-from what I can see, the game has been edited, allowing the switches to glow and not be affected by time, and also by placing extra blocks of scenery to the right of the chandelier.
Slight problem here. The canon switch on my xbox360 version does not glow, therefore when I rewind time, it re-sets like everything else. It simply doesn't work. So how exactly did you get that switch to glow???
Hey guys, did you notice that in this alternate ending, there is an extra door (locked) right next to the red one. Where does that door take you and where is the key? I noticed that in the regular ending, there is NO LOCKED DOOR! So that must be an extra feature of the real ending!
@chesita maybe that is the idea. the door is LOCKED. it is a path he could have gone down but he cannot anymore. and though he sees the door, he cannot go beyond it after what he did
@rubberduckey111 but what if you didnt collect the 8th star after you catch the princess... are we sure that there isnt a key hidden somewhere to open that door? it doesnt make sense that it is not to be open!
The constelation is andromeda,in mithology she would be sacrificed to the kraken to protect her people before perseus slained the creature and saved her. can you make any sense of it in the game ?
what I was supposed to be accomplishing by playing it. Jonathan Blow, you have a great idea here, now explain it to us, or at least let us experience the entire thing without torturing ourselves.
The sad thing is, including a secret ending in a game that you have to go through an insane amount of challenges to get is kind of pointless since once one person puts it on Youtube everyone else can watch it without actually playing the game and fulfilling the requirements. I played this game, got the regular ending, got one star, then gave up because that one star took 4 hours to get because of that stupid slowly moving cloud. And I still do not know what anything in this game means or...
@caturday456 It is a reference to the Manhattan Project; the one were Albert Einstein and a bunch of other scientists created the atomic bomb. When you think about it, the entire thing can be a metaphor for that, or simply just a way to describe how much of a catastrophic disaster their relationship was. However, there were actually 2 direct quotes from workers of the Manhattan project, and the whole story makes sense as the princess being life/bomb and Tim being a scientist/death.Think about it
The Princess he fought so hard to find, he had found long ago. She was the death of countless lives and the fear of generations past and future. The guilt was unbearable; he buried her memory in mental obstacles. Until one day, he stumbled on one of these traps. Working backwards, he began to understand what her true nature was; why he hid the memory.
However, the puzzle was a farce, the solution merely paint over the scratch. A distraction from the fires of his greatest mistake; the Atom Bomb.
How anyone found this out is beyond me. What an awsomely confusing, frustrating, challenging, exhilaratingly deep, well thought out masterpiece of gaming. I even went and bought the soundtrack!
Actually, is because that site told them about the secret ending and linked to the video. It's not like everybody will search for "[random game name] secret ending" on google without knowing THERE IS a secret ending =P
@HLFredusko ...People don't browse Cracked normally!? How strange my friends and I must be to actually like Cracked enough to read the articles without having to Google the topic. There is also the fact that Google WILL give you a 'secret ending' result even if you don't directly search for it. That actually sounds backwards, now that I think about it: How many people knew there was a secret ending *without* finding it online?
No, I guess you misunderstood what I said. What I said is that people were not looking for the secret ending, did not know it existed, and played the whole game not knowing it had a secret ending at all. One day, Cracked published an article about secret game endings, they read it, knew from it that braid had one of those, and followed the link. There is nothing weird about it, don't know why it's bothering you so much =P
@HLFredusko Actually, I think this is bothering you and you're projecting that on to me. You responded to a joking post I made with an obvious response. A lot of people who read Cracked found out about a game they hadn't played, then looked at this video to see if it's worth it.
@HLFredusko The problem with your argument is that you can find this out from a simple Google search if you've played the game by looking up the constellation (or really, anything), which these people didn't do because they didn't think of it (making my idea that most of them haven't played the game more likely). My joke was that there are an alarming amount of people who don't look things up without being linked by a funny article, which is what I was commenting on in my joke. Make sense?
Braid is about regret, and moving on from regret. Sometimes we do things we really wish we didn't. Maybe its a relationship. Maybe its a project we're so engrossed in we forget about the social ramifications. In Braid the creation of the atomic bomb is compared to that of a failed relationship. Tim tries to grab on to what he can't have-be it love or knowledge-and ends up losing something dear to him as a result. And in post modern style, the game is about him ruminating through the pieces.
@buggyiscool its an website that has interesting articles. and your video is happened to be in a link they gave. and people who said "cracked" meant that it was Cracked.com that led them here.
