Circle of Blood is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The player uses a point-and-click interface to interact with the environment and to guide protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world. To solve puzzles and progress in the game, the player collects items that may be combined with one another, used on the environment, or given to non-player characters. The protagonist converses with NPCs via dialogue trees presented through "conversation icons" to learn about the game's puzzles and plot. Clues and other information are obtained by clicking on items in the inventory and on objects in the environment. The player navigates with a map, to which new locations are added as the story unfolds. Unlike in most adventure games at the time, the protagonist's death is possible, after which the player starts from the last save point.
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If you do not love this game, you do not love life. I have nothing more to say. Truly the bedrock of why I still to this day adore adventure games.
Note* It is an abomination that the 1996 release is not available under its title in most countries 'Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars'.
but the big thing that REALLY hurts this game is just how slowly george walks. if you need to check multiple areas trying to figure out exactly how you're supposed to do what you need to do, you'll spend several minutes just slowly walking around very very slooooowly, and it only gets more annoying as you get new areas that george just leisurely strolls through, and i couldnt help but remember those old point n clicks that literally came with a speed up function and wonder just why the hell this one didnt. i know curse of monkey island was a year later, but that game at least let you double click to immediately enter the next area. really hoping that's improved in the sequel.