YMMV / Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

• Anti-Climax Boss: The final battle requires the player to stun the boss with the younger brother so the older brother can damage it. With good timing, it's possible to stun the boss as soon as it recovers, letting you deplete its health with minimal effort.
• Ass Pull: The brothers save a gryphon halfway through the game, though it appears to die shortly after. In the epilogue, the creature returns without explanation to fly the younger brother back home.
• Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: Some reviewers consider the gameplay fairly basic and unchallenging, though they still recommend the game due to the charming interactions between the brothers and the surprising ending.
• Event-Obscuring Camera: 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).
• Fan Nickname: Fans refer to the older brother as Naia, and to the younger brother as Naiee. Both names are based on the terms the heroes use to call each other.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: One of the complaints raised about the game is that it can be completed in under four hours.
• It Was His Sled: Sadly, a growing amount of people know by now that the game starts with a pair of brothers, yet only one makes it back.
• Moe: The titular brothers are adorable to most players.
• Nausea Fuel: One of the puzzles in chapter 5 forces the player to amputate the putrid leg of a deceased giant. The brothers themselves gag after the segment is completed.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The valley of dead giants has a segment where the boys must wade through rivers of blood.
  • The game takes a really dark turn in the forest level. It's night and the boys are introduced sitting in front of a fire when wolves with eerie glowing eyes show up and will gladly devour either brother if given the smallest chance. As if that wasn't bad enough they also come across a few corpses hanging from the trees while escaping the wolves, with no explanation on how they got there. And just when it looks like the brothers are finally out of the woods, the trees themselves try to kill them.
• Player Punch: Not only does the Older Brother die, the game forces you, the player, to bury him. During this sequence, pressing Younger Brother's action button before he reaches his brother's corpse to drag it into the grave causes him to fall to his knees and cry again until you release it again.
• Spiritual Licensee: The game sometimes feel like adaptation of The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren. Given the fact that the game's developer, Starbreeze Studios, is Swedish, it's probably intentional.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: If you judge the game based off of its publicized content, then it's very easy to mistake this game as a children's title. Although the game does feature two young heroes wandering around a fantasy world while on misadventures, this game is not appropriate for kids, as it features quite a bit of blood, onscreen death, nightmarish sequences throughout the game, and ultimately ends with one of the protagonists suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death. In fact the whole reason why the boys are on their journey is because their father is dying. Yet despite the "T" rating, this game received nominations for best family game.

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