Braid 9+

This game is awesome, but subtly so. Only when you get into it do the feel the emotion behind it. What makes this game special is the way it uses time. Not your average game. You'll need to experience it to really experience it!! Highly recommended. Great soundtrack too!

I played this game on Xbox and just had to buy it when I saw it here. This game is amazing and there is nothing like it out there. The visuals are fanciful, beauitful and haunting, and the same can be said of this fantastic game's story. It's easy to dismiss this game based on the ease of it's platforming elements, but believe me, this game is not trying to be Super Mario Bros. It is a puzzle game, and platforming is how the designers chose to lay out the puzzles. Anyone (and I am sorry to be rude to the people who have reviewed this game negatively) who has dismissed this game as a "mario bros rip-off" clearly does not have the attention-span, patience, or intelligence to understand the surreal and emotional beauty of this game. If you are the type of gamer who can invest yourself in a game, you will find no faults with it. A pure joy to play, with one of the best soundtracks out there.

I am a huge gamer, and have been since childhood. This game is of the best video games I have ever played. It truly pushes the genre.

I can't recommend Braid enough. Don't dismiss it as a Mario clone- it's actually more of a puzzle-solving game than a platformer. Normally I find puzzle games boring (I prefer action/adventure/FPS games) but Braid is unlike any game I've ever played. Every challenge is centered around manipulating time- slowing it down, rewinding it, or in some cases, doing both. Some of the puzzles are really challenging, but there's this extremely satisfying 'AH-HA!' moment when you figure them out. You can progress through the game without completing every single puzzle, so if you really can't figure something out, you won't get stuck forever.