I don't if anyone has played this track backwards, it's almost exactly the same as it is forwards. Just fits even better with the theme of the game - that mistakes are almost irreversible. It's like it was MADE for the game, not just selected.
This game will blow your mind with its readings whilst simultaneously making it do every acrobatic trick in the book as you try and understand the concepts of time manipulation.
And all the while, the music will hypnotize you into a near-trance, it is so amazing.
This game challenged the question of whether video games can be considered an art form, and everyone who's played it knows precisely why. The mechanics are mind-bending, the story mind-blowing, and the music mind-melting.
I downloaded the demo of Braid not knowing what to expect. I had heard things, but never really known much. I was expecting something like from Portal, wit and humor (not that they werent present of course). But when i booted it up, i was treated with this music. I walked into the first world hub and began to read the books there. I read about Tim and his trouble with the Princess.. The music was almost reflecting Tim's sorrow. And, in that moment, i cried a little. This game is amazing. :)
"What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: 'I didn't mean what I just said,' and she would say: 'It's okay, I understand,' and she would not turn away, and life would really proceed as though we had never said that thing? We could remove the damage but still be wiser for the experience."
such a relaxing song. it's nice to listen to when your uptight about not having any youtube views xD no srsly T_T thanks for the upload. liked and favorited. I gotta get this game on steam at some point.
This is a testament to the beauty of the unknown musical artists out there. I was first introduced to her in "magnatune", a site that featured only indie artists that received a portion of your purchase or membership. Some amazing people are out there creating music the rest of the world might not otherwise hear, and it's released to be bought, copied and enjoyed..
@TimothyParadox1 I'm not sure that the word Maenom means anything, but there's a place in Thailand called "Mae Nam Beach", I'm not sure if this song has any ties to that or not.
There is also a restaurant near my placed called Maenam which serves Thai style foods, so the song could indeed have ties to Mae Nam, but we would have to ask Jami herself if that has any relevance or not, because, again, I'm not sure about anything other than the fact that they share the same name.
It takes you on a ride that most people don't get to feel. While thrown in with the games mind trickery and puzzles.. Makes for one hell of an experience
I agree. I just can't really stop listening to it. No matter where, I always find some use for Braid's in-game music. Most usually, however, I find myself listening to this track especially.
I love the emotion and feelings this song carries... for me, it's the feeling of discovering all the secrets of our universe, the feeling you get when I walk into an old attic or room that contains thousands of stories and secrets.
What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: 'I didn't mean what I just said,' and she would say: 'It's okay, I understand,' and she would not turn away, and life would really proceed as though we had never said that thing? We could remove the damage but still be wiser for the experience.
Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing together, giving names to the colorful birds. Their mistakes hidden from each other, tucked between the folds of time, safe.
i beated the game 4 times...but to say , this game is kind of creeping me out.
i like the song , though , and to tell , when i try to realizing the truth , it's appear to reveal the story. but in Braid , it's impossible to realize it why. most game i complete sometimes doesn't gives me enough information.
I agree with you in part, but there is a lot of symbolism (the forums offer some interesting ideas as to other aspects of the game). I would argue that the most important part isn't even the journey; it is about where one stands philosophically if we never have to be accountable for the mistakes we make.
@kalibos I agree with you in part, but there is a lot of symbolism (the forums offer some interesting ideas as to other aspects of the game). I would argue that the most important part isn't even the journey; it is about where one stands philosophically if we never have to be accountable for the mistakes we make.
Woke up this morning near the last minute of this song playing through my speakers from the Soundscapes-Music Choice channel on Comcast. I immediately rushed to turn on the T.V. to write down the artist and song title and caught it just before it went off the screen into another song. Searched it, and this video is the first result that came up, it was cool to find that it's the same song I've heard playing the "Braid" demo on XBLA. A nice coincidence to start a Saturday off to. :)
This song really fits the theme of rewinding mistakes.
"What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: 'I didn't mean what I just said,' and she would say: 'It's okay, I understand,' and she would not turn away, and life would really proceed as though we had never said that thing? We could remove the damage but still be wiser for the experience."
