SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I feel like this (along with several other Braid screenshots) should be hanging in a museum somewhere. Not only because it's gorgeous, but it feels like there is some deeper meaning just beneath the surface.
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I feel like this (along with several other Braid screenshots) should be hanging in a museum somewhere. Not only because it's gorgeous, but it feels like there is some deeper meaning just beneath the surface.
UltimaPooh
Member
Hmmmm... get outside of the game you say?
Just finished and solved worlds 2 and 3. I've dabbled in 4 and 5 and this game is an absolute mindfuck and it's making me feel really dumb D:
But something about it keeps me going. It's probably the soundtrack and the fact that I haven't felt this challenged in a 2d platformer in years.
But something about it keeps me going. It's probably the soundtrack and the fact that I haven't felt this challenged in a 2d platformer in years.
sevenchaos
Banned
Just bought it and finished World 2. This game is fucking beautiful. Glad I spent the money on it.
Ok, new question
"Crossing the Gap
"Crossing the Gap
It's a shadow doppleganger level
I have puzzle piece way up high on the right, and a cannon that spits purple goombas. It only spits ONE goomba until it dies, then it spits another. I can get the goomba below the puzzle piece, but its not enough bounce, I need another... Help!
I have puzzle piece way up high on the right, and a cannon that spits purple goombas. It only spits ONE goomba until it dies, then it spits another. I can get the goomba below the puzzle piece, but its not enough bounce, I need another... Help!
permutated
Banned
So guys, how is it? WORTH THE WAIT?
I can't wait to get home and play this!
I can't wait to get home and play this!
MirageDwarf
Member
Finished world 3 with all puzzle pieces. Started world 4. Figured out first one. Second one is giving me hard time. Will work on that tomorrow.
I wouldn't object if somebody says this is Bioshock of XBLA. Totally worth it.
FUCK YEAH!!!...if you take time to solve puzzles by yourself.
I wouldn't object if somebody says this is Bioshock of XBLA. Totally worth it.
permutated said:
FUCK YEAH!!!...if you take time to solve puzzles by yourself.
The Innocent X
Banned
permutated said:
Worth the wait, worth the price.
permutated
Banned
The Innocent X said:
Nice.
Come sunday, this bitch'll be mine :--)
Can't wait!
Okay, I need one hint for world 6-5...
The puzzle piece which is near the falling ladder. Can I get to that platform only when the ladder falls, or after it's bounced once? I've been able to get up the ladder while it bounces once and I was barely *not* able to get to the platform. Is my timing not good enough or is my solution wrong?
Sectus said:
You can get that smaller anti-time platform over there by having your ring on the larger ladder platform when you activate it. I lets the smaller one move under it towards the puzzle piece. Get your ring back and use time reverse while charged with a green aura from the platform in combination with your ring to get the ladder in mid-air and climb it as such to the puzzle piece.
anyone who gave this game a 10/10 is a freaking masochist... this game is INSANE brutal...
it' a great game but hey can take a long walk off a short pier due to the ridiculous amount of "perfection-related gameplay"
he doesn't even budge and inch... its either you do it 50 times until you get it right or you quit... that's it...
I just wanna finish the story
stop giving me insane levels
it' a great game but hey can take a long walk off a short pier due to the ridiculous amount of "perfection-related gameplay"
he doesn't even budge and inch... its either you do it 50 times until you get it right or you quit... that's it...
I just wanna finish the story
stop giving me insane levelsJackson said:anyone who gave this game a 10/10 is a freaking masochist... this game is INSANE brutal...
it' a great game but hey can take a long walk off a short pier due to the ridiculous amount of "perfection-related gameplay"
he doesn't even budge and inch... its either you do it 50 times until you get it right or you quit... that's it...
I just wanna finish the story
There's only one puzzle that I thought was inconsistent with the rest of the game:
On 6-4, I believe, there was one where you had to guide two of those Goomba guys across three pipes of killer flowers. I did not notice any pattern at all with that puzzle, and only beat it through luck.
MirageDwarf
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Andronicus said:
So you are implying that Braid is not different than anything else out there? So feel free to list games that are like Braid. Because I, for one, have never played anything like it.
MirageDwarf said:
Great day 1 numbers. I think GW2 is the only game with higher first day numbers this year.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
sp0rsk said:
Kinda. I thought that at first too, but after a while of failing to do so I accidentaly pressed X+RB while the flowers were down (so yeah, that's the part of having them kind of in sync, I guess -- but I'm not sure you even have to do that?) and that just freezes them down there, and those goombas are still able to walk.
Always-honest
Banned
damn, this game messes with my brain.... i like.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
sp0rsk said:
Well, you didn't care for the story earlier, why should you care about in the ending? :O
Yeah, you definitely should have read the books. I kinda liked it as it was, anyways.
PjotrStroganov
Member
ItsInMyVeins said:
I was using the ring too and totally forgot about the time stopping aspect. Stupid me. One of the solutions I looked up while I didn't have to.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
Jonnyram said:I can't for the life of me figure out (4-6?). I've managed the rest of World 4 thoughhow to get on to the large cloud to get to the piece at the far right
Hm, isn't that one just about timing the jump?
Well, after completing the game I feel a bit disappointed.
