![]() ![]() Then, more then 8 full months after the Act: I was released and 7 months after it was announced that funding for Act II was in place Doublefine announced that Tim Shaefer had finished writing Act II. In February they announced that the release of Act I had brought in enough money to finish work on Act II. Up until this point the impression has been given that Broken age: Act 2 was the second portion of a story which had already been created and which had split in half because Double fine lacked the capital to fully produce it without bringing in more more funds. Where it gets weegy is in October of 2014. the first which was to be released in January of 2014, with the second released later. In late 2013, after much work on the project it was decided Broken Age couldn't be finished at the level of quality Double fine desired so a decision was made to split the game into two parts. I think the way the game was written had a lot to do with why there was such a big disjunct and change and quality between acts I and II. To be honest with you after Act 1 I was expecting alot better than this, the second act just feels rushed and not thought out at all and it feels like the puzzles are just ways of getting you to waste time with arbitrary nonsense because they knew that as well and they needed a way to pad out the time. The only story development comes through Vella and even that's really shoddy at best. ![]() That's just two examples of the nonsense in Part 2, nothing makes any sense at all and Shays half of the story basically has him walk around gathering parts and doing nothing at all. Then there's crap like the ending where for some reason both Shay and Vella want to blow up the ship? Both of them know this will work out somehow because.? Then after it happens the enemy just stops firing on them? They were firing the whole time and yet decided to stop? In the first act they're built up to be overprotective beings that don't understand they're not acting like good parents because they're AI, but in the second part they're revealed to be real? There's even a picture of Shay with them, but apparently he doesn't remember them even though he wasn't that much younger than he was in the actual story? How is that even possible and how is it possible such over protective parents basically just interacted with him through screens for the majority of his life? It doesn't make any sense at all. For example Shays parents not being AI robots makes literally no sense at all. SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Yes lets choose between statements on how to untie a knot which barely resemble what's actually shown on screen and if you get it wrong, lets make you walk back and forth 4 screens every time to reset it! Seriously whoever came up with that knot puzzle is a fucking idiot and the wire puzzles are almost as bad. The puzzles are a complete crapshoot, with alot of them, especially towards the endgame, being about sheer brute force with barely any context or clues or logical leaps to move ahead. Much better game than Broken Age, and cheaper too. I said it in the last Broken Age thread and I'll say it again here: If you want to play a good, old-style point-and-click adventure game, pick up Machinarium instead. And the story is a jumbled mess that makes no sense at all, requiring far too many logical leaps and too much suspension of disbelief to work. There are too many puzzles that have no logic or internal consistency, and this is made even more annoying by the fact that some of them reset your progress and require you to backtrack if you fail. But other than that, there's nothing to recommend it. It has excellent art, and there are some genuinely funny moments in the dialogue I laughed a few times when playing. It feels like this is something they should have been able to knock out in six months at most. And there are only a couple of new characters. There are a few new screens, and some of the old screens have a different look, but it's mostly the same. ![]() My biggest question when it comes to Act 2: What took a year and a half? 80-90% of the game takes place in the same few areas that Act 1 did. ![]()
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