Comments on: Braid

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Daniel, Jon’s official word is that the PC version will come out “soon” and I believe he has gone as far as saying “hopefully sooner rather than later.”

By: Ian Schreiber

Ian Schreiber — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:09:00 +0000

This game has been consuming my time all week. You’re right that it doesn’t waste your time, because you’re always working on unique puzzles — there’s no busywork, and there’s nowhere to get “stuck” (you can work on the puzzles in pretty much any order, so if you can’t figure out one of them just go to another).

And this is in contrast to Portal, which *also* doesn’t waste your time, but for a totally different reason: it teaches you how to beat it, and the devs playtested the heck out of it to make sure that you’d never be stuck for more than a few minutes, even though the game is totally linear and you have to solve each puzzle to get to the next.

I get the feeling that Portal kind of makes sure that you win, while Braid is more genuine in challenging the player and not dumbing itself down just to make you feel good. It’s a very different feeling, beating one or the other. And yet, I have a great time playing both, and I’m hesitant to say either one is anything other than brilliant. Even though they approach player challenge in almost completely opposite ways. Weird…

By: dsilvers

dsilvers — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:47:00 +0000

You don’t happen to have any inside info on when this comes out for PC do you? As soon as you posted this I watched the trailers and I am close to drying without it or a 360.

By: Brian Shurtleff

Brian Shurtleff — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:52:00 +0000

Ooh… I can’t wait now until I get back home to my roommate’s XBox360 to give it a try. I have been interested in Blow and Braid for a long time.

Can’t go wrong with a collaboration between Blow and David Hellman, who drew one of my favorite webcomics…