@buggyiscool Cracked.com is a humor website. There's an article about the scariest Easter Eggs hidden in video games with a link to this video. That's why you are getting a lot of views right now. ww.cracked.com/article_19172_8-creepy-video-game-urban-legends-that-happen-to-be-true_p2.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage
First of all: Nobody cares that you got linked here from Cracked.
Second of all: This is amazing. I'd actually come to the atom-bomb conclusion due to the normal ending and the quote. I didn't know this easter egg existed. It's almost like they said "Hey, think our point was too subtle? Maybe we can make it glaringly obvious in an alternate ending :P"
@SahjanS That's the constellation Andromeda, named after a princess from Greek mythology who was chained to a rock to be sacrificed to a monster, as punishment for her mother's sins. She was saved from death by Perseus, a hero and founder of the Mycenaean civilization.
when you come there for a second time, when rewinding back with normal ending, mona lisa having a beard and moustache (if you look closer) and last 2 levers having stairs. (3:13) i dont know if we have something to do with them.
this game blew my fucking mind in the same way that the movie memento did. there need to be more games with excellent, ambiguous plots like this, instead of dumb plots that piece everything together for you.
This game is fucking confusing... but it makes you think and gives a beautiful, slightly depressing atmosphere.. you should try the game Aether on newgrounds it gives me kindof the same feel :P
@buggyiscool Hey!, did you notice that in this alternate ending, there is an extra door (locked) right next to the red one. Where does that door take you and where is the key? I noticed that in the regular ending, there is NO LOCKED DOOR! So that must be an extra feature of the real ending!
My description of this ending: And them some of the switches become timeproof. So you can get to the chandelier sooner, and actually rescue the princess.
There isn't only a Manhattan project quote, there are lines about ethics, animal research and chocolate. The game seems more about humanity's furious but shortsighted drive for progress in general than only about the atom bomb. I saw Tim as humanity and the Princess as mother Earth--hence the lines about Tim's mother holding him back from all of the things that he wants to understand and have (in the candy store's window), of which the atom bomb was the worst, but not the only.
i love that everyone's really talkative about this game, its great...but holy shit! its not the bible people haha shes a bomb, she goes boom, end of story
@buggyiscool That's only the space-time continuum kerploding. At least if she WERE a bomb, ONLY TIM is killed (and, maybe, a small chunk of London depending on the yield of the Princess). Now, because he didn't stick to the script the Fates gave him, everything in the universe is dead.
Good video, by the way. I only came here because I accidentally pulled a green lever again before f***ing Time over. I couldn't go to where the Knight was. I wanted to see if there was anything.
The reason why touching the princess makes an explosion? THAT'S YOU MESSING UP THE FABRIC OF TIME. If you notice, it turns out everything is going backwards, and if you rewind, you'll release that the princess was actually running from you, and she was actually turning on the traps in real time. By capturing her though, you end up causing a paradox.
mmm...i think the Atomic bomb theory makes more sense, especially after reading the quote made by Kenneth Bainbridge (He was the director of the Trinity test of the manhattan project..remember that manhattan is mentioned in the game) after the detonation of the first atomic bomb "Now we are all sons of bitches"
thats why she explodes, cuz she is the atomic bomb and tim is a scientist
@sascachuhuan Except that the guy who created the entire game syas it's NOT about the atomic bomb and he flat-out scoffs at that interpretation simply saying that people who believe it "Missed clues, and didn't get it."
@17thknight dont take this offensively but every review and breakdown of this game says the princess is tim's work toward the atom bomb (it has quotes about the manhattan project) and if its not about a nuke..then why does she explode?
@buggyiscool A lot of people say that, but just because of a single quote in the game "We're all bastards now". The simple explanation for why she explodes is that he destroyed the "time-space" continuum by touching her when that's not what actually happened.
Keep in mind, during the part where you CAN touch her, everything is going in reverse. So you're essentially reliving previous events. It's impossible for him to "change" what happened, and in doing so, she explodes.
The guy who created the game doesn't scoff at any interpretation, nor has he ever confirmed or denied any possible interpretations. What he actually says (and this is a quote) is that he left the game "very open to interpretation". If he purposely left it open to people's interpretations then why would he "flat-out scoff" at anyone's take on it?
Please don't pretend to know something you really know nothing about.
Just to save anyone else the trouble, you can't jump on the chandelier unless you have the stars on the go. The second claw-plant keeps you back and you don't have time to get over to the chandelier.
But there simply HAS to be something more to that constellation, something intrumental perhaps, something left to discover, something SOMETHING that could undo yourmisfortunes with the princess and deliver her back into your arms once more! I mean damn it this is supposed to end wéll or not at all is it? The love history I mean. So what is it!!!?
