Limbo Review

What Limbo is about hardly matters to me. What does however is the atmosphere that draws you in to this interesting and dangerous world. You start off in a forest playing as a boy having no idea why your hear except if you read the vague description when you download the game. In the forest you meet a very deadly spider and other children, both want you dead. The lack of explanation for why these things are happening to you as well the art style and ambient noises help draw you into Limbo. There are three things you use to control your character the analogue stick to move, the A button to jump, and the B button to grab objects. This simple control scheme keeps you focused on whats happening in the game. The puzzles start out simple involving lite platforming and moving objects to get across big gaps. Latter on they get more complicated some involving gravity manipulation towards the end. The deaths are what Limbo will be remembered for other than its great atmosphere. Since the character you control is a child these deaths have a bigger impact than if it was a locust being chainsawed to death. He can be crushed, drowned, shocked and more. No noise or excessive amounts of blood are present so you can only focus what is happening to him, and that is just some of the things that can happen to you. Limbo is definitely a game that I would recommend to anyone with a 360 it is an experience that should be played.