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Written by BusinessAgent   
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
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Braid
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where the player manipulates the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.  

  • Forgiving yet challenging gameplay: Braid is a 2-D platform game where you can never die and never lose. Despite this, Braid is challenging—but the challenge is about solving puzzles, rather than forcing you to replay tricky jumps.
  • Rich puzzle environment: Travel through a series of worlds searching for puzzle pieces, then solving puzzles by manipulating time: rewinding, creating parallel universes, setting up pockets of dilated time. The gameplay feels fresh and new; the puzzles are meant to inspire new ways of thinking.
  • Aesthetic design: A painterly art style and lush, organic soundtrack complement the unique gameplay.
  • Nonlinear story: A nonlinear fiction links the various worlds and provides real-world metaphors for your time manipulations; in turn, your time manipulations are projections of the real-world themes into playful "what-if" universes where consequences can be explored.
  • Nonlinear gameplay: The game doesn't force you to solve puzzles in order to proceed. If you can't figure something out, just play onward and return to that puzzle later.

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4.9
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Sound
5.0
Gameplay
5.0
Navigation
5.0
Controls
5.0
Fun Factor
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Are you kidding me!? *****, Tuesday, 07 October 2008

Written by BusinessAgent   -  View all my reviews  - #1 Reviewer

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4.9
Graphics
4.0
Sound
5.0
Gameplay
5.0
Navigation
5.0
Controls
5.0
Fun Factor
5.0
Buy it and download it NOW!

Not a hack and slash but a thoughtful deliberate quest for the main character to find...

I wish I could give it higher marks than 5 for Navigation and Gameplay.

This game is insanely good. Braid is something rare and special that evokes thought and contemplation about what the story is about and where it is going. Every element of the game is part of the greater theme that is revealed world by world and piece by piece. Everything fits together to an ending that will shock you and have you thinking and researching for a long time afterward.

Best $15 spent on XBL ever!
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