Any of you guys play this yet? For those unfamiliar, it is a short game that was just released on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 MS points (~$15 I think). After it got tons of awesome reviews on the usual gaming sites I decided to buy it on Sunday. I'm pretty impressed with it. For a black and white 2-D game, it is surprisingly gory and honestly one of the most immersive games I've played in a long time. It is really creepy too... check out some of the screen shots:











At heart it is a puzzle-adventure game (kind of how Portal is a type of puzzle game) with lots of traps, creepy mind controlling worms, and other stuff. The difficulty is really good too... very challenging at some parts but not enough to make you wanna throw the controller. You will die a lot and honestly it's part of the fun of the game... you'll get impaled by a spider, decapitated by a bear trap, crushed by boulders, etc. My only complaint is that it is too short... I'm almost done with it and I'm only ~2 hrs in. But for $15 it's well worth it.

[Edited on July 28, 2010 at 11:05 AM. Reason : ]

7/28/2010 11:04:57 AM

^ I was waiting for someone to make a LIMBO topic. This game is great. I know it is nerdy as hell, but this is game is a pretty good argument for the whole "video games as art" deal.

7/28/2010 11:20:29 AM

didn't i play this when it was called Myst?

7/28/2010 11:21:31 AM

Looks like Coma, which is an internet flash game... Also very cool, but even shorter

7/28/2010 11:22:41 AM

^^ A Braid reference is much more relevant than Myst.

7/28/2010 11:26:46 AM

Played the demo last night. Pretty nice, but I'm gonna wait til it goes on sale.

7/28/2010 11:26:53 AM

Not like Myst at all. The puzzles are a lot simpler in design and the game isn't frustrating at all.

[Edited on July 28, 2010 at 11:33 AM. Reason : ]

7/28/2010 11:27:29 AM

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"^^ A Braid reference is much more relevant than Myst. "

i have no idea what that is

7/28/2010 11:32:44 AM

An Entertainment moderator should be well versed in all forms of entertainment, both foreign and domestic.

Shame on you.

7/28/2010 11:33:56 AM

i dont think that was in the contract.

7/28/2010 11:38:54 AM

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"Played the demo last night. Pretty nice, but I'm gonna wait til it goes on sale."

Ditto


And I still need to get Braid - it is at 800 pts now

7/28/2010 12:04:14 PM

Got Braid and beat it... was pretty neato... Wish it was free though. Doubt I will do Limbo

8/5/2010 5:03:51 PM

don't tell roger ebert about chiaroscuro vidyagames

8/5/2010 6:06:41 PM

he won't care.

8/5/2010 6:10:18 PM

-love, marko

8/6/2010 8:05:27 AM

just watched the trailer...it looks very cool, very dark...almost makes me wish i had a 360

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1vexQzA9Vk

8/6/2010 10:22:36 AM

this game was fun.. definite must buy if you can get it on sale.

i've been meaning to go back through and try to get the last achievement (play it in one sitting and die 5 or less times)

8/6/2010 10:57:20 AM

It looks great...

but I'm not really into the whole creepy thing.
I mean, I'm all for them doing it, but I don't really want to pay for creepy.

8/6/2010 3:16:25 PM

I'm buying this tonight for sure. Monday Night Combat next week. Damn XBLA, when did you become a legitimate delivery mechanism?

8/6/2010 4:40:39 PM

I really want to play this and Braid. I need to move it, move it.

8/7/2010 2:46:06 AM

Wait for it to go on sale. It's good, it's just not long enough to warrant $15.

8/7/2010 3:54:45 AM

^^Get Braid. Both games are good, but Braid is going to blow your mind.

Limbo was pretty awesome. The last half was kind of disappointing though.

My thinking is the level designers wanted certain puzzles (gravity flipping for example) that only fit within a quasi-futuristic factory setting. And they got it, with no regard to how it would affect the mood set in the first half of the game.

[Edited on August 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM. Reason : ^]

8/7/2010 11:02:13 AM

What did you guys think of the ending? It was a little anti climatic in my opinion but it got a lot better after the credits.

8/7/2010 10:44:32 PM

I just beat it

wtf happened after the credits?? All i got was the main menu again.

Also this:

and this:


I never saw. I bought this this afternoon and just beat it taking a few hours tonight for dinner/bday present shopping.

Did I do something wrong?

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He found the girl at the end, then it went to credits, then it went to the main menu



















































***************** / SPOILER *****************************

Edit: I thought it was a bit short; but worth the 15 bucks

[Edited on August 10, 2010 at 10:31 PM. Reason : worth it]

8/10/2010 10:29:42 PM

yeah, the first half (up to and including the HOTEL part) is the best part of the game, totally front-loaded with great imagery and memorable moments. i think i get what the developers were going for, but the nature stuff was way spookier. industrial areas in games has been done to death.

8/11/2010 2:13:25 AM

bttt

must get response to the after credits ending

8/12/2010 10:45:27 AM

Well I guess you kinda have to look carefully to get the "deeper" meaning of it.





SPOILERS AHEAD:













After the credits when the menu rolls up it shows the same scene as when it ended, except the boy and his sister aren't there and the treehouse is a lot more run-down. If you look closely though, a bunch of flies buzzing around and two corpses. What I gathered from it was that the boy and his sister were playing in the treehouse and it somehow broke. They both fell out and died in the forest. The whole game is the boy traveling through purgatory (aka limbo) to find his sister. Once he finds her, they proceed to Heaven/afterlife/Nirvana/whatever religion you believe in. I interpreted the spider, the other boys that were trying to kill you, etc. to be some kind of demons trying to take you to Hell.









END SPOILER

8/17/2010 2:10:31 PM