The checklist nature of it turns otherwise interesting puzzles into chores, with little in the way of character or narrative advancement until everything on the list is crossed out, allowing you to advance to the finale. However, the misguided narrative wraps all of those puzzles into the context of a single multi-part fetch quest for each character. Broken Age: Act 2 is finally out, and we answer Mom's questions about Shay before uncovering The Wolf's true identity.Next episode. But when playing both parts of Broken Age together it feels like a more natural progression in difficulty. The puzzles are also more complex in Act 2, which may come across as a jarring spike in difficulty if jumping right in after the long break since Act 1 launched. educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical. With such a rich setup for character development, it's almost impressive how deftly Broken Age Act 2 manages to avoid continuing to develop either of its characters. once thought of as fundamental, have now been broken.
I was still invested in the characters and world from Act 1, and Double Fine's skill for charming incidental dialog manages to keep Act 2 entertaining despite lacking in substance.īasically, there are enough funny quips to keep you clicking through the dialogue trees, but enjoyment is more of the disposable one-liner variety than the character or world-building conversations of Act 1. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
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How will Vella, now trapped inside the monster she had worked so hard to defeat, reconcile her rebellious, justice-driven nature with the realisation that her aggressors were also victims of an elaborate ruse?Īnd how will Shay, free from his infantile prison for the first time in his life, awkwardly fumble through meeting other people for the first time, not to mention coping with the guilt of realising how he unwittingly terrorised whole societies?
The inescapable fact though is that Broken Age Act 2 is a disappointment.
It was a premise with fantastic potential, allowing Vella and Shay to explore and attempt to understand each other's worlds. From this point on the review will assume you have already played Broken Age Act 1 and will contain spoilers referring to that game's ending, as well as a few spoilers from the first few minutes of Act 2.īroken Age Act 2 picks up immediately where Act 1 left off, with our young protagonists Vella and Shay switching places.
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