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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!