At the first sight, this game is not different from other shooting games. The player moves the avatar with WASD and shoots by clicking the mouse in corresponding directions. And there is typical game mechanics: time pressure, collecting starts as goals, score keeping, leader board...
However, after several levels, we start to figure out the rules. In each level, the enemies are actually the recording of the player's previous moves, which means the player is playing against the past him/herself! The use of factors of time, which is also a key element in 'Braid', is innovative and exciting to contemporary players because it opened up playing with a new dimension.
Also, it should be noted that how this game succeeded to be entertaining and educative. The meaning of this game is to make people reflect on gun control policy. When a good guy with a gun turns into a bad guy... The message at the beginning of the game hints the main theme to the player. After several rounds of playing, the player would probably start to reflect on the boundary between the good and the evil.
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