Let’a Play - Limbo

 

The game limbo is a puzzle video game starring a nameless boy who woke up in a middle of nowhere in a search to find his sister, he got trapped in a world of Limbo. This game symbolizes a gruesome journey of a boy towards finding his sister. Limbo is a puzzle-platform video game with just using keys consist of for walking with the basic arrow keyboard and control button for grabbing and pushing objects. It is believed behind all the obstacle in this game represents this boy’s fear; for example, swimming, spiders, heights, etc.

What made this video game catch our eye was the the art expressed in Limbo, the complexity and graphics in this game represent the art in the game. The art in the video help show what the game is about and help us understand the videogame more. Limbo also expresses empathy, Bogost explains, “one of the unique properties of video games is their ability to put us in someone else’s shoes.” In the game limbo we were this character running through the woods trying to escape death which connected to our emotions and made us want to beat every obstacle.

Overall from what we all experienced, most of our first expression towards this game, considering its black and white graphic, is most likely going to be scary and would expected a jump scare at some point. Limbo is also very graphic because at some point you fall to a trap and looks like blood squits out of him. Alex mentioned that this game could capture more emotion in the setting. Selena, Maria, Lexi, and Nabila, agrred that we liked the fact that we do not know what will come next after what we just went through and this kept us interested with the game keep wanting to play it again andd again.

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Nabila

I'm a transfer student from Louisiana State University. I'm a Civil Engineering major and currently doing my Sophomore/Junior year. Taking DTC for my Ucore and so far I love this class!

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