download free brothers a tale of two sons ps4

Attractive visuals and a great score.Ĭons: Control system can often be frustrating and many of the puzzles are fairly one note and predictable. Deceptively dark plot with a memorable final act. Pros: Superb characterisation that works almost entirely through gameplay. In Short: The worldless storytelling is some of the most compelling of the year and the purposefully frustrating control system an outrageously daring experiment. Oddly, Starbreeze have now sold the rights to the series to publisher 505 Games, but if that forces them to come up with something else entirely new for their next game then all the better. One which tells its story through action and inference, not bludgeoning you with non-interactive cut scenes. It may seem contradictory but the game alone thoroughly deserves the price tag, as this is one of the best storytelling experiences of the last several years.

A director’s commentary, an art gallery, and a separate soundtrack are the only new options and to be frank we’re not sure that justifies the price hike. If you played the original last gen versions you’ll already know all this to be true, and apart from an increase in screen resolution and smother frame rate this is exactly the same game. You can probably already imagine the sorts of puzzles this leads to, from simply giving a boost up over a wall, to acting as a decoy to avoid enemies, or work machinery and switches to allow the other past some unfeasibly complicated obstacle.

It’s a bizarre idea, especially as there’s no co-op option at all, and to be brutally honest it’s not always a successful one. The bigger brother is controlled via the left analogue stick and left trigger and the younger brother with the right stick and trigger. The game’s storytelling techniques are not its only novelty though and we’re yet to mention what at first seems the game’s most defining feature: the fact that you’re controlling both brothers at the same time, literally.

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.

Download free brothers a tale of two sons ps4