Braid
Playing my way through the games I got with the last Humble Indie Bundle. I finally beat
Limbo which still has me wondering what the ending and indeed, entire story were all about.
Braid on the other hand has a pretty easy to follow story that's well told and I'm absolutely loving the art style. The puzzles are really well designed and remind me a lot of '90's PC games like
7th Guest or
Myst. Definitely not as easy to get through on your first go though because I had to consult a walkthrough guide to figure out how to get the last two puzzle pieces in World 2. It's funny because I just bought
Super Mario Bros. and
Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Wii's virtual console, but I've found
Braid and
Limbo to be better designed games. I like how each failed attempt just flows into the next one, and there's no stupid lives system that sends me back to the start of the entire game once they're used up.
Thing is, I never had a console till 1999 when I got an Nintendo 64, so on the rare occasions I did play a console game I was generally pretty ignorant of what to do. I accidentally hit the run button instead of the jump button and I'm taken out by the Goomba on the first level, then the owner of the console takes away the controller and gets mad because I wasted a life. So yeah... I'm much happier with the side scrollers of this console generation then of the ones from back in the day.