Summary Of The Game Braid

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To deal with bullying from another person can be bad, but what if it was your own father, and possibly even your step-mother. In the game Braid, there are five puzzles, all of which tell a story, the story of the game creator's childhood (this is all just a theory). In the first puzzle it shows a man on top of a woman, the man is reaching for a glass of wine on the table next to them, the woman's face is not shown nor does she ever show up again, so one could infer that something happens to her. Next, in the second puzzle, it shows what is believed to be the same my holding up a glass of wine, like he’s toasting to something. However, what's odd about this picture is it's focused on the wine, and the man's face is quite unfocused, one would believe this to symbolize alcoholism. …show more content…

After that in puzzle three, there is a kid sitting alone in an airport, it looks as if people are getting off a plane that he is about to get on. The kid is staring longingly at a cup, this would lead one to believe that this is the man from puzzle’s one and two’s son because if his father had resorted to alcoholism drinking would have a weird effect on him. Of course in puzzle 4 it shows the same boy in the ally of a city smashing what looks to be a trash can, in the upper right hand corner of the picture there is an abstract female face smiling, one could infer that his dad remarried and this was a version of his stepmoms face. This could mean that the boy felt like he was trapped, that no matter where he went he could never escape his father and stepmother. Finally in puzzle five, it shows a child's room, there is a hostile looking figure entering through the door while what looks like the child leaving through the window. It is possible that one day his father got to drunk, and when he came home went up to his kids room, right as he was running

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