November 8, 2008
Braid.
I’ve finally gotten around to downloading Braid from XBLA and I wish I’d done it earlier. It is truly as brilliant as everyone says. I’ve only played about a level and a half so far and already had my mind blown into smithereens. Some of the gameplay is blatantly taken from Super Mario Bros., but this is not a bad thing, quite the opposite. It expands how one thinks about platformers — you can do so many things that would be ridiculously impossible in a regular platformer. It is non-linear to the extreme. The fact that there are achievements both for traversing the world, and solving the puzzle for the world hints at this.
This is far from an original review, since everyone on the face of the earth is raving about this game, but I wanted to say that I agree wholeheartedly with the plethora of admirers. I can’t wait to get further in the game and have my perception of the world altered some more.
For now, it is back to the cloud bridge!