The game was released this summer for the 360 and is available through the Live Arcade or retailers near you. Once you've downloaded the game, bring on the play! "Limbo" is one of those games that you REALLY have to think at. The game follows a little boy searching for his sister. Who has her and why they've taken her isn't clear (I had to read the description to get his motives for wandering around in a booby-trapped wood...) Every so often you run into an obstacle that you have to get by and trust me...you WILL die. Don't worry, though. Use your little boy's life as many times as you need to- there's no limit. That means you'll probably have to throw yourself into a few traps or drown a few times. The puzzles vary...sometimes you have to push a trap up to a spider and have it slam its leg into it...sometimes you have to flood ravines and use little wooden boxes to float to the surface. Whatever the case, you'll be using your brain and probably cursing the gaming gods at not understanding it (I was, anyway.).
What sets this game apart, anyway?
The art is BEAUTIFUL. It's not beautiful in the way that everything is complex and crazily colored. It's a simple black/white/grayscale scheme with the trees, boy, and grasses black and contrasty against the shadowy sky/distance. The little boy's eyes are a piercing white against his black head and I think that's the thing that makes me appreciate the game the most. Another thing that's not-so-beautiful: death. Every time something dies in this game, you can guaranfreakingtee that there's going to be a nasty squirt-squirt-squirt noise or a nasty crunching. Along with that, you SEE the blood (well....black shadows of blood, anyway) and when he lands in traps, he's totally decapitated. There's many, many more ways that he dies, though. Drowning, being rolled over by rocks, falling on pits of spikes, being crushed between gears, impalement by spider leg, and on and on and on. The idea of a video game where you have to think intrigues me (bring on the challenge, baby!) and the fact that it's puzzle-format makes it better. The game progresses through difficulty levels (I'm stuck right now...but I've been stuck like three times already) and gets more and more mysterious as you go (who the heck are the little tribal kids?!?).
Overall, I have to give this game a 5/5. It's got everything I'm looking for (well...it could use some Zombies. And guns...and maybe a little more violence...but other than THAT) and it keeps my attention (NOT an easy task. I stopped two times in the writing of this review).
5 comments:
I'd get a 360 just so I could play this.
It's pretty freaking awesome. And by "awesome" I mean frustrating. :)
Did you get the avatar gear on lvl 1? It's so easy of an achievement, start the level and go left till you see the glowing egg.
I got it! :)
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