The constellation at the end is Andromeda, the Chained Woman. She was chained to a rock as an offering to the Leviathan, to appease Poseidon, and was rescued by Perseus.
@Emeexuqu i see that as a bit of a rationalization on tim's part to justify the forward going for the princess, because normally when you rewind it to see the truth the fire isnt there
when you run back the last level after completing it the normal way there's a ladder going up that wan't there before attached to the platform before the long staircase. Does anyone know if this can be use at all?
You don't actually need to rewind from the end near the last two plants. I read just enough of a star-walkthrough to find out where to find them but not how to (OMG some of those stars...) and I didn't rewind in the last area except during the first switch so I could rewind and "skip" going up the ladder. Otherwise they say it's an alternate ending...didn't see much "alteration" and more removal...would have almost preferred it if the normal ending was the secret one...
Nice one dude just completed it myself (without the stars) and i thought it may have something to do about the A-bomb cos of manhattan on fire and the WW2 poster in one of the jigsaws, and ofc the numerous quotes from people who helped make the A-bomb, im glad to think i ent the only one
@cownija Well, when something is as mentally stimulating as this, makes you think as much as this game does, its hard to stop watching until the very end.
Actually, I just did this, and that's not exactly true. Getting eight stars is the same as having NO stars in regards to the time-proof (green) levers. The game checks if you have SEVEN stars. (Having all of them prior to being here); if you do, the levers are green. Else, they're normal. This also means that the moment you get the star in the Princess' room, you can never do this again, unless you erase your save file.
Although, that reply is 10 months old, so I'm probably on the late train.
@mackdallas No, if you pay very close attention, you'll notice that the levels are REVERSED. And at the end (more appropriately the beginning), you go into Rewind and it shows the whole story where Tim is chasing after the princess and she's trying to get away by dropping chandeliers on him, trying to catch him in traps, until the brave knight comes and rescues her from that sick sadistic man (He was ripping rat brains to shreds and depriving monkeys of water to find her).
Dude, do you realize what your obsession on finding all 8 stars and reaching the princess made you do?? you just destroyed the whole humankind... are you happy now? ; )
@buggyiscool But don't you see? In your hours long quest for all the stars you mirrored Tim's obsession for the princess. You've done a terrible thing.
this is probably a stupid question, but in the real ending when you rewind all the way, did you notice the ladders? and if so why are they there?
jsk8r13 9 hours ago
@buggyiscool well, at least i wasnt too lazy to play til the normal ending myself. but how the fuck am i supposed to know bout this alternate ending
FlohohoYeeaah 4 days ago
that is a wtf boom
masterboti96 1 month ago
when you play this game, you dont tend to notice that everything is rewinding...
Alkaline1337 1 month ago
ok for people questioning the glowing levers, this only happens when u get the other 7 stars( which are a bitch to find)
xLACKOSx 1 month ago
-from what I can see, the game has been edited, allowing the switches to glow and not be affected by time, and also by placing extra blocks of scenery to the right of the chandelier.
zastavia 1 month ago
@zastavia
Or maybe you should just get all 7 stars, then see the difference.
TheMinerThatCrafts 1 month ago
@zastavia If by edited you mean they got 7 of the 8 stars and that affected the final level then yes.
MrTylerhw 1 month ago
@zastavia make sure you have 7 stars buddy, then it will work
buggyiscool 1 month ago
Slight problem here. The canon switch on my xbox360 version does not glow, therefore when I rewind time, it re-sets like everything else. It simply doesn't work. So how exactly did you get that switch to glow???
zastavia 1 month ago
Well, an ending like that isn't exactly open to interpretation.
Hafwaffy 1 month ago
even before i finished the game I thought it was A Bomb!
I was woah! @ her blowing UP o.0
Johnathan Blow made best Mario successor ever!
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Finally. Thanks to everyone at cracked and you Youtube guys. I finally get it.
The monster that took the princess was himself. He was trying to save the princess from himself by going back in time.
tik999 2 months ago
@tik999 He was never trying to save her... ever.
Joshimuz 1 month ago
So uh.. did he destroy the nuke before America got to use it or what?
hl2og 4 months ago
@hl2og no he is supposed to be the scientists that regretted ever making the bomb he is supposed to be the actual monster alluded to in the opening
uzumaki11111111 3 months ago
stupid question. Is this recorded from your xbox or something?
Eragarev 5 months ago
@Eragarev nope this is the computer version, used fraps (a screen capture made for games)
buggyiscool 5 months ago 6
@buggyiscool Geeze, then why is my PC version of such low quality?
