Well folks in case you haven't heard, LIMBO is out on Xbox Live today. I posted about the game by Playdead back in December, saw it in action on the floors of GDC, and have been waiting to play it myself for what feels like ages. It's getting rave reviews across the board (with a stunning metacritic score of 92!) so do yourself a favor and play it.
Play it for me too since, *long-awkward-frustrated-sigh*, I am currently unable to download it. No ethernets in the .tiff domicile. Stupid stupid .tiff (calling internet provider now).
You could bring the 360 into work. Wouldn't take more than 5 minutes to set it up and download it. ;)
It's absolutely brilliant. It's short, but it's just short enough and the game mechanics good enough that I could easily see playing it again in the future. Some of those traps though... Way too cheap.
Posted by: ScottyG | July 21, 2010 at 11:11 AM
I'll have it when you're in Seattle if you wanna try it!
Posted by: cory schmitz | July 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM
If you don't have any internet, then how are you posting this? I'm scared.
At any rate, I enjoyed Limbo quite a bit. I wasn't sure I liked the complete lack of story, but I've read some other interpretations that I liked better than my own (particularly that the boy was looking for a friend, which somehow never occurred to me). I reviewed it here if you're interested: http://www.thegamereviews.com/article-1785-Limbo-Review.html
Posted by: Jeffrey Matulef | July 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM
@Jeffrey
Actually, all the story is in the Marketplace description for the game:
"Uncertain of his Sister's Fate, a Boy enters LIMBO."
Posted by: ScottyG | July 21, 2010 at 11:53 AM
@Jeffrey Turns out they have internet at my office :P but sadly, my xbox is not here at work.
@Scotty I cannot WAIT to play.
@Cory Yeah... I may just have to do that... :P
Posted by: .tiff | July 21, 2010 at 11:55 AM
@ScottyG
While that description is on XBLA, it's never made clear in the game proper.
Posted by: Jeffrey Matulef | July 21, 2010 at 12:21 PM
It's pretty terrific. Did anyone else figure out how to reach that one achievement with the giant gears that push out boxes? I tried everything I could to keep one of the boxes on the bottom gear, but no matter how I pushed or pulled, it would always topple off about halfway up.
Posted by: Wiley Wiggins | July 27, 2010 at 11:01 AM