Brave invites players to run, jump and battle their way through the rugged landscape of mythical and mysterious Scotland. By using their wits and bravery, gamers will also be able to wield a sword and bow and arrow to defeat fierce enemies, break a magical curse and save a kingdom.


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I really liked the game, I played without stopping, I liked leveling up the character, but it’s a pity that the clothes don’t have characteristics, the character has a roll, so the locations are traversed very quickly, in general I liked that you can go through at a fast pace.

Brave is one of my favourite Pixar movies, and honestly, I also enjoyed the game. It's not a "WOOOW" game but it's fun enough.

A journey I started in late August 2022 has essentially come to a temporary end as after the release of Brave, Pixar games on the scale of this were halted, as Disney's videogame division (which they owned) saw how much money Skylanders made and put all their money in three toys-to-life games.
When the market for these games crashed, they developed a game based on Cars 3 (five or so years later) and then sold the studio making them to Warner Bros (who later made them develop Hogwarts Legacy).

Brave is not a game you want to leave a 17 year streak on, but it's not bad...

Since I've been working on getting every Pixar platinum I can, one of the trophies for this game requires you to complete the game on the hardest difficulty, which is surprisingly hard for a game of this calibre.

If you wanna play Dark Souls but you don't wanna actually play it, I recommend playing this game on the hardest difficulty (although I don't really recommend anyone play this game and try to get the 100% - maybe play the Wii version instead).

I'd probably have rated this higher if there was no difficulty slider and all you had to do was complete the game on medium.

Annoyingly, and I don't know if this is the fault of the game or the guides I was using, the "upgrades" are in a weird order - the guides didn't mention which upgrades to prioritize and the game itself puts them in the order of [unlock] - [upgrades for unlock] - [unlock] etc.

This means that I didn't know there were other upgrades because I was just going through them in order and buying them, since the guides said that you should get good enough as you progress.

I think each unlock should either have a mini-menu inside it for upgrades, or just have the unlock and upgrades in one.

PLUS, you can't upgrade unless you "cleanse" a waystone - which involves you defeating a wave or two of enemies.
I've been stuck on sections and the guides just say to make sure you've upgraded, but I can't...
Leaving the level to upgrade seems to give you a "we'll drop you off at the last checkpoint" warning but returning to the level actually restarts it.

It got to a point where I figured out how to cheese minibosses by making them spawn in before they should. I even did it to the Harpy boss, making her minions spawn in before she did (they're all supposed to spawn in at once).

What else is in this game?
Concept art, as per usual.
Plus the "archery range", which requires the PlayStation Move, and I don't have it.

I'm pretty sure this game is available to stream on PS Now, so I think you should give it a go unless you care about trophies.

game looks like utter shit now but i played this with my dad when i was a kid and loved it sooooo