The game is devoted to its storytelling as a visual art, and everything from its expressive character designs to its backgrounds, both in and out of the many cutscenes, are a wonder to behold. They've never met, and neither even has any idea the other exists, but they are both about to shake up their worlds in a big way.Īnalysis: Broken Age is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful and cinematic adventures to come along in a long time. Shay lives aboard a space station where the only other residents are devoted automatons that treat him like a child, and though each day blends into the next, he discovers he might have more choice than he thought if he can force a change.
Vella is a young girl expected to perform a dubious honor for her village, along with a batch of other eligible young maidens, and all the cakes and pies in the world can't hide the rotten truth. Throughout the game, you'll play as two characters.
opens the menu, where you can manually save your game or change the options. From the inventory menu, you can also click the character portrait on the far right, which will let you swap between the two main characters. Just click to interact, and click the arrow in the bottom left corner to open your inventory, which will allow you to drag objects from it onto anything onscreen to try to use them. The controls should be familiar to anyone who's played a point-and-click game before. So does the game live up to those standards? Well. I have raised expectations when I pay more than two dollars for a cup of coffee. The initial funding goal was four hundred thousand dollars, not a small amount in itself, but by campaign end the game had taken in over three and a quarter million dollars, so to say expectations are high is a bit of an understatement. If you feel like there are an overabundance of video-game funding projects these days, you can blame Broken Age for that, since its original Kickstarter funding two years ago was such a staggering success that studios, fledgling and veteran alike, couldn't help but sit up and take notice. This review is based on Act One.Īs gorgeous, surreal, and darkly whimsical as a storybook come to life, the first act of Double Fine's point-and-click adventure game Broken Age captivates.
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Act two will be provided as a free download for you later this year when you buy the game. Note: Currently, only the first act of Broken Age is available.
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