The coddled space faring youngster yearns for adventure, but lives in a bubble of safety built by his parents. Shay’s tale is a little bit slower, more isolated, like Shay himself. These presentation aspects carry over to Shay’s side of the story as well.
It’s chocked-full of light-hearted humor, to go along with its fantastic music, art, and voice acting. Vella’s adventure takes her from the clutches of Mog Chothra in her home town’s sacrificial cermony, to a enlightened cloud city in the skies, and back again. She looks to break conventions, and think outside the box, while it appears that everyone around is content with falling in line with the status quo.
Vella’s an interesting female character in video games. Devising a plan to both save her people and herself without becoming food for the giant beast, her adventure takes you down an unfamiliar heroes path. Vella, a young woman who goes against the conventions of her family and people when she refuses to become a sacrifical lamb during her town’s “Maiden’s Feast” to a giant monster called Mog Chothra. It doesn’t require as much thought, and doesn’t have nearly as much depth to the exploration or puzzle solving mechanics.īroken Age tells the story of two characters. The difficulty curves of the likes of Day of the Tentacle aren’t prevalent in Broken Age. But it’s far less thought provoking than those adventure games of old, too. What we have in Broken Age so far is more thoughtful when it comes to story telling, world building, and aesthetic beauty than those old Lucas Arts titles from the 90’s were. It’s probably too early to put Broken Age in the same class with those classics, after all, Broken Age is still very much a work in progress. Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and others, Shafer made a name for himself with these games. He’s worked on plenty of games of this type, some of the best that have ever been made as a matter of fact. This isn’t Shafer’s first go in the genre. Spearheaded by Telltale Games’ and their super-sucessful The Walking Dead series, Broken Age is a game of the same type. Adventure games have seen somewhat of a resurgence in recent years. It’s a passion project made a reality by those who supported the developer’s vision, and what a vision it is. Broken Age simply walks to the beat of its own drum, with its beautiful hand drawn art and original story line that a mega publisher wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole.
Broken Age is the epitome of a game that hasn’t been touched by the cold hand of corporate greed.
#BROKEN AGE SERIES#
Part one of a two-part series recently arrived for Kickstarter backers, and in many ways the game definitely lives up to the hype that has surrounded it since it’s announcement. Nearly two years later, Broken Age is upon us.
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