Forum Overview :: Braid :: Re: I posted that then put on a pot of coffee so I could try to read it.

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I have by no means finished the game. I am enjoying coming back to it, because I will stop when I say to myself, "It's impossible to get that puzzle piece. Can't be done." And then, after coming back to it the next evening, it all clicks into place. I already knew that I become a better-looking and more boyishly-rugged person each day, but smarter? Braid makes me feel like I am getting smarter. As for the story: it's not that what Jonathan has done is particular amazing or literate or somehow tapping into the rich, emotional well of love and pathos. It's that virtually ever other game doesn't even bother to try that. Portal was funny, but in a perfect world Portal would be the bare minimum of funny. Braid has a bit of hmm, yessing about relationships in it, in a perfect world what it contains would be the bare minimum. Instead they are both oustanding and genre-leaders, because we don't live in that perfect world. But this is (correct me if I am wrong) the first game Jonathan Blow has ever made, and Portal was the second? (third?) that Erik made, and in both cases, relative to their peers, they hit it out of the park. And I am sorry, Worm, Braid is FUN. Braid is a fun little puzzler. The graphics are great, the music is amazing and always apropos, the bunnies are single-handedly causing havoc in any household with a cat count > 2, because they all assume one of the other two cats is making that sound, and they then start a fistfight. You know how GTA makes you view pedestrians in a different way while driving? Braid does the same thing with cats. ("Any guy who owns cats is a loser." -- <i>the Internet</i>) (Excellent.) I want you to ask yourself a question - if you had never been on the Internet (er, except long enough to buy and download Braid) would you have enjoyed it a little? The people who applauded your banning on Q23 because you systematically destroyed them in every conversation (and they <i>knew it</i>) have taken so much... can you really allow that type of person to take from you... joy? the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! [/quote]