Limbo Review

By Chris Hudak

Black and white and dead all over.



"Bubble, bubble, boy in trouble—a presentational broth of Out of This World, seasoned with the low-key strangeness of Braid, and a perfectly-reasonable portion of nychtophobia; tear a page from the Blair Witch‘s "Guide to the Woods" and swallow it; liberally stir in Essence of Gashlycrumb Tinies to taste = OMFG." Limbo is a downloadable cauldron-recipe for…

  • Brilliant overall audiovisual presentation
  • Entertaining, ever-evolving puzzles
  • Grim, grinning, uber-low-key, grisly humor
  • 'Replay value' of watching other players
  • Affirmation of the indie-game industry
  • Surprisingly solid, responsive, reliable physics
  • Value aside, probably not a good 'fit' for Little Timmy
  • There's more than a little inherent Try-and-Die
  • Still a tad on the 'short' side
  • Comes to an abrupt (and ambiguous) ending

9

Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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