Comments on: Braid Gameplay To Tide Us Over

By: ugg classic tall

ugg classic tall — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:46:23 +0000

I guess now you are not happy after you read the lyrics :P

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:01:40 +0000

Tried the demo on the 360 after I saw this post. It was lovely. Will buy it there or on PC, haven’t decided.

Be positive, good fellows. Don’t feed trolls.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:47:23 +0000

Reply to Steve Hutton

Me suspects collective group refreshing art wank. Much like with Portal and Bioshock a game is released which has some originality and a unique asthetic. All the gamers gather around to shout how much better this is compared to all the tired games and genres around they have to play. These fans, including reviewers, then stoke each other up leading to inflated reviews and boosted expectations. As with anyother wank feelings of mild depression and disapointment will be along shortly for some people.

I haven’t played the game yet, nay internet, so can’t comment on the game yet. But the thought that I’m essentially keeping money away from Jonathan Bollocky Blow is a pretty nice feeling of power.

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:05:32 +0000

Ok changed my mind, Braid has grown on me a bit. I still don’t see the towering pinacle of artistic majesty that all these reviewers are seeing but having finished it I do like it. It just didn’t move me like it did seemingly everyone else.

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:26:02 +0000

I am going to fucking cry.

I am literally the only person in the world who doesn’t (or can’t) like Braid? It’s like living in some kind of terrible nightmare world where everyone keeps telling me how much they loved being water boarded and how I should try it because it’s so moving and every time the do I can feel my intestines writhing around inside me trying to throttle my heart so I can’t play any more.

By: suchchoices

suchchoices — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:21:28 +0000

I just bought a console game, so help me god. Tag-teamed my way through the first couple of worlds with my housemate (who handily owned the necessary 360). I reckon I’m going to be playing this into the wee hours of the morning. Summary so far:

Delightful.

By: randomnine

randomnine — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:11:32 +0000

Played through this last night. The gameplay is merely decent, in that it does for space-time what Portal did for 3D space and is thus a competent enough puzzle platformer. The subtlety and poetry of the character piece that develops as you play along really sets it apart – if you’ve played expanded, story-less Portal levels and found the experience strangely lacking, you’ll understand that Tim’s as key to Braid as GlaDOS was to Portal. I admit I didn’t really feel that until I was near the ending and I certainly didn’t feel it from the demo, but World 1 neatly slid everything into perspective – it’s genuinely brilliant. After that I was off back down the corridors of earlier worlds, piecing the puzzle back together from the snippets here and there.

This right here is good times.

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:16:36 +0000

On the subject of Tim’s aesthetic:

I like it, specifically for the way that it interacts with the rest of the game. Also, this is such a brilliant, beautiful game that there’s absolutely no way it’s an accident. I’m convinced of it.

The way that I’ve been describing Braid’s world to friends is: “The Mario universe, ending.” All the enemies are bizarre, twisted versions of platformer archetypes, moving sluggishly, jerkily, like wind up toys at the end of their charge. And here, in the middle of it, is a guy in a suit. I just finished world four, so I haven’t quite figured out Blow’s intent yet, but I’m reasonably certain it will be astonishingly clever.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:25:27 +0000

Holy heck, it looks like Manic Miner crossed with Monty Mole updated with modern aesthetics! Me want.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:16:16 +0000

Got the game. It’s fantastic. As I titled on the blog; it treads the fine line between Portal (tiny, impeccable) and the Time Travellers Wife (romantic, time travelling novel) perfectly.

@Diogo: “I think the lead’s lack of appeal comes from a lack of identity, it seems to be a very cut and dry character.”

Oh, so painfully wrong. Tim is one of the best characters in a game I’ve seen. He never progresses much in gameplay; as the game’s levels are essentially symbolic representations of the games ‘time’ and relationship-related themes, but in the narrative segments at the start of each world, a real, deep character is explained to us in the few paragraphs we get. Visually he’s pretty dull, but that doesn’t matter.

EDIT: Hot diggity it seems Tom ha already beaten me to this.

By: Ging

Ging — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:47:59 +0000

I quite like the fact that there’re boxes with WASD and Z on them in the bathroom of the world selection “screen” – it’s sort of a nice hint that it’ll hit the PC sooner rather than later.

By: Yhancik

Yhancik — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:50:39 +0000

I didn’t mean especially in Braid, but rather about “other games” that could use the same idea ;)

I don’t know.. something like a Max Payne, for example, but where the point isn’t to go through the level, from A to B, but to do it with style ;)
You’d walk into a room, get shot. Rewind. Walk into the room, headshot the guy. But you prefer to keep it clean, so you rewind, walk into the room, shoot the weapon from his hand and knock him out. Of course the fun comes mostly from trying different solutions (and if I get the shelves to fall on hom?), but in the end you could have a replay of your perfect, final badass action (like racing games).