Braid

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

No, I just read about it instead.

What i read about the game made me just think the guy wrote random crap and didn't even think of how its meant to pan out hoping the fans of the game would put a story together.

It all seemd coherent enough to me, other than the one or two bits about the bomb.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

It all seemd coherent enough to me, other than the one or two bits about the bomb.

Did you not read the secret books?

Yes.

Does that mean you did or didn't...

It took me a while to find them on that stupid last castle stage.

I read them.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

It all seemd coherent enough to me, other than the one or two bits about the bomb.

The princess is the bomb

Pssh. I find it hard to give that one passage prominence over all the others.

There's at least 3 pieces of text that point at that, let alone the true ending.

True ending my balls.

Yet your the one acting like the story makes sense.

I found nothing about it confusing.

I didn't say it was confusing i said it seemd like he made shit up.

You can't just dismiss the bomb parts and then say the story is great. Its all part of a cohesive whole or you find some kind of symbolic meaning as to how it all fits.

The princess being the bomb is probably the most basic principal the story has. The princess story doesn't even make sense.

I didn't take any of it literally so none of it was a problem.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

I didn't take any of it literally so none of it was a problem.

So according to you what is the story?

There wasn't really a single story. I just saw it (by the end anyway) as being about obsession and control in general. The bomb is the universal symbol for that (I suppose), but it's also done on a personal level with Tim. The princess is just the ultimate object of your desire, whatever that may be.

But I liked the Tim stuff and the bomb seemed like a really last minute thought to give the game some "deep" meaning or something. I don't like it much.