They use a lot of tricks to make you think you and the princess are "meant to be". Even something like the size of the models. The princess and you share the same size model while the knight is big and brutish.
Yeah and when you play it backwards they do it like if you play it normally the knight’s text is red but if you play it backwards its green. See What Im doing there?
@@greentea1402 you don't get It The fact of not being the hero Its not the scary things Is that you tought that you were doing the right thing AND realize you were never the hero Its not quite scary Its More disturbing that you kinda helped the bad guy
...tim... took the princess? Why? I don't get this twist? I'm reading the backlog of the story but... here it feels like there's no indication of the twist...
@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 the twist is that Tim had been the monster she'd been running from, all along. So essentially the whole game we've been not rushing to the rescue, to save the girl from monster -- we were that monster, and we were just chasing her, not realizing the truth :)
The truth is... the final level where you have to rescue the princess is actually being played *backwards.* In truth, you're just chasing after the princess like a psychopath.
8:16 I can totally see the theory that this is about the atom bomb. The direct quote from a creator of the atom bomb, and the princess' line about how he flirts with the death of the world.
Even the books you read before the level seems to hint this, how tim is so focused on the most likely explosive helicopter crash, and how he wants "an intense light that will embrace the world", just like the light of an atomic bomb explosion that will bring peace, ending a war, which also destroys all hope and safety of a pre nuclear world
Even after having experienced this game around the time of its release, I never had nor have yet again ever experienced anything like this ending. During the whole process of going through the doors of the final world, it never occurred to me that the music was playing backwards. Better yet, I wholeheartedly figured the Princess was fictional; only to be shocked as we finally got to see her. During what finally seemed like us finding and being eternally united with the Princess, I was so happy; I so wanted this to happen while still in disbelief that we finally found her. My excitement was undeniable as I reached the porch. Then... Then came that confusion of what to do once I got to the porch outside her room. However, that confusion was soon totally overcome with a total mind-fcuk as I realized I needed to play the whole stage in reverse, and the dread of realizing she's not running to me, she's running away from me set in. The music on this final stage, haunts me. I love the score, and enjoy it every time I listen to it, but it always reminds me of how shocking the reveal of this stage was. This game is an absolute masterpiece.
Kurticus GT The game is truly about male entitlement and expecting women to be things you “win” for doing things she never asked nor wanted you to. I’m honestly shocked I’ve never heard this side of it, and only “yeah turns out she was a nuke, wild” Scarily similar to dudebros going “yeah turns out she was crazy” when someone breaks up with him.... 🤔
@@DeathnoteBB So is the nuke theory not correct? People seem to have some evidence regarding that, but I didn't know about any of this while playing the game once it came out. I understood it like you do, but now I'm not quite sure what's the more correct theory.
illusion115 I mean, I can’t say I know what is more canon or anything, but imo the nuke ending is a metaphor for how willfully ignorant people (Braid, in this case) do mental backflips to justify their actions to themselves and blame the victim. Johnathon Blow even said there’s no single story in Braid thats important. That said I also personally don’t get the idea that Braid is a scientist chasing the atomic bomb, so this interpretation makes more sense to me. People also have said the explosion is because of a time paradox. But yeah I like to think it’s a metaphor for men who refuse to see themselves as the predator, and women as the victim.
I still don't get the meaning of the ending, like its still all clusterfucked to me. Can someone clearly elaborate it briefly to me? (like an "Explain Like I'm 5" style explanation)
Ok, I get it. Tim, I think that’s his name, was never looking for the princess to save her, but rather to... what was he planning? Anyways, once he found her, she noticed him and ran away. Tim then ran after her, but before he could reach her, the knight saved her. I still don’t understand the other ending though, where she blows up. Was that what Tim was planning this whole time? The point is that Tim was the bad guy and the knight was the hero... right?
