Limbo
Picked this one up during a Steam sale. Long story short, if you see this for $5 or lower, buy it. It's a bit overpriced for $10.
Amazingly beautiful game, which is saying something since it has zero color. It is also pretty brilliant in its gameplay and puzzles.
Limbo is a side scroller, and isn't very long, but its very, very good in what it does, and it creating an amazing world with a unique atmosphere. Nothing seems out of place. Everything "fits" from the that chases you (how fucking awesome are those moments?) to the gravity machines to the machine guns to the mosquito...
Limbo's biggest weakness? I have no clue what the game is about or what the ending meant. Oh, and it's pretty short. You'll beat it in an evening.
I've heard a lot of people comparing this to Braid, and look, Braid was a decent game, but quite honestly, it was as annoying as it was good. Only someone with nothing to do or with a mental defect would sit there trying to figure out all the puzzles of Braid. Limbo is far better looking, and more importantly, far more accessible and fun.
For an indy game at a $5 price point this is an easy 9 out of 10. (If it was a bit longer and the plot was more defined, it'd be 10 out of 10.)
Edited By Leisher on 1312824545
Amazingly beautiful game, which is saying something since it has zero color. It is also pretty brilliant in its gameplay and puzzles.
Limbo is a side scroller, and isn't very long, but its very, very good in what it does, and it creating an amazing world with a unique atmosphere. Nothing seems out of place. Everything "fits" from the that chases you (how fucking awesome are those moments?) to the gravity machines to the machine guns to the mosquito...
Limbo's biggest weakness? I have no clue what the game is about or what the ending meant. Oh, and it's pretty short. You'll beat it in an evening.
I've heard a lot of people comparing this to Braid, and look, Braid was a decent game, but quite honestly, it was as annoying as it was good. Only someone with nothing to do or with a mental defect would sit there trying to figure out all the puzzles of Braid. Limbo is far better looking, and more importantly, far more accessible and fun.
For an indy game at a $5 price point this is an easy 9 out of 10. (If it was a bit longer and the plot was more defined, it'd be 10 out of 10.)
Edited By Leisher on 1312824545
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
I never noticed any puzzles that required much thinking, though, it was just a slightly odd and interesting platformer. Did I miss out on parts of it?
Yes, but only if you were after the stars (did they affect the ending? I forget.). So perhaps I'm a bit unfair, but that's what I remember about Braid...looking for those fucking stars. The stars were really stupid, and the only way they were discovered HAS to be because the developer leaked them.
If Limbo and Braid were in a $10 package it'd be nirvana and I'd recommend it to anyone.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell