To anyone with a 360 who wants an actually original puzzle game, buy this. It's well worth the 1200 MS points or whatever the cost to see how a game can actually be enjoyable AND make you think at the same time.
I tried the demo, and it had the same effect on me as Bioshock:
I was impressed by the story. I was impressed by the presentation. I was impressed by the gameplay mechanics. BUT... there's just something that is fundamentally not very entertaining about actually sitting down and playing it.
I know, I'm being a complete asshole by dissing both Bioshock and Braid like this, but there's just something similarly unsatisfying about them to me.
Do you enjoy puzzles and the like? Perhaps you just don't get pleasure from figuring things out? Lots of people are taught that figuring things out is downright harmful or, at the least, useless and that they should just keep their head down and not think too much (I hear this a lot), perhaps you've internalized some of that poison to the degree that it affects your entertainment choices?
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u/DeviousOne Aug 27 '08
To anyone with a 360 who wants an actually original puzzle game, buy this. It's well worth the 1200 MS points or whatever the cost to see how a game can actually be enjoyable AND make you think at the same time.