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Broken Age
Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure telling the stories of a young boy and girl leading parallel lives. The girl has been chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a terrible monster--but she decides to fight back. Meanwhile, a boy on a spaceship is living a solitary life under the care of a motherly computer, but he wants to break free to le...
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- Released
- January 27, 2014
- Developer
- Double Fine Productions
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Puzzle · Adventure · Indie
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Broken Age Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
While Broken Age doesn’t break much new ground in the genre, it does deliver a wonderfully enriching adventure that’s buoyed by sharp writing and likeable characters.
For everyone else, though: do you like jokes? What about stories? If you answered yes, try Broken Age. For those who haven't tried point and click adventure games, it's a great introduction to the genre; for those with more experience, well, they don't get much better than this one. And if you've already played Broken Age, rest assured, Act Two isn't just as funny, charming, and exciting as Act One - it's even better.
Graphics: 8.0 Gameplay: 9.0 Sound: 8.8 Control: 8.7 Replay Value: 8.0 Overall Rating: 8.5 Online Gameplay: Not Rated Publisher: Double Fine Developer: Doubl ...
A charming adventure filled with wonderful characters and excellent writing that confines itself a little too much within its genre.
An adventure game with warmth, humour and heart, Broken Age is a joy from beginning to (almost) end. Easily among Double Fine's best.
Broken Age is the newest release from Double Fine, the developer founded by adventure game legend Tim Schafer. The release is noteworthy for having a massively successful Kickstarter campaign; with a goal of $400,000, the studio ended up raising almost $3.5 million. Of course, with huge money came big expectations, and the title ended up launching both late – and only partially complete. Now, three years after its funding drive, the full version is making its debut on PlayStation platforms.
Broken Age Act 1 has all the fun of classic point-and-click adventure games in a gorgeous new package.
Broken Age is a faithful callback to the Golden Age of point-and-click adventures. While this holds in back in some respects, the game was a joy to play with fun puzzles and a captivating story.
Despite long stretches of anger-inducing logic in Act II, Broken Age as a whole is a poignant and clever adventure game that is worth playing through, even if it never lives up to the promise of its midpoint.
The disappointing second half lets it down, but even at best, Broken Age is far from the genre’s greats.
As a whole, Broken Age pulls off its duality motif wonderfully. Not only are Shay and Vella's stories interesting reflections of themselves, but Part 1 and Part 2 as a whole are practically reflections of themselves, as well. They're two parts of a tale that should be experienced together as a whole, especially since the game only offers the briefest of recaps when starting Part 2. Broken Age was a long time coming, but it's a story that was worth the wait for all players and not just the game's Kickstarter backers.
It might seem that I’m coming off quite harsh, but I’m pretty damn disappointed with this game and rightfully so. This was supposed to be Schafer’s glorious return to the genre but instead I got a somewhat decent adventure game that honestly could have been made by any other developer out there. I’ve waited years for Double Fine to make an adventure game and I got something I’ll forget in a week that’s easily surpassed by many modern adventure games.