Let’s play Limbo

Perhaps, but in Limbo it felt cheap. The bigger problem perhaps is that it takes an eternity to get back into the action. In Super Meat Boy you can start over while your body is still being sliced to pieces and VVVVVV just plops you right back in. Whereas in Limbo you’re forced to watch yourself fall down a pit for half a minute while you impatiently tap your fingers. Even “death porn” Tomb Raider doesn’t take that much pleasure in Lara’s one-second impalements and dismemberments.

Now Super Meat Boy is overall a more annoying game than Limbo because despite tight controls you generally have to do much more nonsense replay just because you failed to make that last jump, but in between 2010 contemporaries Limbo, Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV, I do think Limbo stands out rather negatively, even if Super Meat Boy is an unattractive game.

It doesn’t help that I fairly recently played Mark of the Ninja, either. An excellent puzzle stealth platformer, that one.

I got the “Alone in the Dark” achievement. If the others are of the same caliber I’m not too interested. :slight_smile: