History Videogame / BrothersATaleOfTwoSons

* FridgeBrilliance: The caves before the blood cult section have several mural paintings depicting what seem to be giants fighting against enormous spiders. [[spoiler: The cultists, apparently giant-worshipers, were getting ready to sacrifice a girl on an altar flowing with giants' blood... In the end she turns out to be a monstrous spider-creature herself.]]
* GameplayStorySegregation: The game is lauded as being a model aversion 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.]]

* [[spoiler: YoungestChildWins]]

* OurGryphonsAreDifferent

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The father is afflicted with one of these, though in fairness it does also come with vomiting.

* BigBadassWolf: 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.

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: The gryphon, who carries the younger brother home after his long journey.]]

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]

* 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.

* GameplayStorySegregation: The game is lauded as being a model aversion generally, but specifically toward the end has one of the most emotionally powerful uses the left trigger button has likely ever seen: [[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.]]

* AdultFears: Some segments' mechanics draw the player's attention to the capable older brother when the more vulnerable younger brother needs alert 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.

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''A man, clinging to life. His two sons, desperate to cure their ailing father, are left with but one option. They must set out upon a journey to find and bring back the "Water of Life” as they come to rely on one another to survive. One must be strong where the other is weak, brave where the other is fearful, they must be... Brothers.''

* OurGrythonsAreDifferent

* OrangeBlueContrast: the older and younger brother.

** 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]