Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoPersonally I’m a huge fan of both Limbo and Inside, solely because of the atmosphere. I much prefer Inside but I also really enjoyed Limbo too. I hope you enjoy Inside more than Limbo, but your complaints about Limbo will be more or less the same in Inside.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
If either the puzzles are better or there is more of a story to it I can see myself liking INSIDE more. Most people seem to prefer it, after all.
Any puzzle platformer will face an uphill battle with me though as it’s just not a genre I enjoy. Sometimes - like GRIS - they come through, but often not. I also really liked The Unfinished Swan, if that counts as a puzzle platformer.
LIMBO had a couple of good puzzles (the antigrav one with the boxes near the end comes to mind) but also a huge amount of either forgettable ones or frustrating and/or outright bad ones. A few too many relied on trial-and-error instead of observation and deduction, which I don’t find fun or interesting.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fair enough. I enjoy puzzle platformers, so I was going to like the games regardless, but I just absolutely love the atmosphere of Inside. It might be my favourite ever, not really sure why. But I’ve been looking for something to scratch that itch ever since, and have so far come up empty handed.
Inside does have a story, but just like with Limbo, it doesn’t tell it to you, you have to figure it out for yourself. It’s all environmental story telling, and it doesn’t give any concrete answers to your questions. I still don’t fully know what was going on in that world but I’m okay with that. The unknown is an awesome creepy vibe I absolutely get on with, and is the main reason I love it so much.
I’d love to hear your thoughts once you’ve played it.