Am I the only one that doesn’t get how this is fun or interesting? – Broken Age ™ Review

I downloaded this when it was featured recently in the App Store. It’s one of the apps that has perennially been on the lists of editor top picks, or best apps for this that and the other. The game does have some nice graphics but ... the game itself was tedious to me. Not boring or disinteresting...it was painful. I fully admit that I don’t know how this is supposed to be played. I ended up watching a dejected kid go through a daily routine that was making me cringe and there was no apparent escape for the first 5 minutes. Over and over and over. I get that this may have been deliberate, maybe the kid had an existential crisis but it felt like the existential crisis would infect me if I played much more. I had delete and move on.
Review by Native Code on Broken Age ™.