braid

Braid trailer from David Hellman on Vimeo.

I love new kinds of video games like this. I feel like I will spend a good chunk of my eventual future developing new ways of interacting with computers for music or video games. I like : )

I love the art. It looked so nice on my crappy TV, and the videos of it in good resolution look even prettier. So nice, painted, great animation and interaction between elements, and the motion of everything is way cool.

I love the music. Dark Celtic music, if you've ever heard of such a thing, is what I'd call it, and it's very pretty. Further, as you play with time in the game play, the music slows down, goes in reverse and grinds to a halt, giving your experience this really strange complete immersion thing. It's way cool and difficult to articulate.

The gameplay is my favorite though. It is so completely different than anything else that's out there, and so engaging, it's amazing. A reviewer said the game was simple once you changed your way of thinking about using the progression of time.