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I thought the rope puzzle the very worst in adventure game history….....then came the wires puzzle and I changed my mind….....

Anyway, the day will come when I replay part 1 again…...it did get a better metacritic rating than part 2 - no wonder in my book…......

I enjoyed all puzzles, rope puzzle was fun to figure out, wire puzzles were logical, totally fine with me.
Overall i feel reviewers are a bit too hard on act two, we got more than we could hope for, especiallly with the documentary bonus. I would be interested in some insights into why the developers made some decision regarding story, puzzles, etc. maybe a directors cut will come out some day?

In terms of story, I think the documentary explains it quite well. Tim seemed to struggle writing act 2 and after playing act 2, it shows. I think I have to agree with Rock, Paper Shotgun on this really. Started strong in act 1, but act 2 fell over then dragged itself over the finish line.

Haven’t played Act 2 yet (arrrgh!!!), but from what I’m reading this is a testament to a developer needing to stick to its guns and sometimes do what they think is best. I didn’t find Act 1 to be too easy, as a lot of vocal players did. Apparently DF listened to the feedback and made Act 2 a lot tougher and puzzle-heavy… And of course everyone’s complaining even more than they did before I mean people on this forum that are critical are being really nice about it, you should see the hate this gets in other parts of the internet (actually, no, you really shouldn’t see it, some people just love being assholes for the sake of it).

Judging just by Act 1 alone, in my book it’s still the prettiest and most atmospheric and visually refined adventure to come out in recent years.

Haven’t played Act 2 yet (arrrgh!!!), but from what I’m reading this is a testament to a developer needing to stick to its guns and sometimes do what they think is best. I didn’t find Act 1 to be too easy, as a lot of vocal players did. Apparently DF listened to the feedback and made Act 2 a lot tougher and puzzle-heavy… And of course everyone’s complaining even more than they did before.

I’m just going to have too look for those comments on the internet - I bet they are a riot to read.

Anyway - what’s done is done. Overall, double fine did a great job and I’m sure they will listen to the comments they got on part 2 for their next game.

Mikekelly - 22 May 2015 09:13 AM

Haven’t played Act 2 yet (arrrgh!!!), but from what I’m reading this is a testament to a developer needing to stick to its guns and sometimes do what they think is best. I didn’t find Act 1 to be too easy, as a lot of vocal players did. Apparently DF listened to the feedback and made Act 2 a lot tougher and puzzle-heavy… And of course everyone’s complaining even more than they did before.

I’m just going to have too look for those comments on the internet - I bet they are a riot to read.

Anyway - what’s done is done. Overall, double fine did a great job and I’m sure they will listen to the comments they got on part 2 for their next game.

 

I agree. Do you guys think there will be a Broken Age 2?

Mr Underhill - 22 May 2015 03:57 AM

Apparently DF listened to the feedback and made Act 2 a lot tougher and puzzle-heavy… And of course everyone’s complaining even more than they did before

HEY! - Some of us actually appreciate that they upped the difficulty a bit - OH! You are talking about other people and not everyone in the strict meaning of the word

Anyway, I don’t really think the act2 is that more difficult than act1. Sure the last chapter can be a bit tricky, but I would still only describe act2 as normal or medium difficulty, and I think that it is a quite normal progression of difficulty in games. You always start a bit easy and then gradually increase the difficulty and end on a high note with the most difficult puzzle - Perfectly normal.

mbday630 - 21 May 2015 08:09 PM

I’ve looked at walkthroughs but this last wiring puzzle doesn’t do anything.  I have tried and tried and nothing is working and there is no schematic for the drum puzzle.

As I mentioned earlier, then the wiring puzzles can be very difficult if you don’t fully understand how they work, but if you do understand everything then it is actually fairly easy. They are also randomized so you can’t just look up the solution in a walkthrough, but you can find an explanation of how it works at the bottom of this guide.

As for the drum, then yes, there is no schematic, BUT Shay can get the exact solution [spoiler]from Vela, and Vela can either get it by trial & error following some pretty obvious clues, OR she can get Mom to wire up the robot, and then simply examine the robot afterwards.[/spoiler]

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Mr Underhill - 22 May 2015 09:59 AM

Do you guys think there will be a Broken Age 2?

Nope!

I can’t see it either. 3 million on act 1 alone after all. Though, it did end like a “coming up next”.

I don’t complain about games being too easy

My main complaint with adventure games is usually just bad puzzles with illogical puzzles.