I think about that passage whenever I hear this song. It's reflective and hopeful yet sad as well
@outsideredge as far as those questions go, the end of the events in the game answers it imo. To me it says, there is no "rewinding", only different realities. It made me think jeezus Tim remodified so many times which reality, which time frame is the real one? He can choose? But doesn't that make him a schizo somewhat in the eyes of others? He can't speak any sense - the horror answer to me at the end as it unfolds is: Do not undo. Change yourself; accept things as they are.
My eyes have begun To grow weary the night is just a "little" scary So I retreat to safety which I might add is quite comfy I peer from my sheets and through my window Reaching for the moon I say Adieu, Adieu and the day it seemed began anew
I lay my head back and listen to this and my mind wanders into the vastness of space. How little we truly know what is out there, my mind finds peace in a place we can barely comprehend.
There is no limit to expansion, for as long as their is a universe there will be something new to discover, so long as their is a person who looks up at the stars and wonders human growth will never end. Just around the corner is a new, something that will shock, more fascinating fact of our existence. What we discover today is now the bedrock for discoveries in the future. That is what finding peace in the incomprehensible means. I probably sound high don't I? But I am not.
This song is so beautiful. I couldn't believe my ears when I bought this game and that was the first thing I heard. Reminds me of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon for some reason.
"...The moments feel substantial in his mind, like stones. Kneeling, reaching down toward the closest one, running his hand across it, he finds it smooth, and slightly cold."
"He tests the stone's weight; he finds he can lift it, and the others too. He can fit them together to create a foundation, and embankment, a castle."
"To build a castle of appropriate size, he will need a great many stones. But what he's got, now, feels like an acceptable start."
I fully believe, when my friend baught this game for me for my birthday for £2.50 off of steam, that this game is imaginative, the controls are instinctive and the storyline is inventive.
There's a bit where it says how the kid (humanity) is walked past a shop every day by his mother (nature) but is too young to have what's inside it, ethical calculus and other wise concepts.
i just got braid and have finished it - and its quite sinister but in subtle ways like the reference to the first atomic bomb and the last level that got me confused
Yeah I didn't get the reference either, but people have some pretty convincing reasons why the game refers to an atomic bomb. Of course, this game is a bit abstract, so it could mean a lot of things. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or, the gamer in this case :)
"He scrutinized the fall of an apple, the twisting of metal orbs hanging from a thread. Through these clues he would find the Princess, see her face. After an especially fervent night of tinkering, he kneeled behind a bunker in the desert; he held a piece of welder's glass up to his eyes and waited."
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...¹"
"Someone near him said: 'It worked.'"
"Someone else said: 'Now we are all sons of bitches.'"
"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."
difference between Braid and very great majority of the other games is his mechanics its logical, make us to think differently of what we usually do with pad in hand. braid is capable of making us use parts of our brain that few of us have the opportunity to put on, like the level with your shadow were y must remeber for the futur and calculate the shadow behavior in reverse is one of more disturbing.
no other media are capable to bring you the same experiance and thats What makes a video game like braid something so potentially powerful and singular , something profoundly unique
Braid could not be a book. Neither a painting a photo nor even a film, While so many other video games could be it
it shows that games truly can be a piece of art, that is what most people forget about games because all they see in tv is horrible first person shooter footage...
Yeah it's metaphorical it that sort of beautiful way that only a true artist can depict. I'm not going to spoil anything; this game should be played in an observant and discovering manner since it is such a masterpiece.
Can someone tell me from what instrument that "fluttering" sound comes from? Right around 0:20 it sounds like a flute or some other wind instrument i just can't put my finger (ear?) on it.
I'm pretty certain its actually a cello. The cello player is playing harmonics at that part with what sounds like heavy reverb and perhaps a little delay.
