The game’s tone and nature gets increasingly dark as you progress, from an entirely optional opportunity to stop a man from hanging himself to the nightmarish battlefields that become the backdrops to the game’s final hours. When we describe the game as a fairy tale we do so in the Brothers Grimm sense of the term. However, many interactions are purely for character-building purposes, from the younger brother gobbing into a well to test its depth to the two exhibiting very different skill levels when it comes to playing the harp.

Instead it’s the actions of the two brothers – and the differences between them – that lend much of the character.įor example, approaching one elderly villager with the older brother might see him ignored and sent on his way, while the younger is able to charm his way through. It’s not even that everything is conveyed through animation, as when the game does zoom in for a close-up you realise that the graphics are actually a lot more basic than the usual overhead view pretends.

There’s no dialogue though, or at least none you can understand, as everyone speaks in an invented gibberish language and there are no subtitles. You play as two brothers sent out into a stock fantasy world to find a cure for their dying father. But the Payday developer sold the rights to the game to publisher 505 Games and this new version has nothing to do with them, or original director Josef Fares – who left the company to make the similarly themed, but considerably less wholesome, A Way Out.Īt first glance, Brothers looks like an unofficial Fable spin-off and at first seems to have a straightforward fairy tale plot to match. With original creator Starbreeze Studios currently in dire financial straits the appearance of their most critically acclaimed title on Nintendo Switch might come as something of a surprise. Skyrim Anniversary Edition PS5 review - one time too many Starbreeze’s award-winning indie game gets a proper co-op mode for the first time, but does that make the experience better or worse? Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons (NS) – now for two players

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