STiX
Intermediate OT User
As you'd expect from the title, this thread will contain spoilers.
So, Braid was on sale on Steam the other night for like $5 or something, so I bought it after hearing good things about this indie game.
My first play through was pretty good, I got about 48 of the puzzle pieces and just went back for the rest later. Only one puzzle really gave me a hard time. I didn't collect any stars on my first play through.
Braid is a game about a man building an atomic bomb.
No, I'm serious.
I didn't really understand the story presented to me in the beginning of the game, but then - I wasn't mean to was I? I figured everything was abstract, but with meaning because what I read seemed pretty metaphorical and cryptic.
Only right after I save the 'princess' did it really hit me what the story was really about and I felt rather inept for not picking it up earlier. I mean, there were so many clues the nautical flags (the letters represent phrases, commands etc.), the quotes 'It worked' and
'Now we are all sons of bitches' and other clues scattered throughout the game.
Only just now did I realise just how deep this game was.
The game was about a man flirting with the death of millions. A person creating a bomb to destroy Manhattan and much, much more. Tim (whether that is the man's personified avatar of himself and his feelings, or a real view - I'm not certain as yet) fractures his own
real relationship as the need to perfect his new love, his atom bomb grows larger. He rebuild, adjusts and tampers until it is near perfection and just when everything fits into place and he has overcome his final hurdle - BAM!
Only in the last split second he realises just what he has done.
Anyway, I'm not 100% that I'm totally right.
So, if anyone has played the game or can link to a source that confirms it - that would be awesome.
I'm yet to Google it yet as it's late.
Oh, and if you haven't played Braid - try it.
If you have, download Dear Esther. Its a cool, indepth HL2 Source based mod about, well that doesn't matter. Just expect an awesome story.
So, Braid was on sale on Steam the other night for like $5 or something, so I bought it after hearing good things about this indie game.
My first play through was pretty good, I got about 48 of the puzzle pieces and just went back for the rest later. Only one puzzle really gave me a hard time. I didn't collect any stars on my first play through.
Braid is a game about a man building an atomic bomb.
No, I'm serious.
I didn't really understand the story presented to me in the beginning of the game, but then - I wasn't mean to was I? I figured everything was abstract, but with meaning because what I read seemed pretty metaphorical and cryptic.
Only right after I save the 'princess' did it really hit me what the story was really about and I felt rather inept for not picking it up earlier. I mean, there were so many clues the nautical flags (the letters represent phrases, commands etc.), the quotes 'It worked' and
'Now we are all sons of bitches' and other clues scattered throughout the game.
Only just now did I realise just how deep this game was.
The game was about a man flirting with the death of millions. A person creating a bomb to destroy Manhattan and much, much more. Tim (whether that is the man's personified avatar of himself and his feelings, or a real view - I'm not certain as yet) fractures his own
real relationship as the need to perfect his new love, his atom bomb grows larger. He rebuild, adjusts and tampers until it is near perfection and just when everything fits into place and he has overcome his final hurdle - BAM!
Only in the last split second he realises just what he has done.
Anyway, I'm not 100% that I'm totally right.
So, if anyone has played the game or can link to a source that confirms it - that would be awesome.
I'm yet to Google it yet as it's late.
Oh, and if you haven't played Braid - try it.
If you have, download Dear Esther. Its a cool, indepth HL2 Source based mod about, well that doesn't matter. Just expect an awesome story.
