Max Curse of the Brotherhood is a side scrolling puzzle game. It released in 2013 and is a sequel to Max and the Magic Marker.
Max finds his young brother, Felix, playing and breaking his toys. An annoyed Max searches for a way to make his brother disappear. He finds a spell and reads it out loud and Felix is soon taken through a portal by the evil Mustacho. Max realises the precautions of Felix being taken, he immediately jumps through the portal to save him.
I gotta say I love the look of this game, the animation is really well done and the graphics are beautiful, great zoomed out shots and gorgeous environments. The puzzles aren't very easy and they're not overly hard, you may be challenged in quite a few areas.
Armed with a literal magic marker, you're able to draw objects to complete puzzles. Unfortunately you can't draw whatever and wherever you want. It's clearly indicated where you're meant to draw. You're able to draw pillars, vines, branches, water flows and fire balls. All these will help you solve puzzles and get passed enemies. There aren't many enemies, but there are a few variations, they're very deadly to Max though. Only the fire ball can outright kill an enemy.
If you mess up your drawing, you can simply destroy it and try again. Another cool thing is you can pass fire balls between branches and also attach vines to branches. Water flows carry you in the direction they flow, vines let you swing, you can do some platforming on branches, pillars take you higher and fire balls destroy walls and enemies. There's cool slow motion jumps that indicate you're in a life threatening position, so you have to act quick.
There is only one actual boss fight near the end of the game against Mustacho himself. There are also running sections where you run and platform your way from a dangerous, gigantic mobster.
It's a fun game, amazing visuals and a decent challenge with the puzzles. It's been free and it's pretty cheap, so I'd say it's worth a go if you missed it.
6.3/10
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