Braid
Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Aug 06, 2008
Manipulate time to complete puzzles in this 2D platform game made by indie developer Jonathan Blow.
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5 (59) 4 (15) 3 (2) 2 (0) 1 (0) 4.8 starsAverage score of 76 user reviews
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Innovation doesn't even Begin to Describe this Indie Gem 0
Braid is a game not many people have heard about until now, due to a strong marketing push by Microsoft, Braid is finally getting the much needed attention. Braid is developed by Indie developer Jonathan Blow, and boy does he have a story to tell with the Biggest Little Game ever created Braid. Braid is a puzzle platformer much in the same vain as Super Mario Bros. except with a very deep and profound story and of course Puzzles.The Puzzles in Braid very frankly will probably tear you a new one,...
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If I could turn back time... 0
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Abnormal But Good 0
*Before you read just know I did this review abstractly and it is very different from other styles of review. Read to get a general impression of the whole package, instead of separate parts* Intro Braid; a peculiar specimen. A truly melancholy experience that so much can’t be assigned a score, but really just dissected. Jonathon Blow’s undertaking is a weird dive into an extremely ambiguous tale of one man’s search for the princess. I am still in bewilderment of what has just happened. I just f...
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2D platformers are far from being dead 0
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Bloody good game (that would be Braid) 0
From initial visual impressions you'd be tempted to dismiss Braid as some sort of 16-bit Mario clone that 'does a bit wif time and dat'. But this is part of Braid's charm in that beneath the old school sprites lies a highly evolved and thoughtful game.Starting off with teaching you very basic platform mechanics, with the ability to rewind time available from the start, Braid quickly moves into its realm of time puzzles. Each world has different rules with items, enemies and you behaving in diffe...
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Why we play games. 0
I tried to think of various ways to begin my critique of the Xbox Live Arcade game Braid. I thought about describing how it is so rare and refreshing to have a game that feels so simple but is so very deep. I even thought about describing the nature in which the downloadable game genre has opened the door to developers to take risks and engage the gamer, but to pick one over the other was unfair. To be honest, outside of the fact that this game got a lot of slack for being a more-expensive than...
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Braid review EN ESPAÑOL 0
Braid review EN ESPAÑOL Reseña escrita por Ryan Davis, traducción por Darth Stone. Braid te exige que olvides todo lo que sabes acerca del flujo del tiempo. Mucho se ha dicho sobre la naturaleza independiente del juego de Braid de Jonathan Blow. Este juego es, literalmente, obra de una sola persona, y no solo desde el lado de desarrollo. Al mismo tiempo que el titulo reta al jugador con acertijos de manipulación temporal, Braid cuenta la historia de las perdidas emocionales de un hombre, y su bú...
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If you had to buy one XBLA game, this would be it. 0
Personally, I was skeptical of Braid at first. But after playing through the game I discovered that this game has had a quite long-lasting impact on me, making it one of the best Xbox Live Arcade Games I’ve ever played.Obviously, the main ability used throughout the game is the ability to reverse time. Throughout the game, you must use this ability in order to solve puzzles and obtain puzzle pieces. These are used to construct paintings of each world the player goes to, and once all of them are ...
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Breathtaking. 0
To be able to write a review on Braid is like trying to describe those moments in life where you tell your friends that “I guess you just had to be there.” They don’t get it and they move on. Braid, in a nutshell, is exactly that situation. Based off of screenshots, Braid looks nothing more than a generic platforming clone. You run, you jump on things, you collect puzzle pieces, you fight boss, save princess. And then, you actually play Braid.The best way to start the review is to describe all o...
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A great original xbla game 0
Braid is really something special with its own distinct everything the sound the art and even most of the gameplay.Braids sound is very good and ties into the game well and is plesant to listen to. The graphics are great for a 2d platformer with the art style one of a kind. The story is a little hard to follow and the fact that it is told through the use of text doestnt help but the ending was one of the best endings ever so go figure. The gameplay is where Braid really shines though with the...
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This is one of the best... 0
XBL Arcade games I have ever played! I will not ever give out a 5 star rating so consider this the best you will ever see coming from me. I have still only played the demo at this point (I'm poor). But to tell you the truth, I have been playing a lot of it. What's there to play? you ask. I don't know what it is, but I can see this game keeping me very busy for a long time once I buy the full version. This is gonna be one of those severely underrated games that everyone talks about. Like Be...
