Comments on: Braid Hints: World 5

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:14:10 +0000

[SPOILER ALERT — full solution here] Wow, another solution to Fragile Companion! I solved it sort of the way Kevin Puetz did — jumped down and walked to the door without the key, rewound time, and got the key; then my shadow went back to the door with his copy. I think I did the key-collecting in a way that required more split-second timing than what he described, maybe unnecessarily. In any case, I’m going to try the rewind-in-midair thing — it’s hard to imagine why the shadow self would go all the way to the door at the end of that jump if I’ve never been to the door before, but I don’t have the game open in front of me right now

By: Roee

Roee — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:53:29 +0000

World 5, fragile companion, completely stuck for over an hour – i finally gave up and looked up for a tip for the first time in this game like you so thanks for your time with the hints, they helped 🙂

By: Farrin

Farrin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:04:29 +0000

Thank you so much for making this…I was at an impasse, but I was determined not to spoil myself. Your blog posts were perfect.

By: Linus

Linus — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:32:08 +0000

Thank you many times for these hints. It is actually my 2nd play through and I couldn’t remember how to solve Crossing the Gap III. I managed to remember or re-figure-out everything else. My first time through, I was so tempted to find a walkthrough, but stumbled upon the official one and its advice to wait and solve it myself, and was glad I did. So your hints are perfect for those who are truly stuck.

By: Gwark

Gwark — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:26:40 +0000

Agreed about the 5.4.3. I was fine with World 5 ’til I got to that one.

By: Roar

Roar — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:16:31 +0000

I totally agree with anon. Damn that one was tricky. I would never have figured that one out on my own.

By: Arne

Arne — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:53:59 +0000

Amen, anon. Amen.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:40:09 +0000

Damn you, 5.4.3. T^T

By: Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:02:50 +0000

I happened on the rewind early trick also, only you start rewinding just before the key breaks and falls down, right as you touch the door and it starts opening. You have like a split second.

By: Kevin Puetz

Kevin Puetz — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:45:18 +0000

There’s another, somewhat harder solution to Fragile Companion: the key is non-causal, so you can carry it back in time as you rewind.

Thus, you can walk up to the first gate without the key, go kill the monster and get it, rewind to before you approached the gate, and now your shadow self will have it when it walks up. Then you can do the other.

The solution you described is easier to do, though, and points out something I hadn’t actually noticed (that the shadow self keeps his momentum and can land in a place you never did). Nifty! I wonder how many other puzzles have multiple solutions 🙂