A little game called Braid by Jonathan Blow was released on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. The game, a simple flatformer that integrates the concept of time to create wonderful gameplay experiences, received ridiculously high scores from a slew of websites that you'd think this is the next Final Fantasy. Of course, although a PC version is said to follow sometime this year, the fact that it's a XBLA-only game at the moment means I'm not going to be playing it any time soon.

As a result, instead of rambling away with next-to-none first-hand experience of the game, I'm just going to quote some of the other review sites, which will likely produce a review just as interesting.

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