Eragarev 5 months ago
Hey guys, did you notice that in this alternate ending, there is an extra door (locked) right next to the red one. Where does that door take you and where is the key? I noticed that in the regular ending, there is NO LOCKED DOOR! So that must be an extra feature of the real ending!
chesita 5 months ago
@chesita maybe that is the idea. the door is LOCKED. it is a path he could have gone down but he cannot anymore. and though he sees the door, he cannot go beyond it after what he did
rubberduckey111 5 months ago
@rubberduckey111 but what if you didnt collect the 8th star after you catch the princess... are we sure that there isnt a key hidden somewhere to open that door? it doesnt make sense that it is not to be open!
chesita 5 months ago
The constelation is andromeda,in mithology she would be sacrificed to the kraken to protect her people before perseus slained the creature and saved her. can you make any sense of it in the game ?
bladerj 5 months ago
@bladerj Yes. Using the atomic bomb (Andromeda) against the japoneses (kraken) to save the world (her people). Or maybe not.
Alexeiyeah 4 months ago
what I was supposed to be accomplishing by playing it. Jonathan Blow, you have a great idea here, now explain it to us, or at least let us experience the entire thing without torturing ourselves.
Sewblon 5 months ago
The sad thing is, including a secret ending in a game that you have to go through an insane amount of challenges to get is kind of pointless since once one person puts it on Youtube everyone else can watch it without actually playing the game and fulfilling the requirements. I played this game, got the regular ending, got one star, then gave up because that one star took 4 hours to get because of that stupid slowly moving cloud. And I still do not know what anything in this game means or...
Sewblon 5 months ago
She just....Exploded O_O
caturday456 5 months ago
@caturday456 It is a reference to the Manhattan Project; the one were Albert Einstein and a bunch of other scientists created the atomic bomb. When you think about it, the entire thing can be a metaphor for that, or simply just a way to describe how much of a catastrophic disaster their relationship was. However, there were actually 2 direct quotes from workers of the Manhattan project, and the whole story makes sense as the princess being life/bomb and Tim being a scientist/death.Think about it
Baxbound 5 months ago
The Princess he fought so hard to find, he had found long ago. She was the death of countless lives and the fear of generations past and future. The guilt was unbearable; he buried her memory in mental obstacles. Until one day, he stumbled on one of these traps. Working backwards, he began to understand what her true nature was; why he hid the memory.
However, the puzzle was a farce, the solution merely paint over the scratch. A distraction from the fires of his greatest mistake; the Atom Bomb.
LazyVoyager 5 months ago 3
is there a reason for this? like why she blew up
gentlemortal 5 months ago
You, know, you could look up at the constellation and see it without the stars.
iambored2006 6 months ago
That's the Andromeda constellation... therefore the chains.
boyluckluck 6 months ago
Cracked :p
miamouse54 6 months ago
How anyone found this out is beyond me. What an awsomely confusing, frustrating, challenging, exhilaratingly deep, well thought out masterpiece of gaming. I even went and bought the soundtrack!
rrwryan 6 months ago 2
If the star rating system was still here I'd give this video 8/8 stars :) this game is awesome!
CameraMan9258 6 months ago
the constalation is his wife
TheMarathonproductio 7 months ago
[YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST]
Andreus 7 months ago
can you upload your save game, pls!
SuperTammy97 7 months ago
Who the heck is Cracked?
Louchan2 7 months ago
@Louchan2 The website that people got here from because they don't know how to regularly browse YouTube, apparently. :P
MysterySC09 7 months ago
@MysterySC09
Actually, is because that site told them about the secret ending and linked to the video. It's not like everybody will search for "[random game name] secret ending" on google without knowing THERE IS a secret ending =P
HLFredusko 5 months ago
@HLFredusko ...People don't browse Cracked normally!? How strange my friends and I must be to actually like Cracked enough to read the articles without having to Google the topic. There is also the fact that Google WILL give you a 'secret ending' result even if you don't directly search for it. That actually sounds backwards, now that I think about it: How many people knew there was a secret ending *without* finding it online?
Either way, my original comment still stands. :P
MysterySC09 5 months ago
@MysterySC09
No, I guess you misunderstood what I said. What I said is that people were not looking for the secret ending, did not know it existed, and played the whole game not knowing it had a secret ending at all. One day, Cracked published an article about secret game endings, they read it, knew from it that braid had one of those, and followed the link. There is nothing weird about it, don't know why it's bothering you so much =P
HLFredusko 5 months ago
@HLFredusko Actually, I think this is bothering you and you're projecting that on to me. You responded to a joking post I made with an obvious response. A lot of people who read Cracked found out about a game they hadn't played, then looked at this video to see if it's worth it.
