Very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine ![]() He criticised Donald Trump, who said after violence broke out and a counter protester was killed: "You had some That Joe Biden has returned to again and again: he's locked in a “battle for the soul” of theĬountry against the forces of right-wing extremism.Īgo he launched his campaign by mentioning Charlottesville, Virginia, and Joe Biden/Facebook Copyright: Joe Biden/Facebook Today's launch video starts with shots of the Capitol riot which followed the 2020 election Image caption: Today's launch video starts with shots of the Capitol riot which followed the 2020 election But an NBC News poll recently found that 70 percent of Americans, and just over half of Democrats, believe he should not run again.With Biden's Democrats performing better than expected in last year's midterm elections, he is unlikely to face much competition from within his own party.Donald Trump has already launched his bid, meaning the pair could be set for a rematch of the 2020 election in November next year.But the Republicans called Biden "out of touch" for seeking re-election, claiming US citizens were counting down the days until they can send him "packing".In a video to launch his bid to retain the White House, he cast the next election as a fight for democracy and personal freedom, saying: "Let's finish the job".Now 80 and already the oldest president in US history, Biden had long signalled he would run for another four-year term.US President Joe Biden has announced that he will seek re-election for the presidency in 2024, with Vice-President Kamala Harris again his running mate.It’s no modern classic though, so enjoy the ride while it lasts. As a nostalgia trip, a casual adventure, and a world to explore, it’s pleasant and very pretty company. Ultimately, it’s a game that cries out for a Director’s Cut, to be a comfortable six or so hours instead of a forced eight-to-ten. The bulk is still amusing, charming and enjoyable, and the faults in this second half would be much less notable as part of a whole-in much the same way that nobody really brings up how bad much of the second half of Grim Fandango and Monkey Island 2 were. Seen in its entirety though, that’s not necessarily the dire problem it might sound. While much of Broken Age is fun, it’s not a particularly great capital-a Adventure. It just hammers home that while much of Broken Age is fun, it’s not a particularly great capital-a Adventure. Rather than giving Shay and Vella a walkie-talkie or something with which they might actually spark the relationship the game somewhat casually assumes they have despite them barely having met, it also opts for a real bugbear of mine-characters solving puzzles by using information they couldn’t actually know, like Vella being asked the name of Shay’s favourite toy. We do finally get some where the two worlds interconnect, but only to a point. Far too many mistake time-wasting for difficulty, with endless traipsing back and forth, dealing with needlessly obstructive characters or mechanics (particularly in the final puzzle, which is tooth-grinding in its over-deliberate fussiness), and developing an obsession with rewiring robots through the most tedious trial and error. ![]() Puzzles in particular aren’t a high point in the first half, but are largely forgettable. All of that gets chucked aside in the second chapter, which answers the big questions early on and then has little to replace them except shopping lists for both characters. Despite their simplicity, there was a cleverness in their design-little touches to watch out for, and a shared theme of growing up and finding your own path. The first part of Broken Age was in every way a comfortable rather than revolutionary experience, but an interesting one that offered two intriguing, isolated character stories-Vella, a young woman who decides she’d rather not be fed to local Cthuloid horror Mog Chothra, and Shay, a young man on a nurserypunk spaceship looking for a real adventure. In another world, I might be whining “Wait, this is it?” after zipping through. ![]() That may or may not be true, and if it is, I do understand. In practice, being split into episodes hasn’t been to its favour, both in terms of how over-familiar its world feels despite our limited exposure to it, and how bloated this new instalment feels-like a third of the game has been forcibly over-inflated to be a full half to justify the time taken, rather than simply presented as originally intended. Broken Age wants to be one adventure game, simply rolling along from start to finish as if the last year never happened. I say ‘Part 1’ and ‘Part 2’, but it’s not quite that simple.
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