Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons
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Brothers is presented from a third-person view overlooking the two brothers. The brothers are moved individually by two thumbsticks on the controller. The controller triggers also cause the respective brother to interact with the game world, such as talking to a non-player character or grabbing onto a ledge or object. The older brother is the stronger of the two and can pull levers or boost his younger brother to higher spaces, while the younger one can pass between narrow bars. The player progresses by manipulating the two brothers at the same time to complete various puzzles, often requiring the player to manipulate both brothers to perform differing functions (such as one distracting a hostile non-player character while the other makes their way around). Should either brother fall from a great height or get injured, the game restarts at a recent checkpoint. All of the in-game dialogue is spoken in a fictional language, thus the story is conveyed through actions, gestures and expressions.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is Starbreeze's wordless fable - you control two brothers at once (one on each stick) on a fairy-tale quest to save their dying father. A short, moving 3-hour journey.
All 12 achievements are optional world-interactions dotted through the linear story - none are needed to finish, but each is easy to walk straight past, so they're missable on a blind run (chapter select lets you clean them up afterwards). They're the little detours: sit on a bench, blacken a sheep, reunite two songbirds, blow a giant's horn. Follow them by chapter and none will slip by.
FAQ
- Are there missable achievements in Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons?
- None so far, but 12 are soft-missable or mutually exclusive: Call of the Giants, Bunny Buddies, Turtle Soup, A Sad Tune, Windpipe, Wishing Well, Whale Song, Behind the Curtain, Take a Break, Falling Star, Black Sheep and Love Birds. 2 of 14 not yet checked.
- Are there glitched achievements in Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons?
- None so far. 2 of 14 not yet checked.
Call of the giants
Uncommon27.1%You sounded the giant horn.
Chapter 5. Crossing the field of dead giants, near the giant crossbow take the left side path to a giant horn and interact to blow it.
Bunny buddies
Uncommon18.9%You made the bunnies play nice.
Chapter 1, at the same firepit: three rabbits are black and one is white - drop the white rabbit in the firepit so they all match.
Turtle soup
Uncommon17.2%You helped the turtles to the sea.
Chapter 6. After the boat, at the giant turtle on the ice, use both brothers to push the three small turtles down the slope into the water.
A sad tune
Uncommon16.6%You made someone feel better.
Chapter 4. Save the man trying to hang himself, then find the music box in the nearby burnt house and bring it to him to cheer him up.
Windpipe
Uncommon15.5%You made the inventor dance.
Chapter 4, the inventor's house. At the pipe-organ machine, put the little brother on the rotating lever and the big brother on the horn; move the horn to the fifth hole while cranking until the tone plays and the inventor dances.
Wishing well
Uncommon11.6%You threw someone's ball down a well… Shame on you.
Chapter 1, near the start. A girl plays with a ball on the right; use the little brother to take it, then throw it into the well on the left.
One last game…
Uncommon11.0%You showed your little brother how it’s done.
Whale song
Uncommon11.0%You practiced singing.
Chapter 6. Just after the turtle / ice-cave section, past the two-man saw, climb the ledge and sit both brothers on the bench overlooking the water; the whales perform.
Behind the curtain
Uncommon10.2%You found a secret.
Chapter 6. While boating the river, steer behind the large blood-red waterfall on the left; a short cutscene plays.
Take a break
Uncommon10.0%You took a break from adventuring.
Prologue. Guiding the cart down the trail, take the small side path to the beach and interact with the stones / bench to sit and rest.
Falling star
Rare9.8%Make a wish.
Chapter 3. At the cemetery near the chapter start, a statue is off to the right; interact with the little brother and wait a few seconds for a shooting star.
Black sheep
Rare9.1%Every family's got one.
Chapter 1. At the walking-wheel bridge, put the little brother in the wheel and cross with the big brother, then pick up a sheep and drop it in the firepit to blacken its fleece.
Love birds
Rare7.3%You re-united the two love birds.
Two parts. In Chapter 1, free the caged singing bird beside the path. Then at the inventor's house (Chapter 4), use the telescope, aim to the lower-right rose bushes, zoom in on the lone bird and wait for the freed bird to join it.
Spin me around
Very rare3.9%You make someone's head spin too much.
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