Broken Age, Act 1: The Kotaku Review   [Note: This review
originally ran on January 16 but we're bumping it up because
Broken Age is now available for everyone.]   The story Broken
Age tells is centered around two young people in very different
realms. Out in deep space, there's Shay, a young man pretty much
held captive in a spaceship by an overprotective mother AI. In
the fairy-tale hamlet of Sugar Bunting lives Vella, due to be
sacrificed to a giant monster to keep her town safe, as has been
done for generations. You can switch between their stories at
any time. And the desire to see how they connect—because, c'mon,
they HAVE to connect, right?—will get you flitting back and
forth between Shay and Vella's quests.  The vessel Shay is bound
to is essentially Baby's First Spacecraft but Shay is long past
being an infant when we meet him. Coddled by fake adventures and
excessive nursemaiding, he longs to taste real danger and real
consequence. And Vella won't go quietly into what she's been
told is a noble sac