That’s just the simplest of cases, but gives you an idea of what I mean.

So, for instance, you can jump into an inescapable pit to grab the key down there, and then rollback time to get back up top, but that particular key is exempt from the rollback so you carry it with you instead of leaving it down there. Certain items and certain creatures are immune to the time rollback, which you can discern by a slight difference in appearance. Where I felt the gameplay really sets itself apart is when exceptions are added to the rollback process. That alone makes a handy gimmick, a timesaver convenience that could make a platformer puzzle game less frustrating, but it’s hardly something to base an entire game around, I thought.Īnd for the first few levels of the game, that’s largely true, though in those levels the novelty is still worth something. That’s about the extent of what G4TV explained about the game. If you miss a jump and fall to a lower level when you didn’t want to, just roll back and retry it. If you die, no problem, just roll back before you made the fatal mistake and take a different action. The unique twist in the game is an ability to roll back time. So I wondered, what exactly made this game so special? Not that I mind an older look (I love me some retro gaming), but that kind of list tends toward the new and trendy and whizbang hardware-limit-pushing stuff. That ranking surprised me as I watched that list, considering that, at a glance, it appeared to be using Super Nintendo era technology. It’s gotten a lot of buzz over the last few years, including placing #94 on G4TV’S Top 100 Video Games of All Time in 2013. Braid is a sidescroller puzzle game released by Number None in 2008.

Braid game