Braid, Anniversary Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
Braid, Anniversary Edition is a puzzle-platformer, 2d platformer and puzzle game
developed and published by Thekla and Inc..
Released on May 14th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 1,291 reviews of which 1,227 were positive and 64 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 4.87€ on Steam with a 75% discount.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-7100 / Ryzen 3 2200G
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7870
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.15
- Processor: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Memory: 4 GB RAM GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (256 MB) or ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro (256 MB)
- Storage: 2 GB available space GB available space
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There are two sides to this thing: The first is a kind of historical artifact from the era when small, independent games effectively began to take shape as a vibrant creative uprising, which contrasted sharply with the formulaic nature and stagnation of seventh gen AAA games. Even though it wasn't that long ago, it was another time. A drastically different time. And modest, very original projects like Braid had room to flourish and find their audience without being buried in the sea of ​​dispassionate, uncurated crap that floods Steam. It's a charming, short and focused game, with beautiful art direction and music and full of fun and clever puzzles to solve using mechanics related to time manipulation, thematically aligned with the narrative that feeds the context. It's a game that invites you on an introspective journey through themes that delve into painful depths. For anyone who has had a bad ending to a relationship and moved on with their lives carrying a useful but unpleasant dose of resentment and regret, this thing will sound pretty honest. Or it will just fly through your head, like a pretentious piece of art that doesn't mean much. Certainly, Jonathan Blow (The game's creator), appeared in the documentary Indie Game: The Movie , a little sad that people were having fun with his game, completely oblivious to the conversation he wanted to achieve. But what to say? It's a very good game, but i imagine that some people will find it too simple and rudimentary, and dismiss it as an artsy project. But the fact that the heart of Braid still retains some degree of relevance, still able to evoke new experiences for former players, is a testament to the passion and care behind this game. The other part is that this version also brings with it an insane amount of gems for those who are interested or admire (Even if superficially), the craft of game development. It's a rich, invaluable piece of commentary from the people involved in creating the game, exploring in detail each of the complex aspects (in a very concise and fun way) that go behind the creation of a work like this. If you like watching talks, seeing making-ofs or simply listening to what the artists of the works you like most have to say about the creative process that brought those projects to life... If you like knowing a little about how the gears move inside the machine, this is a gift. The content they offered is worth buying the game again just to see it. It's simply a very complete and delicious package. An opportunity to revisit a still very satisfying gem from yesteryear and learn and be a little fascinated by the decisions that revolve around how far a video game character can jump. Jonathan Blow is a very insightful guy, with an artistic sensitivity that may be difficult to understand, but is not hard to admire. It is recommended.
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Braid is, by all accounts, a "smart" game. Genuinely, as someone playing this for the first time in 2024, I've been told over and over by video essayists and the gaming community at large that Braid is a "smart" game, and it is. But, how far does that get you? This is a really unfortunate situation because this Anniversary edition of Braid might have actually made it so Jonathan Blow has to shut down his studio, which is a really sad reality of the current games market. That being said, I really feel as though making a remaster of Braid with a GDC talk hidden inside was kinda a misread on the current market. Beyond the game itself, the big selling point of this edition of Braid is the commentary world, which is a clever way to include developer commentary, but it has a few flaws that make it difficult to enjoy. First of all, its split up and segmented, which is nice, but I can't pause a dev comment or listen to the commentary on my way to work like I could with any of the many GDC talks that Jonathan Blow has given. The commentary here *is* interesting, but having to go step by step in order to hear game design ideology within Braid is a bit tedious compared to a Youtube video. An inconvenient GDC talk isn't really a great selling point, which is one of the many reasons I imagine this didn't sell particularly well. I picked this up on sale for 5$ and I imagine thats where a lot of the sales for this edition of Braid come from, because as interesting as Braid is for a first playthrough, this does not strike me as the kind of game that you replay over and over again. "What if Mario was an incel" is an interesting twist, but there are some parts of this that are just very much, in the words of a friend of mine, Blow attempting very hard to be seen as an auteur developer capable of creating games that mean something. I think do a degree he has cultivated that image for himself, but he also goes and argues with people in comments sections he doesn't belong in which doesn't help when people call him a pretentious asshole. The clip of Soulja Boy laughing at Braid while Blow sits in a black room from that documentary lives rent free in my head. Soulja Boy might not have fully understood Braid, but I don't think there's a ton to miss out on here. The time rewinding mechanic is interesting, and at the time this originally came out I imagine it was really top of the line, but in 2024, clever only gets you so far. I think the one thing that Blow kinda miscalculated with this is that, while interesting in theory and fun to talk about, Braid isn't a ton of fun to play past a certain point. There are some puzzle piece solutions (collectible extras) that are legitimately just stupid ways of manipulating the mechanics in ways that are not only not obvious, but also borderline absurd to even consider, and yet they are the solution to the puzzle. One in particular where you have to somehow know that your shadow version of yourself jumps a little further than you really do in order to bait it into opening a door so you can save your own key for the door behind it is... well its a bit annoying. With zero shame, I had to google some of the solutions and genuinely never would've gotten them had I not. Braid is, by all accounts, a "smart" game. I'm just not all that sure its fun. Worth a pickup for the experience, but buyer beware of a bloviating Blow-hard. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42143664/
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If you've 100% beaten the original Braid before and were curious about what's changed for the high res version: Literally nothing. You can beat the game again in exactly the same way pretty quickly and easily, since you've already done it once. The stars are still exactly as annoying to get as they were before. The only thing about the main game that's changed is that the graphics are even better, which you can check for yourself with the press of a button. The real value of Anniversary Edition is the hours and hours and hours of extremely detailed, sometimes interactive, commentary on game and level design, programming, art, music, and sound design. Jonathan Blow is present for all (EDIT: most, not all) of the commentary, but takes turns with each of the people he made the game with, in a series of insightful dialogues. If you've already heard the podcast on Jon's channel, some of the commentary covers some of the same subjects but in a ton more detail and with visual illustrations. So if you enjoyed the podcast, consider it a teaser for the full content of the Anniversary Edition.
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On top of being a fantastic little game, the Anniversary Edition of Braid might be the best self-paced course on game design released to date. The developer commentary is pure gold, discussing every aspect of the game in great detail. You can even play alternative layouts of certain levels, and see screenshots of the game at various stages of development. I had high expectations, and I was blown away.
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Gosh, it was so many years ago that it even seems like it was in another life. I completed the original game in 2008 and loved the story, music, and puzzles. During this time, the gaming industry has changed, new genres have appeared, and some have disappeared into the void, but this is one of the games of my youth and one of the games that showed that good games do not have to be AAA. Buying this game is a tribute to the memory of the developers and a fond memory of my nostalgia.
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Developer
Thekla, Inc.
Publisher
Thekla, Inc.
Release
14 May 2024
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