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Brain Teasing Turned to the Max 1
A handful of games of recent memory have challenged the intellects of the brain towards solving puzzles. Braid turns up the puzzle solving to the max with platforming sections along with homages to iconic games like Super Mario Bros. and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. This puzzle platformer for Xbox Live Arcade feels like a hybrid of Mario platforming, the time mechanic from The Sands of Time, and challenging puzzle solving similar to Portal. Along with a simple yet complex story with a mi...
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The Future of Gaming is Comming to Terms With The Past 0
Braid defies time, learning from the best titles of out past, and bringing a fresh exciting taste of the future of gaming. Everything about Braid, from it's title screen to the last level, will leap from your television and enchant you. It's gorgeous dream like visuals and beautiful music massage your eyes and ears and almost immediately you are aware that this isn't like anything you've played before.The art of storytelling and videogames, is often debated and argued and, let's face it, we are ...
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Be kind, rewind. 2
Last night, I went to bed at 3 AM. I had just spent two hours playing Braid, but the solutions to a few of the puzzles still eluded me. This morning, I woke up at 11 o'clock, and starting playing Braid again. One hour later, I sat in front of my television, staring at the last screen of the game. I didn't want it to end. Braid is that kind of game.Braid is the kind of game that just doesn't let you go. It's the kind of game you wish you could experience for the first time all over again. Much li...
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Impressionistic Frustration 3
Let’s say I bake you a tray full of cookies. You can see them, smell them and almost taste them. Only, I’ve decided you’re too dumb to have any. This is Braid, in a nutshell. Every level introduces a new way to make the player feel insanely stupid. The learning curve accelerates extremely fast. Once you think you understand how the game works, it turns out you really don’t and you’re stuck once again. Here’s this key you need, only you can’t jump high enough and there’s no ladder, but you can...
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A Platform Game With A Puzzly Twist. 0
Before buying braid I was totally turned off by the art style and aesthetic but once I played the game I realized that it was easy to ignore it. It's not that the game has bad graphics in fact the graphics are kinda neat It's just a combination of the main character's suit and tie, the background violin music and the manor in which the story is told that just turns me off a little bit.However, like I said before the gameplay is so good that the art doesn't even matter. Basically this is one of t...
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Incredible 1
Personal Thoughts: Fantastic game. Wow, came out of nowhere, blew me away. I looked at this game and said 'wow, totally copied Mario' but after thinking about it i thought to myself, 'since when has that been a bad thing?'. So i downloaded the trial, wasn't too fond of it, but something about it made me want to play it, so i bought it, and going through the game i found out why, there's a charm to it, they way it uses time travel and the music puts you in the mood.Review:The Good:Great Gamepl...
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Braid 0
Braid is a time-bending puzzle game disguised as a simple platformer like Super Mario Bros., and has enough self awareness to make several references to that fact. Beneath the basic gameplay controls and pleasant, hand-drawn appearance though, there is an incredible amount of depth and inventiveness to every aspect of the game's design, from the time manipulation mechanics to the devious puzzles to the great story. Basically, there are five normal worlds you can run through. The goal is to get a...
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An esoteric painting at Museum of Gaming 0
Roger Ebert once said “video games are not art.” But he has never played Ico or Shadow of the Colossus. Those two games are considered fine works of art among gamers but as more Van Gogh pieces. The game Braid however tries to define itself as that abstract statue you see at the Chicago Museum of Art and you wonder “What kind of idiot would consider this art?” Now Braid is not a bad game. But I should mention it is way too pretentious and feels like a Jackson Pollock Painting if the squiggly lin...
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The hidden story made my jaw drop 0
Braid has a story, hidden within its time-oriented gameplay elements that help sell it of Tim and his search for the princess. Even at the ending it left me guessing as to what it all meant. The gameplay itself is mind-bending, each time asking your mind once you've gotten used to a particular kind of gameplay to reset and relearn from the beginning new ways to control time to complete objectives by unlocking doors and retrieving pieces of the puzzles that reveal the life of Tim. But even when ...
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Braid, Its not about how much there is, but about how so little c 0
Braid is not your average game. It is the pinnacle of 2D platforming, 2D gaming, maybe even gaming period. It leaves an impression, one that will definitely stay with you for years to come, but most of all, it leaves you thinking. Days after you've beaten this game, your mind is still baffled by what you just experienced. How ingenious the puzzles were. How mind boggling the story was. The millions of ways you can interpret the dialogue, and how it pertains to the actions of Tim, the protago...
