Braid is headed to the PS3 thanks to publisher Hothead Games. Hothead is the same developer that ported the side-scrolling puzzle platformer to the Macintosh.
The title was revealed to be in the works for PS3 via a recent listing on a German site, as was discovered by NeoGAF. When contacted about the listing Hothead confirmed that they are indeed bringing the downloadable game to Sony’s platform.
And with Castle Crashers coming to the PS3 also, PlayStation fans must definitely be celebrating. Sadly though Hothead did not give a release date for when the game will launch.
Braid is a platformer/puzzle game with unique elements that aim to provide a mind-expanding, filler-free experience. The player journeys across seven worlds to rescue a princess; in each world, time behaves in its own peculiar way. The player must cleverly manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles.
Key features of Braid include:
* Forgiving yet challenging gameplay: Braid is a 2-D platform game where you can never die and never lose. Despite this, Braid is challenging—but the challenge is about solving puzzles, rather than forcing you to replay tricky jumps.
* Rich puzzle environment: Travel through a series of worlds searching for puzzle pieces, then solving puzzles by manipulating time: rewinding, creating parallel universes, setting up pockets of dilated time. The gameplay feels fresh and new; the puzzles are meant to inspire new ways of thinking.
* Aesthetic design: A painterly art style and lush, organic soundtrack complement the unique gameplay
Nonlinear story: A nonlinear fiction links the various worlds and provides real-world metaphors for your time manipulations; in turn, your time manipulations are projections of the real-world themes into playful “what-if” universes where consequences can be explored.
* Nonlinear gameplay: The game doesn’t force you to solve puzzles in order to proceed. If you can’t figure something out, just play onward and return to that puzzle later.
Here is a gameplay video of Braid.
Via 1UP