henke on 3/8/2011 at 06:10
Quote Posted by Renzatic
I recommend it. Just don't expect it to last too long.
Yup. The upside to the short length is that it easily invites replays; you can just sit down and play through it again in an evening instead of watching a movie or something. I've played through it 4 times since I got it last year.
Koki on 3/8/2011 at 06:34
I don't want to know what kind of movies you usually watch if you consider Limbo to be a good replacement
Digital Nightfall on 3/8/2011 at 06:56
My "take a quick look" last night turned into playing all the way to the brain slug infection. The videos don't quite seem to capture the smoothness of everything in motion. The ensemble just pulls you in.
Pemptus on 3/8/2011 at 09:25
Does it work well on a keyboard? Or is a gamepad pretty much required?
242 on 3/8/2011 at 12:59
Quote Posted by thefonz
So my 'mini games' top list goes like:
* Machinarium
* Braid
* Limbo
* Plants v Zombies
You missed World of Goo.
Sulphur on 3/8/2011 at 16:18
Quote Posted by Pemptus
Does it work well on a keyboard? Or is a gamepad pretty much required?
Works okay with a keyboard, but the bindings aren't reconfigurable in-game, meaning you have to edit the .ini file -- and you probably will, because jump's bound to the Up arrow.
Too Much Coffee on 6/8/2011 at 22:47
I played it on PS3 last week. It was ok; I didn't find quite as good as some of the hype let on. Yes artistically it is cool. But as a game I thought it could use a little more, especially for a $15 game that lasts only a couple hours. It just drops you in with no story background. And I hated how it didn't indicate when it was auto-saving.
Briareos H on 6/8/2011 at 23:27
Besides the hype and art direction, is Limbo actually good? I had a lot of bad impressions from the trailers, as if the whole thing was built on the eerie/grimdark aspect of black and white and spiky things wrapping a burtonesque tale of sad things(TM). How's the gameplay? Is there anything novel in the approach, the interaction?
Is the story humble or genuinely funny/interesting?
To situate my expectations of indie games - if it can mean anything - I found Braid stupid, boring and pretentious, I found World of Goo charming, entertaining and fantastic, I absolutely loved Doukutsu Monogatari and absolutely loathed Recettear. So, will I like it?
Renzatic on 6/8/2011 at 23:43
Think of it as Out of this World/Another World with some pretty clever physics puzzles (specially towards the end), dead kids, and a plot that's more suggested than told. If this sounds like something that'd piss you off, then you probably won't like Limbo.
Digital Nightfall on 7/8/2011 at 07:25
I enjoyed the game quite a bit until maybe the last third. At that point some of the puzzles seemed more suited to a game like NightSky, which is all about physical interactions and inertia (and even has the same reverse gravity mechanic) . Much of the charm was lost in those stages, and for a game fueled primarily on charm, that was a substantial failing. But I highly recommend at least trying the first third, when the title reaches a price worthy of about one hour of gameplay.
Addendum: Nightsky is pretty great, too.
