Review chickens26 3/5 · Jan 5, 2025
Good
Limbo was Playdead's first indie platformer in their mysterious style, and the style is still on point playing this game these days. As with all their games, the story is never spelled out and left to interpretation, as you are a young boy navigating an extremely hostile world with the 2d platforming. The art style, brutal death animations when you …
Limbo was Playdead's first indie platformer in their mysterious style, and the style is still on point playing this game these days. As with all their games, the story is never spelled out and left to interpretation, as you are a young boy navigating an extremely hostile world with the 2d platforming. The art style, brutal death animations when you fail, and interpretive story are the best parts of the short game.
I will say after playing Inside (which has PERFECT level design and platforming), some of Limbo's sections were annoying in the later game. Not because I could not figure out a puzzle's mechanics, but because it required extremely split second perfect timing with your jumps and movement. So, you'd have to repeat it many times to get the timing right. I'd prefer trying to figure out a deeper puzzle than the annoying exactly timed jumps.
