Having not played any previous entry from the Agon saga, I really can't compare how Agon: Lost Sword of Toledo compares to them in terms of game play and puzzles, so I'll give my say on the game as an stand alone comment.

First off, I didn't feel that there's a huge need to fully know the previous games, as the games main plot works with out the full knowledge of the professors quest. Your goal is to free an innocent man from a prison and help him and a young lady to get enough property in order to get themselves out from a pickle and get happily married. The continuing plot from previous games is explained in a diary entries.

The puzzles of the game are mostly logical and the game does give you pointers of what you should do in order to go further. The skill level of the puzzles ranges from easy to hard, so the game should give some resistance to all skill levels of adventurers. All in all the puzzles are well knitted to the game plot, so you have a good reason of doing them.

The graphics, sound and voice acting are all pretty well done. The resolution is, of course, a bit low in both the 3D characters and in the pre-rendered backgrounds and the game isn't the most beautiful thing to gaze at, but at the same time the graphics are atmospheric and give a good look at the city of Toledo. The cut scenes are done with comic book style screens and work very nicely.

As a first person puzzle adventure Lost Sword of Toledo was a quite positive surprise, offering both a nice plot and pretty logical puzzles. You certainly could spend your money in a worse game.

Agon Ep4 – The lost sword of Toledo is the fourth installment of the Agon episodic series. The first 3 were available from Private Moon as they were released and then repacked as “The mysterious Codex” (not available on GG).

The story involves you as Prof. Hunt, in a search around the world for the AGON. Each episode follows the same path; locate a board game and his owner, beat him at his game and get a clue for the next destination.

The first three episodes were truly enjoyable, although short and easy. Thus, the dev decided to beef up the length and puzzle a bit and the end result is not a success. Sadly, most of the game involves long and tedious dialogues and lots of running around the same locations over and over. The puzzles, not to frequents, feel most of the time awkward and fall in the trap of “pixel hunting” for the right spot to use. Presentation is nice and graphics do show improvement over the first releases. As for the gameplay, the same “engine” is re-used and works well. Sound and voice acting aren’t bad and fits the local mood of the story.

All in all, not the best of the 4 episodes available and definitely for the followers of Prof. Hunt adventures. A quick note – although having played the first episodes is not required (there’s a resume of the plot available in-game) I would definitely recommend to do so to really enjoy the story.

This game was somewhat disappointing. It was heavy in dialogue and filled with time wasters. The story line was very light and made the game almost pointless. In the end you had to beat a guy playing a game which is much like chinese checkers to break his curse. Guess he was unbeatable until now and he was cursed because of it. I wouldn't recommend.