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LIMBO
by cover-Tom Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:11 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-0w8I-oAc
"LIMBO can run as short as four or five hours in the first go-round, which is tragic since its puzzles are brilliant, and the game doesn't wear out its welcome with, say, time-travel tweaks or a specific, limited item. LIMBO could probably have kept on going another hour or so without anybody getting bored. To be fair, as a concentrated experience, its every region is stark and memorable in spite of the black-and-white sheen, both in looks and in puzzles that prove familiar and exciting even on a second playthrough. (Those regions shine when you force a huge change in the world, like yanking a hidden switch to change the weather or power down a dilapidated hotel.)
That stark brevity fits the game's understood purpose: to present a boy in search of a lost sibling, a boy who's desperate, quiet, and willing to proceed left-to-right without any plot or outright provocation. As such, we too follow along without asking questions. We solve puzzles and brave confusing foes because we "have" to. The wordless inspiration, and the game's overt nod to it, rises above the game's astonishing qualities—its beauty, its economy of sound, its puzzles, its fluid control, even its never-too-hard difficulty—to make this 2010's best video game so far."
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/limbo-a-video-game-explores-living-with-loss/60058/
"LIMBO can run as short as four or five hours in the first go-round, which is tragic since its puzzles are brilliant, and the game doesn't wear out its welcome with, say, time-travel tweaks or a specific, limited item. LIMBO could probably have kept on going another hour or so without anybody getting bored. To be fair, as a concentrated experience, its every region is stark and memorable in spite of the black-and-white sheen, both in looks and in puzzles that prove familiar and exciting even on a second playthrough. (Those regions shine when you force a huge change in the world, like yanking a hidden switch to change the weather or power down a dilapidated hotel.)
That stark brevity fits the game's understood purpose: to present a boy in search of a lost sibling, a boy who's desperate, quiet, and willing to proceed left-to-right without any plot or outright provocation. As such, we too follow along without asking questions. We solve puzzles and brave confusing foes because we "have" to. The wordless inspiration, and the game's overt nod to it, rises above the game's astonishing qualities—its beauty, its economy of sound, its puzzles, its fluid control, even its never-too-hard difficulty—to make this 2010's best video game so far."
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/limbo-a-video-game-explores-living-with-loss/60058/
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Re: LIMBO
by lolwut Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:34 am
im gigo, someone (you) banned me.cover-Tom wrote:who the hell are you get out
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Re: LIMBO
by FatCat Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:54 pm
Fuck 360.
Only good games they have Gears of War and Halo.
PS3 FTW.
Only good games they have Gears of War and Halo.
PS3 FTW.
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Re: LIMBO
by cover-Tom Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:01 pm
and LIMBOFatCat wrote:Fuck 360.
Only good games they have Gears of War and Halo.
PS3 FTW.
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