Keep in mind that I loved the first act of this game and the second part was pretty good too, but I can never ever recommend this game because of the conclusion. The way it ends is genuinely jarring and unsatisfying. It feels like I'm playing a game that's 2/3rds of the way completed, and considering how great the rest of the game is, the ending is genuinely insulting. It's not even visually impressive, it doesn't look like an ending in the same way the beginning looked like the beginning. It's not climactic, it's not engaging, and it's not good.
Don't play Broken Age. You'll love it, but then it'll spit in your face for it.

Disappointing game. The characters are very flat and uninteresting, the story is poorly written, the voice acting is emotionless. I mean, I didn't manage to care for my protagonists even by the end. Some of the NPCs were more interesting, and had more character to them, which is pretty bad.

The overall plot is very weak, and it's never fully explained even in the obligatory Evil Boss Monologue. And it's not the suspenseful kind of unexplained, but the "wait, that does not make sense" kind, like the writers were too lazy to make up the proper background. Just like Shay's robot parents, who turn out to be his real, flesh and blood parents, and yet no longer interact with him directly. We even see a family picture showing this has been otherwise, yet Shay seems to be genuinely surprised to see that they are human. Why did they stop seeing him in person? Why doesn't he remember? There are no answers, and there is no narrative point to make. It's just random, like much of the plot.

Other than that, many of the puzzles are more tedious than exciting, and the level design forces you to travel back and forth over an area, without any map or quick-travel feature. Again, tedious.

Also, a whole unavoidable conversation back and forth elaborating on stool jokes. Not funny. At all. I actually cringed. And it was as much out of character for Vella as she has character.

The only plus point is could say is that the robot puzzles in the last part of the game by utilizing different patterns was actually clever and inventive.

Gorgeous graphics and lovely soundtrack. But boring game with little direction.

Halfway through, I just wanted it to end. The puzzles get so ridicolous, there's really no correlation between the items you have to get and the tasks you have to complete in order to progress.

Charming as ♥♥♥♥. Glad to see Kickstarter campaigns like these succeed. Kudos to Tim and the people at Double Fine.

I like this game, a lot. If you like point-and-click adventures, get it. Like seriously, get it.

Act 2 puzzles suck.

I was a backer on Kickstarter for this game and I'm also a huge fan of Tim Schafer and his Double Fine Productions. That's why I backed this in the first place, but also because I'm a fan of the adventure game genre, of course. Nevertheless Broken Age is the first game which I've played on Steam which I can't right out of my heart recommend, but why is that?

The game is split into two acts and while the first act is just brilliant not only because of it's warmth, colorful visuals, lovely soundtrack or its charming characters, but also because of its well designed and thus entertaining puzzles. So everything's fine up until the end of act 1. It's ending will eventually already make your eyebrowes raising, but since everything is still open you may advance to act 2 to see how it's going on only to discover that starting from there everything is getting really worse just in every aspect.

First and foremost act 2 is filled with convoluted, weird, very hard puzzles which often require much more trial-and-error then logic. This gets very frustrating especially at the end of act 2. Other than that you have to do a lot of boring backtracking, but what really disappointed me the most was the fact that none of the characters, their relationships, motives or anything at all story-wise gets a satisfying, logical explanation (or no explanation at all). All of it makes just no sense at all whether it be the connection between Shay & Vella, the whole Mog Chothra festival and the villains motives behind it nor the reveal of a secret villain in an blink of an eye which just felt totally random. All of it just feels weird and totally out-of-place. I could go on and on with other things that really made me sad just because it all started so well with act 1.

So no recommendation from me unfortunately.

A spoon in this game has more personality than most AAA game protagonists.

The art is gorgeous, the voice talent is sublime and together they give the game true character. The soundtrack has been so carefully considered and composed. This game is much greater than the sum of its parts and it is really knocking my socks off.