Well, the first episode at least. While Double Fine has been fiddling away on Broken Age, Revolution has run a successful Kickstarter, developed the game they promised to make, and released it. The second, and final, episode will be out in a month or so.
Broken Sword 5 returns to the same aesthetic as the first two games in the series, looking more like a LucasArts adventure than whatever else we've been covering the past decade. Here's a screenshot:
And some plot info courtesy of the press release:
When a mysterious painting is stolen during an armed raid on a Paris gallery,
George Stobbart and Nico Collard are thrown, seemingly by chance, into the
investigation together. From Paris to London and beyond, the trail becomes a
race against time as dark forces from Europe's turbulent past are woken from
their slumber. Broken Sword characters old and new are encountered - but who
can George and Nico trust? The journey they are on reveals a conspiracy as old
as the written word, whose ancient heresies will cause innocent blood to spill
once more...Both episodes can be picked up from the usual outlets like GOG and Steam. Vita and mobile platforms will also follow, according to Revolution.
Source: Revolution.co.uk
The character models look quite horrible though...
I will most likely wait for the second episode to come through before playing this, got the backer release email yesterday about this from Revolution.
Also I am thinking still that maybe I should play through the first three Broken Sword games before jumping in to the fifth one.