Hey hey,
I know I'm almost a year late, but I don't even care.
Braid is beautiful.
Braid, an independent platforming puzzle game that was released for the Xbox 360, and very soon will be released for the PC. If you have never played it, you must.
Basically, I was able to buy and download it last night from the Games Marketplace for my 360. I still have dial up and all, but through some various means (which are rather uninteresting so I won't bother mentioning them) I was able to dwnld Braid, Castle Crashers (Castle Crashers is also amazing. Such good multiplayer that is totally reminiscent of Little Fighter 2), and Portal (already beat it when it first came out for the comp, but it's a good game so I got it too).
But Braid...uuuugggghhh. The only word that can describe it is beautiful.
The music...utterly amazing. I love strings. Cellos and violins are soooooo good. I need the soundtrack now.
The art...you must see it in motion to understand it. It really reminds me of the watercolour feel of Prince of Persia (the new one), but Braid does it so much better (although it must have been easier, as it IS 2D). It is seriously like to are in a watercolour painting. It is just too beautiful.
The gameplay...mindblowing. Seriously. It has time-reversal game mechanics much like the Prince of Persia trilogy, but Braid does it so much better. And that is only the basic mechanic. Each level after the first as its own specialty. One level, some things are not affected by time reversal. So you jump down a hole that you cannot get out of, grab a key, then reverese time to before you jumped in, and you will still be holding the key (unlike other normal keys which would stay down in the hole). Another one...no, I don't want to ruin it. They are just too utterly amazing to describe here. You must see them.
And finally, the overall atmosphere of the game. It is just...I haven't been swayed by a video game this much in years. Everything just comes together so well, and then with the story...ugh...the story. It is...amazing. It's beautiful, yet confusing. In a mystical...almost dreamy way. I cannot wait to read more of it. It is told through books you read at the beginning of each world, and the theme of each world's time mechanic is told through the story.
It is all just...too beautiful for words.
I think I am about halfway through the game. I believe I have gone through all but the final world, but I have not solved a good portion of the puzzles in the worlds past the first (which I solved completely).
If you ever can, play Braid. It is so beautiful and mystical...there are very few things in my life that I have ever experienced that are like this game.
Play Braid.
Wishing he was at home playing Braid, not at work right now,
- Kastom
P.S. I also got contacts yesterday. Sure, it's a pretty big thing, but compared to playing new games...
Hahahahhaha...
