09-06-2011, 04:02 PM
(09-05-2011, 07:21 PM)LochnarITB Wrote: I don't dare unlocking the game though. It's the kind of thing I would obsess over and get frustrated when I can't grasp what eventually becomes obvious.
Can't argue with that. I was stuck on one of Braid's puzzle pieces towards the end of the game for forty-five minutes one night. I sat there just wracking my brain, because as you'd probably noticed, the game itself is simplistic, yet brilliant.
I went to sleep. Next day, signed in to take yet another look at the puzzle and solved it in 2 minutes. Just needed a fresh look at it to get my brain out of the rut it was in, trying to approach it in exactly the wrong way. As I grabbed that puzzle piece, I laughed in satisfaction - the answer was so easy and so obvious, but I couldn't hit it the day before.
That may happen more than once with Braid.
A further hint: the entire game is a metaphor. I can't go deeper into that without giving things away. And the ending won't hit you over the head with the meaning of it, either. You have to figure it out.
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