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(More customer reviews)Some people use this game as the perfect example of how video games are art. I usually disagree with that statement, but having played Braid kind of opened my mind a little bit regarding the argument. Having played and beaten the game, you may think there is very little story or that it's a simple love story, however the story is so deep and layered that it is very difficult to uncover the entire story. Once you start trying to put the pieces of the story together, you realize their is much more going on than you thought. Much like a great film, there is a lot of interpretation in the story and requires thought of your own, instead of being simply presented the entire story. Their is also an epilogue which I thought was brilliant.
Regarding the gameplay, it has platformer elements but most of the game is puzzle solving using different methods of altering time. This can be really fun and challenging, but sometimes finding a way to obtain a puzzle piece can seem nearly impossible. Some puzzles remind me of a great magic trick where you think there is literally no way that it can be done, yet you find out it is possible and sometimes much simpler than you expect. In a way that is good, but overall I found many puzzles (especially some of the later ones) to be quite impossible to figure out on my own and became frustrated. I ended up resorting to watching videos of others online to figure out some of the puzzles (Shame on me). It is the level of difficulty to figuring out some of these puzzles that made me not fully enjoy the game at times and why I give the game 4 stars out of 5.
Overall, I do recommend this game to someone who is open-minded and is great at puzzle games and doesn't mind looking for the story. I personally did not like spending $15 on it and think $10 would've been more appropriate since once you figure out the puzzles there is not much replay value to it (unless you want to find the stars which are 10x more difficult to get than the hardest puzzles). Yet if you're patient (unlike me) and will try to figure out the puzzles on your own as well as the great story then this game will be well worth the money.
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BraidBraid isa celebrated single player puzzle-platformer for play on the Xbox360 gaming system. Drawn in a dreamlike painterly style, in the worldof Braid the player manipulates the flow of time in strangeand unusual ways to traverse the dangerous levels and solve puzzlesin order to rescue an abducted princess. Braid treats yourtime and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Everypuzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game worldand story, keeping you engaged from beginning to end. Originally onlyavailable only as a download through Xbox LIVE Arcade using MicrosoftPoints, Braid can now be yours via online game code. Playerswill still need both an Xbox 360 console connected to broadband Internetand an Xbox LIVE account game download for play.
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