![]() After all, the studio did release five unrelated games between Broken Age‘s first and second acts. But I don’t want to believe that.Ī slightly less pessimistic (yet hardly soothing) answer could be that Double Fine simply became busy with other projects. After all, people already paid for the second act when they bought the first. ![]() The more cynical side of me imagines that it could be because there was little money in it. It’s as though Double Fine simply went through the motions, investing none of the passion or creativity that made the first act so special. Double Fine ProductionsĪfter beginning with such promise, the second half of Broken Age feels like the product of abandonment and neglect. They simply face down an utterly conventional enemy in predictable fashion, exploiting none of the dynamic possibilities built up within their characters in the first act. Both heroes sail blithely and unchangingly along their set paths toward what turns out to be a decidedly traditional good-guys-versus-bad-guys finale. I literally spent hours just going from one character to the next and dragging and dropping items in my inventory on them until something happened.īut there’s nothing. The connections between the items you collect and how and where you’re intended to use them are frequently unknowable. Exploration is simply non-existant.Ĭompounding matters, the puzzles – once just minor distractions – have transformed into exasperating exercises in trial and error. ![]() ![]() This dogged retreading sucks almost all of the originality and creativity out of the experience. And the writing – particularly a couple bits that involve telling jokes to an easily offended tree and trying to properly describe the shape of a knot – is as charming and knowing as ever.īut – and I can’t emphasize this strongly enough – we’ve seen all of these places and people before. Voiced by the likes of Will Wheaton and Jack Black, they’re bursting with personality. On the one hand, these are some great characters. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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