A girl makes a couple of appearances in the game she doesn't strike me as someone you already know, but rather someone you ought to know. Limbo is about going by yourself to a strange place - a new country or a new job, maybe - with the hope and quiet panic of finding a kindred spirit. This is the story of a search for companionship. It's still possible to frighten in black and white.Īs for finding your sister, well, that's the company line, but Limbo leaves your quest open to a broader interpretation. The puzzles do a marvellous job of magnifying those meagre abilities into grand feats like thwarting a giant spider or changing the flow of gravity. You can jump, push crates, and pull levers from time to time. There are few enemies to contend with (few that you can see, at least) so the challenge comes from solving spatial puzzles to advance farther down the path. I can at least confirm that you play as a boy, one who journeys across a 2D world, cutting through a forest, an abandoned city, and a malfunctioning factory. Microsoft's marketing materials say that Limbo is about a boy who's trying to find his sister, because marketers are paid to think in blurbs and back-of-box copy. The game steps back from audio-visual sensory overload so it has room to make inroads to other senses: a sense of wonder, say, or of compassion and vulnerability.
After cutting away the fat, the obligation is to use what remains as convincingly as possible.
Yet you can't expect limitations alone to make your masterpiece for you. It has no colour, no dialogue, minimal music, no cut-scenes, no on-screen health meters or other clutter. The game's real success, however, is in refusing to be satisfied with looks alone.Ĭreativity thrives in limitations, and Limbo is rigorous in its self-imposed limits. The developers, Playdead, execute their aesthetic - like a gloomy Eastern European animated short seen through misted glass - with beauty and consistency. Any screenshot will tell you that, and playing the game drives it home. Limbo, the moody, monochromatic game that kicks off Xbox Live Arcade's Summer of Arcade this Wednesday, looks gorgeous. Have the husks throw you to it and interact with it to destroy it.Austere but richly imaginative, Limbo is a dark-hearted platformer to cherish. Walk to the left to meet the husks that were left outside the elevator and find the orb on the ceiling of that area. Have the husks throw you to it and climb it to the top. Walk just outside the elevator to the right and see the yellow cable above you. Take the elevator low enough so the husks outside can climb on top of the elevator. You just need three or more in either area.) Interact with the elevator to shut half of them outside the elevator and half of them inside. Now get about half the husks to follow you back into the elevator with the other half trapped outside of the elevator. The people will follow above you and will fall off the ledge down to your level. Once the elevator is at the top, run left. The people are on the roof of the elevator above you. Then head into the elevator and press the button.
Have them toss you into what looks like a vent. Jump into the gap once they've all fallen, so you can fall, too. They will all fall into the gap, but they'll be OK. Have them throw you across when you reach the large gap in the floor. Run to the right, and they will all follow. Head to the section with the numerous husks and the elevator, just before the Observatory area.
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