welcome to a fictional time in a
fictional place where there is a tree of
life than the inhabitants speak a
fictional language that's right based on
that rather incredible description we
are obviously in the world of brothers a
tale of two sons now as you might have
guessed brothers a tale of two sons is
about two sons who are brothers I don't
really know why I said that because
anyone with anything between their ears
would be able to get that from the title
but whoever wrote this script felt it
necessary
damn you scriptwriting me you are making
me sound foolish brothers a tale of two
sons is a wonderful game that made me
pretty damn emotional by the end of it
and in this video I'm going to try and
explain without spoilers why it made me
feel this way
so let's get on with it now the story of
brothers a tale of two sons focuses on
two brothers as you may have guessed
from the title those two brothers being
Naiee and Naia and they are trying to
acquire water from the tree of life to
save their sick father or at least we
think I think it's their father I don't
really know because they don't
explicitly tell you that it's their
father it could be their grandfather for
all I know but they say it's generally
implied that it's their father and the
whole thing is their adventure that they
have together to get to the Tree of Life
to get the water to bring it back and
it's all about them working together to
achieve things that they couldn't do on
their own
you know you soon find out that the
older brother can do things the younger
brother can't where's the younger
brother can do things that the older
brother can't and the whole gameplay
situation revolves around that and it's
actually extremely innovative oh by the
way before I move on to the gameplay I'm
going to say that I'm not going to go
any further into the plot mainly because
the whole game is story based there's
practically no collectibles as a matter
of fact I don't think there are any
collectibles at all it is just purely a
directed story experience think of it a
bit like Uncharted just without the
collectibles
and on a much smaller scale and with a
different art style which is beautiful
by the way the graphics in this game
actually read Zen themselves - the type
of story I think they're trying to tell
I think if you try to go too gritty and
real with this game it wouldn't have had
the same effect some of the things that
you actually encounter in this game it
would become a lot more scary the game
when you actually you know if you did it
in a much more realistic style I think
but anyway I'm supposed to be talking
about the plot if you want to you
know if you want to know more about the
plot either go and play the game
yourself or find a complete let's play
of it whichever one floats your boat so
now I'm going to move on to the gameplay
because like I said before the story is
very much told out in the gameplay and
the gameplay is actually fairly
innovative effectively the whole premise
of the gameplay of brothers a tale of
two sons is that you are controlling two
characters at once it's that whole idea
of using two characters to achieve one
goal so you have the younger brother
naiee and who can do like a lot of
climbing and he's very he's very small
so the older brother can kind of like
boost him up places so if you need to
get up anywhere high then you use the
older brother to boost the younger
brother up and the younger brother then
like drops down the rope for the older
brother to climb up and it's pretty it's
really quite good because you control
both characters at once so you have the
younger brother Nighy all controlled by
the left side of the controller so you
have the the left analog stick and the
left trigger button controlling what's
the younger brother does and you have
the right analog stick and the right
trigger controlling what the older
brother does and although the control
system is extremely innovative and it
does for the most part control really
really well there were times when I was
playing this that I got completely and
utterly confused because the whole setup
I think really is to keep Naiee on the
left and keep naia on the right at all
times however there are some times huh
because me being the dumbass that I am
where the two got mixed up and whether
to get mixed up you either have to be
very good at reversing
your brain or you have to control one
character at a time get your bearings
for one character then you can actually
do the same thing for the other
character for the other character bring
them back to the correct sides and then
carry on that happened to me a couple of
times actually it was really really
confusing at one point but generally the
controls are really good because then
you have you have the movements on the
on the analog stick and then contextual
actions on the trigger and those
contextual actions are completely based
on what you're actually trying to do so
yeah there's no different buttons for
different things it's one contextual
button for everything or one contextual
trigger in this case the whole gameplay
aspect it it makes it very
heart-wrenching at the end when when
certain events happen at the end of the
game I think if the gameplay mechanics
had just focused on just controlling one
say just controlling the younger brother
because the story does evolve a lot
around the younger brother it seems to
be told from the younger brother's point
of view if you've just been controlling
him I don't think it would have had the
same emotional impact the very fact that
you are controlling both of these
characters you actually get sort of
invested in the survival of both of
these characters and when certain events
happen at the end of the game it just it
makes it all the more heart-wrenching
and it makes it all the more
hard-hitting at least emotionally and
you you really do feel for these
characters it's a very interesting thing
and I think it was an absolutely
inspired choice by whoever directed the
game the developer of this game is
Starbreeze Studios by the way and I
think they've done an absolutely
brilliant job in just the whole package
no one element of the game really
stands out as being oh my god amazing
right but then the way everything comes
together so like the way the art style
the controls just the visuals in
general and the audio and the sound
design come together to form an entire
package that entire package is Wow oh my
god right that
so it does actually convey that kind of
feeling and it is a phenomenally cool
game my parting feelings when playing
this game was I think the story does
actually convey a pretty good message
which i think is more relevant today now
you know than ever and that is basically
sometimes you have to work together to
achieve your goals and sometimes to
actually work together and to achieve
those goals you also have to overcome
your own problems just a little bit more
of a bit of a spoiler sort of a spoiler
but not really a spoiler the younger
brother who's the story of which is told
from the point of view of we find out
early in the game has certain problems
that by the end of the game he has to
overcome and I've got to be honest that
the entire story in the entire
experience left me rather humbled
actually it wasn't really sad for me as
such well I mean I suppose it was sad
but not like bawling my eyes outside but
I did I did shed a tear at the air a
tear or two at the end it's a game that
will make you do that
or at least it did for me anyway I'm not
going to speak for everybody in the
world when I say that but it did for me
and I think that the message of you
having to overcome your own problems is
one that resonates very strongly with me
as I have a lot of problems that I'm
trying to overcome at the moment in my
own life so that that really did
resonate with me and this game has
actually done more to inspire me to do
that than anything else that's happened
so far in my life so my abiding memory
is one of contentment and inspiration
from playing this game and I would
highly recommend that you will check it
out as well so that was a peek at
brothers a tale of two sons let me know
what your thoughts are down in the
comments thank you so much for watching
this is the legacy of James and I'll see
you again
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