Braid Guide - World 1

[Alexeiyeah]

Braid has a lot more than one meaning. That's why it's FUCKING AWESOME.

[helloandfukyu]

i love endings like this <3

[TitanenTobi]

the story is really good but the gameplay is to difficult

[TehTechnoGuy]

The story made me cry..

[Qternocq]

I only realized the second time, how sad it actually was... The first time I didn't understand... This game is amazing.

To anyone who is just playing this game for its gameplay: Replay it and LIVE the storyline. It will change your day!

[MonkiTwins]

THis level when your going backwords the princess is trying to stay away from you compared to help you when you go forwords

[carnavalmad]

where the hell is world 1?

[scentedpineconeman]

This is world 1. You can only acess it after completing every jigsaw puzzle.

[carnavalmad]

dont worry in the 2 months i finished the game XD

[playstationpopop]

THanks finally beat the game.

[zonnopel]

wow.. this dude sucks ^^...

[keikoandgilly]

Braid tells the tale of two...

Human nature and the psychology of two sides.

Two stories being the thoughts of the scientists thinking they were doing good, but it tells the other side's thoughts

Tim thought he was saving the princess, however in reality, he was the bad guy, the stalker. The reverse of time shows that all the traps were caused by the princess preventing Tim from getting to the surface to get her.

As you can see, the view of good and evil differs amongst all...

[Sonicthehedgehog1899]

i have a few questions for this game. according to the storyline, he and the princess were already in a relationship, where he made some regrets. i could understand why he was trying to save her, but doesn't reversing that into him being stranger who stalks her skewers that part of the story. and what about the pictures in the puzzle; what is their purpose? what were the red books talking about in the epligoue? and who was that brown dinosaur thing? nothing makes sense!

=_=

[keikoandgilly]

The puzzles, as you complete them, tell a rather different tale than what was perceived in the story line. The only truths the storyline spoke of was that tim made a mistake, the "regret" is the fact he was searching for her and wanting to have her for himself. The red books, if you open them right and go behind certain objects hearing a singing voice, you will see alternate text revealing the a bomb theory. Meaning the princess was the final key to the a bomb, absolute power.

[bebo51]

i think the pictures represent Tim's alcoholism...worrying about the wine instead of "the princess" at the picnic, getting drunk and embarrassing them at the dinner party, remembering the first time he came home drunk as a teen...his alcoholism and violence caused "the princess" to eventually run into the arms of another man

[bobdonda]

wow, the story really looks so different when you know the truth.

world 2- "I made a mistake, but shouldn't mistakes be learned from and forgiven?"

world 3- "I left her once, but now I need to see her again"

4- "I'm more mature now, I'm a better person than I used to be"

5- "I have to go find her now", and a fantasy of her loving him

6- He decides to approach her with a golden ring, as people are telling him it's a bad idea.

It's amazing how the text goes from meaningless to meaningful.

[BGbourne]

i can go to world 1 - 6 should i find the pictures ????

[RevoltOfAges]

To whoever's playing in this video, you're honestly pretty bad at this game. You mess up every couple of seconds. You wouldn't survive a speed run.

[Nehmia]

good thing he has you here to inform him. with out your knowledge, why he just might attempt said speed run. pat on the back for you, hero!

[tylercal0]

wtf where is the first level

[RevoltOfAges]

At the end of the game.

[1rednotebOok]

i need help at 4:00. any advice?

[sidwerd1hater]

all ive got to say is good luck, thats how i did it, with pure luck

[Fma1416]

I found out that when you're chasing her, the Mona Lisa painting that's on the outside of her room has a moustache on it.

BTW, post the part where she goes boom.

[Fma1416]

Since the part playing after you escaped the wall of fire was what actually happened, and Tim can actually jump as high as he does at 5:20, why doesn't he just jump over the plant at 4:57? lol

[Fma1416]

"blah blah blah"

lol

[Imperium121193]

Finally i done it all thanks to these videos =D

[SamuraiSilhouette]

That ending was really depressing....

[Gr3enery]

the puzzle pieces in world 1 are really pissin me off...i cant get one of em, im playing it right now

[EatMoreHippo]

There aren't any to my knowledge in world 1... perhaps you're referring to world 2?

[EmperorZ19]

I can excuse Tim's super jumping and standing around for no reason, but I think they could have done better than the magical disappearing ladders.

[thelegendz]

do you know anything about the 8 stars?

[kinggomez]

good game i didn't really understand the end of it tho

[EatMoreHippo]

Basically, you're actually a stalker/pervert and when the princess spots you peeping at her sleeping she runs off and gets saved by the knight.

[gallantmon8]

That's just sad........And yet mundanely silly at the same time XD

[zoahinx]

Its more than that. The moral of the story is that people never view themselves as the bad guy. Tim never viewed himself as the bad guy. He was just trying to save his princess. He viewed the Knight as an evil monster and the princess was running from him and helping Tim get closer to her. But in reality when played backwards, every switch she throws cuts Tim off from her and she runs away in the Knight's arms. Tim was really the bad guy.

[zoahinx]

There's always 2 sides to every conflict really, both good and bad.

The reference to the nuclear bomb in the game was because the scientists who were making the first nuclear bomb thought they were the good guys, helping end the war. But what they didn't realize was that they were unleashing a whole new kind of hell upon the world, only to stop a single war and start many others. Those scientists can easily be viewed as the bad guys. But in their minds? No they were doing good.

[zoahinx]

I think they all realized what they had done once the first bomb was dropped on Japan.

It's a very sad story truthfully, but it's one of THE BEST stories for a video game I've ever seen. I thought Portal was amazing. This game deserves so many awards for art style, music, gameplay, storyline. The ONLY thing I can pick out that was bad about this game was how short it was.

[Sonicthehedgehog1899]

...and there weren't any penalties, like losing. except the princess

[bobdonda]

The final stage was so well done, it's a real work of art.

I started to wonder if the princess was real or what, and finally you see her, and you struggle together to try to be with each other even though you're kept apart...

But no. She was actually struggling to get away, causing all of the obstacles, keeping you far from her. And finally at the end, she is saved by her knight in shining armor.

[jordsoo1]

@EatMoreHippo Thanks for clearing that up :) makes more sense when put like that.

[Alexeiyeah]

@kinggomez It's... Complex. It can be many things or just a simple answer. From my understanding, Braid story is about a man obsessed in constructing the atomic bomb (you can see the references). The Princess is the idea. For anyone who try to work and idea, when you take a first glance on it, it escapes from you because you don't know how to work on that idea. The rest of the game shows how Tim has put himself on how to get that idea to work, revisiting his memories, leaving his wife behind....