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Braid
 GAMER
Dave
8
 
 STATS
Started the game: 2008-10-18 Hours Played:  5
Finished?  No
 
 REVIEW: 2008-10-31

You must play this game. It features a beautiful art style, some ingenious puzzles, great mechanics, and a superb musical score.

Doubtless this is the best XBLA game I have played to date. That said, it is not without flaws. It has some frustrating trial-and-error timing puzzles in World 6 that have left a sour taste in my mouth. I will return to it, but I need a break right now. Solving previous puzzles gave me a really good feeling, but the ones found in World 6 just leave me bored and frustrated.

The second problem is that, in one puzzle, a required mechanic used to solve it is never introduced. Maybe they assumed that I would have seen the mechanic by the time I got to the puzzle, which makes that a failed assumption. In any case, I had to turn to the Intertubes for the solution and when I saw it, I was not happy, because I could have worked out the solution had I been aware of the required game mechanic.

 

screenshot 1 here


screenshot 2 here



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