Braid

Maybe this will be a blog ranting about great games that everyone else was ranting about over a year ago, but that I just picked up in the bargain bin and am therefore playing for the first time.

Today that game is Braid, which Steam has on sale for $4.99 this weekend.

Braid does not have any of the fancy 3D graphics of modern games, it is a two dimensional game where the backgrounds seem to be beautifully painted with water colors. It is not fast paced and does not make your adrenaline rush. It is a puzzle game. It is a puzzle game that has you staring at the same screen searching for some sort of new information that was not there a minute ago and seconds away from looking up the solution online before you final figure it out yourself and feel like you just aced a test that everyone else failed. Of course in my case eveyone else has already figured it out, they having bought the game a year ago.

Still, after putting together the final peices of the puzzle for the second world I figured I must have not only been the first person to figure it out, but also the smartest person on the planet, even though the stats on the Steam service told me that 64.2% of the people that bought the game had also already figured it out.

Does not matter though, I am still a genius.