news 28 Posted August 12, 2008 Hi all, We have just published a review of *Braid* for Xbox 360 - if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link:* http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/08/12/braid/1 *Picture:* http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/braid/fp_img.jpg *Quote: */"Braid does have a few problems despite our love for it. The oblique logic and lateral thinking that you need to learn how to apply too rapidly scales up from Easy to Murderous, for instance, and the game doesn't always do a great job of introducing the new ideas. Worse, the game doesn't even have a proper help page and there's literally no introduction to the rewinding mechanic until you die for the first time -- something you naturally spend your first go through the game trying to avoid. The combined ingenuity of the gameplay and the gentle, nostalgic brilliance of the art and writing do manage to overcome this though and it's a testament to the pacing of the game that you manage to learn all these elements without any decent manual or instruction. Cerebral and startlingly playable, / /Braid is a throwback to the forgotten world of commercial platformers and proper adventure games where the puzzles were hard, but rewarding. At times it can be too difficult for its own good, but the bulk of the game isn't weighed down by this and //Braid instead manages to float upwards, to excellence." /* *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net Share this post Link to post
