur gives George a blue yarn ball and says it will become useful for him in the future.
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:Henri, Bijou and Mr. Hobbs]].
* LyingFingerCross: When Navet asks George if he tampers any evidence in Henri's office, one of the dialogue option icons include a crossed finger. [[spoiler: Later in the game, George has a choice whether he will give the Tabula Veritatis to Langham or lie to him.]]
* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler: Langham threatens to shoot Tiago if you refuse to handover the Tabula Veritatis. [[ButThouMust Whether you give the Tabula or not, Tiago will end up dead.]]]]
* AMinorKidroduction: Subverted. The game opens with Tiago leaving Castell del Sants with her mother to escape from fascists.
* MysteryMagnet: [[{{Lampshade Hanging}} Lampshaded]] when George thinks that trouble comes whenever he and Nico are reunited.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: George reassures Nico that [[spoiler:Donna will be okay using a sausage dynamite.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Some fans notice that Medovsky looks like UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin.
* ParodyNames: Interpol detective Richard Langham from ''The Serpent's Curse'' is a nod to [[Creator/DanBrown Robert Langdon series]].
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Some of the achievements certainly qualify, especially if their requirements are [[PixelHunting finding small]] items.
* PreMortemOneLiner: George makes this one [[spoiler:before he uses the Ouroboros necklace to Langham.]]
* RansackedRoom: [[spoiler:Adam's apartment has been ransacked and Tiago is kidnapped by Shears.]]
* SpookyPainting: The La Maledicció. According to Father Simeon, the painting is cursed by the devil and whoever touches it will die. [[spoiler:It gets spookier when there's a hidden image inside the painting.]]
* StarvingStudent: Bassam tries his best to enter college by selling strange trinkets from different countries.
* ThemeTuneCameo: You can listen to the song called "Jasmine" at Henri's apartment in Paris and Hobb's studio in London. Also, George and Nico's smart phones plays music from VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky.
* WestminsterChimes: George has to play the tune of Ave Maria to cheer up Pearl.
!! These tropes can explain everything:
* AccidentalProposal: Try showing the diamond ring to Nico. Go on.
* AcmeProducts: Inspector Navet's crime reconstruction machine.
* AlmostKiss: The ending has George and Nico after their escape in the Gnostic temple. However, they're interrupted by Shears.
* AnimatedActors: The Kickstarter trailer features Charles Cecil directing the beginning of the game. After that, George and Nico talk about their previous adventures from the first two games.
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Medovsky and Richard Langham]].
* ABloodyMess: Nico distracts Inspector Navet by messing the pizza sauce on the floor.
* BedsheetLadder: George and Nico use the painting's sheets to escape from [[spoiler: the [[HollywoodFire burning art studio]].]]
* BlackoutBasement:
** George enters to a garage in Vera Security office and has to PixelHunt in the dark to find the light switch.
** George and Nico are trapped in a [[spoiler: cave in Santa Cova Chapel]] and they have to find the light source.
* BoxAndStickTrap: George catches Trevor using a matchbox, with tea biscuit as a bait.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: George asks Fleur [[spoiler:how to get rid of Sergeant Moue from the shop's door]] but Fleur responds in this question:
--> '''Fleur''': Don't you want to play the game yourself?
* BrokenRecord: George discovers a [[LampshadeHanging broken record]] that Bijou accidentally destroyed.
* ButThouMust: George has a choice whether [[spoiler:he'll give the Tabula or lie to Langham. No matter what you choose, Langham will kill Tiago anyway.]]
* CableCarActionSequence: In episode two.
* CaughtOnTape: George watched the footage about the theft of the painting in Henri's office.
* ConcealingCanvas: At the start, there's a broken alarm system hidden in the stolen painting. Later in the game, George and Nico find "La Malediccio" behind [[spoiler: one of the canvasses in Mr. Hobbs' room.]]
* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: ''The Serpent's Curse''. WordOfSaintPaul says that the game takes place after ''The Smoking Mirror''.
** Interestingly enough, this is the first sequel since ''The Smoking Mirror'' to actually get a number in the title: 5, to be exact, even though naming it ''Broken Sword 3'' wouldn't technically collide with ''The Sleeping Dragon''.
** Which makes it a bit of a headscratcher when we remember that the third entry in the series (chronologically fourth) did not feature the smartphones that the characters are seen to possess in both the fourth (chronologically latest) and the fifth (chronologically third) game.
