Broken Age tries to hint that there’s some special vague connection between Shay and Vella in Act 2… but it just doesn’t work because of how jarring these types of puzzles are after playing through Act 1. The big issue with this is not even the fact of such puzzles existing (though the rewiring puzzles in particular are annoying as hell), but that it was introduced in the middle of the game.
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The biggest culprit of this are all the robot rewiring puzzles (I think there’s about 5 of them?) where one character knows solution to the rewiring or how to rewire a robot in a certain way, but it’s the other person who needs that knowledge to do something. There’s a number of puzzles where to solve something as Shay, you need to find information that only Vella learns/knows, and vice versa. However, in Act 2, after Shay and Vella switch places and environments, this principle gets thrown out the window. Everything is based on character knowledge. In Act 1, you don’t need to switch to the other character to figure out how to get past the obstacle that your currently selected character is facing. Be warned, there will be spoilers!ġ – Puzzles start getting based on player knowledge, not character knowledge. But I do want to discuss what I think are glaring design issues with the game, Act 2 specifically, and why they’re such a big problem. So this post I’m not going to talk about my thoughts on how the character arcs set up in Act 1 weren’t fulfilled, or how Act 2 jumps the shark with a bunch of strange twists or motivations. I’m so disappointed by Act 2 that I think I’ve spent 3 or 4 days constantly complaining to everyone I know about it. And… let’s just say, Act 2 is not as good as Act 1, both narrative-wise and gameplay-wise.
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It prompted me to binge the full game from start to finish. That is, until I got recently the final backer reward – the collector’s box for Broken Age.
Though, because my save files were somehow lost, when Act 2 was released I didn’t play it. And when Act 1 got released, I was absolutely blown away. Back in the day, I gave some money to its Kickstarter campaign, at the time known just as Double Fine Adventure. However, if you use the chart below, you'll know which phrase to say in relation to which image, regardless of what ends up on Car'l's diagram.I think Broken Age has got to be the game I’m most confused what to think about. The problem is that the diagrams are random so there's no easy answer. The solution is to say three phrases that match the three doodles on Car'l's diagram Go back to the ladder and this time you'll be able to give F'ther instructions, based on the diagram. Go talk to Car'l in Shellmound, give her Alex's pencil, and she'll draw you a knotty diagram. He'll fail and let you know you need a knot expert. Luckily, we're here to help.įirst things first, try to climb up Brother Lightbeard's ladder and ask F'ther to untie the knot. To be fair, it's not very well designed, with horrible signposting that will leave puzzle solvers spinning in circles. A certain conundrum involving a knot that some are finding impossible to solve. There's a puzzle in the second act of Broken Age that has gamers pulling their hair out.
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