


It’s a bizarre idea, especially as there’s no co-op option at all, and to be brutally honest it’s not always a successful one. The bigger brother is controlled via the left analogue stick and left trigger and the younger brother with the right stick and trigger.

The game’s storytelling techniques are not its only novelty though and we’re yet to mention what at first seems the game’s most defining feature: the fact that you’re controlling both brothers at the same time, literally. The game’s tone and nature gets increasingly dark as you progress, from an entirely optional opportunity to stop a man from hanging himself to the nightmarish battlefields that become the backdrops to the game’s final hours. When we describe the game as a fairy tale we do so in the Brothers Grimm sense of the term.