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Don't let anyone say this game isn't worth it 0
This is one of maybe 2 or 3 games on the XBL marketplace that is a must buy! The extreme attention to detail is mindboggling.Let me start by paraphrasing from an early section of the game. The whole theme in this game is that people learn from their mistakes. The only problem is that your mistake has consequences. What if, just *what if*, we had the guts to forgive and forget those mistakes. We would then be rewarded for learning instead of being punished for the mistake. THAT is the key that m...
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A fantastic experience 0
Okay so, I like to tell myself that I'm a big fan of puzzle games. But most traditional ones can never hold my interest for long. But a game like Braid comes along that has such character and challenge that I felt I had to see it through to the end. In a good way, I mean.Braid can most easily be described as an arthouse type of game, but one that's actually fun to play. And doesn't beat you over the head with its message. Hell, you can completely skip the story all together if you want, though I...
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An XBLA Classic 4
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A 2D platformer with sinister arthouse intentions 0
Braid : A 2D platformer with sinister arthouse intentions. Story : A young chap named Tim made some kind of mistake and is trying to rescue a princess from some kind of monster……or that’s what you’re led to believe. This game takes a Killer7 approach to game design in that not everything is what it seems, rather that there’s some kind of hidden truth behind all of these goomba-stomping levels. Braid reminds gamers that the potential for storytelling in video games is nowhere close to fully tappe...
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Buy this game. 0
Allow me to explain why every gamer should buy this game:1. It's beautiful. The art and music in Braid is some of the best I've seen in a while. The watercolor graphics and folksy tunes allow the world to really suck you in.2. It's beautiful! The gameplay and puzzles give surprisingly depth to what first seems like a derivative platformer (look for several Mario nods, especially in the first level). The different ways in which time can be manipulated in each level offers fresh challenges every s...
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A Virtually Perfect XBLA Experience 0
Gamers often complain that modern games do not innovate often enough. Platformers in particular are often cited as notoriously lacking in innovation and creativity. BraId thankfully does not continue this trend, but rather evolves the platforming genre in an artistically inspired manner (both literally and figuratively). Braid looks like a beautifully-realized platformer on its surface, but is truly a platforming/puzzle-solving adventure game at its core, with a moving, melancholy, and quietly s...
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Braid Is A Great Game And A Must Buy 0
Braid is a game worth buying. Don't be cautious about the $15 dollar price tag or the game is too short, it is worth buying. Why? Braid is a 2D Platformer Puzzle that keeps you interested in the game and if you are not interested in the story, well you eventually will be.The gameplay in Braid is awesome. This is not Mario nor does it play like it. In Braid you use time. You can reverse time. At the beggining it is just used for oops I messed up now I got to go backwards to not die. After a whil...
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Masterpiece 0
Braid is one of those games that is few and far between. A great platforming game, but with a breath of fresh air. Everything in Braid from the eloquently orchestrated music to the well thought out mechanics surpassed my expectations in every way. My ONLY critique would be a little more length to the adventure. You are truly doing yourself a disservice by NOT playing this game....
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First Game I can safetly say is art 0
Braid is a special game that only comes along every once in a while. Its time bending puzzles are something new and fresh and a great addition to the Live Arcade library. The whole game revolves around collecting puzzle pieces using a time bending mechanic. There are 60 puzzle pieces in all and all the puzzle pieces in each of the 5 worlds form a picture.Braid is a game that is hard to explain and needs to be experienced first hand. You hold X to reverse time. On top of that, all 5 worlds add an...
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One of the best games. Period. 0
At a glance, Braid appears to be a simple puzzle/platformer with a time-bending gimmick. Some might call it a Mario Clone, but those people have not played past the first world. There is a point in the game where it just clicks and the players realizes how great the game really is. The "story" of Braid is very strange. There isn't really one "story" to the game. The message of the game can be interpreted in many ways. The simplest being that there is a princess needing rescue and the mos...
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The XBLA Game I've Been Waiting For! 0
I spent a good forty-five minutes thinking about how I’d start this review off. The first idea (which I quickly abandoned) involved me doing some sort of gimmick in the review involving time travel and altering the order of my text <--this like of kind<--, but I quickly realised that would be crap and is more suited to a video review anyhow. Then I thought about going on a small rant at frugal gamers who believe the $15 price of entry for Braid is too high and that they won’t be buying it ...
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