Switching Character View

Question

My question involves minor spoilers.

So I decided to play through Act 1 of Broken Age again before jumping into Act 2. I played all the way through Vella's side of the story first and now I'm playing through Shay's.

The problem is that I decided to change over to Vella's view after I had beaten it. The game shows her lying on the beach, knocked out. Now I can't switch back to Shay. I've tried bringing the inventory menu up. That way, I could click on the Shay button to go back to his story. Unfortunately, it won't appear. What's odd is the fact that that the mouse changes to a hand (as if I can interact with a menu item) when I hover over the area the character switch button should be, even though the menu doesn't appear. Clicking when the cursor is a hand does nothing.

So am I missing something? Or is this a glitch?

Answer 1

This appears to be a glitch that just started happening after Act 2 was released. It will be fixed in the next update.

In the meantime, the suggested workaround from the developer is to exit the game, launch it again and choose continue game. This should revert you back to Shay.

If that doesn't work, a community member has given these instructions that users are reporting as working:

For anyone else with this issue on PC / MAC / Linux you can mess with the .sav files to get back to where you were.

On Steam mine are in: /path/to/steam/steamapps/common/Broken Age/saves

1. Rename slot_.sav to slot_.bak as a backup
2. Copy slot_.prev
3. Rename that to slot_.sav
4. Go back into Broken Age
5. Choose “Load game” and click on your slot (Don’t continue!)

That should put you back as Shay from before you decided to check up on Vella.