Yes, the monster that's described in the books is actually Tim, OR you could view it as Tim perceiving the knight saving her as a kidnapping of sorts. The bomb ending has several meanings, all of them metaphorical and highly debated
It's really weird and vague, but the princess and the knight are metaphors. Tim is a nuclear scientist. The princess is the atomic bomb. The knight is supposedly other scientists that beat him to the punch and got recognized instead of him. The intro text of the last level strongly illustrates that Tim perceives things very differently from other people. What he perceives as beautiful and majestic, others see as terrifying and deadly. Hence why he is "flirting with the death of the world."
Tim was a nuclear scientist, the princess was the atom bomb. The knight that rescued her were the other scientists who didn’t want to use the bomb. Tim was different, he wanted to use the bomb to satisfy his curiosity. This is why if he gets his hands on the princess, she blows up. Some men just want to watch the world burn. Tim is that person.
The Oppenheimer movie came out 4 months ago and that guy posted 7 months ago. The whole braid/oppenheimer connection is pretty old news at this point. In my opinion it cheapens everything because it tries so desperately to be deep and artsy instead of standing on its own as a work of art. But hey, to each their own. @@emuhvary1771
Braid is basically the Spec Ops: The Line of platformers. *Do you feel like a hero yet?* (and successfully "saving" the princess is the equivalent of Walker validating and embracing the monster he had become: *Gentlemen... welcome to Dubai.)*
This game is amazing. Paraphrasing the commenter below, I never had and since haven’t experienced anything as impressive. I beat the game at the summer camp I worked at. No internet. Just me and an older anarchist who watched me play. We discussed the game. He recognized the quote “now we are all sons of bitches”. We realized, just the two of us, what it meant. No internet. It was a month or two later that my friend in high school told me that manhattan was burning in the background. Wow. Honestly, I think this is one of the best media contributions to mankind. I wish everyone could experience it how I experienced it. I wished it were required “reading”; but alas, if it were, someone would have ruined the ending. So good. Thanks Jonathan Blow.
@Jmt1000 if grammar isn’t meant to be enforced, how do I get cheap shots against anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and trolls on the internet who are ‘to’ stupid ‘too’ know the difference between you’re and your? I’m gonna have to respectfully disagree with her.
Thank you! I just saw a similarly old video, but they reverse only for the explosion (from the secret ending), and then went “lol yeah nothing changed”. I guess they already knew about the regular ending. I just wanted to see the rewound part, so I came here.
So, my very basic interpretation of the game is that Tim is a scientist who worked on the Manhatten Project, and that the Princess represents peace. Tim thought that by pursuing nuclear weaponry, he was making peace more possible (through deterrence, I guess), bringing it within his reach. In reality, though, it only made peace less likely, forcing it away from him even as he told himself what he was doing would bring peace about. That's my best guess, at least, although the creator of the game said he couldn't put what it meant into "human words" so it's probably more complex than that.
Yeah its quite sad that this is the reality. It can be related to real life where you try to do good to others but somehow end up causing so much harm, only to find out that only you thought your actions are good
@I am 40 The thing is, what if we’re not really the bad guy at all? Maybe the princess is a stuck up bitch and we’re the incel main character that’s just trying to politely ask her out on a date. But she runs off to her Chad knight who is like “I’ll save you from that puny beta male woman!” and she’ll say “Oh yes! My white knight! Please take me in your big strong arms and abuse me later tonight with them!”
This is so god damn genius, in the reverse mode the obstacles make it look like the princess is trying to help you escape with her from the 'evil' knight but in reality, she is trying to get you away from her.
I remember going through a very difficult break up around the time I finished this game and, no kidding, this game helped me to let her go instead of still obsessing over it. It was a gift given at the right time in my life. Very much appreciate everything about it. Art style, music, story. Its all up there.
Omg when i first played this... there not helping each other he's trying to lock her in and she's trying to escape him... so you have been playing the villain the entire game, this was worse then AC3's plot twist
What an achievement of a game and a brilliant twist at the end. another game that had a twist that caught me off guard with its choking reveal is Little Nightmares the Kid DLC.