If I owned an Xbox360 and could only get one game, this would be it. I've never played the game, but someone was kind enough to introduce me to its music, and I've been utterly captivated ever since.
thats not spoil alert but spoiler alert, and LOL why would it be Hiroshima. btw Hiroshima was hit by atombomb which means there was only 1 big explosion that wiped out everything, no small fires etc like on this picture. would be more like London bombing then
there are alot of debates about what the underlying theme/ metaphorical significance is for this game, and probably the most widely-accepted theory is that it's an analogy for the atomic bomb. that's why someone might think this picture is hiroshima. personally, i just think it's a city that's been hit by an atomic bomb, not necessarily hiroshima.
This is the song that is so good that it compels neigh commands you to drop your controller and listen to it in its entirety. Awe inspiring, the music of Braid, like the game itself, will stick with you long after you complete it and linger until it pulls you back in for another go.
unless they only appreciate fast paced multiplayer FPS's and have short attention spans I dont see why not. once you get to some of the more complex levels its mindblowing
As soon as i heard the music myself, it made me happy i had spent the money on the game, it made it seem like it was going to be good just by hearing it. then when i read the story, it instantly made me think of my relationship and life, and mistakes i have done through them both....
This song is so fitting of the game's title screen art, the story, and overall theme. Aside from the story, I think it was a combination of the title screen's mood as well as the solemnly themed pictures framed in each of the house's rooms that stirred up such sorrowful, melancholic feelings inside of me.
I could play the entire game just listening to this song in the background without it ever bothering me.
When I listen to this, I imagine in my thoughts that I felt a sudden cool breeze and gazing twords a beautiful landscape, and see the woman that I loved...
This is just beautiful, very beautiful music, and same goes to the game itself.
This music is so fitting with the game's story. Absolutely beautiful in every way. Both the music and the text coupled sends shivers down my spine and goosebumps through my skin.
this game.... my god. i think it teaches that enlightenment is possible to achieve.
Mashuga31 1 day ago
I don't if anyone has played this track backwards, it's almost exactly the same as it is forwards. Just fits even better with the theme of the game - that mistakes are almost irreversible. It's like it was MADE for the game, not just selected.
C3ment 1 week ago
This game will blow your mind with its readings whilst simultaneously making it do every acrobatic trick in the book as you try and understand the concepts of time manipulation.
And all the while, the music will hypnotize you into a near-trance, it is so amazing.
This game challenged the question of whether video games can be considered an art form, and everyone who's played it knows precisely why. The mechanics are mind-bending, the story mind-blowing, and the music mind-melting.
LaekoRandalis 1 week ago
Hey why is she sleeping? I did all that running and now ... what do I do? Ugh. Hey, maybe if I just do th-... What?
Oh ... my ... God ...
I get it now.
*My reaction to the ending of braid.
MaximillianZakes 2 weeks ago
i never considered video games an art form, but Braid is so close, it makes me take a second look.
omore 2 weeks ago
I listen to this song while looking at the night sky. It's mystical.
ragnarok1326 2 weeks ago
I downloaded the demo of Braid not knowing what to expect. I had heard things, but never really known much. I was expecting something like from Portal, wit and humor (not that they werent present of course). But when i booted it up, i was treated with this music. I walked into the first world hub and began to read the books there. I read about Tim and his trouble with the Princess.. The music was almost reflecting Tim's sorrow. And, in that moment, i cried a little. This game is amazing. :)
TheKnightsOfGaming99 1 month ago
I read the quote at imgur(dot)com / 5e42X. jpg (replace dot and take out spaces) while listening to this. wow...
TheRandom0ne 2 months ago 4
@TheRandom0ne Who is excited about The Witness?
MsBickle76 2 weeks ago
"What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: 'I didn't mean what I just said,' and she would say: 'It's okay, I understand,' and she would not turn away, and life would really proceed as though we had never said that thing? We could remove the damage but still be wiser for the experience."
outsideredge 4 months ago 7
@outsideredge cewl stori br0 x
Talaxy 3 months ago
@Talaxy fuck you
weasleflea 3 months ago
Braid is more than a game.
ragnarok1326 4 months ago 10
"A lesson is learned, but the damage is irreversible" -David Hellman
ramprire 4 months ago 7
This game changed my life. Play it. Seriously...
thepwnnerofnoobs 5 months ago 42
@thepwnnerofnoobs I had to sign in just to give you a thumbs up.
