Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

2013 adventure game in which you control two brothers with the two analogue sticks of a controller.
==First play (May 2016)==
In 2016 I decided I had enough free time between teaching at OES to finally play some games I'd never gotten around to. In order of shortest to longest, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons came second (after Layers of Fear). I'd heard it was moving and I think some YouTube reviewer who didn't strike me as an overly sentimental type had basically gone all out and said it was the best game of the year or something.
They tried to make a game with beautiful settings, fun gameplay and a good story. I thought the graphics were a pretty dodgy, the gameplay wasn't really fun, and the story wasn't good enough to pull it up.
Halfway through, I guess because I'd heard it was a sad game, I guessed that one of the brothers would die and you'd end up forlornly playing just one character for the final act. Then during that final act I was thinking how it would have been cool if the little brother had grown up slowly over the course of their journey, perhaps subtly enough that you didn't notice it happening at first but then by this point you'd be playing a maturer, taller, stronger boy who'd been through all that stuff. Just then the little extra gimmick of using the older brother's half of the controller to give the little brother a boost turned up and that was like the only part of the game that emotionally touched me. So props on that bit.
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Category:Video games played in 2016
Category:Video games with 0 rating
Category:Fantasy video games
Category:Adventure video games