Story about an obsessive stalker? Think again…
After the last/first level after you get the seven stars…

the epilogue…

There is where the true story is described. The books… and the hidden notes.

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The game turns out to be an analogy, an analogy for searching after a dark, difficult, insidious, and very real and specific secret. The specific secret is one revealed to the world in 1945. The entire game is an analogy of that secret. The books make mention of the bosons, the electromagnetic particles. The blurry city in the background at the beginning is actually the burning remments of a city if you look close with only a bridge left standing. The main character meeting the princess after getting the seven stars.. it’s not just that she disappears, is that the two actually move into eachother, hitting into one spot, and there is a deafening explosion sound and a flash of light.

If this wasn’t hint enough, the epilogue, in one of the hidden texts is the phrase:

“We are become death.”

“Now we are all sons of bitches.”

These are the fateful spoken at the creation of the atom bomb.

The story is about the mindset and the madness that went into the creation of the bomb.

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For the record, Braid and Portal are two of the greatest games in the past decade. You can take your Call of Duty or your Maddan Football and shove it. Those are games for simple minded people who are intent on just having affirmed something they already know.

Portal and Braid… they challenge you, and make you into something better, if you give them the chance.

Braid with it’s deep social, science, and historical commentary, Portal with it’s hidden artistic value, and portrayal of a world run by the literally shattered mind that is GladOS. (Delving into that is a completely different piece of wonder)

I’m not saying Portal or Braid are for any person or even any gamer. Portal and Braid are, to the gaming world, what a five-star restaurant is to the culinary world. Many won’t appreciate what it’s value is and would just rather get more food at the Chinese buffet down the street, but little do they know that the ones that choose to eat at the five-star with small portions and expensive prices truly are getting their money’s worth, and then some.

It was was separates hardcore gamers out from the true gamer connoisseurs.

But that said, I always thought their characters were unlikable. I cant play gta for long simply because Im not interested in the people. Could be solved with more character creation elements. ie : male/female, appearance options, and hey, maybey a real protagonistic background