Les Aventures De Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin) influenced Broken Sword

Charles Cecil has cited Herge as the reference point for Broken Sword's look and shape, and the game's Paris is drawn in ligne claire: flat colour, clean uniform outlines, carefully researched real locations. The story is a Tintin story. An ordinary young man with no special skills stumbles into a conspiracy in a European capital, follows it through a secret order with medieval roots, and travels between real countries solving it by asking questions and paying attention. Filed MEDIUM: a stated visual and tonal debt rather than borrowed material.