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Game ReviewFor CIS 487

Zheng Zhang

09/24/2012

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Basic Information

Game title: Braid

Author: Jonathan Blow(independent software develo

per)

Type of game: Platform and puzzle video game

Price: $9.99 for PC

hardware requirements:

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7

Processor: 1.4GHz or faster

Memory: 768 MB or more

Hard Disk Space: 200 MB or more

DirectX® Version: DirectX® 9.0c

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Game Summary

• The music and graph would touch everyone

• Easy to play but not easy to pass

• Very good story

• A game you can reverse time

——Quick overview

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Game Summary

• Player's role is Tim who can reverse time.

• Searching for a princess who "has been snatched by a horrible and evil monster."

• The truth is that the princess running from Tim, setting traps that he is able to evade.

• The ending of the game is purposely ambiguous, and has been subject to multiple interpretations.

——Story line&Player's role

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Game Summary

• Installation is very simple. It is not a big game.

• The Interface is simple you only use few key on the keyboard to finish all the work.(just up,down,left,right,space,shift)

• There isn't any settings or options. You just follow the story. That's fine.

——Installation&User Interface

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• Good and funny instructions• Fancy ability:rewind(need a demo)

——Game Play

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• Finding and assembling jigsaw puzzle pieces• Explore the new world

——Scoring

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• We have seen the demo. There isn's anything more need to say.

• We are enjoy the music from braid now. What do you think.

——Artwork&Sound and Music

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• Finding and assembling jigsaw puzzle pieces• Explore the new world

——Scoring

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Game Review

• Artwork and Music• The story- It looks like a story to rescure the princess. But it c

ontains some thinking about the life and world.- To the deeper meaning of the story, there are diffe

rent opinions on the internet.• The puzzles- You need to ues different ability to achieve goals.- Each jigsaw puzzle picture has deeper meaning.

——What is good (fun) about the game? Why?

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• Not exciting- You maybe feel boring if you meet a obstacle you

can't pass.

——What is bad (not fun) about the game? Why?

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• Endless Story- World2->W3->W4->W5->W6->World1

• More elements than classical puzzle game.- When you find how to solve the puzzle, you also n

eed the skills to do it.• More joys than classical platform game.- With fighting and running, you also need use your

brain to solve the puzzles.

—— How does it compare to similar games in the same genre? & Why is it better than similar games?

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• Adults,enjoying the puzzles and story- A kid maybe not understand the meaning of story.- Someone enjot exciting may not like it.

——What is the appropriate audience for this game?

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Summary——Overall strengths and weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses•Story•puzzles•Abilities•Art & music

•Not Exciting•Only a part of people like it•Hard to pass

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Summary—— Is the game worth purchasing?

& How could it be improved?• To someone like this style,it worth purchasing• To improve this game- Make the story more easily to understand.- Add more types of fighting.

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MysteryThe Princess, somehow harnessed and shackled, looms ominously in the sky

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Mystery

• Quote- On that moment hung eternity. Time stood still.

Space contracted to a pinpoint. It was as though the earth had opened and the skies split. One felt as though he had been privileged to witness the Birth of the World…

- Someone near him said: “It worked.”

Someone else said: “Now we are all sons of bitches.”

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Mystery

One of the paintings also shows a World War II

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Mystery

• Quote- She stood tall and majestic. She radiated fury. She

shouted: “Who has disturbed me?” But then, anger expelled, she felt the sadness beneath; she let her breath fall softly, like a sigh, like ashes floating gently on the wind.

She couldn’t understand why he chose to flirt so closely with the death of the world.

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Thank You!