Summer is
winding down once more, thank God, and there’s no better way to celebrate this
hot, dismal season’s slow passing than with the Xbox’s Summer of Arcade
promotion. Starbreeze Studios’ Brothers:
A Tale of Two Sons is the first of four games to see release this month.
Set in a vaguely Norse, medieval land (assuming the former based on Starbreeze’s
Swedish origins), Brothers follows a
pair of male siblings as they venture across country to find a cure for their
widowed father’s ailment. Though simple in concept, it’s now one of my
favourite puzzle-oriented adventure games as well as one of the few in any
gaming genre to affect me emotionally.
