Broken Age is a family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoons.
Broken Age is an Adventure Game currently under development by Double Fine Productions. Broken Age tells the story of a girl living in a world inspired by medieval myths and stories and a boy living in a sci-fi world. The girl is chosen to be a sacrifice for a monster but decides to fight back. The boy meanwhile lives on a spaceship with only a computer to keep him company and he wants to.
Vella Tartine and Shay Volta are two teenagers in strangely similar situations, but radically different worlds. The player can freely switch between their stories, helping them take control of their own lives, and dealing with the unexpected adventures that follow.
The Game Includes:
• Features music composed by Peter McConnell, recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
• All-star voice cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black, Jennifer Hale, Wil Wheaton, and Pendleton Ward
• Some jokes. Unless you don’t think they’re funny, in which case we totally weren’t trying to be funny.
• A whole bunch of awesome PUZZLES
• This one really hard puzzle that you won’t get but you’ll look it up online and not tell anybody.
• All your hopes and dreams (or not).
'Act 1 of Broken Age is a gorgeous, impeccably written adventure that simultaneously tugs at my nostalgic core, while ushering in a new era for the point-and-click genre.' The first graphic adventure by Tim Schafer in sixteen years, Broken Age began in a historic, record-breaking Kickstarter campaign. Now it's here in all its beautiful, 2D, hand-painted glory, with an original orchestral soundtrack and an all-star vocal cast. Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoons.
Minimum System Requirements: Sketches pro 4 8.
Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure video game developed and published by Double Fine. Broken Age was game director Tim Schafer's first return to the genre since 1998's Grim Fandango, and was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One platforms. The game was developed in two acts; the first was released on January 28, 2014. This is the first of two parts that make up the whole game and what we have here is a tremendous point and click adventure game that will stick with you long after the credits have rolled. As with all good point and click adventure games, the story is what Broken Age: Act 1 is really all about.
Mail pilot 3 395. System: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 1.8 GHz (Dual Core)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel HD 3000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
Storage: 2 GB HDD
Sound: 9.0c compatible sound card
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Broken Age: Act 1 is brought to us by the wonderfully talented Tim Schafer and the studio Double Fine. I am a huge fan of his so him returning to the world of gamed was something I was very excited about. This is the first of two parts that make up the whole game and what we have here is a tremendous point and click adventure game that will stick with you long after the credits have rolled.
As with all good point and click adventure games, the story is what Broken Age: Act 1 is really all about. The game has two protagonists who seem like they have nothing to do with each other! We have Vella is a teenage girl who lives with her family and is about to have her life ended as she is to be served as a sacrifice to an entity called, Mog Chothra. This is seen as a major “honor” but she wants more for her life and decides she is going to fight!The other character is Shay who is a teenage boy who apparently is living the dream life on a spaceship that is designed to keep him safe and entertained. His days are spent playing video games and having out with animatronic friends, but Shay wants more and wants to take control of the AI ship that has control of him
As Broken Age: Act 1 is from the mind of Tim Schafer and the other talented folks at Double Fine. You can expect to be blown away by the story. It is wonderfully told and has that Schafer humor all over it. While the game will certainly make you smile and laugh. So talented is this team that it makes you care about Vella and Shay and the plight they are in. I do not want to spoil the story for you guys, but I can tell you that when I started playing this I did not want to stop until I got to the end.
The game looks phenomenal. It has a kind of storybook “painting” kind of vibe to the graphics and it really is great. Each of the locations feels different and the characters you come across are all designed very well. A huge part of what brings this story to life is not just the amazing graphics, but the sound as well.The soundtrack is very fitting for the game. However, it is the voice acting that really makes you get invested. Even the most minute character that only has a scene or two is voice acted to perfection!
If you have played a point and click adventure game before then you will feel right at home with this game. It may not be trying to reinvent the wheel in regards to the gameplay. You walk around, do tasks, find items, solve puzzles, and talk to people as you would expect. Puzzles are a major part of the game and they are great. I remembered being turned off by many point and click games over the years due to their cryptic non-sensible puzzles. This game does it differently where all of the puzzles make sense and can be figured out with just a bit of brainwork. Some might find this too easy, but I much preferred this.
In my opinion Broken Age: Act 1 is an amazing game. There is a whole second act to play through and I guarantee that you will want to jump straight into that as soon as you are done with this. With that being said, this first act does leave you wanting to continue the story, but at the same time, the ending does make sense. If you love a good story and enjoy point and click adventure games, you have to play this.
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