Comment on Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow

wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Edit: Wait, Braid Anniversary didn’t even include new levels? No wonder it didn’t sell! All it has is a documentary track and some visuals.

  “Braid: Anniversary Edition launched in May and adds 40 new levels, as well as over 15 hours of commentary”

  From the article.

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  • bread@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    From a Steam review:

    The game was advertised as having 40 new levels, which at first glance is sounds engaging and interesting, until you find out most of those levels are programmer/beta/alpha stages. It’s not entirely new content, but rather going through iterations until you arrive at the level as it is today. While interesting, it does feel disingenuous to advertise this as a new level. When I hear braid has a new level, I think “There’s one more puzzle piece”, but that’s not the case. You are not rewarded with anything in game, but instead receive some occasionally insightful commentary. In total, there are around 14 actual, new puzzles.

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  • wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I looked on the Steam page and didn’t see that, but I thought I remembered it from launch. Perhaps I was just tired and missed it, but I think they didn’t do a good enough job calling it out.

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• silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Put out Witness 2 and I’m all over it.

  If you liked the puzzle design style of the Witness, check out Taiji. It uses a similar open-ended structure that leaves puzzle rules for you to discover on your own.

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  • wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That does look good. Thanks!

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