Yaeven 4 months ago 2
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this music changed my life. :o but that was through the game. so i second that.
also, the game is AMAZING too.
TommittajaFIN 2 months ago
The princess is in another cas-
Hey!
Where are you going?
Autonova 5 months ago 13
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i was like NOOOOO ;__; in that part :o it was the saddest thing ever!
TommittajaFIN 2 months ago
@TommittajaFIN :')
Autonova 2 months ago
Good game, good music. Good stuff.
Kvokki 5 months ago in playlist Braid Playlist
such a relaxing song. it's nice to listen to when your uptight about not having any youtube views xD no srsly T_T thanks for the upload. liked and favorited. I gotta get this game on steam at some point.
DarKHunTeR4640 6 months ago
@DarKHunTeR4640 hurry up, you can get it with the Humble Bundle for few! google it!
luxaeterna101 5 months ago
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DarKHunTeR4640 6 months ago
Great study music
CliffyH21 6 months ago
It is amazing how many good music artists that I have found through video games. Sun Kil Moon, Woodkid, and now Jami Seiber.
MPRC1136 6 months ago 2
This is a testament to the beauty of the unknown musical artists out there. I was first introduced to her in "magnatune", a site that featured only indie artists that received a portion of your purchase or membership. Some amazing people are out there creating music the rest of the world might not otherwise hear, and it's released to be bought, copied and enjoyed..
Teamtuxedo 6 months ago
I'm absolutely in love with this piece from Jami Sieber!
She's one of the best cello players I've ever heard!
Simply beautiful.
AvitarNostalgia 6 months ago
brilliant song from an amazing game
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Sxrlup 7 months ago
What does "maenam" mean?
TimothyParadox1 7 months ago
@TimothyParadox1 I'm not sure that the word Maenom means anything, but there's a place in Thailand called "Mae Nam Beach", I'm not sure if this song has any ties to that or not.
There is also a restaurant near my placed called Maenam which serves Thai style foods, so the song could indeed have ties to Mae Nam, but we would have to ask Jami herself if that has any relevance or not, because, again, I'm not sure about anything other than the fact that they share the same name.
Malgana 7 months ago
@TimothyParadox1 It means River in Thai. Or so I heard.
jubailblast 7 months ago
It takes you on a ride that most people don't get to feel. While thrown in with the games mind trickery and puzzles.. Makes for one hell of an experience
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*hint/ spoiler alert* the game is not about a princess. Think manhattan.
bullseyeZIB 9 months ago
@bullseyeZIB Hey dumby, it has more than one meaning depending on the gamers perspective. So shush. Lol.
ladyfacelarue 8 months ago
Thank you for posting this
DanBruett82 10 months ago
A little bit of magic... <3
Encephalitis 10 months ago 9
The music in this game is very good.
panee4 10 months ago 2
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I agree. I just can't really stop listening to it. No matter where, I always find some use for Braid's in-game music. Most usually, however, I find myself listening to this track especially.
TheTwilightUnicorn 9 months ago
YouTube should include a "Reverse" button. :D
Wolf24840 11 months ago 10
just finished the game, i'm speechless....
pittkyon 11 months ago 9
@pittkyon totally loved the ending
i swear my jaw was down when i suddenly realized what was really happening when i reversed time...
one of the best endings i've ever played
callofgears91 11 months ago 7
Really lovely track :)
Talaxy 11 months ago
Midweek Madness on Steam! Check it out!!
Freez0x 11 months ago 2
I love the emotion and feelings this song carries... for me, it's the feeling of discovering all the secrets of our universe, the feeling you get when I walk into an old attic or room that contains thousands of stories and secrets.
LIGHTRONIX 11 months ago 2
What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: 'I didn't mean what I just said,' and she would say: 'It's okay, I understand,' and she would not turn away, and life would really proceed as though we had never said that thing? We could remove the damage but still be wiser for the experience.
Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing together, giving names to the colorful birds. Their mistakes hidden from each other, tucked between the folds of time, safe.
outsideredge 11 months ago 4
This is the most beautiful song I've ever heard.
dizgahof 11 months ago 3
6 people were goombas
crackerskills 11 months ago
Tim: #1 Video game character of 2008...
When I beat it, it blew my mind
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crackerskills 1 year ago
... u_u *listening to the song*... *tear*
xOblivionAbyssx 1 year ago
I totally did no grasph the "plot" of the game. I mean, somehting about a girl. is it interesting?
PikolUploader 1 year ago
@PikolUploader Look at the forums about this game if you have beaten it already. There is some amazing dialogue about what this game means.
cliniclyincorect 11 months ago
i beated the game 4 times...but to say , this game is kind of creeping me out.
i like the song , though , and to tell , when i try to realizing the truth , it's appear to reveal the story. but in Braid , it's impossible to realize it why. most game i complete sometimes doesn't gives me enough information.
SaLKiD99 1 year ago
@SaLKiD99 The game is purposely vague; it meant to be an analogy.
cliniclyincorect 11 months ago 2
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"Braid is about the journey, not the destination."
kalibos 10 months ago 5
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I agree with you in part, but there is a lot of symbolism (the forums offer some interesting ideas as to other aspects of the game). I would argue that the most important part isn't even the journey; it is about where one stands philosophically if we never have to be accountable for the mistakes we make.
cliniclyincorect 10 months ago
@kalibos I agree with you in part, but there is a lot of symbolism (the forums offer some interesting ideas as to other aspects of the game). I would argue that the most important part isn't even the journey; it is about where one stands philosophically if we never have to be accountable for the mistakes we make.
cliniclyincorect 10 months ago
Look's like duduki got a good competitor ))) It is ready to argue this treck will got a good sound if it will be play'd on duduk.
Gigagamer74 1 year ago
Woke up this morning near the last minute of this song playing through my speakers from the Soundscapes-Music Choice channel on Comcast. I immediately rushed to turn on the T.V. to write down the artist and song title and caught it just before it went off the screen into another song. Searched it, and this video is the first result that came up, it was cool to find that it's the same song I've heard playing the "Braid" demo on XBLA. A nice coincidence to start a Saturday off to. :)
poeticpisces2007 1 year ago 6
This song really fits the theme of rewinding mistakes.
"What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: 'I didn't mean what I just said,' and she would say: 'It's okay, I understand,' and she would not turn away, and life would really proceed as though we had never said that thing? We could remove the damage but still be wiser for the experience."
I think about that passage whenever I hear this song. It's reflective and hopeful yet sad as well
outsideredge 1 year ago 29
@outsideredge as far as those questions go, the end of the events in the game answers it imo. To me it says, there is no "rewinding", only different realities. It made me think jeezus Tim remodified so many times which reality, which time frame is the real one? He can choose? But doesn't that make him a schizo somewhat in the eyes of others? He can't speak any sense - the horror answer to me at the end as it unfolds is: Do not undo. Change yourself; accept things as they are.
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Divinemartyr 1 year ago
My high school class just finished a unit on literary analysis and metaphors. This game would actually make a for a good challenge.
tom1993rox 1 year ago
Just beat the game for the second time. what a great game!
uromastix87 1 year ago
whole Braid soundtrack is wonderful...i like Maenam, Downstream and Lullaby Set mostly...but it's all awesome...and peacebringing :)
newsupermichal 1 year ago 5
Love the opening. Reminds me of James Horner's incredible "Land Before Time" score.
wolphintv 1 year ago
I imagine walking in the snow alone while listening to this song.
So peaceful... :)
RGamer2009 1 year ago 4
best soundtrack ever, and ive heard them all since intellivision
KhalDrogo76 1 year ago 6
I lay my head back and listen to this and my mind wanders into the vastness of space. How little we truly know what is out there, my mind finds peace in a place we can barely comprehend.
Divinemartyr 1 year ago 5
@Divinemartyr How do you find peace in a place that you can barely comprehend? Wouldn't that place be disconcerting? Maybe a little distracting?
