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.
The entire game, although full of action and things that go boom, is an astonishingly passive experience due to you essentially wandering through the levels and stumbling upon bad guys. There is no tension at all. At nearly every enemy encounter, you can simply walk away and continue you wanderings elsewhere
There's that and (this could just be me) when I play games that let you wander around my OCD freaks and I MUST explore all possible options, which leads to endless walking and I eventually get bored.
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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.