I&#x27;ve tried hard to like Braid despite it being a platform game (Flashback (1992) is the only game in that genre that I&#x27;ve enjoyed so far).
It&#x27;s gorgeous, clever and polished, yet it felt pretentious to the point where it would distract from the beauty of the game.
And I didn&#x27;t know anything about the creator of the game before trying, so that couldn&#x27;t have been personal bias (not implying that would have been the case otherwise).