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green_sky on 14 November 2012
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badgenome said:

48. Braid (X360, PS3, Windows, Mac, your mom)



One of the first XBLA games to really become a critical and commercial success, Braid single handedly raised the bar for what is to be expected from a downloadable game. It fairly oozes with charm thanks to its painterly visual style and pitch perfect acoustic soundtrack, both of which represented a quantum leap in quality over previous downloadables, which were largely either ports of ancient games or cheaply made new ones. Far from being a triumph of style over substance, though, Braid also boasts brilliant timeshifting gameplay and is one of the most devilishly clever puzzle-platformers around. The story is vague and impressively evocative, and culminates in the single most profoundly mindfucking plot twist in the history of the universe. Amazingly, it does all this while managing to only be a tad bit pretentious. That's no mean feat because Jonathan Blow is kind of a twat.

I cannot stop watching that gif. Plus gif won word of the year beating crap works like yolo. Yea Blow was pretty sad in Indie Game the movie. Even if people liked Braid he said they didn't get it or like it right. Hmm. Oh well guy is talented.