Braid was weird and I'm not sure I liked it.

[nekosd43]

So I finished Braid with the help of my brother, who has an eye for things that I miss.  I'm not always the best at puzzle games because I get frustrated quickly with the interface.  A lot of the time, I know what it is I need to do to solve a given puzzle, but I lack the input skill to be able to solve it.  It's like knowing the answer to a math

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[nekosd43]

I know that lauding praise on something is ultimately a matter of opinion, but I really don't think I could praise the storytelling of this game at all. It's just a mess. I know there are people out there that like this "high art" stuff, whatever that means, but I've played plenty of games that managed to get a better story and more metaphorical resonance in in a much neater way. Or at least they worked the metaphor into the game rather than just tacking it on at the end. And it's not even a matter of "it's up for interpretation," it's just "the game is actually about this, you mortals are just too thick to understand it