Braid - "Maenam"

"Maenam" by Jami Sieber from Number None, Inc.'s Braid (360/XBLA).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• braid
• xbox
• 360
• xbl
• xbla
• arcade
• maenam
• platformer
• puzzle
• game
• music
• Jami
• Sieber

[thepwnnerofnoobs]

This game changed my life. Play it. Seriously...

[outsideredge]

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

[C3ment]

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.

[LaekoRandalis]

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.

[MsBickle76]

@TheRandom0ne Who is excited about The Witness?

[MaximillianZakes]

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.

[omore]

i never considered video games an art form, but Braid is so close, it makes me take a second look.

[ragnarok1326]

I listen to this song while looking at the night sky. It's mystical.

[TheKnightsOfGaming99]

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. :)

[aldar98]

@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.

[TheRandom0ne]

I read the quote at imgur(dot)com / 5e42X. jpg (replace dot and take out spaces) while listening to this. wow...

[Autonova]

@TommittajaFIN :')