MysterySC09 5 months ago
@HLFredusko The problem with your argument is that you can find this out from a simple Google search if you've played the game by looking up the constellation (or really, anything), which these people didn't do because they didn't think of it (making my idea that most of them haven't played the game more likely). My joke was that there are an alarming amount of people who don't look things up without being linked by a funny article, which is what I was commenting on in my joke. Make sense?
MysterySC09 5 months ago
the flames are actually the showckwave of the nuclear blast, leaving a destroyed level.
Ohsky4 7 months ago
Thank you game. I don't even play you and I will forever have nightmares.
RyuzakisGirl 8 months ago
was brought here by cracked
gentlemortal 8 months ago
o_______o
melloe 8 months ago
awesome
LinkLeoSF 8 months ago
that's mama luigi to you, mario!
darkandmetric 8 months ago
now that's disturbing D:
Stickfinger 8 months ago
*NUCLEAR EXPLOSION*
Tim: ...I'm good.
JanitorAntisocial 8 months ago 4
@JanitorAntisocial LMFAO
loekust 8 months ago
That's seriously screwed up...
TheDante665 8 months ago
Now we're all sons of bitches.
GenoAwesome 8 months ago 8
@GenoAwesome How come you know my mom?
BlistElk 8 months ago 2
I had always heard people say Braid was a bit pretentious, but just viewing this has made me more of a douchebag
havvyweponsman 8 months ago
creepy...
jerrycaidic08 8 months ago
Braid is about regret, and moving on from regret. Sometimes we do things we really wish we didn't. Maybe its a relationship. Maybe its a project we're so engrossed in we forget about the social ramifications. In Braid the creation of the atomic bomb is compared to that of a failed relationship. Tim tries to grab on to what he can't have-be it love or knowledge-and ends up losing something dear to him as a result. And in post modern style, the game is about him ruminating through the pieces.
Judex777 8 months ago 19
@Judex777
Also: obsession.
twocows360 6 months ago
Cracked.com brought you here. I know this because I'm psychic.
Sianmav 9 months ago 38
@Sianmav yup
youdududu 8 months ago
@Sianmav Wrong
riomhadoir 3 weeks ago
this game is wierd
461guy 9 months ago
So it IS about the nuke... Blow, you freaking lied to us!
SergeantLuke 9 months ago 3
The fuck, cracked has furiously mind raped me D:
0gunman 9 months ago
Excuse me while I pick up the scattered, bloody pieces of my brain that have just exploded across the room after realising this secret.
CDCaptainFalcon 9 months ago
cracked is awesome
albusfr 9 months ago
scary as hell...
Shippoyasha 9 months ago
cracked!
bellacute9 9 months ago
Thankyou Cracked :)
buggyiscool 9 months ago 425
@buggyiscool
cracked(DOT)com/article_19172_8-creepy-video-game-urban-legends-that-happen-to-be-true_p2.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage
5OClockFunny 9 months ago
@buggyiscool its an website that has interesting articles. and your video is happened to be in a link they gave. and people who said "cracked" meant that it was Cracked.com that led them here.
LilFuniAZNBoi 9 months ago
@buggyiscool cracked.com a site with interesting articles to read :) at least for me.. check it out..
Thndrbolt54 9 months ago
@buggyiscool Cracked.com is a humor website. There's an article about the scariest Easter Eggs hidden in video games with a link to this video. That's why you are getting a lot of views right now. ww.cracked.com/article_19172_8-creepy-video-game-urban-legends-that-happen-to-be-true_p2.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage
foodiedave 9 months ago
lol cracked
MaxW3B3R 9 months ago
@buggyiscool cracked.com, fool
crazyfroglol 9 months ago
makes sense then that the city is on fire in the main menu.
Renshato 9 months ago
@buggyiscool
Cracked is a comedy website. Your video was featured there as part of an article discussing the urban legends surrounding videogames.
Jspyster 9 months ago
The guy at Cracked sent me.
reaperette 9 months ago
linked from cracked! Nobody cares that you don't care!
siamesemojo 9 months ago 4
I'm gald I read that craked article.
arandajose20 9 months ago
First of all: Nobody cares that you got linked here from Cracked.
Second of all: This is amazing. I'd actually come to the atom-bomb conclusion due to the normal ending and the quote. I didn't know this easter egg existed. It's almost like they said "Hey, think our point was too subtle? Maybe we can make it glaringly obvious in an alternate ending :P"
Mik0ri 9 months ago 3
Hm...That Constellation is Andromeda...how does this have to do with the bombs?
