Shay, for that matter, lived inside the confines of that tiny ship his entire life-and yet he doesn’t bat an eye upon seeing the ocean, for instance, or an entire floating city made out of clouds. Vella lived her entire life in a semi-primitive baking society, but seems totally at ease in Shay’s electronics-ridden ship. What’s worse is that neither character seems perplexed by their changed circumstances. It’s not exactly worse, per se, but it’s also not better-and this time there’s no chance an “ Act III” is going to fall from the sky and rectify the game’s many, many issues. I wasn’t amazed by Act I, but I felt like it was a solid foundation for Act II to build on.Īct II squanders that foundation. If you’re going to arbitrarily split your game into two episodes midway through development, you could do worse than that cliffhanger. And then it dropped a hell of an ending on us, revealing that the “monster” Vella had been battling through her whole story was actually the exterior of Shay’s ship.īoom. It didn’t necessarily accomplish them with aplomb-see my complaints about the characters and environments lacking depth-but it did them. Set up the locations (Shay’s baby’s-first-spaceship and Vella’s monster-threatened world), andĪnd Act I accomplished all those things.Set up the characters (dual protagonists Shay and Vella),.But somehow Act II feels like more of a letdown. Objectively, both halves have the same issues: The puzzles are bad (even for a point-and-click adventure game), the story is contrived, and there’s little-to-no depth to both the characters and the environments. I don’t actually think Broken Age Act II is much worse than Act I. The problem with Broken Age Act II is that it ends. Retreading Act I right before playing Act II just throws the conclusion’s issues into starker relief.
It won’t make you appreciate Act II more. If you want a quick and dirty, spoiler-free review, I’ll tell you I don’t think Broken Age is especially worth your time.Īlso, for the purposes of this review I went back and replayed Act I of Broken Age, having forgotten almost everything about it in the fifteen months since I played it. Two small bookkeeping notes: This review contains spoilers for Act I.
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