Giggling Ghast
2013-08-12, 12:32 PM
Did anyone else play this game? I finished it last night and found it to be immensely satisfying.
The game's premise is simple: two brothers must go on a long journey to find a cure for their father's illness. The setting is your fairly standard fantasy setting, albeit one that borrows heavily from Nordic myth. To progress, you control both brothers with one controller, which can get a bit complicated. The brothers themselves speak entirely in Simlish (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpeakingSimlish), so the plot is conveyed through tone and visual cues.
The environments in this game are really stunning, and there's some fantastic action sequences. The story is genuinely touching and even heart-rending towards the end; the phrase "OH GOD WHY" was loudly uttered a few times at my TV screen last night. It's surprisingly dark; the first third of the game lulls you into thinking this is a happy fairy tale, but it sours pretty quick. And some of the puzzles are inspired.
I came across a few irritating glitches and the gameplay is kind of hard to get a knack for. Moving two people with one controller is like rubbing your belly and your head at the same time, except you have to do it for 3-4 hours in pressure situations. There were a lot of times where I released the wrong trigger and got one of the brothers killed. Oh, and it's a bit pricey.
Anyone else play Brothers? It's only on XBox Live right now but comes out for PS3 in September.
The game's premise is simple: two brothers must go on a long journey to find a cure for their father's illness. The setting is your fairly standard fantasy setting, albeit one that borrows heavily from Nordic myth. To progress, you control both brothers with one controller, which can get a bit complicated. The brothers themselves speak entirely in Simlish (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpeakingSimlish), so the plot is conveyed through tone and visual cues.
The environments in this game are really stunning, and there's some fantastic action sequences. The story is genuinely touching and even heart-rending towards the end; the phrase "OH GOD WHY" was loudly uttered a few times at my TV screen last night. It's surprisingly dark; the first third of the game lulls you into thinking this is a happy fairy tale, but it sours pretty quick. And some of the puzzles are inspired.
I came across a few irritating glitches and the gameplay is kind of hard to get a knack for. Moving two people with one controller is like rubbing your belly and your head at the same time, except you have to do it for 3-4 hours in pressure situations. There were a lot of times where I released the wrong trigger and got one of the brothers killed. Oh, and it's a bit pricey.
Anyone else play Brothers? It's only on XBox Live right now but comes out for PS3 in September.