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There is no limit to expansion, for as long as their is a universe there will be something new to discover, so long as their is a person who looks up at the stars and wonders human growth will never end. Just around the corner is a new, something that will shock, more fascinating fact of our existence. What we discover today is now the bedrock for discoveries in the future. That is what finding peace in the incomprehensible means. I probably sound high don't I? But I am not.
Divinemartyr 1 year ago 4
I think this rivals Oblivion and Halo for music
blinksmilewink 1 year ago
@blinksmilewink um... rivals?
0megasonic 1 year ago
Absolutely beautiful soul stirring music I've never experienced anything quite like this before....exquisite!!!
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mugflub 1 year ago
This song is so beautiful. I couldn't believe my ears when I bought this game and that was the first thing I heard. Reminds me of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon for some reason.
GeneralMazaki 1 year ago 2
so beautiful to the point of complete sadness...
massiveattacker 1 year ago 2
A great peice of art Both the song and the game =3
mcKallzor 1 year ago 2
this is one of the few that goes beyond the title 'game' and onto something else, like shadow of the colossus.
billyboneshisfancy 1 year ago 2
"...The moments feel substantial in his mind, like stones. Kneeling, reaching down toward the closest one, running his hand across it, he finds it smooth, and slightly cold."
"He tests the stone's weight; he finds he can lift it, and the others too. He can fit them together to create a foundation, and embankment, a castle."
"To build a castle of appropriate size, he will need a great many stones. But what he's got, now, feels like an acceptable start."
ASleeplessWolf 1 year ago 58
@ASleeplessWolf cool story bro.
Talaxy 10 months ago
@Talaxy very nice, an internet meme, haven't heard ANYONE say that.
raedenjay 9 months ago
It's not often that a video game comes along that qualifies as art. This one does.
mugflub 1 year ago 2
I fully believe, when my friend baught this game for me for my birthday for £2.50 off of steam, that this game is imaginative, the controls are instinctive and the storyline is inventive.
I too believe it should be played in schools.
martync1988 1 year ago 2
An epic
catklyst 1 year ago 4
i feel bad for people that dont play videogames and will never be able to play this masterpiece of a game so freaking brilliant !!!
flourishjoe 1 year ago 3
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where can i find moar music like this??
Gandalf17 1 year ago
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where can i find moar music like this?
Gandalf17 1 year ago
what kind of music is this? where can i find moar????
Gandalf17 1 year ago
@Gandalf17 This piece of music is made by Jami Sieber. You can find more Jami's music on Magnatune.
artman40 1 year ago
pretty original game...the ending where he gets the princess really put me in a different mindframe of what story is actually being told
silentwhistle 1 year ago 3
This game tells many stories with a single text and visuals.
artman40 1 year ago 4
Listening to this song is like watching a dream blossom before one's very mind.
daedius 1 year ago 13
There's a bit where it says how the kid (humanity) is walked past a shop every day by his mother (nature) but is too young to have what's inside it, ethical calculus and other wise concepts.
Autonova 1 year ago 5
incredible track, amazing game
leanfist 2 years ago 4
the games ending almost made me cry at the sheer beauty and simplicity and messages that it conveyed in so many ways.
catklyst 2 years ago 6
i just got braid and have finished it - and its quite sinister but in subtle ways like the reference to the first atomic bomb and the last level that got me confused
RobLor93 2 years ago
when does it refer to an atomic bomb?
36pix 2 years ago
when it comments on "now were all sons of bitches"
RobLor93 2 years ago 4
The whole game is about the atomic bomb. The game is nothing but a metaphor.
ILandoStudios 1 year ago 5
We are all sons of bitches.
Hannibal222 1 year ago 206
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Blink182link64 1 year ago
Yeah I didn't get the reference either, but people have some pretty convincing reasons why the game refers to an atomic bomb. Of course, this game is a bit abstract, so it could mean a lot of things. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or, the gamer in this case :)
FearMonstro 1 year ago 4
thats what makes it good though, it lets you draw your own conclusions about it
36pix 1 year ago
@FearMonstro
"He scrutinized the fall of an apple, the twisting of metal orbs hanging from a thread. Through these clues he would find the Princess, see her face. After an especially fervent night of tinkering, he kneeled behind a bunker in the desert; he held a piece of welder's glass up to his eyes and waited."
