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"You ever feel like your brain has been through the blender and if you tilt your head too far to the side, the synapse slushy might leak out? After Bayonetta a couple weeks ago and now Braid, that is exactly how I feel.
If you poured tequila in my ear and rubbed salt on my face, you’d get Hannibal Lecter’s favorite margarita.
For those of you playing the home game, Braid is a puzzle platformer developed by independent game designer Jonathan Blow and released on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Now, I myself have a sort of short attention span, so I gravitate toward games that allow me to push a lot of buttons and stuff. Puzzle platformers aren’t really my style most of the time.
And…that may be the case this time."
No, it’s not exactly elegant, but the plot is as lowbrow as the game goes; very little of the actual humor of the game relies on jokes about wearing five thongs, and a lot of it is smarter than you might expect. It plays like a Diablo-style action RPG, but it feels like what it is: DeathSpank.
I just recently picked this up and I am satisfied. I also recomend picking up the ones two games before this because tyhe story all ties in together. Yes the jokes are pretty good , the gameplay is very smooth ( psn version ) and there are enough of mission/ side quests to keep you busy for a while.
