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choli's Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons (PS4)
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| [February 18, 2017 03:23:05 PM]
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Game Log 3
Playtime: 45 minutes
This is my second time playing this game through and there isn’t anything that is very different. The game’s storyline is linear so I can’t really change anything. The only things that I’m noticing on this playthrough that I didn’t notice last time is the villager interactions and the older brother/younger brother interactions. In the beginning of the game there are more villagers that you can interact with that slowly disappear as the story goes on. Also they are more happy the closer they are to the starting point. As for the brother interactions there are very few interactions in which the older brother relies on the younger brother, most of them are things that the older brother has to help the younger brother do, like swim across rivers.
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| [February 10, 2017 11:40:29 PM]
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Game Log 2
Playtime: 2.5 hours
This game took a very dark turn that I honestly wasn’t expecting. There was an ominous foreshadowing of death with three criminal’s bodies hanged (I’m assuming that they were criminals because their heads were hooded) and a dream-ish sequence about their mom and dad with the younger brother being strangled by the older brother. I think the younger brother feels guilty about the death of his mother and secretly thinks that his older brother blames him for her death.
As we left the forest there was a man who was attempting to commit suicide, he was standing on a chair and tying a rope around his neck. I wasn’t able to save him but when I was attempting to make a jump later, I died and had to redo it. The second time he lived. It was revealed that he was committing suicide because his wife and child died in a house fire while he was gone. He ran into the fire to save them but only retrieved their bodies. To console him I found a music box in the wreckage.
The game took an extremely weird turn. There were cultists who were sacrificing a girl, then a yeti who froze an entire village and their invading forces, then that girl turned out to be a spider-woman who tried to Shelob the two brothers. The Yeti the brothers killed by accident and the Shelob-woman on purpose, who stabbed the older brother as she was dying. Also I accidentally crushed the frozen forces and stabbed/maimed some dead giants who were battling.
I reached the glowing tree on the older brother’s map. AND THEN HE DIED. THE TRIP WAS NOT WORTH IT. Although, I think that was kind of the point. They went on this grand and magical adventure to save their dad from death and one of them died in the process. I think it brings up the questions - is each life equivalent? Would you exchange someone’s life for someone else?
I will admit that it was a nice touch at the end that you couldn’t use the left side of the controller anymore until it came time to do things that the brother had to do for the little brother, like swim. The brother couldn’t swim/was too afraid to so he had to rely on his brother’s memory to do it (and you had to use the left side to swim and not the right).
Also I finished the game.
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| [February 7, 2017 11:01:45 PM]
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Game Log 1
I played for about an hour. The game has similar gameplay to “King’s Quest” so far, which is great because “King’s Quest” is my favorite game. The weird thing about this game is that the language is gibberish, so you have to deduce what’s going on from bad, over acted animation. However, instead of feeling like an actual language, like “The Last Guardian” or “Atlantis”, it just sounds like fake. Every time they speak I get distracted on its falseness and miss the what’s going on.
The story so far is that the boys’ father is deathly ill and the two boys are going somewhere to get help. This is made even more urgent by the fact that the mother has died. (I think that the little brother had something to do with it, they were on a small together when she drowned.)
I don’t like the little brother at all and while I like the older brother more, I’m not attached to either character. The little brother has an abrupt sob-story that only sometimes affects his personality, and other than that he’s an obnoxious, property destroying hooligan. The older brother doesn’t seem to have a personality at all.
Controls-wise this game is strange; the left half of the controller is the older brother and the right half is the younger brother. To play, you have to control each brother simultaneously as they can’t move very far from the other without stopping and yelling at each other.
I have high hopes for this game, but I wish they would step up the acting/animation in the scenes.
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choli's Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons (PS4)
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Current Status: Finished playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 7 February, 2017
GameLog closed on: Saturday 18 February, 2017 |
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