Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

As perfect as it gets

The controls mess with my brain a little when trying to control both at the same time, but it works. The story is short-ish, but definitely brings out tears a few times.

This game was beautiful to look at and I really liked that about it but everything else about it is just irritating. The controls are so annoying, so much of the gameplay is just completely counter-intuitive and at several points I had to look up what I was supposed to do and my response was always "Well I don't know how on earth I'm expected to know to do that." because there are just so few hints and the solutions are not at all obvious. It's just annoying. Like how am I supposed to know in the end to just swap the controllers around? Nothing indicated that at all! Why would I do that? I spent the whole game getting frustrated over mixing up the two controls.

A short game with an unique concept of controlling two characters at once and a great story.

The story is pretty simple: two brothers look for a magical tree that can nure their dad. On the way there they run into all sorts of wacky situations that requires effort from both of them. The atmosphere combines happy and tragic scenes, to show that the world of this game is ambivalent. For every peaceful village there is a town where everyone froze to their death. This duality even has a role in the story. Gameplay is unique in a sense that you have to control 2 characters at the same time. There are puzzles and parkour elements that require some finesse with controlling both characters. Somehow the game manages to not be awkward despite this setup. All in all, it's a fantastic 4 hour game that you can enjoy for 1 evening.

Story is really strong. The game worst of every minute of playtime. 10/10

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