Broken age review ign movie#

When teen tropes are played correctly, they can sing out and work like a charm. There are silly moments here and there, and an appropriately triumphant climax, but too much of Metal Lords is stuck in an riff that’s not quite funny enough and never really satisfying.

Broken age review ign movie#

In the vein of The School of Rock, Metal Lords centers on two high school best friends navigating adolescence while kinda-sorta gearing up for a Battle of the Bands (that old movie chestnut), in search of a bassist who can help turn them into a real band and not just an experimental act. Weiss, never quite turns it up to 11 the way its attitude suggests. Metal Lords, written by Game of Thrones EP D.B. Maybe point and clicks aren’t my thing, because oddly enough I still found this to be one of the best point and click games I’ve ever played, the pacing is really perfect.Metal Lords premieres Friday, April 8 on Netflix. This is some of the best writing I’ve ever seen in a game, I just wish there was more game here, something that required my input. I’m not the greatest with point and click games, but still found broken age to be a very casual and hilarious experience. Puzzles do get more challenging and clever here, but nothing that will have you searching guides for clues, all puzzles you can easily figure out on your own. The second half of the game felt grindy to me and much less charming as no new characters are really introduced, while I did love the characters, I didn’t love them enough to want to keep seeing them over and over. Broken age took me a little over 7 hours to see and do everything there is, and there are tons of cute and clever interactions to be found, but there is no reason to replay it, you have no control over the outcome, you have no influence in dialog, this game is really just, talk to everyone you see until the dialog options are exhausted and then find someone else to do this again, and then trade them what they want for what you want, nothing more. Like other point and click adventure games, this done by listening to dialog and combining items, nothing really all too tricky.

When it comes down to it, you don’t do much in broken age but figure out ways to get around the obstacles thrown at you. This is more of an interactive story than a game. Broken age is a very unique experience in the sense that it doesn’t really feel like you are in control, broken age feels in control. Act 1 ends with a great cliff hanger, from that point forward I kind of fell out of love with the game and the adventure it was taking me on. I didn’t find the ultimate ending of act 2 to be worth the journey.

The characters and dialog are easily the highlight of this game, and the worlds seem almost magic and mysterious, sadly though the story, world, and characters are all this game really has to offer, and if im being completely honest. During the first act of the game you meet dozens of unique and charming characters.

Shay repeats the same cycle day after day until hes fed up with it, ready to grow up. Their goal is to keep you protected, but you come to realize that comfort and safety requires a sacrifice of itself, freedom. On the other side you play as shay A boy with over protective spaceship parents. Broken age is split up into 2 acts and 2 perspectives On one side you play as vella A spunky girl about to be honorably sacrificed by her village to a monster called mog chothra, but you have other plans Your sacrifice turns into a hunt to take the monster down. Broken age is split up into 2 acts and 2 perspectivesĪ spunky Broken Age Great world, not so great game. Broken Age Great world, not so great game.