From a gameplay perspective the game is quite good. It's refreshing to play a game which tries to have challenging puzzles. Although I think it stumbled a lot around and unnecessarily added frustrating puzzles which requires pixel perfection or precise timing with jumps (especially in the last 2 worlds). The game is also way too short. Still good even though Eurogamer are completely insane for giving it 10/10.
So if I get the story right... Tim is this weirdo who's never gotten along with people and he's got a big interested in science. He dates this girl from Manhatten but the relationship doesn't go well, and incidentally through his science he figures out how to manipulate time. He does random experimentations and goes mad and pretends that completing different types of experimentations will lead him to the Princess (who is an ideal fantasy of the girl he's dating). And those bizarre experimentations happens to act out like a Mario Bros game in his head, apparently Tim is a big Nintendo fan.
Did I get all the right? If so, complete nonsense. There were a few scenes which were clever like the one where he tries to save the princess from the evil monster, but then you learn it's actually the other way around. But the actual story you get through those books was completely uninteresting and mostly nonsensical to me. Perhaps the player is supposed to try to find his own deep meaning through the story, but that's definitely not the type of story I want in a game. I get the impression this game tried very hard to be a philosophical version of Fight Club, but it would have worked a lot better if they focused more on an entertaining story instead of something "deep".
I guess I can pretend the story tries to show how completely mad certain Nintendo fanboys are, then I agree how little sense it makes.
Did I get all the right? If so, complete nonsense. There were a few scenes which were clever like the one where he tries to save the princess from the evil monster, but then you learn it's actually the other way around. But the actual story you get through those books was completely uninteresting and mostly nonsensical to me. Perhaps the player is supposed to try to find his own deep meaning through the story, but that's definitely not the type of story I want in a game. I get the impression this game tried very hard to be a philosophical version of Fight Club, but it would have worked a lot better if they focused more on an entertaining story instead of something "deep".
I guess I can pretend the story tries to show how completely mad certain Nintendo fanboys are, then I agree how little sense it makes.
From a gameplay perspective the game is quite good. It's refreshing to play a game which tries to have challenging puzzles. Although I think it stumbled a lot around and unnecessarily added frustrating puzzles which requires pixel perfection or precise timing with jumps (especially in the last 2 worlds). The game is also way too short. Still good even though Eurogamer are completely insane for giving it 10/10.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
Sectus said:
I don't know about the story, because it kinda went out the window after a while for me. But I know I liked it in the beginning when it started of as a classic "save the princess"-story. Simple, but worked perfectly with the graphics and the music, just like Ico worked perfectly with its simple story. Then it started to get weird and I really didn't spend time trying to analyze it. But I did like the twist near the ending. After that you get to read a few books more, but they didn't make sense to me either. I'd be nice to hear what other people made of it.
As far as the gameplay goes I really liked it. I didn't feel frustrated about "precise timing" since you easily could rewind it instantely and have another go. Some of the puzzles were frustrating, but I think all of them was rewarding and entertaining as well.
The game was short, yes. And there's probably little to no room for replayability, unless you go for the speedruns. But just like Portal it's a short but amazing trip, and definitely one of the most interesting and fun games this year as far as I'm concerned.
I got reminded of ICO several times too actually while playing Braid. I really think ICO did an overall better job with the presentation and story though. Braid's story starts out simple and turns into a complete mess by the end (in my opinion anyway). ICO's story starts simple and ends simple. The ending in ICO is a bit vague and doesn't explain everything, but I think it never became nonsensical. (Shadow of the Colossus' ending on the other hand...)ItsInMyVeins said:
And ICO tries to create a calm soothing atmosphere and does an excellent job of maintaining that. I really like Braid's atmosphere in the beginning but... then I started getting annoyed by those repetitive loud sound effects, and most of the music isn't actually that good (and when the music is finally good you rarely hear it properly because it's affected by the time manipulations).
TheGreatDave
Banned
The story read like some university students first year project. Couldn't care less about it.
Anything non-text in the game was done amazingly well though.
Anything non-text in the game was done amazingly well though.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
Braid's like the bastard son of Portal and Ico.
Psychotext
Member
If you consider going back, push through the 4th world... it seems to be one of the ones people have trouble getting. You don't even need to collect the pieces, just walk through the levels.eznark said:
I hated it at first but then loved it when it all clicked.
TheGreatDave
Banned
I'm currently 666 on the leaderboard. Seeing as nobody can get more than my 60 puzzle pieces does that mean I will keep that awesome number forever?
Opus Angelorum
Member
eznark said:
That's exactly how I felt when I posted yesterday, initially the mechanic introduced in World 4 seems frustrating.
The advice given to me yesterday really helped, study the layout and rewind/fast-forward a few times to see how the scenario is played.
TheGreatDave
Banned
sweetfish said:
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
Sweetfish:
I think you can make the jump if you jump from the platform the goombas are coming from, and bounche of one of them while they're going down. I think that's how I did it. GreatDaves solution should work too.
I'm amazed a how memorable each section of each stage is. The time working it out and stretching your brain has not been wasted.
This is defiantly a burn twice and bright but half as long game. I will be waiting a week for an other preview but I can't wait for everyone to get done so we can have some conversations about the game as a whole.
Re-read the thread and the Eurogamer review makes much more sense now too
This is defiantly a burn twice and bright but half as long game. I will be waiting a week for an other preview but I can't wait for everyone to get done so we can have some conversations about the game as a whole.
Re-read the thread and the Eurogamer review makes much more sense now too
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
I kinda liked the story-parts :O
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