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World 1
Level 1-1: Braid
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1-1: Braid is the last level of the game. It explains the elements of the game and has a story that can be seen backwards and in reality.

Interpretation[]

The level starts with the Knight climbing down a vine while holding The Princess, seemingly against her will. She escapes from the knight and starts running to the right side of the level. At the same time, a fire wall chases Tim. The two co-operate, pulling the levers to allow each other to go further. When Tim reaches her house, he is suddenly locked away and all his moves are backwards, this showing that it is not how it really happened. When the player reverses time, what really happened can be seen. In reality, she was never trying to reach Tim and Tim was the evil monster she was trying to run away from all along. To prevent him reaching her, she uses a set of traps that Tim avoided. In the end, she is in fact rescued by the knight who was supposed to be the monster according to Tim.

An alternate ending of the game can be reached as well. For this, there are two ways: The player must collect the seven secret stars, thus making two of the levers unaffected by time. When the player reaches these and the levers are pulled, they can revert the time, the levers will stay pulled and Tim can reach the candelabra before The Princess. When it goes up, Tim can jump on it, reach the princess, thus making her explode with every other living thing on the level, excluding Tim. The second way doesn't need the stars but requires a perfect timing. After the princess explodes the player cannot control time until the player exits the level.

Making the princess explode makes the last star accessible but it doesn't appear when the other seven stars are not collected.

Solution[]

Advancement to next level[]

Regardless of the ending, Tim can use one of the doors at the beginning of the level to reach Level-Small-EpilogueEpilogue.


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