Poll: What do you think about Braid?
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I liked it. I tend to do fairly well at puzzle games, and as such I finished Braid in about an hour and a half on my first playthrough, so if you only play it once, it might not be worth the $15 investment. If you're going to replay it (and you just might, because it is really fun), than go for it.
Either way, I say fork out the cash, because this is the kind of game that we need to encourage developers to make more of.
- J
Either way, I say fork out the cash, because this is the kind of game that we need to encourage developers to make more of.
- J
I played the demo, and it was...alright. Like a supernintendo version of prince of persia, which is pretty neat. I am sure if I played the entire thing or full version, I would appreciate it a bit more. Also, you needed some different options on the poll, I needed an option inbetween love and didn't play.
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Braid is a game that appears at first glance to be a platformer, but once you've gone a minute or two with it, you realize that it's a puzzle game. Your character wanders through a world collecting puzzle pieces to piece together his memories (or visions, I'm not really sure, the story reads like an opium vision).
Obviously you can jump, but your other ability is the power to rewind time. At first, this functions like the Prince's powers, but with no sand limit, but as you go forward, you use it more as a puzzle solving mechanism. Compound this with the fact that you gain a new, different ability which is unique to each new world you visit, and you have a game which is more like several different puzzle games put together using the same raw system. (i.e. In one world, every time you move to the left, time goes backwards. In another world, every time you use your rewind ability, you create a shadow version of yourself that redoes your last action, allowing you to do two things at once.)
The background art is not unlike an impressionist painting, and the overall feel of the game is that of a very good drug high.
Braid is available for 1200 points on XBox Live Arcade.
- J
Braid is a game that appears at first glance to be a platformer, but once you've gone a minute or two with it, you realize that it's a puzzle game. Your character wanders through a world collecting puzzle pieces to piece together his memories (or visions, I'm not really sure, the story reads like an opium vision).
Obviously you can jump, but your other ability is the power to rewind time. At first, this functions like the Prince's powers, but with no sand limit, but as you go forward, you use it more as a puzzle solving mechanism. Compound this with the fact that you gain a new, different ability which is unique to each new world you visit, and you have a game which is more like several different puzzle games put together using the same raw system. (i.e. In one world, every time you move to the left, time goes backwards. In another world, every time you use your rewind ability, you create a shadow version of yourself that redoes your last action, allowing you to do two things at once.)
The background art is not unlike an impressionist painting, and the overall feel of the game is that of a very good drug high.
Braid is available for 1200 points on XBox Live Arcade.
- J
i bought it, i thought it was pretty good. but it doesnt hav any replay value. i recommend everyone to the trail, and buy it if you enjoy it. its a tasteful game. the puzzles are pretty hard and require you to think a lot. it was over a bit quick though. i wouldnt get this over geometry wars2, if i only could spend 1.2k microsoft points
Braid is an XBLA game that's halfway between platformer and puzzle game, and it's about sadness. The art and music are excellent, the story is tendentious but makes for a great ending, and the "games as art" sensibility has never been more fully realized. However, it does cost $15, and if you are good at puzzle games, you'll be finished in 3 hours or less. If you are not good at puzzle games (like me) it will take over your life until you ARE good at them.
Since I bought Braid, I've shown it to 5 people. 4 of them couldn't wait to finish, and the other one commented, "This is a cool game, but I don't have the patience for it." Mindless fun this is not, but I liked it a lot more than Geometry Wars 2.
Since I bought Braid, I've shown it to 5 people. 4 of them couldn't wait to finish, and the other one commented, "This is a cool game, but I don't have the patience for it." Mindless fun this is not, but I liked it a lot more than Geometry Wars 2.