SPGuyver 1 year ago 3
@FearMonstro
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...¹"
"Someone near him said: 'It worked.'"
"Someone else said: 'Now we are all sons of bitches.'"
SPGuyver 1 year ago 4
@FearMonstro
"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."
SPGuyver 1 year ago 6
i love this track. Predominantly in the mixolydian mode (with touches of the dorian and aeolian), which explains the lonesome yet content feeling
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difference between Braid and very great majority of the other games is his mechanics its logical, make us to think differently of what we usually do with pad in hand. braid is capable of making us use parts of our brain that few of us have the opportunity to put on, like the level with your shadow were y must remeber for the futur and calculate the shadow behavior in reverse is one of more disturbing.
zretil 2 years ago
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no other media are capable to bring you the same experiance and thats What makes a video game like braid something so potentially powerful and singular , something profoundly unique
Braid could not be a book. Neither a painting a photo nor even a film, While so many other video games could be it
zretil 2 years ago
personally i think the soundtrack describes this game very well
RobLor93 2 years ago 4
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zretil 2 years ago
This track changed my life. Pure untainted awesome.
timus001 2 years ago 4
One of the best games i ever played...
it shows that games truly can be a piece of art, that is what most people forget about games because all they see in tv is horrible first person shooter footage...
k31n3rd4 2 years ago 4
a good example of game as art
DDRanderson 2 years ago 3
The music is is depressing in a way but it's also happy in a way. It's hard to explain the feelings I get from hearing this.
bioazr 2 years ago 3
I think 'haunting' would be a good word.
crazyswimmer12 2 years ago 2
I suppose.
bioazr 2 years ago
I love this track, so beautiful
piistey 2 years ago 3
this is very fun to play on cello [:
guitarguy961 2 years ago
This is a great track musically...the vibe is so melancholy & yet beautiful!
psychofunksoldier02 2 years ago 3
The game is pretty short.
But everything, from the music to the scenery, is stuck in my heart.
M30W3R 2 years ago 4
the braid soundtrack is one of the best iv ever heard. really love it
mrfuzzywuzzykins 2 years ago
Yeah it's metaphorical it that sort of beautiful way that only a true artist can depict. I'm not going to spoil anything; this game should be played in an observant and discovering manner since it is such a masterpiece.
ASleeplessWolf 2 years ago 3
PS3 on Nov 12.
TalkinXbox 2 years ago
Can someone tell me from what instrument that "fluttering" sound comes from? Right around 0:20 it sounds like a flute or some other wind instrument i just can't put my finger (ear?) on it.
Tyrt8 2 years ago
I'm pretty certain its actually a cello. The cello player is playing harmonics at that part with what sounds like heavy reverb and perhaps a little delay.
Goestothemayor 2 years ago 4
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sounds like its just some strings with delay and reverb
DrShankums 2 years ago
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psychofunksoldier02 2 years ago
It's not supposed to be hiroshima, or any city on fire for that matter. Search on google for the blog of the artist who did the graphics for Braid.
bsphil 2 years ago
I wish they'd put this game on the iphone too!
roflcopter2006 2 years ago
If you play this reversed, it still makes sense and even sounds normal, because the cello starts and ends each note in a soft way.
raiki15 2 years ago 2
the music of braid is so inspiring. i should really get it if i can be arsed :P
Madness2bhere 2 years ago 3
Get it. Seriously. This game is incredible
SniperElite14 2 years ago 5
Where can I find the sheet music to this song? It's too beautiful... And the game is amazing. <3
CaixaDeSol 2 years ago 4
If I owned an Xbox360 and could only get one game, this would be it. I've never played the game, but someone was kind enough to introduce me to its music, and I've been utterly captivated ever since.
Togeshroob 2 years ago 3
Togeshroob, you can get it for PC....
tutu1987 2 years ago
spoil alert!.
btw i think this background painting of braid symbolize hiroshima bombing...
