Braid

[Mekon]

Great, isn't it? I wish life had an x button.

If you didn't buy it yet, why not?

[MattyB_]

Really impressed with the demo...just thought it was a bit expensive for what you got...

[Rob P]

Its amazing.

Its designed by one guy as a sort of tribute to old style platforms but with a twist.

I read somewhere he borrowed £170k to develop the game so I didn't mind parting with 1200 points!

I'm up to world 5 and missed only one puzzle in world 3 I think.

[madrob6]

Never heard of it, is it an xbox live arcade title?

[Rob P]

madrob6 said:

Never heard of it, is it an xbox live arcade title?

Yep.

Try the demo but to honest you need the full game as each world is quite different...

[Mekon]

Yeah, unless you manage to complete all the puzzles in the world 2 demo you won't get how different it is. It looks like arty mario (and the timewarping donkey-kong homage was awesome), but the time manipulation makes the game different. It's a clever puzzle game that makes you manipulate the physical relationships between the objects by working out the temporal relationships in the level. I've not seen this before in a game, so I don't have a repertoire of tricks to draw on. Several times in worlds 2 and 3 I've had proper eureka moments. Really good fun.

I've vowed not to look at any guides and work through world by world. Completed world 2 and & and just starting world 4. I see Steve Evil is way-way ahead of me.

[madrob6]

sounds good to me, will be on the lookout for this tonight.

[Xaero]

I played the demo and was going to buy it, but 1200 points is too much imo. It is a good game from what I've played though. Think I only missed one bit of puzzle and I couldn't understand how to get to it

[Rob P]

The world where you "record" your movements is a real mind bender....some puzzles I got without really being able to explain how I did it, quite odd really!

Sometimes I wonder if there is a certain something missing from the new blockbuster titles, this really is a return to the more pure gaming I remember from back in the good old days...

[madrob6]

Bought this and it made my brain hurt on the level with the shadow chap.

How the hell do you work him?

[Steve Evil]

Mekon said:

I've vowed not to look at any guides and work through world by world. Completed world 2 and & and just starting world 4. I see Steve Evil is way-way ahead of me.

I haven't played it in some time though so I don't doubt that you'll overtake me soon, Got to the stage where I could almost feel my brain cells fizzling out whilst trying to work out the puzzles.

[Xaero]

I gave in and bought it a couple of nights ago. Worth buying just for the whole 'cleverness' of it. I completed world 2-4, missing 3 pieces of 5+6 that I can't work out how to get

[madrob6]

I caved in last night and had to look at a guide for a few of the pieces which in turn helped me figure out a few of the others that had been evading me.

The ending is a bit spinny although it was hard to concentrate on what was going on when there was a small child buzzing about (not mine thankfully).

[Steve Evil]

madrob6 said:

I caved in last night and had to look at a guide for a few of the pieces which in turn helped me figure out a few of the others that had been evading me.

The ending is a bit spinny although it was hard to concentrate on what was going on when there was a small child buzzing about (not mine thankfully).

There's apparently another extended ending involving getting a few more secret bits that involve thinking even further outside the box to get.

[madrob6]

Yeah I read about them, considering much trouble I had completing it normally I think I'll leave that for very rainy day.