Comments on: Braid on the Xbox 360 is available for $10 as Deal of the Week.

By: Ivan-Assen

Ivan-Assen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:01:39 +0000

ScottMcUK: You can buy everything from the Web interface on xbox.com, even while your Xbox has RRoDed. (But of course, you can’t play it until you log in and download it.)

By: ScottMcUK

ScottMcUK — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:50:47 +0000

My Xbox RRoD over that week so I missed the deal! Grr, been waiting ages as well. Hopefully MS will see sense and make the game a permanent 800 point purchase. Will be buying Exit this week for 800, but sorry J, 1200 is too much (that’s my own opinion guys and I’m entitled to it!)

By: xbsspanky22

xbsspanky22 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:32:47 +0000

to jonathan blow,
i dont know what the plans are…but of all the games i’ve played Braid(which i’ve finally broken down and bought at a reduced price), i’ve never been so confused and amazed at the same time. please if you can make any agreement with m$, bring us another game, your ideas made me overcome alot of things in my life, whether its just a game, or problems with my parents and my girlfriend/wife…thank you

By: JohnnyW

JohnnyW — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:32:00 +0000

I think confirming the existence of something we’ve not found would kind of defeat the idea of working hard to find it… Although the difference between us and Tim is that nature has very specific rules: A computer game, however well programmed and designed, always has a randomness in the user’s mind.

Anyhoo, forgetting all that for a moment: Yes! The speedruns are worth your time because, put simply, they are puzzles in themselves. Sure, you completed the puzzles once already, but did you do it in the most straight forward way?

The speed run levels are designed to only be completed a certain way in order to reach the time limit. It’s not just about being “fast” and not messing up, it forces you to think of a different solution to the same problem.

Pretty cool (and probably missed by most people).

By: Harry.c

Harry.c — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:47:36 +0000

Hi.
I’m deeply in love with this game. Purchased it one of these days (with the discount) and couldn’t stop thinking of it. I finished it today. There was a couple of levels that I thought that were impossible but finally managed to complete them.
Now I’m playing against the clock!
Marvellous story! Extraordinary puzzles! Love it! Thank you for the game!

By: Toph

Toph — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:17:30 +0000

Jonathan–JohnnyW’s comments have gotten me thinking hard again about the game. My question is just: having reached the epilogue & completed some but not all of the speed runs, should I keep playing the game?

It’s a pleasure to play, of course, but… well… time is precious, and there are opportunity costs. I very much want to avoid looking at any online walkthroughs or anything… I just don’t know what to do. But if you (or anyone in the comments, really) say it’s worth it, then I’ll keep at it.

Fantastic work, by the way.

By: Pyhsix

Pyhsix — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:49:40 +0000

Hi, I bought the game the last Friday (I have updated to gold to buy the game) and I finished this night.

Thanks for this game. The end is the most beautiful thing I see in a long time.
Is a really masterpiece.

PD: Sorry for my English, good luck with the PC release

By: MrD

MrD — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:13:02 +0000

To a miserable miser like me, five bucks is a big deal, so hoorah! Problem is, miserable misers don’t tend to have Gold… but we often know people who do!

JohnnyW: The connection between 3-2 and 3-3 is that the levels are consecutive. If you add up 3 and 2, you get 5! 5-3 doesn’t have a name because 5 minus 3 is above zero. Clearly!

By: Chris W.

Chris W. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:21:18 +0000

I’ve been wanting to buy this for a while, but 1200 was a little much. especially when you have a game like castle crashers that has TONS of replay value. After buying it at the reduced price I see now it is defiantly worth it. Amazing game if you’ve been holding it off like me GO BUY IT NOW!

By: JohnnyW

JohnnyW — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:50:03 +0000

Hee. I knew you wouldn’t answer me.

I have to say a massive kudos for making the obsession theme extend outside the game to player themselves. Those of us who are still playing Braid in order to unlock the secret of the “epilogue cloud” are searching for our own princesses. Brilliant.