Like the unbaptised infants, you have no idea why you’re being punished. And if those examples seem unusually macabre for a platform game – well, welcome to Limbo. The violent deaths your character will suffer throughout the game are flinch-inducingly shocking, despite (perhaps because) so little is truly seen: the outline of an intestine spilling from your belly as a circular saw does its work two flailing arms beneath rising waters. Limbo is rendered in shadowy, semi-focused silhouette (German Expressionism is the usual reference point), yet from this austere palette the designers have painted something truly sumptuous. So what’s the big deal? Well, the look and sound of the thing is an obvious starting point. LIMBO Game: Super Mario Sunshine it ain’t
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