Just finished #BrokenAge Act1... and I find myself seriously baffled about how an adventure game in this day and age can still leave me silent before the computer at the end... awestruck.
The game is... actually two games. You choose at the beginning which character you want to play, but you can always switch characters. The two characters follow a completely separate story, one obviously in space, the other obviously in a rural little village. It's not like the two stories connect, or need each other's items, or even need knowledge from one story to another. You can even always switch from one story to the other if you're fed up or need a little break or inspiration.
So why two stories eh ? I'll let you figure that out on your own, not spoiling anything here.
Each story on its own is (looking for adjectives here)... well, great.. no, super, no, I mean, five minutes into each one I felt like screaming "WHAT THE HELL" at my screen. It's not anything you're used to, guys !
The gameplay is smooth, fun, not too difficult, sometimes a little slow on loading, but really intuitive. The same counts for the puzzles: while they're not your standard Adventure Game puzzles, you always have a feeling of what the answer is going to be... and often you'll still find yourself giggling about how original and funny the puzzle unravels.
A special mention for the voice acting: Elijah Wood ! Will Wheaton ! Jack Black ! The actress that plays Vella is great !
And then, the art style. Children's drawings mixed with the most intricate animation I've ever seen. I think they just invented a new genre, because I really can't describe it or do it justice by trying... but again: it's more than great !
In the past, Tim Schafer gave us epic stories like Monkey Island and Grim Fandango, adventure games that will NEVER leave the Collective Memory... I find myself equally ushered in a new age of Adventure Gaming with Broken Age
Beware though: the game is only Act 1... naturally it ends on a cliffhanger of Epic Proportions: I'm still trying to piece together what I know (what I really know) about the story and philosophize about how It Was All Possible Like This.
I want to end with a cliché AAAA++, but I don't think my keyboard has enough AAAAAA's (or plusses)
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