I will look forward to seeing how they turn out. And maybe I can use that approach in the future.

But I doubt the audience at large would agree with this. It tend to look for the keyword “boring” in game reviews, because that word is often applied to the games that I find most interesting. So never mind. Great idea. Looking forward to the video!

This is a game that really needs to be played to be understood at all. While playing Braid last year, I was awestruck. More recently, I saw a video of a talk you gave where you showed a live demo of Braid. Lots of comments were posted along the lines of “What? THIS is what all the hype is about?” In fact, I had to agree with them—there was nothing impressive about watching you play Braid.

The graphics are beautiful to behold, but they are subtle, and that subtlety is lost when it’s compressed down into internet video. In the video that I saw, you could *barely* see the clouds moving backwards on rewind…

And talking about Braid during such a video doesn’t seem to help… people just won’t get it. Not until they put their own finger on that rewind button will they feel the magic. You know how you can tap the rewind button repeatedly during a jump to hold your character suspended in mid air and micro-adjust where you are going to land? Even if you tried to show that in a video and talked about what you were doing, people wouldn’t be able to feel it.