Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Broken Age

Broken Age (10/103) is a point and click adventure made by DoubleFine that tells two seemingly disconnected stories.

The first is about the space boy, Shay, who couldn't grow up.  Coddled by a "mom" spaceship, this young adult is impossibly bored fake hero missions like rescuing crochet creatures from an avalanche of ice-cream, and eventually sees through the farce.

The second is about a girl, Vella, who is one of a few offerings to be sacrificed to an ancient god named Mog Chothra at the Maiden's Feast but ends up breaking free and destroying it.

Spoilers, the ancient god(s) are actually the spaceships and the entire enterprise is being controlled by a super-race that are harvesting girls for their DNA because they have over purified their own genetically.  Shay is one of many of these that go to collect the young girls, the illusion of travelling in space and rescuing colonists is maintained so these harvesters don't "go native".

Pretty fun for a point and click, but it did have those moments of linear path blocking.  I missed a peach I was supposed to pick off a tree and ended up walking around trying stupid combinations everywhere else even though I knew a peach was the answer.

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