HaraMecheo98 9 months ago
@aeronfox now try to turn back time at the credits screen ;)
kleverperson 9 months ago
I was brought here by Cracked lol
ArmyOfOne313 9 months ago 123
@ArmyOfOne313 lol. so was i!
nightman117 9 months ago
No, *I* was brought here by Cracked... lol.
wasnr 9 months ago 2
what shape is the constellation in, at the end??
SahjanS 9 months ago
@SahjanS That's the constellation Andromeda, named after a princess from Greek mythology who was chained to a rock to be sacrificed to a monster, as punishment for her mother's sins. She was saved from death by Perseus, a hero and founder of the Mycenaean civilization.
voltshock99 9 months ago 3
So damn creepy
DrinkMoreMelloYello 9 months ago
I heard this was one of the theories but I never believed it until now. Thanks to cracked I've been set straight
Nessrox444 9 months ago
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thanks, cracked
4N0M4L0U55H1N081 9 months ago 105
be-be-beep .....WHAT THE FU-- BOOOOM!!!!
LIGHTRONIX 10 months ago
If you look up to the constellation the stars disappear
PaddedWhiteRoom 10 months ago
the main character is the bad guy
softwaremediaguru 11 months ago
My brain exploded by this game. I was proud to complete it, but this was one of the weirdest experiences ever...
RatmanXX 11 months ago
when you come there for a second time, when rewinding back with normal ending, mona lisa having a beard and moustache (if you look closer) and last 2 levers having stairs. (3:13) i dont know if we have something to do with them.
CosteTR 11 months ago
What a mindfuck.
Nomadar 11 months ago
how come my levers are not time resistant?
thelastclone 11 months ago
@thelastclone You need to collect all the stars first.
JimNoir1 11 months ago
this game blew my fucking mind in the same way that the movie memento did. there need to be more games with excellent, ambiguous plots like this, instead of dumb plots that piece everything together for you.
dgrossman06 1 year ago
This game is fucking confusing... but it makes you think and gives a beautiful, slightly depressing atmosphere.. you should try the game Aether on newgrounds it gives me kindof the same feel :P
gordon777juws 1 year ago
It's not about atomic bomb
Rokimoki 1 year ago
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Can anyone explain why the Princess jitters around the screen and makes a night-vision goggle sound effect before exploding?
AznKawaiiSmile 1 year ago
You know, the vanilla version of last level was actually clever
Then they had to ruin it with the most retarded and overused metaphor in any form of storytelling.
TheBanjoFanboy 1 year ago
Is there a way to view the alternate ending again after collecting all 8 stars? Besides starting over that is.
dannystoll84 1 year ago
She exploded because Tim destroyed her. She was running away from Tim and when he caught up with her, that, in turn, destroyed her.
NerdyNose245 1 year ago
thanks for the vid, but the I thought the alt end was kinda dumb.
crimsonflare506 1 year ago
thanks for 20,000 views and awesome comments and opinions :)
buggyiscool 1 year ago 45
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@buggyiscool Hey!, did you notice that in this alternate ending, there is an extra door (locked) right next to the red one. Where does that door take you and where is the key? I noticed that in the regular ending, there is NO LOCKED DOOR! So that must be an extra feature of the real ending!
chesita 5 months ago
My description of this ending: And them some of the switches become timeproof. So you can get to the chandelier sooner, and actually rescue the princess.
And that's when she explodes.
TheStrongBadMan 1 year ago
oh
I don't understand,What happened with a princess???
and WTF occurred explosion?
TaRoO696 1 year ago
one of the most sadistically cruel twists in any game every. Fucking amazing.
AtheistTower 1 year ago 2
There isn't only a Manhattan project quote, there are lines about ethics, animal research and chocolate. The game seems more about humanity's furious but shortsighted drive for progress in general than only about the atom bomb. I saw Tim as humanity and the Princess as mother Earth--hence the lines about Tim's mother holding him back from all of the things that he wants to understand and have (in the candy store's window), of which the atom bomb was the worst, but not the only.
ultimatehammer 1 year ago
the princes has an extreme seizure before she explodes
highvoltage138 1 year ago
yo dude. is that ending for real?
iamthetruekaa 1 year ago
i love that everyone's really talkative about this game, its great...but holy shit! its not the bible people haha shes a bomb, she goes boom, end of story
buggyiscool 1 year ago 42
@buggyiscool That's only the space-time continuum kerploding. At least if she WERE a bomb, ONLY TIM is killed (and, maybe, a small chunk of London depending on the yield of the Princess). Now, because he didn't stick to the script the Fates gave him, everything in the universe is dead.
