It seems increasingly clear that many of those jewels will reach the ‘next-gen’ will always do under the format of downloadable titles, hidden beneath the skin of small plots, simplistic characters and tremendously original developments. Or at least sufficiently innovative as it is the case of this Max The Curse of Brotherhood. Microsoft Studios and Press Play, have been removed the sleeve one of those titles that enjoy, of which you are asked to pause before it is more than sure that we’re going to have fun, and much. So come, go to constricting ourselves and try to express it rather than have fallen us both Max and his brother Felix, who are the protagonists of this great title.
A good argument and moustaches
Max has returned home and is a nasty surprise: her brother has been misplaced all her toys and has left his room made a pigsty, so neither short nor lazy, opens his laptop computer, look in Giigle ‘to get rid of his brother’ and voilà!, opens a dimensional wall hole, appears a huge claw and, Wham!, Felix takes.
Max does not hesitate a moment and put his head through that portal to save his brother who has kidnapped him a blue thing with hair and very bad fleas. But, where does it go? Well, without wishing to destroy anything, there a kind of King of the world to which we have gone need a young body to perpetuate himself in office. Felix seems the victim so conducive to fulfill their plans.
The evil is called moustache and has a particularity, that has spread all over the world play a total of 75 eyes that are telling him the good, or bad, things that are. So you know what you should do whenever you part I with one of them… right?
Max The Curse of Brotherhood is a platform game and not hiding it while we give of face to face with a kind of old sorceress who will be that during all the adventure go giving us certain indications. There, it will be when we get the magic marker, that jump from platform to platform will end, since much of these scenarios will become small puzzles to be solved.
Thus, each span of terrain is designed so that we have to draw something with a marker pen and that action to obtain what we want to achieve. It is to say. For example, there is a barrier that does not let us but if we hit it with a rock fall to bridge the gap. So you have to take the rock, raise it, make that you knock off, go raising small platforms on its way to guide it so that you hit the tables. Or two enemies (those who do not can kill), we need to remove Middle trapping them inside a cage…
Eye, and do not have to have mechanisms or enemies of means to make a puzzle. Often the mere fact of reaching the other side of the screen becomes a puzzle in itself. But you know one thing? In all these problems which appear to us, there is a weapon we should use piece: the magic pen of Max. Without it, we would not spend neither from the first screen.
Markers of mass destruction
Max The Curse of Brotherhood is not 100% original, no. It has a history, an inspiring, a kind of first game coming to PS3, Wii, PC, Mac, iOS, etc. in 2011 called Max and the Magic Marker and that already contained many of the elements that we find in this game of Xbox One. The essential difference is that in this already things are serious, the game is as we expect a development of ‘next-gen’ where not only cares what we do or what happens and the idea that gives life, but also the aesthetic, potential graph that is able to launch the console.
The case is that Max, who goes only by that world, will not have weapons or anything like that face to the goblins, fireflies and other beasts, but a tool that becomes essential: the magic marker. With it you can paint (or destroy) on the stage a series of elements that allow you to escape each puzzle and follow the search for his brother.
First they will give us orange ink that allows you to build rock walls to create platforms on which jump to reach higher than others. This is what appears at the beginning, but then we give more uses. For example, away enemies uploading them to clear the way, move giant objects, turn boxes, create more complex structures with other markers (such as the branches) to manufacture bridges, etc. Those first screens will pass quickly and except for some concrete, like the box that turn, exceeded without major problems.
Then we will obtain the green ink, which is establishing branches of trees and allows us to cut them to drag them according to the time. Thus, they are not only perfect for use of platforms but it worth to protect us from the fireflies and go ahead of them without us attack. It must be said that in this case, the branches, we can draw with the gamepad you want according to the needs. Sometimes should be round, others looking stairway or, finally, how we want, for that are the ones who carry Max. That Yes, the game, if you see that we stuff a tad, we will drop what should draw the puzzle to work.
In third position is (greenish) yellow ink, which is that of the ropes or vines, that we can in turn bind them blocks of rock and the branches to make more complex structures. Especially fun are the puzzles where you have to think very fast to create a branch and a vine attached to it to get move a box, for example. It is the case of the access door to the tomb of five giants, requiring to use each of these inks together to enter the temple.
We will also receive the blue ink, which allows you to draw water currents that drag at Max (and objects that we believe) in the direction you have drawn and which are the ‘Summum’ of fun and spectacular. That, without forgetting the last available ink color: purple, with which we can do to exploit some items that may be bothering us.
Do not believe that when you agree to draw ink is infinite and it is possible to draw a giant vine, a long branch, or a column of rock that touch the heavens, no. Pressing the button we will see a circle pointing us to what is the maximum length that can reach our drawing. This is done so that the puzzle solving is not so easy and only with draw without limit already miracle that Max cross a precipice we proceed. And this limitation is appreciated because it is one of the keys to the fun of Max The Curse of Brotherhood.
An adventure to enjoy
Press Play, the game developers, have created a special title, not only for development but for its staging. Far away is the first 2D title with ‘toon’ appearance to this much more serious development that leverages much of the power of the new Xbox One. Do a part only? Well, it is not that this Max The Curse of Brotherhood is the graphical, but yes that perceive those improvements that gives the ‘next-gen’, above all in all environments and those plays of chiaroscuro lighting when we enter in caves or in the depths of the jungle.
Graphically meets you need history and perhaps, we have detected that the fps fall a bit at certain times, lowering the general smoothness, especially in sequences use the own ‘engine’ that are not game and occur at the end or the beginning of some levels. That is when it seems that it costs the console although then in game-play, what is not is hardly noticed any slowdown.
You are obviously not going to crucify for things, especially when they do not affect the general development that is very well thought out. So much so that even the fact of drawing with the stick is made of easily and comfortably. Obviously it would have been better to have at hand a panel touch or something similar but it endures without the slightest problem.
What highlights Yes this game is in its setting. There are moments at the beginning of the game where we have country us what feel to enjoy for the first time from Another World, that mythical Dolphine game, although if you look at us in mindless enemies that inhabit it, Max The Curse of Brotherhood manages to make us remember some that other Oddworld, included the mega-convertido Stranger completo Wrath with his furry creatures and legless or with bulging eyes.
Finally, we have a title that is a clear candidate to be downloaded in our Xbox One its price (just €15) and kind of fun or if you don’t know how to get free steam wallet codes without surveys, then just follow that link. You can also find a number of really top ranking games at steam store by the way.
It is very fun, innovative within the current scene of mega-franchises and has the minimum amount of hours due to the development of these characteristics. Taking it with tranquility, in just two days we will have it finished. Another thing is to look for all the extras you have. You know. If treasures, eyes Mustacho, etc.
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