History Videogame / BrothersATaleOfTwoSons

* CameraScrew: Because of the nature of the game, the only camera controls you have allow you to rotate the isometric view to the left or right. Sometimes this is not enough to get a clear picture of what you're trying to do. The camera also automatically swings around and this can be disorienting since you're trying to manage two characters with separate movement controls (it can also make you mildly motion sick if keeps whipping around).

%%ZCE* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: The younger brother to [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] more than his brother.

%%ZCE* BridgeLogic: Happens [[OncePerEpisode once per chapter]].

%%ZCE* EinsteinHair: The inventor has this.

%%ZCE* OrangeBlueContrast: The older and younger brother.

* SurpriseCreepy: Although the game starts in a bright and beautiful farm where the brothers can have playful interactions with [=NPCs=], later chapters take place in a creepy forest infested with wolves, a valley littered with giant corpses and a village whose inhabitants froze to death.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: The younger brother to [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] more than his brother.

* BridgeLogic: Happens [[OncePerEpisode once per chapter]].
* BullFightBoss: Courtesy of [[spoiler:a very unintelligent troll.]]

* ButThouMust: There is exactly one solution to every puzzle. You can't get creative on them.

* ComingOfAgeStory: [[spoiler:Only for the [[CharacterDevelopment younger brother]] though.]]

* CrapsackWorld: Beneath the stunning landscapes and few friendly people and beasts lies a world filled with death, destruction, war, blood cults and monsters. Given the nature of the world they live in, one would question the sanity of the healer who has sent two children out on a long journey alone. Though there is some evidence things only turned bad very recently.

* DeathOfAChild: Possible in gameplay [[spoiler:and in the story alike.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Both of the brothers. [[spoiler:In the last level, the younger one especially becomes this as he has to overcome all his previous fears and weaknesses now that his brother is dead.]]

** After the battle scene, you find some gnomes who want to sacrifice a girl. While the younger brother is suspicious, the older one jumps to her rescue.
* DownerBeginning: It's revealed in the opening scene that the mother drowned some time before, that the younger brother watched it happen and even failed to save her.
* DreamSequence: The younger brother will have one after getting knocked out in the river.
* DrivenToSuicide: You come across someone whose family died when their house burned down in a fire, have the option of stopping him from hanging himself and to cheer him up by searching the burned house for a music box.
* EinsteinHair: The inventor has this.
* EternalEngine: The first part of the mines, where you have to navigate through various anachronistic water-powered machines.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** [[spoiler:Right before encountering the cultists, the brothers pass through a cave with cave paintings of giant spiders.]]
** [[spoiler:The young woman the boys rescue is able to perform superhuman feats and doesn't seem to care much that her entire home village appears to have frozen to death in the middle of a large siege. This is because the woman is really a spider monster in disguise and actually has a lair out in the frozen wastes. The town was just a short detour for her.]]
** [[spoiler:It is also possible to interact with the woman with either brother at several points; while the older brother gradually starts flirting with her, the younger brother's interactions show a growing dislike of her, culminating in a failed attempt to persuade the older brother not to enter the cave like she wants them to. When the woman enters the cave after the boys, she holds her arms wide apart in a very claw-like manner.]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The game is lauded as being a model example generally, but specifically toward the end has one of the most emotionally powerful uses the left trigger button has likely ever seen: [[spoiler:Throughout the game the younger brother has been shown to be phobic of water and unable to swim, needing to be carried in water by the older brother. With the older brother no longer around in the game's final moments, the younger brother needs to swim for himself--which he does by pressing the action button previously reserved for the now-absent older brother, evoking his place on the controller as the character does his place in his mind. The game doesn't tell the player to do this; Younger just stands crying at the edge of the water until the finger strays to the key that shouldn't do anything.]]

* InASingleBound: The girl, who demonstrates clearing obstacles with ease and a minor case of SuperStrength. [[spoiler:Justified because she turns out to be some sort of Spider Lady monster.]]
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The father is afflicted with one of these, though in fairness it does also come with vomiting, stomach and/or body pains, loss of consciousness, and lack of strength.

** There is an older boy bullying them at the beginning who won't let the brothers into the village, for no apparent reason.
* KidHero: Or heroes.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The bullying kid finally gets chased by a small dog.

** During the sequence when the brothers are connected by a rope, the usual scenario is that one of them swings on a rope while the other one hangs on to something only with his hands. [[FridgeLogic Wonder how strong those levers need to be pulled if the younger brother cannot do it even with such super-strength]].

* NightmareSequence: Turns into this when [[spoiler:the older brother starts strangling the younger brother... maybe even before that, since the dream consisted of the dead mother and dying father, too.]]

