One-time game purchase. Proceed to Checkout. 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. Funded 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. I think Broken Age could have benefited from a hint system. I even took out a piece of paper and a pen to solve some of the puzzles.
I like a good challenge but some puzzles were just unintuitive. You'll also find yourself backtracking a lot , especially if you missed a crucial part of a puzzle. This was a particularly bad problem in Shay's storyline as you're constantly going back and forth between the halls of his spaceship.
I found myself clicking like mad to speed up the transitions between rooms to get where I needed to go. Broken Age is a beautifully animated and features a clever story. It's only held back by its unrelenting difficulty and slow pace.
For some, this isn't a big deal but for those new to the genre, the game can be incredibly frustrating. Still, Broken Age is worth a look even with its flaws. It's utterly charming and its story is great. It's a little slow but this is a game you should take your time with. Part of Broken Age's charm is its difficulty, making you feel accomplished when you finally solve that particularly hard puzzle.
Oh, and be sure to stick around for the credits! You'll be treated to an epilogue of sorts and your name will appear if you were one of the 87, Kickstarter backers.
Have you tried Broken Age? Vella and Shai travel through an amazing world with good musical accompaniment, in which all the sounds were recorded by an orchestra, and their worlds are completely parallel to each other, although the events of the two teenagers are the same. The player will have to make sense of teenage problems, determine the fate of the main characters and understand what lies behind the mind of a man who is fully aware of the consequences of his actions.
The world is divided into two parts, and you can switch between the two characters at any time. The game is also divided into 2 stages, with talking trees pointing your way. Throughout the story, you will have to interact with locations, control characters to "settle down" in a world they do not understand, and find out why two identical stories are shown in two different worlds.
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Points Shop Items Available. Publisher: Double Fine Productions. Share Embed. Read Critic Reviews. Add to Cart. Package info. Bundle info. Add to Account. Add all DLC to Cart. View Community Hub. Funded 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. Vella Tartine and Shay Volta are two teenagers in strangely similar situations, but radically different worlds.