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I played Redjack: Revenge of the Brethren 16-17 years ago!!! You see, that’s around the same age as Nick Dove, our young hero who doesn’t want to become a pirate, but still becomes involved in the grand sea adventure, sailing on the trace of a legendary pirate Redjack, who was once betrayed by one of his own Brethrens!

First of all, this is not a “hybrid” adventure at all. It’s an adventure game, where you need to stop for a moment here and there, and do the swordfighting, canon or musket shooting. Because the difficulty was emphasized on these action sequences, it was still sold labeled as “action”, even on it’s own cover! Beside these, it’s a “way more obscure than it should” adventure, not perhaps because of its quality (everyone says it’s easy and short, but I wasn’t under that impression, perhaps it’s time for another gameplay), but because of the whole concept - graphics were almost groundbreaking for the time, with nods + free 3D view with rendered surroundings, serious and dark pirate tone opposed to Monkey Island (even though it’s still humorous) and characters (dialogs are a major part of the game, same story like 2 other games from the same developer Titanic: Adventure Out of Time and Dust: A Tale of the Wired West) that are designed in an interesting comical way that resemble in style those from Rent-a-Hero.

I bought the game years ago, but the action comments put me off playing it.  I remember the sword and fist fights in Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, which were doable for me.  How do they compare with those in Redjack?