Could be but is not all it's cracked up to be

User Rating: 6.5 | Braid PC
I think this game has too much hype clouding people's judgment about it. It's really easy to be taken in by the presentation, beautiful graphics, top notch presentation (especially the cute little homages to Mario Bros and Donnie Darko) and the overall grand concept. But honestly when it comes down to it there are some flaws when it comes to core gameplay.

This game relies on a lot of little cheap tricks, like super timed jumps, little nudged movements, and sometimes the space-time based powers really make no sense in how they're applied. I'd say 50% of the puzzles are cheap 25% are clever and the rest are just no-brainer so-so types. I guess in that sense it's a blessing the game is so short, although that itself is another issue with the game if you pay full price since there is 0 replay value once you've solved it. The plot imo tries hard to be artsy-fartsy for the sake of it and doesn't really lend to a solid game-ending conclusion but it's so inconsequential that it's easy to ignore that as part of the game.

Having said all that I think it's still worth the purchase if you can pick it up on the cheap mainly because the presentation is so fantastic. I'd say $5 for it is fair but anything more and you're cheating yourself.