Braid
So a post about Christmas should be coming soon, but I just had an amazing, positively chilling gaming experience.
Braid. It's a platformer puzzle game in which you try to find puzzle pieces by manipulating time. It's an indie game, so it has a very fresh feel... it just plays as though its creators really wanted to make it. Hard to explain, but very fun.
Anyhow, as fun as the gameplay was and even with the high quality of the music, the thing that really blew me away was the story. It's revealed to you little by little through strange, seemingly disconnected bits of narrative at the beginning of each world. It's well-written, too. But then... the ending. One of those endings that abruptly turns everything upside-down and slaps you backwards. Like a short story you read only to realize at the very last sentence that you have somehow missed the entire point of everything that was written.
It's going for $2.50 right now on Steam... probably the best $2.50 I've ever spent. And if you use the XBox 360, it seems to be available for that too, somehow. There's a free demo as well which takes you about 1/3 of the way through the game, so you might want to check that out first if you're interested.
Well, I don't think this came across as very convincing... I know Eric has already played it, so maybe he can vouch for it a little more eloquently. But I felt the need to write about it. And now I must decide between getting ready for work and doing plot analysis. *sigh*
Braid. It's a platformer puzzle game in which you try to find puzzle pieces by manipulating time. It's an indie game, so it has a very fresh feel... it just plays as though its creators really wanted to make it. Hard to explain, but very fun.
Anyhow, as fun as the gameplay was and even with the high quality of the music, the thing that really blew me away was the story. It's revealed to you little by little through strange, seemingly disconnected bits of narrative at the beginning of each world. It's well-written, too. But then... the ending. One of those endings that abruptly turns everything upside-down and slaps you backwards. Like a short story you read only to realize at the very last sentence that you have somehow missed the entire point of everything that was written.
It's going for $2.50 right now on Steam... probably the best $2.50 I've ever spent. And if you use the XBox 360, it seems to be available for that too, somehow. There's a free demo as well which takes you about 1/3 of the way through the game, so you might want to check that out first if you're interested.
Well, I don't think this came across as very convincing... I know Eric has already played it, so maybe he can vouch for it a little more eloquently. But I felt the need to write about it. And now I must decide between getting ready for work and doing plot analysis. *sigh*