I hate that Firefox 3 box >( Apparently '
NEVER' means 'ask me everyday from now on until I finally get annoyed enough by the intrusive pop-up that I end up saying yes anyway'.
About Braid:
If you want to bash many monsters you can just rewind. I personally thought the puzzles were well metered (excluding level 2.2) and if a level was too hard then you could usually just walk through it and get onto the next level. Anyway, in terms of graphics, I thought it was almost all spot on, the only things I really didn't like were the sprites of the two characters that appeared towards the end of the game, they looked extremely rushed and generally of lower quality in comparison to the main character. Personally, the usage of burn/dodge doesn't really bother me.
About Machinarium:
I liked the non-verbal 'dialogue', but I wish you were able to skip some of it. The graphics were great, I found myself using the solution button after I had completed the level just to look at the solutions - all of those pages were really nicely designed. Which brings me to my next point, the game would've been far better off without any of the action minigames, including the solution-spider-shmup and
especially the mini-game one towards the end; they came off as extremely amateurish and unnecessary. If the final action mini-game occured at the start of the game I wouldn't have even bothered finishing the game. But aside from that Machinarium was great, I really liked the screens that included multiple areas
