WOOT!
I'll be getting it on iOS then; my iPad is only a year old... spoiler (click to show/hide)
So... half-dead by Apple's lifespan standards. :-\
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the critter you rescue as the boy all follow the same themes of the maiden in the maiden festival,he fails to rescue one bird critter and when you play as the girl coincidentaly you find a bird girl complaining about not being eaten...
so i guess when he was rescuing critters he was actualy unwilling kidnapping girls and the reason is because the ai decided he needed a partner?
Cause for instance with Broken Sword 5 part 1 I feel like I should've waited until part 2 came out since it was all just setup for the rest of the plot that is going to happen.
yeah for me that perfectly describes part 1 of broken age
Really? Because, like, both stories accomplished something pretty big at the end.
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The boy breaks free of his spaceship prison and the girl takes down "Mog Chothra." Each of those obviously leads to bigger questsions, but it's not like nothing happened at all and the half ended on a vague note.
Cause for instance with Broken Sword 5 part 1 I feel like I should've waited until part 2 came out since it was all just setup for the rest of the plot that is going to happen.
yeah for me that perfectly describes part 1 of broken age
Really? Because, like, both stories accomplished something pretty big at the end.
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The boy breaks free of his spaceship prison and the girl takes down "Mog Chothra." Each of those obviously leads to bigger questsions, but it's not like nothing happened at all and the half ended on a vague note.
yeah but both of these serve no purpouse other than
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THE MONSTER WAS THE SHIP ALL ALONG! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE)
it doesn't even feel like the boy breaks free of his prison because you never get to play with him outside of the ship,heck you wouldn't even know that he breaks free if it wasn't for the 2 minute ending
the same goes for the girl... the instant she defeat mog chotra the game ends,nobody berates her... she doesn't go back to her family... the only thing her defeating mog chotra accomplish is that she switch places with the boy,because oh fuck do we love parallelism!
but yeah let's make this clear to bebs,it doesn't end in a vague manner... it's just that there isn't a lot of plot before the big reveal
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Both characters achieved their initial "goal," and in doing so set up the second half. That seems like as good a place to end the first half as anything.
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the girl visit some cities and interact with lot of NPC so at least it feels like you are doing some proper adventuring... but in the boy scenario you barely get to do anything and are confined in a single zone 5-6 screen zone,heck if it wasn't for the bit where you have to take the control back there wouldn't even be puzzle at all! i honestly tought that before the game ended he would awake and you would play as him again simply because the whole thing felt so limited... and i say this as someone who think the boy scenario is better
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Both characters achieved their initial "goal," and in doing so set up the second half. That seems like as good a place to end the first half as anything.
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if it was me i would have continued the girl scenario until she finds the kidnapped girls and/or the wolf guy (maybe she get a glance of wolf guy without the costume) and shay make contact with the guy that built the death laser and/or someone who knows how the maiden festival work (maybe he can find the family of the girl the ai was based on!) which can spill the bean as soon as act 2 starts
that seems like a much better place to stop... the girl would finds herself in a place where she can fight the real mastermind and the boy would find himself in a place where he can learn how all this started
"I'm a sarcastic Brit who talks really fast and trashes all these different games because I have impeccable taste and nothing I ever say is wrong and if you disagree you're nothing but toss pot"
:umad about someone saying KS is lame dog? :smug
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honestly gaming journalism is so damn saccarine that i fucking love watching people trashing vidyagames, it's not like his critique sounds made up just for the sake of criticizing the game, it sounds like stuff that would naturaly pop out if gaming journalism had an actual backbone, this whole broken age video can be summed up to "the puzzle are simple,the reveal is good but the game doesn't end in a really good spot,and the boy story is better than the girl story" and ehy i fucking said the same thing!
compare to how ign opens... ahem!
"Act 1 of Broken Age is a gorgeous, impeccably written adventure that simultaneously tugs at my nostalgic core, while ushering in a new era for the point-and-click genre. "