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PostRe: LIMBO (XBLA) - Edge 9, Eurogamer 9
by Fruits Punch Samurai » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:21 am

Eggs apart from the first two are pretty well hidden. They looked like white glowing balls and when you step on one it sounds like a rice cracker breaking. I didn't collect many but I saw a few I couldn't figure out how to reach. I will probably do an egg play through on my second go.

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by CrystalGipsy » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:23 am

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CrystalGipsy wrote:I seem to be really stuck Got to end of mine cart with electric track above right and behind me. Cart on slope so it pushes the button electrifying rail above. Tried everything my brain can think of. any help appreciated. This the only place I have got really stuck so far I generally can work it out after a few goes but this bit has left me clueless.


Not going to tell you explicitly, but here's a clue.

The cart has momentum, both uphill and downhill. Have a play around with that.

Cheers will try tomorrow I think I get what you mean!

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by CrystalGipsy » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:24 am

Fruits Punch Samurai wrote:Eggs apart from the first two are pretty well hidden. They looked like white glowing balls and when you step on one it sounds like a rice cracker breaking. I didn't collect many but I saw a few I couldn't figure out how to reach. I will probably do an egg play through on my second go.


Oh. I do remember stepping on those then did not realise you could pick them up.

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by Fruits Punch Samurai » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:27 am

Stepping on them means you have collecting them I'm sure, only some lead to achievements.

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by Vermin » Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:42 am

Just got to the bit where you have to switch gravitational pull (N,W,E,S) whilst in mid-air and it's starting to test me now.

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by Photek » Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:53 am

The Spider........ :cry: :cry: :cry:

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by Jingle Ord The Way » Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:58 pm

Finished and found all the eggs too, and I would say it's taken about 7 and a bit hours in total, although this was mostly down to the egg hunt. I didn't find it all that hard really, although there was that one pain in the arse puzzle involving the mine cart. I knew what I had to do but executing it was a strawberry floater! :x
I seriously doubt I'll get the achievement for completing the game in 3 hours with 5 or less deaths. That seem like it'll be bloody impossible, especially with that strawberry floating mine cart!. I loved it though and it's easily my favourite XBLA game.

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by mcjihge2 » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:06 pm

Garth wrote:Demo was great, will buy this when I have more points :)


I didnt like the demo. I thought the Braid and Winterbottom demos sold those games better.

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by It'sNotLupus » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:22 pm

Spoilers - End of Chapter 6
Even though it causes you a lot of grief, pulling the leg off of the spider and rolling it into the pit might be one of the most heartwrenching, horrific things I've ever done in a game...even though it killed me countless times I felt a palpable sense of guilt rolling its legless body onto those spikes...*shiver*

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by SandyCoin » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:43 pm

Just played the demo of this. What an incredibley eerie game. I haven't played a game that made me this tense in a long time. The part with the first encounter of a spider actually made my skin crawl. Stunning animation and style. Love the overall feel of this and will definetly purchase it soon enough.

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by Iron Nan » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:48 pm

Played the demo last night, christ this game is nasty. :lol:

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by Dalagonash » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:50 pm

I didn't find the demo that eerie, innocent but dark sure but I got too much of a Burton vibe for it to be eerie.

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by Rapidly-Greying » Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:07 pm

:evil: Lucky Bastards.

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by plaido » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:07 pm

Played around 2 and half hours and its really enjoyable so far. The puzzles can be taxing at times but it never get silly and so far I haven't had top resort to an faq, which is a good sign. The animation, art style and atmosphere in this game are stunning :o

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by Fargo » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:09 pm

Just finished the trial and I strawberry floating loved it :wub: Just gotta get some points to get the full version now. strawberry floating hate the way you can't just pay for the game like you can on the ps3. You can never buy the right amount of points on xbox for the item you want :fp:

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by Cuttooth » Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:29 pm

Just finished it. Fantastic game with one or two minor dips. I accidentally pressed 'A' on the first credits screen so I probably missed something at the end, yeah? :lol: :fp:

I'll just go back to that chapter. Anyway:

I can see why the way the story is told may seem pretentious and too ambiguous for its own good but I still quite liked it. It may be an easy way to make a reasonably simple story appear more compelling or bigger than the sum of its parts with different interpretations having identical credibility to one another, but in the long run it isn't a problem.

To me the game is a simple tale of the acceptance of death. You're already dead, your sister is dead, and the wildly different settings of this limbo are just trying to make you hurry up and get to the sweet sweet afterlife. So you have many puzzles that you can only logically solve by dying at least once to demonstrate that. The one near the beginning of the game where the middle is fine to touch on the first part but is the trigger on the second is the perfect example. Surviving that makes absolutely no sense, but that's what has happened so the world just throws everything it can at you until it eventually realises the only way to get you to stop and accept laying down in the ground forever is by pretending to give you what you want.


I'll probably do it all over again for one or two achievements / collectables / just for the hell of it and go back to it in a few months hoping I'll have forgotten the solutions to a few puzzles by then.

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PostRe: LIMBO (XBLA) - Edge 9, Eurogamer 9
by Photek » Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:42 pm

Fargo wrote:Just finished the trial and I ******* loved it :wub: Just gotta get some points to get the full version now. ******* hate the way you can't just pay for the game like you can on the ps3. You can never buy the right amount of points on xbox for the item you want :fp:

CREDIT CARD? :|

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by Cuttooth » Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:46 pm

Photek wrote:
Fargo wrote:Just finished the trial and I ******* loved it :wub: Just gotta get some points to get the full version now. ******* hate the way you can't just pay for the game like you can on the ps3. You can never buy the right amount of points on xbox for the item you want :fp:

CREDIT CARD? :|

Which you use to pay for 1500 points when you only want to buy something worth 1200.

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by Fargo » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:50 am

Cuttooth wrote:
Photek wrote:
Fargo wrote:Just finished the trial and I ******* loved it :wub: Just gotta get some points to get the full version now. ******* hate the way you can't just pay for the game like you can on the ps3. You can never buy the right amount of points on xbox for the item you want :fp:

CREDIT CARD? :|

Which you use to pay for 1500 points when you only want to buy something worth 1200.


Exactly.

Microsoft :fp:

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PostRe: LIMBO (XBLA) - Edge 9, Eurogamer 9
by Fargo » Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:08 pm

Has the xbox marketplace just disappeared for anyone else ?


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