Broken Age: Act 1 Review
A promising start to Double Fine's adventuresome enterprise.
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A promising start to Double Fine's adventuresome enterprise.
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The game sparked heated debate for more than one reason. I think its long story of mixed messages and money murkiness qualifies it for infamy status.Lightknight said:I'm not sure I'd call releasing half of the game early to help fund the second part "infamous", but I'm glad it's good. I'm glad I backed them and I look forward to launching it this weekend.
Always seemed like quite a forced scandal to me, more of an invitiation for generic Crowdfunding Theory debates, than any problem with what they actually did.Jimothy Sterling said:The game sparked heated debate for more than one reason. I think its long story of mixed messages and money murkiness qualifies it for infamy status.Lightknight said:I'm not sure I'd call releasing half of the game early to help fund the second part "infamous", but I'm glad it's good. I'm glad I backed them and I look forward to launching it this weekend.
It's composed by Peter McConnell and performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It's absolutely worth it.Dalisclock said:Is the soundtrack worth buying with the game on steam?
See, I didn't get that. I've been in the backer forums the whole time, enjoying the updates and documentaries. From what I understand Double Fine has always had a problem sticking to budget in most of their games. They had a fairly straightfoward budget at the start and things just kind of spiraled away as they often do with them where they want things to look more professional and fail to prioritize in a way that maintains the budget.Jimothy Sterling said:The game sparked heated debate for more than one reason. I think its long story of mixed messages and money murkiness qualifies it for infamy status.Lightknight said:I'm not sure I'd call releasing half of the game early to help fund the second part "infamous", but I'm glad it's good. I'm glad I backed them and I look forward to launching it this weekend.
The game is probably just not for you. A lot of the appeal to the game for me (I've played it already) was the art style, animations, music, and voice acting. All of them were FANTASTIC in my opinion. But since those things are all subjective, and you said you don't like the art style or the child voice acting (not sure what you mean by this since all the voice actors except maybe Vella's sister were adults who do this professionally?) those are both a big part of the game and if you don't like them then a large part of what I enjoyed about the game is missing for you.james.sponge said:I'm kinda reluctant to pick it up, watched a couple of gameplay videos, I dislike the art-style, child voice-actors and comedy is kinda bad. Recently replayed Grim Fandango and it was just so much better in the story, atmosphere and humour department. I don't know whether Schafer and co. simply burned out or am I simply not their target audience. Either way if it sells good for them.
Indeed, perhaps actors are modulating their voice to sound a bit childish, naturally not all of them, but that's still kinda annoying for me. Anyway thanks for the reply, glad you are enjoying the game.Sight Unseen said:The game is probably just not for you. A lot of the appeal to the game for me (I've played it already) was the art style, animations, music, and voice acting. All of them were FANTASTIC in my opinion. But since those things are all subjective, and you said you don't like the art style or the child voice acting (not sure what you mean by this since all the voice actors except maybe Vella's sister were adults who do this professionally?)james.sponge said:I'm kinda reluctant to pick it up, watched a couple of gameplay videos, I dislike the art-style, child voice-actors and comedy is kinda bad. Recently replayed Grim Fandango and it was just so much better in the story, atmosphere and humour department. I don't know whether Schafer and co. simply burned out or am I simply not their target audience. Either way if it sells good for them.
Well the voice actor for Shay is Elijah Wood, who just has a naturally childish voice. The actor for Vella is also an adult but her voice work is well done IMO and not obnoxiously childish at all to me. But yeah subjective opinions. If it really ruins the game for you then I guess you should give it a pass, but the game is really fun and hopefully you can pick it up on sale or something and play it.james.sponge said:Indeed, perhaps actors are modulating their voice to sound a bit childish, naturally not all of them, but that's still kinda annoying for me. Anyway thanks for the reply, glad you are enjoying the game.Sight Unseen said:The game is probably just not for you. A lot of the appeal to the game for me (I've played it already) was the art style, animations, music, and voice acting. All of them were FANTASTIC in my opinion. But since those things are all subjective, and you said you don't like the art style or the child voice acting (not sure what you mean by this since all the voice actors except maybe Vella's sister were adults who do this professionally?)james.sponge said:I'm kinda reluctant to pick it up, watched a couple of gameplay videos, I dislike the art-style, child voice-actors and comedy is kinda bad. Recently replayed Grim Fandango and it was just so much better in the story, atmosphere and humour department. I don't know whether Schafer and co. simply burned out or am I simply not their target audience. Either way if it sells good for them.