And boy does Brothers end up kicking one square in the nut-sack. It’s a growing of age tale, an allegory focusing on that particular moment where childhood is left behind and the hardships and realities of real-life kick-in.
But their enchanting laughter slowly fades the further into the wilderness they venture as the journey becomes dark, dangerous and increasingly fantastical. At first all is rainbows and cheeriness as the boys traverse happily through the local village and surrounding farms of the land they call home. Two brothers haunted by the death of their mother leave the sanctuary of their local community to venture forth and find a magical tree that extolls a medicine to cure their ailing father of illness. Just where in the p!ss is the sodding ‘game’? Sadly and in rather similar fashion to the errant zombie title, the unnerving quality on show has kind of blind-sided many to the huge absence stuck at the core of Brothers’ soul. These hallmarks, however, are also largely associated with Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead, a game that at best resembles King Kong’s first dump of the day. The powerful plot subsumed with pathos, the beautiful surroundings, some ethereal acoustics it certainly packs a punch that would fell the most ardent of complete bastards. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is one of those new-fangled mature story-telling type games that everyone seems to admire greatly.
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