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Author: hmd
Posted: January 07, 2009 (03:54 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Jonathan Blow is the guy who made the game, not a reviewer.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: January 07, 2009 (06:39 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I haven't played braid, and being a devout disliker of Xbox, I probably never will.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: January 08, 2009 (01:44 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah, slightly awkward for me, this one. Firstly because Eurogamer is one of my favourite games sites and I know a lot of the guys who write there (though not this one, it has to be said), and secondly - as has been pointed out - the criticism kind of loses its weight when you get the reviewer confused with the developer.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: January 08, 2009 (04:11 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
As someone who tends to slip into overly-pretentious and overlong prose from time to time, I greatly enjoyed the mocking. I even went and got you some screenshots.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: January 08, 2009 (04:46 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I hate the regularity of claims that anything a person didn't quite understand is therefore 'pretentious'. Again, this doesn't necessarily mean you. This review just led me to think of a few bugbears I have about the critiquing of games journalism.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: January 08, 2009 (05:23 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Keep it up, and I'll start questioning your methods and thus start a new trend of reviewing the reviews of reviews, then we'll have only one place left to go. Apocolypse.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: January 08, 2009 (05:44 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I tend to think as long as you can justify it, you're not making any pretences at all.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: January 08, 2009 (09:42 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
As long as this thread doesn't get all its opinions deleted, I think we're on the good side of criticism.,
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Author: JANUS2
Posted: January 08, 2009 (12:38 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I hate the regularity of claims that anything a person didn't quite understand is therefore 'pretentious'.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: April 11, 2009 (11:06 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Months later, having actually played the game now, I feel I can form a better response to this review.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: April 11, 2009 (11:58 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Braid's "depth" is a complete illusion. It delivers a bunch of plot ideas that are so disparate and unconnected that no coherent conclusion is possible without delving into the obscure references and convoluted interpretations that exist on the net.
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Author: JANUS2
Posted: April 11, 2009 (01:36 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It's funny, because you state that the story was largely irrelevant to your enjoyment, but it seems so intrinsically linked.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: April 11, 2009 (02:52 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Not necessarily. I think I see where you're coming from. And I don't necessarily disagree. Outside of the time mechanics, which obviously play a part in the twist and the overall statement, there's very little connection between game and plot. I think we both just come at that from different angles. Yours is: "Good little platformer - shame they didn't know how to work the story in." Mine is: "Beautiful story - but it's kind of irrelevant that it's a platformer."
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