* OrangeBlueContrast: The older and younger brother.
* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: They are part owl instead of part eagle, and have the ''forelegs'' of a lion.

* SavageWolves: The brothers are menaced by a pack of wolves during one chapter. Older brother is able to ward them off with a lit torch.
* SceneryGorn: Particularly in the chapter where the brothers [[spoiler:pass through a valley filled with dead giants.]]

* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: [[spoiler:Yeah, the older brother isn't getting lucky on this trip.]]

* SpeakingSimlish: Just to note, the brothers do actually have pronounced names - the older brother's name Naia, pronounced 'Nigh-ah', while the younger brother's name is either Naie or Naiee, pronounced 'Nigh-ee'.
* SpiderPeople: [[spoiler:The girl is revealed to be this at the end.]]
* SurpriseCreepy: Oh wow, this sure looks like a fun little puzzle game starring two young brothers going on an epic quest to save their father. The world is so beautiful and sunny! Everything is so bright and cheerful! [[spoiler:Oh god, where did these wolves and creepy forest come from?! Are by chance these "trees" preying on me? Wait, is... is that guy trying to hang himself? Are... are these giant corpses? I'm covered in blood! Did this whole village freeze to death? And what is that invisible thing I hear stomping around...? Girl, why are you moving like you're possessed?!? OhCrap]]
* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: The hang-glider that can be controlled by moving around and shifting weight to tilt the machine.

* UngratefulBastard: Note to [[spoiler: the spider lady]]: when someone heroically saves your life, it is customary to try to repay them somehow, or failing that, to at least abstain from [[spoiler: luring them to your lair and trying to eat them!]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Players might notice that something is ''very'' wrong when the girl the brothers rescued performs improbable feats, such as jumping over large chasms and tearing a lock from a large wooden gates.]]
* WhenTreesAttack: Near the end of the river sequence the younger brother is hanging on a branch while the older one moves this branch along the edge of the cliff. Under the ledges some kind of tree monsters lash out at him and try to kill him.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The death of his mother has left the younger brother afraid of deep water. When they must cross a river or a deep pool, he must hang on to the older brother's back while he swims them both across. [[spoiler:In a sequence that manages to be awesome, heartwarming, and sad all at once, the younger brother swims across a river on his own after his brother's death. Triggered by his absent brother's action button.]]
* WorldTree: When the brothers finally stumble upon the spring of the water of life it is found to be part of a large mystical tree. [[spoiler:The second to last level in the game involves the younger brother racing up said tree to collect some of the healing water for his fatally wounded older brother. [[TearJerker He doesn't make it in time]].]]
* VideoGameCaringPotential: The game allows you to stop and help a few [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] on your journey.

* YoungestChildWins: [[spoiler:For a very loose definition of the word "wins".]]

* AdultFear: Some segments' mechanics draw the player's attention to the capable older brother when the more vulnerable younger brother needs protecting. This can have various horrifying results that underscore how easy it is for children to be permanently damaged by idle inattentiveness, from watching the can't-swim Younger drown as a blithely forgetful Older paddles away from him to having Older charge down the night's encroaching wolves with his torch only to have another approach from behind his circle of light and drag the trailing Younger off into the woods for a leisurely devouring. The game is often praised for the way gameplay almost literally is the nature of the boys' relationship.

* BigBrotherInstinct: The older brother is shown to be quite caring towards his younger sibling. He helps his brother cross deep bodies of water and protectively shields him from the troll.

* SavageWolves: The brothers are menaced by a pack of wolves during one chapter. The oldest brother is able to ward them off with a lit torch.

* InfantImmortality: Averted in gameplay [[spoiler:and in the story alike.]]

* SlidingScaleOfLinearityVsOpenness: Around 2. There is one way to solve each puzzle and backtracking is impossiblle, but there are some optional side-quests and side-gags that otherwise have no effect on the ending.

* SmellyFeet: If the brothers interact with the dead giant's feet they will act as if they are smelly. [[FridgeLogic Whether or not they really should be.]]

* Denouement: The last sequence where you return to the village and face some of the same obstacles [[spoiler: without the older brother]]. Then, after giving the potion to your father, there is still a short interactive sequence, now without any puzzles.

''Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons'' is a video game developed by Starbreeze Studios. It was released for Xbox Live Arcade, Steam and Playstation Network in August 2013. It is the video game debut for film director Creator/JosefFares.

''Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons'' is a video game developed by Starbreeze Studios. It was released for Xbox Live Arcade, Steam and Playstation Network in August 2013.