Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - Really Game of the Year?

[Gustaran]

Has anybody played this? TotalBiscuit is super enthusiastic about it, calling it his "Game of the Year" and basically the best game he has played in the last 25 years:



Since there seems to be a rather wide rating range on Metacritic, I would be interested in some first-hand impressions.

Written review:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/09/...-two-sons/

[Gustaran]

I finally managed to finish the game and while IMHO it's not the best game ever created I can confirm that it is indeed a great game. The only downside is the length of only ~3 hours, which is too short for me considering the game is 15$.

So I would suggest putting this at top of your shopping list for the Steam winter sale. If you own a gamepad this is certainly the most innovative game of 2013 I've played so far. At times it feels like playing through a fairy tale you were told as a child.

[Gustaran]

The game is on sale for 6.99 Euros on Steam at the moment which I think is much more reasonable.

Metacritic score is 91 (user 8.4).

[SevenSpirits]

I just finished it. Really beautiful game. It does seem to require a controller (I used one and I don't see how it could work right without it). I agree it's like playing through a fairy tale.

I did run into one really annoying bug, where it crashed right after autosaving, so I would have to replay the whole chapter to continue, and of course there was no guarantee that it would work then either. So I shelved it for a few weeks and only just got back to it. (Miraculously, it worked - I didn't have to replay anything.) There were also a few other cases where it behaved in a way that I would consider slightly buggy, but ultimately OK.

Overall I really recommend it.