Like i don't get how no one saw the twist of "the princess is running from you" like all the previous levels were playing in reverse, during the chase, everything else is still going reverse, i still like it since it's a good twist, however i'm just slightly surprised how some people didn't see it coming
No, I bet it was! Basically, Johnathan Snow watched Tenet -- then inverted himself to live 8 years backwards -- then inverted himself again to create Braid in the past ;) xD
If I wanted a twist that I’m the bad guy I’d watch an M. Night Shyamalan movie or play spec ops💀like i get the metaphor but still😂idk in my books like, we had good intentions, but clearly shit went sideways,but I mean, doesn’t change the fact that we can learn from our mistakes, doesn’t make us evil but human, or something,idk, or it just makes us massive fuck up,but hey at least we tried?😂
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They use a lot of tricks to make you think you and the princess are "meant to be". Even something like the size of the models. The princess and you share the same size model while the knight is big and brutish.
AtotehZ hi
Yeah and when you play it backwards they do it like if you play it normally the knight’s text is red but if you play it backwards its green. See What Im doing there?
The scary thing about the game:
You were never the hero.
being not a hero was not scary at all
@@greentea1402 How?
@@user-jk6iu6lf6b How About beccome Anti Hero???
@@greentea1402 you don't get It
The fact of not being the hero Its not the scary things Is that you tought that you were doing the right thing AND realize you were never the hero
Its not quite scary Its More disturbing that you kinda helped the bad guy
That awkward moment when you don't understand what's going on as first.
I got the same scary feeling when my firest girlfriend broke up with me. I couldn't even understand what was going on at first.
That moment when you realize she wasn't running from him, that was backwards. She was running towards him.
he was running towards her?
Musachi Miyomoto The knight, not the protagonist.
i didn't figure that out after playing it so I watched this video and then it clicked
...tim... took the princess?
Why? I don't get this twist?
I'm reading the backlog of the story but... here it feels like there's no indication of the twist...
@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 the twist is that Tim had been the monster she'd been running from, all along.
So essentially the whole game we've been not rushing to the rescue, to save the girl from monster -- we were that monster, and we were just chasing her, not realizing the truth :)
The truth is... the final level where you have to rescue the princess is actually being played *backwards.* In truth, you're just chasing after the princess like a psychopath.
Braid: Turns out you where the bad guy (the game)
@duhad check this comment you made out
8:16 I can totally see the theory that this is about the atom bomb. The direct quote from a creator of the atom bomb, and the princess' line about how he flirts with the death of the world.
birdeynamnam and how Manhattan is burning in the background of the title screen. And how in the secret ending she explodes instead of getting rescued.
Even the books you read before the level seems to hint this, how tim is so focused on the most likely explosive helicopter crash, and how he wants "an intense light that will embrace the world", just like the light of an atomic bomb explosion that will bring peace, ending a war, which also destroys all hope and safety of a pre nuclear world
Even after having experienced this game around the time of its release, I never had nor have yet again ever experienced anything like this ending.
During the whole process of going through the doors of the final world, it never occurred to me that the music was playing backwards. Better yet, I wholeheartedly figured the Princess was fictional; only to be shocked as we finally got to see her.
During what finally seemed like us finding and being eternally united with the Princess, I was so happy; I so wanted this to happen while still in disbelief that we finally found her. My excitement was undeniable as I reached the porch.
Then...
Then came that confusion of what to do once I got to the porch outside her room. However, that confusion was soon totally overcome with a total mind-fcuk as I realized I needed to play the whole stage in reverse, and the dread of realizing she's not running to me, she's running away from me set in.
The music on this final stage, haunts me. I love the score, and enjoy it every time I listen to it, but it always reminds me of how shocking the reveal of this stage was.
This game is an absolute masterpiece.
