Here’s a trivia question: What’s the biggest similarity between Pilot Brothers 2 and the original Pilot Brothers? Simple. They are both drab and offer nothing but confusion.
While the original Pilot Brothers was nothing to brag about, it seems like the latest game also follows the same route, and, sadly enough, the route leads nowhere. However, getting back to the game, this time the two strange pilot brothers are out to track down their cat, Arsenic.
The official description states: “The Pilot Brothers’ cat Arsenic has been kidnapped by Experimental Chef Sumo! Now the famed duo must track down Arsenic before he’s served with French fries. Per usual, this madcap detective adventure won’t be without its twists and turns, as the brothers must start by constructing a composite of the catnapper’s face with the help of a witness.”
“Before long they’ll be slipping past ticket collectors at the railway station, driving a railroad handcar and chasing a train carrying Sumo and Arsenic. Help the Pilot Brothers cross the river – without a bridge – and solve numerous challenging puzzles to save Arsenic in this heart-pounding quest!”
As expected, the game is filled with numerous thickheaded puzzles with little or no focus on any sort of a narrative. The in-game puzzles have been divided into several scenes and don’t offer any real gameplay experience. In the end, you just find yourself working through puzzles that don’t even make any real sense.
To be perfectly honest, the player is bound to run into a lot of confusion once he starts the game, and there’s no help of any sort from the game to see through that confusion and progress to the levels ahead. You may almost feel dejected and as if the devs made the game in rush and just for the sake of making it.
A lot of focus in the game is on the trial and error methods and it may seem like you are tapping the screen for eternity before you get to the next level, only to find out that nothing is making any sense – neither the puzzles, nor their solutions.
The devs also went a bit ahead and offered a hints button that offer advices on where to tap on the screen, alongside a solution video that shows what needs to be done, but then again, what good are they if they are not clear enough for us to understand.
Among the few good things, the graphics for the game is still the same that we saw in the original game and is quite interesting. The concept of controlling both the brothers at the same time may sound pretty impressive, but things hardly fall in place as expected.
Pilot Brothers 2 may have its moments of brilliance and some catchy humorous events but still that doesn’t make up for the real deal we all expect from a game that we invest in – the satisfaction of playing, some replay value and the overall fun quotient.
Maybe the developers will get it right third time around, or will they?