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Limbo was considered the one of the best indie games of its time and one of the pinnacle examples of "video games as an art." It was released back in 2010, a time when indie games weren't that much relevant like they are nowadays. I played Limbo back in 2015, it was one of the very, very few games that I played and finished in just one sit (and I rarely, if ever, finish a game in just one sit), it's a short and sweet game, it's an atmospherical masterpiece in my opinion.

What do you think of it (and since this is a sub about a Nintendo game, it's worth mentioning that Limbo was ported to the Switch many years ago in case any of you here may be interested in experiencing it)? While the game itself isn't story-heavy like the Mother games, doesn't have even a single dialogue and the whole "story" is up to the player's interpretation, what mostly made me ask this sub about this game is that it does have some elements that may resonate with the Mother fandom:

I like the design of the boy main character so much (he officially has no name), in fact, his design reminds me a lot of the Mother character designs (though this is mostly just a personal opinion), whom the Mother characters have my absolute favorite character designs in any other game even to this very day, it's so elegant that I just can't ever get enough of it. I can only imagine that the boy would look pretty good if he was fully modeled had it not been entirely monochromatic.

It does have some scary moments, like the spider shown above (nothing extremely scary though as it's not meant to be a horror game. The spider shown in the picture is not a spoiler as that's how the game was heavily advertised even back in the day). And as a diehard lover of the "placing innocent-looking young characters in disturbing, dire, violent situations or anything that is not so child-friendly" trope just like what Ness and his friends went through when they fought Giygas, it makes the game shine even more in my eyes.*

*The primary reason on what made me ask about this game in particular and to amplify on the trope that I just mentioned, is that it has some "death animations" that are just extremely disturbing to see. You can check them out in the linked video below (I would personally recommend not going past minute 5 to avoid spoilers despite the game not having a traditional story as the death animations shown in the video are sorted just like how you progress the game and contain late game levels, even if the game itself is short and most full walkthrough videos of it are about just exactly 1 hour long).

The deaths in the video start out mostly tame (mostly, with some intervals between how brutal each death is over the other), then at 0:33 is when you are probably gonna get shocked, as some of these deaths are just extremely brutal and over a game where the MC is a young boy just like the main Mother characters, and do keep in mind that all of these death animations are in a T-rated game just like EarthBound:

https://youtu.be/Lq_tLQoDSSI?feature=shared

!How devastated and heartbroken would you be if you saw Ness and Lucas getting impaled right in the head, sliced, chopped, ripped and torn to pieces like that? Although the game is merely black and white and the character models aren't that detailed because of it, I felt so bad for that poor boy 😰!<