Kurticus GT The game is truly about male entitlement and expecting women to be things you “win” for doing things she never asked nor wanted you to. I’m honestly shocked I’ve never heard this side of it, and only “yeah turns out she was a nuke, wild”
Scarily similar to dudebros going “yeah turns out she was crazy” when someone breaks up with him.... 🤔
@@DeathnoteBB
So is the nuke theory not correct? People seem to have some evidence regarding that, but I didn't know about any of this while playing the game once it came out. I understood it like you do, but now I'm not quite sure what's the more correct theory.
illusion115 I mean, I can’t say I know what is more canon or anything, but imo the nuke ending is a metaphor for how willfully ignorant people (Braid, in this case) do mental backflips to justify their actions to themselves and blame the victim.
Johnathon Blow even said there’s no single story in Braid thats important. That said I also personally don’t get the idea that Braid is a scientist chasing the atomic bomb, so this interpretation makes more sense to me. People also have said the explosion is because of a time paradox.
But yeah I like to think it’s a metaphor for men who refuse to see themselves as the predator, and women as the victim.
I still don't get the meaning of the ending, like its still all clusterfucked to me. Can someone clearly elaborate it briefly to me? (like an "Explain Like I'm 5" style explanation)
@@makmakg242 Basically Peach is scared of Mario
I realise it was backwards when the chandelier somehow attached to the ceiling. I mean come on, he did nothing and that thing just repair itself?
well, the whole world was like that (backward time)... so you could have known it before the chandelier went up...
@@_kopcsi_ haven't play the game yet. I just watch the video.
@@farryalfa1796 the audio is also reversed
@@farryalfa1796 I didn't play it either but I could tell that time runs backwards before the chandelier part 🤷
@@felixpham4934 okay do you want a fucking medal for it?
Recall this masterpiece when watching TENET in theater
Definitely the landmark for indie game
Haven`t seen TENET, but someone else mentioned the game and TENET, what is the common factor?
@@SHyperionS There is an time-inverse element in movie Tenet. Just like some gameplay parts in Braid.
@@SHyperionS damn you're alive
"do you feel like a hero yet"
- John konrad
Ok, I get it. Tim, I think that’s his name, was never looking for the princess to save her, but rather to... what was he planning? Anyways, once he found her, she noticed him and ran away. Tim then ran after her, but before he could reach her, the knight saved her. I still don’t understand the other ending though, where she blows up. Was that what Tim was planning this whole time? The point is that Tim was the bad guy and the knight was the hero... right?
Yes, the monster that's described in the books is actually Tim, OR you could view it as Tim perceiving the knight saving her as a kidnapping of sorts. The bomb ending has several meanings, all of them metaphorical and highly debated
It's really weird and vague, but the princess and the knight are metaphors. Tim is a nuclear scientist. The princess is the atomic bomb. The knight is supposedly other scientists that beat him to the punch and got recognized instead of him. The intro text of the last level strongly illustrates that Tim perceives things very differently from other people. What he perceives as beautiful and majestic, others see as terrifying and deadly. Hence why he is "flirting with the death of the world."
Tim was a nuclear scientist, the princess was the atom bomb. The knight that rescued her were the other scientists who didn’t want to use the bomb. Tim was different, he wanted to use the bomb to satisfy his curiosity. This is why if he gets his hands on the princess, she blows up. Some men just want to watch the world burn. Tim is that person.
@@TheKillingThrowhah you have just watched Oppenheimer
The Oppenheimer movie came out 4 months ago and that guy posted 7 months ago. The whole braid/oppenheimer connection is pretty old news at this point. In my opinion it cheapens everything because it tries so desperately to be deep and artsy instead of standing on its own as a work of art. But hey, to each their own. @@emuhvary1771
Braid is basically the Spec Ops: The Line of platformers.
*Do you feel like a hero yet?*
(and successfully "saving" the princess is the equivalent of Walker validating and embracing the monster he had become: *Gentlemen... welcome to Dubai.)*
What a comparison this is.
