![]() It’s beautiful, hilarious, and very well written.Broken Age is a family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo.įunded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoons. This is one of the best adventure games we’ve played in while. If you’re ever stuck, just look for an item you overlooked or a place you missed and you’ll finish without problems. Make sure you’ve wrapped up Shay around the time Vella meets the lumberjack. Start with Vella, then rotate back and forth between her and Shay once you complete a chapter (i.e., once Vella arrives at a new location or Shay completes a day) for each. If you play through it, follow our advice. Sure, there’s a cliffhanger, but this is a complete experience as well and it’s worth your time. We at the dojo do not know what the second act of Broken Age will contain (and we’ll save our review for the free download of part 2 later this year), but the first act was funny, well-written, and a great adventure experience. Jack Black, Wil Wheaton, and – holy crap – Pendleton Ward show up as well. Elijah Wood is immediately identifiable (and somehow reminiscent of Wilfred, what with his seemingly nefarious canine companion) and I recognized Jennifer Hale (Shepard!!) after some time. And, not for nothing, they have some top tier vocal talent here. The game, though, is absolutely beautiful and the music is masterful. You will probably have only a moment or two of frustration before plowing through. If you identify the places you need to go and the problems you need to solve, it’s really just a matter of combining items until something clicks. We’re still struggling through some of Sam and Max’s more recent adventures because EVERYTHING can be examined and EVERYONE can be spoken to (repeatedly!!). We tend to agree with other reviewers (and – wow – a shout-out to Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”? You’re pulling out all the stops, Yatzee!) that frustration in Broken Age is not really a big deal if you have any experience with adventure games. But I didn’t see it and I was left flabbergasted by the connection when it was finally revealed towards the end of Part 1. If you’re smarter than me, you may see already how these plots ultimately intersect. You can freely swap between the storylines at any time, so if you’re bored or frustrated with one, you can switch to the other (though their plots are entirely separate solving a puzzle never involves using one to help the other). On the other hand, you have Shay, who lives onboard a spaceship in which he is endlessly pampered by a maternal artificial intelligence. Vella feels inspired to fight the monster rather than surrender to her fate, an attitude that is not shared by her family or friends who seem more than willing to sacrifice her to placate the unstoppable monster. On the one hand you have Vella, who is being prepared to be sacrificed to a large monster called Nog Mothra. It’s funny, clever, and totally worth your money.īroken Age positions itself between two stories. When this works, it’s a great experience (there’s really something to be said for games in which you advance by solving puzzles rather than by killing hundreds of soldiers) and when it doesn’t work, it’s a frustrating trial-and-error experience that feels boring and arbitrary. ![]() By adventures games, we mean games in which you go to a limited number of locations, pick up a bunch of items, solve various puzzles, and interact with weird characters (i.e., work through various conversation trees). ![]() And yes it’s as cool as you think it is.ĭon’t get us wrong, if adventure games are not your thing, then this game is not your thing. We here at the dojo just completed playing through the first half of Broken Age by the awesome Tim Schafer.
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