Apr 28, 2015 Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure telling the stories of a young boy and girl leading parallel lives. The girl has been chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a terrible monster-but she decides to fight back. Meanwhile, a boy on a spaceship is living a solitary life under the care of a motherly computer, but he wants to break free. Overall, Broken Age is a fine game. It has some thematic issues, with dark — and perhaps inappropriate — content hiding behind its cheery facade, but otherwise it has everything you might want in an adventure game: characters you can root for, reasonable puzzles, and an entertaining playing experience.
8-bit modeAt the options menu, set the screen resolution to the lowest setting. Then, select 'Key Remapping', and a new icon with Shay and Vella will appear in the lower-right corner. Assign a key for the new icon. Press the assigned key while playing the game to display the game in retro 8-bit graphics.
Easy 'Eh, eh-eh. Eh eh, eh-eh!' TrophyThis can be done at any time while playing as Shay and having the Hexibot in your inventory. Each individual solution varies because the game generates a new solution to the wiring each time. Make the following symbols appear:Blue: Triangles pointing left and right, triangles pointing up and down. Yellow: Triangles pointing left and right, triangles split into thirds.
Red: Triangles pointing left and right, colored in triangle upside down.The only thing that always is the same is that all three wires will originate from the same source. Check your progress by using the charge station. Easy 'How'd I Do?' TrophyTalk to the tree after the 'Pete the pine tree' successful joke to get the 'How'd I Do?'
Easy 'Is Something Wrong?' TrophyWith Shay in Act 1, when the spoon tells you to eat some cereal, do not eat anything to get the 'Is Something Wrong?' Easy 'Not Good With Directions' trophyWith Vella in Act 1, leave Curtis' house, then move to the left until you are attacked by the snake. Do not free Vella; just wait until the cutscene begins to get the 'Not Good With Directions' trophy. Easy 'No Retreat' trophyWith Vella in Act 2, while locked in the room with Hope, complete the puzzle where you must move the Hexapal from the airlock room to yourself without the Hexapal ever walking back to get the 'No Retreat' trophy. You can save manually while in the ship's camera by popping a light.
Save the game by doing this after you get the Hexapal to a new room without it walking back. Easy 'Picky Eater' trophyWith Shay at the beginning of Act 1, refuse all the cereals to get the 'Picky Eater' trophy. Easy 'Produce Distributor' trophyWith Vella in Act 1, take a fruit from the tree in Meriloft. Allow Vella to eat it. Then, take another fruit and give it to Curtis, the lumberjack, to get the 'Produce Distributor' trophy.
Easy 'Question Your Elders' trophyExhaust Vella's grandparents dialogue trees to get the 'Question Your Elders' trophy. Easy 'Sick Of Fish' trophyWith Shay in Act 2, after untying Lightbeards knot, F'ther will take him to the girl from Meriloft who was not selected by Mog Chothra. Talk to Lightbeard three times to get the 'Sick Of Fish' trophy. Easy 'Turn That Frown Upside Down' trophyWith Vella in Act 2, while using the ship's cameras, select all the sad faces you find to turn them into happy faces and get the 'Turn That Frown Upside Down' trophy. TrophiesSuccessfully complete one of the following tasks to get a trophy:3.3 (Platinum): Unlock all Broken Age trophies. Is Something Wrong?
(Bronze): Make a Spoon Sweat. Flawless Execution (Silver): Complete all rescue missions with zero errors.
Inhibited (Bronze): Inhibit a powerful entitiy. Gary Has His Reasons (Silver): Hear 20 reasons why Gary won't grab that.
Doomed (Bronze): Travel to a forbidden location. Question Your Elders (Silver): Learn all you can about Sugar Bunting. She's Doomed Us All (Bronze): Escape the Maidens Feast. Make Up for Some Hygiene Demerits (Bronze): Get to know someone in a precarious position. Mother and Child Reunion (Bronze): Reunite a mother and child.
Something Not Light About Her (Bronze): Leave an isolated town. Produce Distributor (Silver): Feed two different people a healthy snack.
Not Good with Directions (Bronze): Endure a tight situation as long as you can. Are You Trying to Get Rid of Me? (Silver): Find 30 unique reactions to the Spoon. Get Hyper (Bronze): Return a missing spaceship part. Knot Too Difficult (Silver): Clear up a tangled situation in one attempt.
'My Lightness!' (Bronze): Return a heavy duty spaceship part. Sick of Fish (Bronze): Visit someone in jail. 'What's up with all the feathers?' (Bronze): Commission a custom garment.
'I'll bet the undercarriage on this baby is shot.' (Bronze): Get a family member's help on a big project.
Make Like a Tree and Laugh (Silver): Tell a great joke in one attempt. (Bronze): Follow up on a successful performance. 'And, they do windows!' (Bronze): Find a genius. 'What can I say?
I know boots.' (Silver): Answer some tough questions quickly.
There Is Hope (Bronze): Get to the ship's brain. No Retreat (Silver): Execute a PERFECT escape.
'That kind of thing can be pretty convincing.' (Bronze): Get to know a stranger. 'Not everyone has the stomach for perfection.' (Bronze): Uncover an unsavory scheme. We Talked That Fight Right Out of You (Bronze): Talk to the boss. Greetings from Obvious Town (Bronze): Reconnect with some old friends. Holy Smokes (Bronze): Deploy a weapon of mass destruction.
Go With Your Instincts (Bronze): Chart a course away from danger. Unbroken (Gold): Complete Broken Age. Let's Get this Good Time Over With (Gold): Complete Broken Age in under an hour, not counting loading and paused gameplay.Additionally, there are 11 secret trophies:Picky Eater (Bronze): Examine all breakfast options.
(Bronze): Disrupt Shay's daily routine. Armed (Bronze): Take Control of the Boom Arms. Small Things Can Surprise You (Bronze): Take down Mog Chothra. Please Don't Tell Anyone (Silver): Complete Act 1 of Broken Age. Turn That Frown Upside Down (Silver): Remove 8 sad faces from the Bassinostra. Dammed (Silver): Complete Act 2 of Broken Age.
Eh eh, eh-eh!' (Silver): Make someone strut their stuff. He Must have a Reason (Silver): Stand up for someone even though you haven't met him. The Next Most Logical Course of Action (Silver): Start a group dance party.
She Must have a Reason (Silver): Stand up for someone even though you haven't met her.
Broken Age is a family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoons.
Vella Tartine and Shay Volta are two teenagers in strangely similar situations, but radically different worlds. The player can freely switch between their stories, helping them take control of their own lives, and dealing with the unexpected adventures that follow.
The Game Includes:
• Features music composed by Peter McConnell, recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
• All-star voice cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black, Jennifer Hale, Wil Wheaton, and Pendleton Ward
• Some jokes. Unless you don’t think they’re funny, in which case we totally weren’t trying to be funny.
• A whole bunch of awesome PUZZLES
• This one really hard puzzle that you won’t get but you’ll look it up online and not tell anybody.
• All your hopes and dreams (or not).
• Features music composed by Peter McConnell, recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
• All-star voice cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black, Jennifer Hale, Wil Wheaton, and Pendleton Ward
• Some jokes. Unless you don’t think they’re funny, in which case we totally weren’t trying to be funny.
• A whole bunch of awesome PUZZLES
• This one really hard puzzle that you won’t get but you’ll look it up online and not tell anybody.
• All your hopes and dreams (or not).
Minimum System Requirements:
System: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 1.8 GHz (Dual Core)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel HD 3000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
Storage: 2 GB HDD
Sound: 9.0c compatible sound card
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