This game is amazing. Paraphrasing the commenter below, I never had and since haven’t experienced anything as impressive. I beat the game at the summer camp I worked at. No internet. Just me and an older anarchist who watched me play. We discussed the game. He recognized the quote “now we are all sons of bitches”. We realized, just the two of us, what it meant. No internet. It was a month or two later that my friend in high school told me that manhattan was burning in the background. Wow.
Honestly, I think this is one of the best media contributions to mankind. I wish everyone could experience it how I experienced it. I wished it were required “reading”; but alas, if it were, someone would have ruined the ending. So good. Thanks Jonathan Blow.
@Jmt1000 California, huh? That explains the incorrect use of an apostrophe.
@Jmt1000 I'm intrigued, why was Portal on the required "reading" list?
@Jmt1000 if grammar isn’t meant to be enforced, how do I get cheap shots against anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and trolls on the internet who are ‘to’ stupid ‘too’ know the difference between you’re and your? I’m gonna have to respectfully disagree with her.
Looks like someone deleted a comment
No internet.
braid ending be like: hold on, that doesn't seem right! lemme just- *time reserving sounds*
Thank you! I just saw a similarly old video, but they reverse only for the explosion (from the secret ending), and then went “lol yeah nothing changed”. I guess they already knew about the regular ending. I just wanted to see the rewound part, so I came here.
1:44 i.e. Tim wants to make a nuke to end the war
'''Now we are all sons of bitch's''
Braid
or in other words
If Christopher Nolan made Super Mario
Tenet
@@DanielLimJJ Christopher Tennet? I thought he did something else.
@@DanielLimJJ You now what is funny? Now Nolan's next film about manhattan project.
bro had a vision
So, my very basic interpretation of the game is that Tim is a scientist who worked on the Manhatten Project, and that the Princess represents peace. Tim thought that by pursuing nuclear weaponry, he was making peace more possible (through deterrence, I guess), bringing it within his reach. In reality, though, it only made peace less likely, forcing it away from him even as he told himself what he was doing would bring peace about.
That's my best guess, at least, although the creator of the game said he couldn't put what it meant into "human words" so it's probably more complex than that.
Hauntingly nifty game.
the princess is basically running away from you
Erlck_16 -_- meaning
John Smith meaning your actually the bad guy
Yeah its quite sad that this is the reality. It can be related to real life where you try to do good to others but somehow end up causing so much harm, only to find out that only you thought your actions are good
@I am 40
The thing is, what if we’re not really the bad guy at all? Maybe the princess is a stuck up bitch and we’re the incel main character that’s just trying to politely ask her out on a date. But she runs off to her Chad knight who is like “I’ll save you from that puny beta male woman!” and she’ll say “Oh yes! My white knight! Please take me in your big strong arms and abuse me later tonight with them!”
UndertakerU2ber you sound like a nice guy
This is so god damn genius, in the reverse mode the obstacles make it look like the princess is trying to help you escape with her from the 'evil' knight but in reality, she is trying to get you away from her.
Mind blown
I'm here after watching TENET.
Me too!
Me too, my friend) Me too...
Same
@Why Me Nope, but their concepts are the same.
Me too
I remember going through a very difficult break up around the time I finished this game and, no kidding, this game helped me to let her go instead of still obsessing over it. It was a gift given at the right time in my life. Very much appreciate everything about it. Art style, music, story. Its all up there.
I like games where you turn out to be the bad guy mostly because it’s funny realising your the monster in the story
"We are each our own devil. And we make this world our Hell."
- Oscar Wilde
For some reason in the ending with the goombas, i cant get the one goomba to get sucked up into the cannon again!....
Same
They aren't goombas
@@mr.tidepod9040 yes they are
They're brown, they have no arms, they move in one direction until they hit an object and then turn around, they're basically goombas.