Good video, by the way. I only came here because I accidentally pulled a green lever again before f***ing Time over. I couldn't go to where the Knight was. I wanted to see if there was anything.
Thanks. Liked.
Noxedwin 1 year ago
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@buggyiscool
That's how a child thinks.
Mushy2000 1 year ago
@buggyiscool LOOL. that's incredibly creepy, though.
SahjanS 9 months ago
The reason why touching the princess makes an explosion? THAT'S YOU MESSING UP THE FABRIC OF TIME. If you notice, it turns out everything is going backwards, and if you rewind, you'll release that the princess was actually running from you, and she was actually turning on the traps in real time. By capturing her though, you end up causing a paradox.
TheKirbyLord 1 year ago
@TheKirbyLord
mmm...i think the Atomic bomb theory makes more sense, especially after reading the quote made by Kenneth Bainbridge (He was the director of the Trinity test of the manhattan project..remember that manhattan is mentioned in the game) after the detonation of the first atomic bomb "Now we are all sons of bitches"
thats why she explodes, cuz she is the atomic bomb and tim is a scientist
sascachuhuan 1 year ago
@sascachuhuan Except that the guy who created the entire game syas it's NOT about the atomic bomb and he flat-out scoffs at that interpretation simply saying that people who believe it "Missed clues, and didn't get it."
17thknight 1 year ago
@17thknight dont take this offensively but every review and breakdown of this game says the princess is tim's work toward the atom bomb (it has quotes about the manhattan project) and if its not about a nuke..then why does she explode?
buggyiscool 1 year ago
@buggyiscool A lot of people say that, but just because of a single quote in the game "We're all bastards now". The simple explanation for why she explodes is that he destroyed the "time-space" continuum by touching her when that's not what actually happened.
Keep in mind, during the part where you CAN touch her, everything is going in reverse. So you're essentially reliving previous events. It's impossible for him to "change" what happened, and in doing so, she explodes.
17thknight 1 year ago
@17thknight
do take this offensively.
The guy who created the game doesn't scoff at any interpretation, nor has he ever confirmed or denied any possible interpretations. What he actually says (and this is a quote) is that he left the game "very open to interpretation". If he purposely left it open to people's interpretations then why would he "flat-out scoff" at anyone's take on it?
Please don't pretend to know something you really know nothing about.
Sabre0013 1 year ago 4
Just to save anyone else the trouble, you can't jump on the chandelier unless you have the stars on the go. The second claw-plant keeps you back and you don't have time to get over to the chandelier.
richardcavell 1 year ago
Man, this game... it's THE BOMB! Hahaha.
markthewhalekiller 1 year ago
But there simply HAS to be something more to that constellation, something intrumental perhaps, something left to discover, something SOMETHING that could undo yourmisfortunes with the princess and deliver her back into your arms once more! I mean damn it this is supposed to end wéll or not at all is it? The love history I mean. So what is it!!!?
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ArmandoXIII 1 year ago
Do want to know what the ending of Braid really means? Nothing just the developer thinking it would be funny to screw with everyone's head.
ThugMaloy1985 1 year ago
The constellation at the end is Andromeda, the Chained Woman. She was chained to a rock as an offering to the Leviathan, to appease Poseidon, and was rescued by Perseus.
DontMockMySmock 1 year ago
what i didn't get was the fire when the guy stomped on the ground, was that like, the fabric of space exploding from too much time traveling?
Emeexuqu 1 year ago
@Emeexuqu i see that as a bit of a rationalization on tim's part to justify the forward going for the princess, because normally when you rewind it to see the truth the fire isnt there
blazeion212 1 year ago
great vid! great quality too, unlike most braid vids out there ^_^
clcsqueejy04 1 year ago
i like the effect around the princess right before she explodes...i wonder what it means
iansquared3 1 year ago
All that effort collecting stars and they might at least have given us a sex scene. >:-I
IncredibleGoliath 1 year ago 9
the story behind this game freaked me up forever O_O
freydey 1 year ago
when you run back the last level after completing it the normal way there's a ladder going up that wan't there before attached to the platform before the long staircase. Does anyone know if this can be use at all?
BillyBobsEel 1 year ago
Can anyone explain why the Princess jitters around the screen and makes a night-vision goggle sound effect before exploding?
PoisonInc 1 year ago
ending is the weirdest ending iv ever seen
cownija 1 year ago
the reason why she exploded was:
if he had jumped down the chandelier, he would have come from her bedroom, possibly meaning that they had been together
if he stands on the cliff peeping in through her window, he is a psyco living in a dream world
which one is the true ending?
