kkhohoho
Since: May, 2011
08/22/2015 00:00:00
'Of course, he fails, the big brother dies, and the game ends with everyone being sad.'
I'm sorry, but this is pretty spoileriffic, which is problematic for people wanting to play the game and haven't actually done so. (Like myself.) Please out spoilers over that if you can, because in spite of your review, some people still want to try the game for themselves, and that includes discovering the end for themselves.
Doctor Who — Long Way Around: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13536044/1/Doctor-Who-Long-Way-Around
Pannic
Since: Jul, 2009
08/24/2015 00:00:00
I'm going to have to agree; posting a spoiler with no warning is a massive dick move.
Fanfiction I hate.
Bastard1
Since: Nov, 2010
08/24/2015 00:00:00
I decide what my time is or isn't worth, friendo.
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A very mediocre game not worth your time
Overall Rating: D+
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a fairly original game where you control two brothers simultaneously, one with each joystick on your controller. Given its incredibly high Metacritic rating and uniqueness, one would think this would be a good game. Sadly, it is not. It tries to be profound in the most unprofound ways, and as a result is shallow and pretentious. Its high Metacritic rating is solely due to people wanting to praise games as art.
Story
The story of this game is supposed to be one of its big draws. It is the quintessential sad story. The brothers' mother drowns, their father gets sick, and it falls to the two of them to go through the world, overcoming challenges to get the cure for him. The story, as it were, is very sparse; there's a few moments where the brothers help out each other, such as the big brother diving in to help the younger one throughout one level, and then at the end of the game, when the big brother is dying, it is the little brother's turn to help out. Of course, he fails, the big brother dies, and the game ends with everyone being sad. Unfortunately, this failed to touch me at all, because the characters had no character. The little brother was a bit annoying; the big brother was protective. All the dialogue was in simlish, and in the end, there was no emotional connection, and the use of the characters as game pieces throughout the game meant that I never saw them as anything more.
Gameplay
The underlying idea behind the game is clever - you control two characters and you have to use them to overcome various puzzles and challenges. There are times when you have to be moving both characters around at the same time, and times when one character stands there and holds a lever down (or just waits) for the other brother to do stuff. This sounds neat... and it actually kind of is, for an hour or so. Unfortunately, it is also ALL there is, for roughly four hours of gameplay. As a result, the game, rather than being great, instead is highly repetitive, and as none of the puzzles are very difficult, you basically are led by your nose through four hours of environments, which are, sadly, too low polygon to really be beautiful most of the time. The brothers themselves end up looking just a little bit too blocky as well. And that's the story of the whole game - not quite good enough.