*** This is then contradicted in the second episode of the Serpent's Curse when [[spoiler:Duane mentions the "Rome Incident" from Angel of Death, which George seems to have forgotten about.]]
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster of ''The Serpent's Curse'' depicts George holding a dangling Nico from a gondola by single hand while a Russian mobster attempts to shoot them. [[spoiler: In the second episode, that scene doesn't happen and instead there's Nico on her own hanging in gondola by two hands and casually talks to Shears]]. Not to mention that many fans thought Mrs. Piermont will have an important role in the game.
* CreditsMedley: The first half of the ending music is based on the opening theme.
* CreepyCockroach: George keeps a cockroach and names it Trevor. Many [=NPCs=], however, hate to see it.
* CurseCutShort:
-->'''Eva''': I think it's a crock of sh-\\
'''George''': Okay, that's enough.
* CypherLanguage: Gehnen's telegram and [[spoiler: the Tabula Veritatis.]]
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: El Serp.
* DrowningMySorrows: Bijou suffers this from the loss of her husband. At the same game, Ramon drank a lot of brandy [[spoiler: from remembering the deaths of Xavier and Hernandez.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything: George lampshades about it [[spoiler: after he opened the bag he found in Langham's truck.]]
* EnemyChatter: [[spoiler:three of Langham's henchmen are talking about their boss outside the Eden.]]
* {{Epigraph}}: The game features excerpts from [[{{Gnosticism}} The Testimony of Truth]] and [[FriedrichNietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche's]] "Beyond Good and Evil" before the game's opening.
* {{Flashback}}: The opening shows that the fascists invade the mansion during the civil war in Catalonia, Spain.
* FoodAsBribe: Georges gives a pizza to Laine in order to ask about the code in Henri's office.
* ForegoneVictory: It makes sense that [[FridgeLogic the game happens to be a prequel]].
* {{Gnosticism}}: The theme for the game.
* {{Guyliner}}: George can use Bijou's make-up [[spoiler:to disguise as Henri and convince Bijou to give the safe key]]. It gets more hilarious when he uses lipstick.
* TheHeretic: According to Father Simeon and the Dominicans, the Gnostics.
* HollywoodFire: At the end of the first part, [[spoiler: George and Nico are trapped over the rooftops in Mr. Hobb's studio.]]
* HollywoodGlassCutter: George cuts the window in Henri's office using the engagement ring he found in the safe.
* InsuranceFraud: One of the main issues.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest:Fleur gives George a blue yarn ball and says it will become useful for him in the future.
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:Henri, Bijou and Mr. Hobbs]].
* LyingFingerCross: When Navet asks George if he tampers any evidence in Henri's office, one of the dialogue option icons include a crossed finger. [[spoiler: Later in the game, George has a choice whether he will give the Tabula Veritatis to Langham or lie to him.]]
* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler: Langham threatens to shoot Tiago if you refuse to handover the Tabula Veritatis. [[ButThouMust Whether you give the Tabula or not, Tiago will end up dead.]]]]
* AMinorKidroduction: Subverted. The game opens with Tiago leaving Castell del Sants with her mother to escape from fascists.
* MysteryMagnet: [[{{Lampshade Hanging}} Lampshaded]] when George thinks that trouble comes whenever he and Nico are reunited.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: George reassures Nico that [[spoiler:Donna will be okay using a sausage dynamite.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Some fans notice that Medovsky looks like UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin.
* ParodyNames: Interpol detective Richard Langham from ''The Serpent's Curse'' is a nod to [[Creator/DanBrown Robert Langdon series]].
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Some of the achievements certainly qualify, especially if their requirements are [[PixelHunting finding small]] items.
* PreMortemOneLiner: George makes this one [[spoiler:before he uses the Ouroboros necklace to Langham.]]
* RansackedRoom: [[spoiler:Adam's apartment has been ransacked and Tiago is kidnapped by Shears.]]
* SpookyPainting: The La Maledicció. According to Father Simeon, the painting is cursed by the devil and whoever touches it will die. [[spoiler:It gets spookier when there's a hidden image inside the painting.]]
* StarvingStudent: Bassam tries his best to enter college by selling strange trinkets from different countries.
* ThemeTuneCameo: You can listen to the song called "Jasmine" at Henri's apartment in Paris and Hobb's studio in London. Also, George and Nico's smart phones plays music from VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky.
* WestminsterChimes: George has to play the tune of Ave Maria to cheer up Pearl.
