Re-meeting familiar faces from Act 1 feels nostalgic (particularly if you’ve waited a year since playing the first act), if a little trite, given that most of these supporting characters remain largely unchanged since the game’s first act. On Shay’s end, Curtis the hipster woodcutter, the talking tree, and Jack Black’s hokey sky-cult leader all show up to deliver satisfying performances packed with typical Double Fine wit, but back on Shay’s ship, Vella finds herself relatively isolated in a story which painfully lacks the high concept whimsy (and ice cream avalanches) of Shay’s Act 1 story. Act 2 picks up with Shay and Vella essentially swapping roles, as well as locales – Shay finds himself wandering the beaches, forests and clouds familiar to Vella, whilst Vella must explore and repair Shay’s ship, once thought by her to be the great beast Mog Chothra. If you’re unfamiliar with Broken Age‘s set-up, I’d advise you to go back and read my Act 1 review, since there’s an awful lot of back-story to digest at this juncture. As before, every line of dialogue in Broken Age is a sweet, tasty morsel of humour. Though Tim Schafer’s dialogue is as witty as ever, and the characters introduced in Act 1 are predictably lovely to spend time with, Broken Age Act 2 struggles with awkward pacing and crushingly difficult puzzles, which makes for a story that never quite takes off and certainly never finds its feet. Its writing was sharp, its puzzles were tough but well thought out, and its brilliant dual set-ups made for two of the finest fictional worlds created since Adventure Time.Īct 2, delayed after alleged financial issues and disruptions in production, shows us what happens when these worlds collide, as space-faring Shay and would-be-maiden Vella are forced to survive and thrive in each other’s worlds. Though I was somewhat reluctant to list half of a game as one of the most outstanding pieces of interactive entertainment I’d experienced all year, such was the majesty of Broken Age. Review Copy Provided By: Double Fine Productionsīroken Age (Act 1) was one of my favourite games of 2014.
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