@@epicbread1310 no they're not, they're offically called Monstar, whether you want to bring up the similarities between them and goombas or not
You shoulda seen this coming though. Tim is wearing a business suit! No hero does that!
Heh, look at that, Tim's an r/niceguys.
Never heard of this till now
Would not, could not. Would not, could not... oh, could not join the dance.
Omg when i first played this...
there not helping each other he's trying to lock her in and she's trying to escape him...
so you have been playing the villain the entire game, this was worse then AC3's plot twist
Creepy!
Someone explain why this stair appear @5:53 after finishing the game?
ラストステージ……最初から違和感…
本当の真実………((( ；ﾟДﾟ)))ｶﾞｸｶﾞｸﾌﾞﾙﾌﾞﾙ
どういうことだってばよ？
@@ice7870 悪役はどっちだったのか明らかになるラストです
What an achievement of a game and a brilliant twist at the end. another game that had a twist that caught me off guard with its choking reveal is Little Nightmares the Kid DLC.
I am shook
in this game you are the enemy
TENET reminds me this.
I can't believe I didn't realize until now that Tim is basically Oppheimer
Jonathan Blow couldnt get over his ex taking off with another dude, I get it
El amor mas tóxico y obsesivo al punto que cambia todo su entorno asu favor.
So...this game is meant to be an arthouse film version of Super Mario?...
So Tim was part of the manhattan project?
Oh. My. God.
So Tim is the Protagonist, Antagonist and Main character of Braid. WOW does it get any better than this. Are there any more games like this?
try spec ops the line
Thus game was really clever.
This is crazy
Here before Tenet used that ending
5:13 is that a piranha plant (don’t hurt me for asking this)
It is based off of one, Braid was directly inspired off of the Mario series.
Aaron Kim huh. I had no idea
Braid Pitt
Like i don't get how no one saw the twist of "the princess is running from you" like all the previous levels were playing in reverse, during the chase, everything else is still going reverse, i still like it since it's a good twist, however i'm just slightly surprised how some people didn't see it coming
dang
I wish they had made the whole "you're the real monster" thing more explicit...idk
the would ruin it
I have braid on CD not steam 😮
My dad played this game too and he son in 9 minutes
Are we the baddies?
Wait braid was a bad dood and she tried to kill braid now it make much sense
his name is tim
My goodness, even the audio is reversed
what's the meaning of the word braid for this game? why braid? her hair?
the twist
A. Bakshi oof. Damn
Braid is also a reference to time
Or it could be a reference to all the simultaneous storylines being woven together by the same themes
“She lashed her braid out in contempt”
This is better than 天能Tenet
do you think soulja boy would like this ending
*Turns out we all are sons of bitches*
....... *I DON'T GET IT!!*
To make things simple, you were the bad guy.
This game was inspired by Tenet.
This game came out many years before Tenet.
No, I bet it was! Basically, Johnathan Snow watched Tenet -- then inverted himself to live 8 years backwards -- then inverted himself again to create Braid in the past ;) xD
@@Andriy_Doc someone gets it
im glad this game ment so much to so many but to me, its just to far up its own ass.
Mario Brothers was about the holocost in WW2, and told through a crying clown's perspective, Miyamoto was an ARTIST, cmon man!!
@@Miketar2424
Well good! Get the hell outta my life! who needs ya! Beat it! leave me alone!!!!
If I wanted a twist that I’m the bad guy I’d watch an M. Night Shyamalan movie or play spec ops💀like i get the metaphor but still😂idk in my books like, we had good intentions, but clearly shit went sideways,but I mean, doesn’t change the fact that we can learn from our mistakes, doesn’t make us evil but human, or something,idk, or it just makes us massive fuck up,but hey at least we tried?😂
i seriously got stuck at the fucking goomba cannon shit for 30 minutes (not exaggerating), way to ruin an emotional moment
Интересная идея, но как же убого она реализована.
This game predicted the mgtow movement. 😂