Blog: "Thoughts on Limbo"

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Well, puzzles in games is actually a really fun aspect, as you said you wanted to remove them. Why do that? No puzzles, is... not enough interesting. And i'm hoping it will be a horror game. That's what you guys are known for! I personally want more monsters. and Limbo hardly has a monster. The spider is like a scripted event. I think you guys should have more close encounters with your monsters.

I agree, no puzzles worries me as well, because that's really what makes Amnesia and Penumbra so unique, their clever logic and physics based puzzles. Take that away and you simply have a great horror game instead of a hybrid that works miraculously well. If you guys think the game is too driven on solving puzzles, you can simply make the puzzles less obvious. To be honest I don't see how you really can though; in Amnesia every puzzle has a purpose, a few of them slightly confusing but in hindsight completely logical and necessary. To me that's really the beauty of Amnesia and Penumbra; they're essentially point & click adventure games with a survival horror core engine.

I don't however discourage evolution and I fully support any direction you guys want to take the next game in. Just bear in mind the puzzles are what made Amnesia and Penumbra so satisfying to me (and probably a lot of other people) and also so horrifying. The stealth mechanics of hiding from monsters is very frightening sure but to me trying to think logically and solve problems in such a dangerous environment where you can die at any moment is where I derived most of the horror from.