Here’s another one of those posts with me talking about a game that I should have talked about a long time ago. To my credit though, Braid was released on the PC in April 2009 and PS3 in November 2009. So for those that ONLY have a PS3, this might be relevant. However I played the PC version that I picked up on the Steam post Christmas sale for $2.49… so what do I think of Braid?
Braid currently sells for $9.99 on Steam and $15 on xbox live. I feel that I could have payed that much and been satisfied. However, I got a hella deal at $2.49. I cannot tell you enough how much I love the Steam sales. As of this writing, I have beaten Braid 3 times completely playing about 8 hours of it (it’s not a long game). At my fastest I could probably play through the game in about an hour. If I need something to do for an hour and I happen to have my laptop with me… Braid is perfect
So for those who don’t know… what is Braid? Braid is a side scrolling puzzle game with amazing hand drawn water color like graphics. I believe it was created by a single (brilliant) dude. The puzzle part of the game consists of your ability to control time in various ways. You can rewind time as much as you like. In fact, you can rewind back to the beginning of a level if you’d like. So you make your way through 6 challenging levels of awesome manipulating time in a different way per level on your way to save a princess that seems to always be in another castle. Sound familiar? That’s because it borrows from Mario bros in some of it’s elements. Everyone always talks about how awesome the ending is… and what they say is true. It’s great. The first time through took me about 4 hours to figure everything out.
I don’t know what else to say about Braid except buy it. At $9.99 on Steam, you really can’t go wrong and it’ll probably run on any PC. Not convinced, check out the demo.
