If you enjoyed Braid, there's a lot more of it here!

I never played the original so this review will be from that perspective. Braid is a fantastic puzzle platformer, it has a ton of cultural significance as far as the games industry goes. It showed very early on that as an indie you can make games unique and strong enough to stand on their own.

Even many years later Braid still shows that this is possible. Its mechanics still feel unique and robust. The whole game is centered around manipulating time, even though you only have 1 button to do so, every world ends up offering new mechanical changes to keep everything fresh. It constantly offers genuinely hard puzzles that are generally pretty fun to solve. The only problem I have is that some of these puzzles feel so incredibly complicated because it plays with concepts that the game never tried to introduce to the player, you as a player have to just take what the game gives you an keep experimenting until you find an answer.

This game does everything id want from a puzzle platformer. It offers real challenge, looks beautiful and sounds relaxing. Its short but offers non stop new content in the short amount of time its here. Its story is interesting to read through and thankfully doesn't get in the way of the main game. The new version adds new graphics which look fantastic, if at any point you want to see the original graphics you can just press a button, comparing the 2 really shows how beautiful the game back then was and how far they were able to push it this time. As a new player I wholeheartedly recommend braid at its full price point, its an extremely polished game that offers entertainment that truly could only be possible through the video game medium.