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But theyвЂ™re so heavy that you instantly fall through the clouds if youвЂ™ve got one of those eggs in the inventory (you canвЂ™t die in the game, so youвЂ™re taken back up to where you fell from, but the egg is not in your possession anymore). And you need to bring some heavy golden eggs to one location. While in Act 1 the inventory is still essentially a вЂvague limitless place behind the back of the characterвЂ™, the principles are more grounded to reality, even in fantastic environments.ДЇor example, thereвЂ™s a town located in the clouds. It doesnвЂ™t help that the logic one needs to use in Act 2 is much different than the one that has to be used in Act 1. Broken Age tries to hint that thereвЂ™s some special vague connection between Shay and Vella in Act 2вЂ¦ but it just doesnвЂ™t work because of how jarring these types of puzzles are after playing through Act 1. The big issue with this is not even the fact of such puzzles existing (though the rewiring puzzles in particular are annoying as hell), but that it was introduced in the middle of the game.

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The biggest culprit of this are all the robot rewiring puzzles (I think thereвЂ™s about 5 of them?) where one character knows solution to the rewiring or how to rewire a robot in a certain way, but itвЂ™s the other person who needs that knowledge to do something. ThereвЂ™s a number of puzzles where to solve something as Shay, you need to find information that only Vella learns/knows, and vice versa. However, in Act 2, after Shay and Vella switch places and environments, this principle gets thrown out the window. Everything is based on character knowledge. In Act 1, you donвЂ™t need to switch to the other character to figure out how to get past the obstacle that your currently selected character is facing. Be warned, there will be spoilers!ДЎ вЂ“ Puzzles start getting based on player knowledge, not character knowledge. But I do want to discuss what I think are glaring design issues with the game, Act 2 specifically, and why theyвЂ™re such a big problem. So this post IвЂ™m not going to talk about my thoughts on how the character arcs set up in Act 1 werenвЂ™t fulfilled, or how Act 2 jumps the shark with a bunch of strange twists or motivations.

IвЂ™m so disappointed by Act 2 that I think IвЂ™ve spent 3 or 4 days constantly complaining to everyone I know about it. AndвЂ¦ letвЂ™s just say, Act 2 is not as good as Act 1, both narrative-wise and gameplay-wise.

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It prompted me to binge the full game from start to finish. That is, until I got recently the final backer reward вЂ“ the collectorвЂ™s box for Broken Age. Though, because my save files were somehow lost, when Act 2 was released I didnвЂ™t play it. And when Act 1 got released, I was absolutely blown away. Back in the day, I gave some money to its Kickstarter campaign, at the time known just as Double Fine Adventure.

I think Broken Age has got to be the game IвЂ™m most confused what to think about.