Comments on: Impressions: Braid PC

By: Monte Design Glider

Monte Design Glider — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:12:10 +0000

Thank you for the share, keep impressing like this.
Chris Harris

By: sfury

sfury — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:45:17 +0000

Amazing game.

I can’t remember enjoying something that much since Portal, and I hold it even higher than that. JB is genius.

By: cowthief skank

cowthief skank — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:06:02 +0000

I really liked it. Enough that I spent today finding all the stars (with a guide, admittedly). I loved the ending too, like most people. Not a perfect game, but quite remarkable. This from somebody who has no memory of enjoying any platform games in the last 10 or 15 years.

By: Hajimete no Paso Kon

Hajimete no Paso Kon — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:57:31 +0000

Indie game, 150+ posts.

By: Kua

Kua — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:38:16 +0000

Been out of ‘the scene’ for a while now. But my word this is a stupendously good game.

By: Brulleks

Brulleks — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:06:54 +0000

@Meat Circus

Okay, maybe pixel-perfect is an exaggeration, but it is utterly pedantic – and the slippery acceleration of your avatar doesn’t help that.

However, I found that switching the god-damned horrible sound effects off and playing it in silence actually helped my concentration enough to solve many of the puzzles that I couldn’t get before.

A couple of the slow-down time puzzles are all that’s left now. I’ve only found the click of satisfaction with about two of them so far (notably the first elevator one) – mostly it’s been groans of repeated execution. Even though I’ve persisted with it, I can’t say I’ve found any of it particularly ‘enjoyable.’ I’d hoped that the jigsaw puzzles might play a larger part in the gameplay, but they seem pretty pointless apart from the first one (and their alleged link to some kind of ‘plot’).

By: Taillefer

Taillefer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:55:39 +0000

IcyBee,

Work on each plant at a time until all the plants sync up to let every goomba pass every time. The trick is where to drop the ring. To slow the first plant, drop the ring directly under it. Drop the ring for, say, a couple of seconds at a time until it lets everything pass in its own time. To manipulate the second plant, you want to drop the ring nearer the third, so the first plant isn’t affected by the time-slowing. Then, to manipulate the third plant, drop the ring under the platform with the puzzle piece on so the time-slowing only affects that one plant. Shouldnt’ take long at all to get all the plants moving how you need.

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:23:20 +0000

@IcyBee

You don’t even need to use the ring to get the two goombas out, just judicious use of mini-rewinds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaOCv6-e8sM

By: IcyBee

IcyBee — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:21:57 +0000

@SirNuke

I couldn’t manage that 3 plant puzzle either.
There is a slightly cheaty way of doing it: Get the plants in sync using the ring, then press shift, followed by up and down. If you keep shift held down, then time passes at 0x and the greeny goombas all make it past the plants – allowing you to do your multi-bounce.

If someone has figured out a better way – please tell me!

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:42:03 +0000

Inexplicably, I posted that under your name instead of my own. Wtf?

By: SirNuke

SirNuke — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:41:41 +0000

SirNuke:

YES! Exactly. That is exactly my issue with it. It totally breaks the flow. The rest of the rule re-writing is introduced in an excellent manner. But the decision to just make your time-manipulation not only useless, but to have it break the puzzle, just doesn’t sit at all well for me.

I can see why these puzzles are there, in the context of what the game’s trying to say. But still: a big design “no.”

By: Matzerath

Matzerath — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:20:45 +0000

Robin: “Incidentally, Braid is the only game I can think of where the main disincentive to dying is the sheer hideousness of the main character’s death animation.”

Really? I think the first Tomb Raider is the winner of that one. I remember my girlfriend watching in abject terror as I neared the top of some precarious edifice, hoping against hope I wouldn’t screw up and initiate once again a seemingly endless stream of hideous hopeless screams terminating finally with a sickening thump. Or spikes. Braid didn’t seem nearly as bad as THAT. Not the demo, anyway.
I can hardly wait to buy Braid — it looks great. When a computer game has generated as much heated debate as it has, it’s a foregone conclusion that it has merit. At least for me! Long threads on RPS pique my interest far more than advertisements or glowing write-ups!