Pasha85 2 years ago
thats not spoil alert but spoiler alert, and LOL why would it be Hiroshima. btw Hiroshima was hit by atombomb which means there was only 1 big explosion that wiped out everything, no small fires etc like on this picture. would be more like London bombing then
tutu1987 2 years ago
there are alot of debates about what the underlying theme/ metaphorical significance is for this game, and probably the most widely-accepted theory is that it's an analogy for the atomic bomb. that's why someone might think this picture is hiroshima. personally, i just think it's a city that's been hit by an atomic bomb, not necessarily hiroshima.
phoenixnyt 2 years ago
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fail sir
AnderssonEh 2 years ago
this game should be played in schools. amazing. music, the atmosphere, characters, secrets...
Pasha85 2 years ago 86
hell yeah
Auxelli0n 2 years ago
This is the song that is so good that it compels neigh commands you to drop your controller and listen to it in its entirety. Awe inspiring, the music of Braid, like the game itself, will stick with you long after you complete it and linger until it pulls you back in for another go.
namelessfire 2 years ago 3
I haven't stopped thinking about it since I finished it a year ago. It's the closest a game has gotten to poetry.
Sadly, few will appreciate it. God knows I've tried to make all my friends play it...
ChadwickSesame 2 years ago 15
unless they only appreciate fast paced multiplayer FPS's and have short attention spans I dont see why not. once you get to some of the more complex levels its mindblowing
namelessfire 2 years ago 2
True
Auxelli0n 2 years ago 3
I would have not played the game if it didn't have this music....
Auxelli0n 2 years ago 3
As soon as i heard the music myself, it made me happy i had spent the money on the game, it made it seem like it was going to be good just by hearing it. then when i read the story, it instantly made me think of my relationship and life, and mistakes i have done through them both....
icf7381 2 years ago 2
Easily my favorite song in Braid.
This song is so fitting of the game's title screen art, the story, and overall theme. Aside from the story, I think it was a combination of the title screen's mood as well as the solemnly themed pictures framed in each of the house's rooms that stirred up such sorrowful, melancholic feelings inside of me.
I could play the entire game just listening to this song in the background without it ever bothering me.
atreyu179 2 years ago 6
Word G. Again and again.
SirMalker 2 years ago
When I listen to this, I imagine in my thoughts that I felt a sudden cool breeze and gazing twords a beautiful landscape, and see the woman that I loved...
This is just beautiful, very beautiful music, and same goes to the game itself.
5 out of 5
RahNinjaBlade 2 years ago 3
Everything about this game is beautiful; story, music, metaphor, artwork. Everything
Tyrt8 2 years ago 6
Enjoy this whilst it lasts. I had someone else's upload on my playlist for sometime before being removed due to 'infraction'.
It's gorgeous.
metcalfe1 2 years ago 5
ah wow she does a lot of compositions in games (^^P)!..
secondhandsmoke10 2 years ago
man i wish i had the score for this. I would love to play this piece on the cello!
lavadragon29 2 years ago 2
same here but sadly on the ocarina because I dont know how to play cello :P
TengokuTenshi1 2 years ago
This music is so fitting with the game's story. Absolutely beautiful in every way. Both the music and the text coupled sends shivers down my spine and goosebumps through my skin.
sineporf 2 years ago 13
So chillingly beautiful
JJessicaJJ7 2 years ago 5
this song is absolutely gorgeous, even ethereal. Braid is amazing, and an experience I'm not going to forget for a long time
FloatOn1001 2 years ago 4
What does "Maenam" mean???
It's beautiful.
Gramra 2 years ago 3
It means 'river'.
kezmondo 2 years ago 4
EEEPPICC! :D:D
cRoxy86 2 years ago 2
I love this game so much, greatist game on Xbox Live Arcade!
bckb604 2 years ago
"Maenam", by Jami Sieber, from the album Hidden Sky.
JAF1970 2 years ago
Maenam = แม่น้ำ = river
(thumbs up) do creative :)
tc16190 2 years ago 12