ChickenPludder 1 year ago
I guess the Japs caught her too eh?
Mattwad 1 year ago
i wanna blow up a princess now :D
TyFox333 1 year ago
You don't actually need to rewind from the end near the last two plants. I read just enough of a star-walkthrough to find out where to find them but not how to (OMG some of those stars...) and I didn't rewind in the last area except during the first switch so I could rewind and "skip" going up the ladder. Otherwise they say it's an alternate ending...didn't see much "alteration" and more removal...would have almost preferred it if the normal ending was the secret one...
dressiknights 1 year ago
Nice one dude just completed it myself (without the stars) and i thought it may have something to do about the A-bomb cos of manhattan on fire and the WW2 poster in one of the jigsaws, and ofc the numerous quotes from people who helped make the A-bomb, im glad to think i ent the only one
TheDrawingOfThree 1 year ago
Dude...ive watched this entire playthrough all day, watched this, and read the meaning, and my fucking brain hurts....seriously.
seraphdenex 1 year ago 5
@seraphdenex
get a life and go out side and get sum sun {FATTY}
cownija 1 year ago
@cownija Well, when something is as mentally stimulating as this, makes you think as much as this game does, its hard to stop watching until the very end.
seraphdenex 1 year ago
@seraphdenex mee 2
freydey 1 year ago
sooooooo... do the stars open up some sorta secret door or sumpthin??
whipid 1 year ago
question? I beat the game, and wanted to go back and redo the last stage, but the green levers are gone, does that mean I have to restart the game?
Grayfox82 1 year ago
you need the rest of the stars to get the green levers
kacar95 1 year ago
Sorry, but why the hell I hadn't have this GREEN levers but have a usual ones, so I just can't got alternate ending? PLS HELP!!!
HeBMeH9eM 2 years ago
you need to get all 8 hidden stars
buggyiscool 2 years ago
Actually, you need to get 7 stars. After you get the 8th, you won't have the green levers anymore.
Gokuroro 2 years ago
not 8, just 7
the last one is not necessary
roviury2 1 year ago
@buggyiscool Wrong, you need the 7 hidden stars besides the one in World 1.
Emil12345558 1 year ago
Actually, I just did this, and that's not exactly true. Getting eight stars is the same as having NO stars in regards to the time-proof (green) levers. The game checks if you have SEVEN stars. (Having all of them prior to being here); if you do, the levers are green. Else, they're normal. This also means that the moment you get the star in the Princess' room, you can never do this again, unless you erase your save file.
Although, that reply is 10 months old, so I'm probably on the late train.
Noxedwin 1 year ago
So... she had c4 on her... Devious bitch
sniper71234 2 years ago 3
so he came home angry, smashed the ground and the chandellier fell on his wife and killed her? :(
mackdallas 2 years ago
its about a the atom bomb actually
billboard1001 2 years ago 2
@mackdallas No, if you pay very close attention, you'll notice that the levels are REVERSED. And at the end (more appropriately the beginning), you go into Rewind and it shows the whole story where Tim is chasing after the princess and she's trying to get away by dropping chandeliers on him, trying to catch him in traps, until the brave knight comes and rescues her from that sick sadistic man (He was ripping rat brains to shreds and depriving monkeys of water to find her).
munkyface7108 2 years ago 4
and in the eyes of the jackal
...
She went KAAAAAAAAAA-BOOOOOOOOOOM!
Invidente7 2 years ago 2
super
ToxaLife 2 years ago
...she blows up!!!
awesomepeople100 2 years ago
WTF
OgnarPliskin 2 years ago
I never would have beat this game w/o youtube.
bjburesh1980 2 years ago
Thanks A Lot!
EXPNED 2 years ago
Wow. That story is much deeper then I could've possibly imagined
TheJJBL 2 years ago
I love this game's storyline. It definitely wins best storyline of the year 2009 (for me that is) surprisingly right before new years :)
FanChrisproductions 2 years ago 2
Dude, do you realize what your obsession on finding all 8 stars and reaching the princess made you do?? you just destroyed the whole humankind... are you happy now? ; )
jens1983 2 years ago 49
it was worth the hours i spent trying to get them lol
buggyiscool 2 years ago 25
@buggyiscool what about you and star in world 1, did you do your mistake of life and solved the puzzle or you saw it directly? :P
StreeeCZ 1 year ago
@StreeeCZ um not sure what youre asking but i think i solved it first then restarted after i saw a video on it
buggyiscool 1 year ago
@buggyiscool But don't you see? In your hours long quest for all the stars you mirrored Tim's obsession for the princess. You've done a terrible thing.
PerogiXW 1 year ago