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Finally playing through Braid...
anoffday
To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it.Registered User regular
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And this game is making me feel like an idiot. It's confusing. Am I not suppose to be able to get like...any of these puzzle pieces? And damn those zombie rabbits.
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iirc, there is 1 piece you can't get the first time you encounter it, and a couple more that are easier to come back to
In terms of being forced to come back for puzzle pieces, I only remember one such case but there may be more. It's been a while.
That one seems like the only piece that's actually blocked off. But there are quite a few that aren't worth the effort initially. As for the extras, well...
Further, the primary mechanism carries over, and is pretty handy once you've got the hang of it.
Some of the puzzles have multiple solutions; if you figure out the best ways to do them, no tricky platforming is required.
Electronic composer for hire.
I am pretty good with puzzles, I beat the core game in about 4-5 hours, it's the speed-runs that really kill it. Collect these 3 pieces in 45 seconds; it took you 45.03 seconds, try again.
I am kind of hoping the full speed-run is broken up into sections because there's no way I'm going to spend 45+ minutes just to fail because I don't have the entire game memorized.
The music was easily the most enjoyable part of the game, and all of it is available online for free, legally. If nothing else, Braid introduced me to Jami Sieber, whose music I consider far more evocative and memorable than anything in the game itself.
Oh, I agree completely. That won't stop me from trying though. If a game is short or I enjoy it enough, I'll usually bend over to complete it fully.
You gave Braid the peace sign? ;-)
There were a couple puzzles that I didn't like because it gave some ridiculously small window to make some jump, but on the whole I really liked the game.
And that's why I'll never try the speed run. Too aggravating. Apart from that, I enjoyed it. Some great "aha!" moments when you finally solve the later puzzles.
That's a perfect example of one of those easy way/hard way puzzles I mentioned earlier. The easy way:
The whole point of the speed runs is to make you figure out the most efficient ways to do the puzzles. My first time through, I stumbled through several of the puzzles without truly understanding them, and doing the full game speedrun made me figure out the best solutions.
If you're trying to brute force it—and I typically hate this meme—you're doing it wrong. I can think of only a handful of puzzle pieces that required precise dexterity and platforming. The bulk of the game was solvable through just thinking it out; once I had figured out the solution, it was bing-bang-boom and I had the puzzle piece.
But yeah, the speed runs totally aren't my thing.
See, this I don't get. I can at least recognize "I think the puzzles are shitty" or "I think the story is bunk," but are you really suggesting the game is repetitive? It'll take most people maybe 4-6 hours, and less if you end up caving and looking at puzzle solutions. And once you stumble on some of the game's extra secrets, you can think of even more ways to "break" the game, but pretty much all of it builds on new puzzles instead of retreading old ones.
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The ending was the only part of Braid that I really enjoyed. The "story" from the books was just horrendous, the mini boss fights interrupted the flow of the game and some of the puzzles felt less based on manipulating time and more about manipulating how the developer intended you to get it.
However the "ending" is worth forcing yourself through the rest of the game to play even when you finally get burnt out as it is a masterpiece and watching a video doesn't do it justice.
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Spoiler it for me? No god damned way I am EVER going to get all the stars.
The ending level of the game is awesome. Probably the best part of the game, especially for the "revelation" it gives you about the story itself (the dude and princess parts of the story anyway).
There's apparently an alternate ending if you get all the stars, but the hell with that.
Okie dokie...
The ending if you collect all the stars:
See, apparently the whole Braid story, with Tim and the Princess, was an allagory to the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb.
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Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. :P
You forgot what happens in the Hub world.
the beautiful thing about Braid was that it wasn't a reflex test or a challenge of your physical ability, so much as a challenge of your ability to figure out ever-changing rules of the world in which your character exists
it's wonderful, and more games should aspire to that kind of gameplay.
I'd love to see the ending if only I could solve these evil puzzles.
Don't use a walkthrough.
If you feel stuck in the game, just bend your brain more.
Then hell began.
The rest of the puzzles were fine and I was able to figure them out on my own ... after a good amount of trial and error for some.
Edit:
Also, the stars totally aren't worth going for due to the first one alone.
But yes, the star ending was worth the work. Even that fucking goddamn cloud.
I did it without a walkthrough but I did look up which worlds had the stars, just not where they were or how to get them.
that's exactly it.
that's why there isn't an achievement for the stars.
This is another layer on why Braid was one of my favorite games of 2008.
Though thinking about it, I really wish there was an achievement for that. Especially if it was a 1-pointer. It would piss the fuck out of the OCD Gamerscore crowd, and they would lose their shit trying to get it and even out their odd-numbered Gamerscore, only to completely miss the point on obsession when they actually got it.
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