History VideoGame / BrokenAge

* SpoilerInterface: [[spoiler: Doing Shay's story before Vella's makes it obvious that Mog Chothra is Shay's ship. Doing Vella's story first makes Mog Chothra more of a mystery.]]

* SolidClouds: Meriloft is a colony located in the clouds.

** [[spoiler:EarthAllAlong: Shay's ship merely simulates space and actually lives in the ocean of Vella's world.]]

* BookEnds: Act 1 ends with Shay and Vella lying down in the same position as on the first screen but on the side the other started on, with Vella stuck inside the Bossa Nostra, and Shay stranded in [[PortTown Shellmound]]. The final end credit image has Shay and Vella sitting back to back again looking dreamily off to either side, but this time in a field, together, and happy.]]

* BookEnds: Act 1 ends with Shay and Vella lying down in the same position as on the first screen but on the side the other started on, with Vella stuck inside the Bossa Nostra, and Shay stranded in [[PortTown Shellmound. The final end credit image has Shay and Vella sitting back to back again looking dreamily off to either side, but this time in a field, together, and happy.]]

* BookEnds: Act 1 ends with Shay and Vella lying down in the same position as on the first screen but on the side the other started on, with Vella stuck inside the Bossa Nostra, and Shay stranded in [[PortTown Shellmound.]]

** The smelling salts from ''{{Psychonauts}}'' can be found as an EasterEgg.

* ICantUseTheseThingsTogether: Both leads do this, but Shay probably has the best reason of the two.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: There are quite a few humorous lines which can only be found by trying out somewhat obscure combinations of items and characters.

* {{Retraux}}: [[EasterEgg Retro]] [[NostalgiaFilter Mode.]] [[note]]Go to options, turn down the resolution completely, then go to the hot-key change menu. There should be a picture of Vella and Shay, click on it, assign a button, then go to the game and press the assigned button for sweet, sweet pixels. For the [[PS4]], just press R3 (Push the right stick) to toggle.[[/note]]

* {{Retraux}}: [[EasterEgg Retro]] [[NostalgiaFilter Mode.]] [[note]]Go to options, turn down the resolution completely, then go to the hot-key change menu. There should be a picture of Vella and Shay, click on it, assign a button, then go to the game and press the assigned button for sweet, sweet pixels.[[/note]]

* RockBeatsLaser: [[spoiler: The ending credits imply that the "inferior" normal humans smack around the frail, inbred Lorunans with their bare fists until they agree to play nice.]]

** [[spoiler:What both Mom and Alex tell about themselves turn out to be this.]]

** To a lesser but similar extent, [[spoiler:You need to remember the patterns of Shay's star charts in order for Vella to alter one. The game does not remind you of the patterns.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Vella]] [[{{Foil}} and]] [[JumpedAtTheCall Shay]], [[{{Irony}} worlds apart]], [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne same problem]].]]
->''"My name is Shay, and this is my life on the incubator vessel Bossa Nostra. It's a lifeboat, an escape pod. It carried me to safety when my world was dying. I can't really complain -- the ship takes care of me, feeds me, entertains me. I think in its own weird way it loves me. But I've discovered it's also lying to me. Sheltering me from the conflicts raging throughout the galaxy. The injustices out there that I could be fighting. But this ship would never let me put myself in danger. So it's time for a mutiny. Time to put aside childish things. Time to grab the wheel of this ship, and steer it straight into the storm..."''

* BookEnds: Act 1 ends with Shay and Vella lying down in the same position as on the first screen but on the side the other started on, with Vella stuck inside the crashed Bossa Nostra, and Shay stranded in [[PortTown Shellmound.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Vella]] and [[JumpedAtTheCall Shay]], [[{{Irony}} worlds apart]], [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne same problem]].]]

'''Note:''' The climax of Act 1 has a TwistEnding that results in Vella stuck on Shay's ship and Shay stuck on Vella's world. Since this sets the stage for all of Act II, '''SPOILERS''' related to this change in setting will be '''UNMARKED''', though tropes related to the twist itself will remain spoiled.

** Both Shay and Vella see this to varying degrees. [[http://2e130c55e0c2763c8a20-c7a4d0feffd26319b59c92c4aecae366.r18.cf1.rackcdn.com/42e184850d40f8767611b88d62afb3ca9241f454.jpg Shay's]] [[http://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/0aee37bfa0312cabb688baa8304bc566/0x600.jpg%3Ffit%3Dscale%26background%3D000000 ship]] uses this as a basis of the color scheme along with primary colors. Velouria has [[http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Broken-Age-Vella-Trailer-630x354.jpg her town]] in the beginning and [[http://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/d7cb051bf3f6806492ea4b7121c5bae7/0x600.jpg%3Ffit%3Dscale%26background%3D000000 Shellmound]], although they're more subtle.