You know, i never through i could find a game so terrible that it could compete against Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing as one of the worst things in existence. This is one of those instances where you have to try and make something phenomenally terrible. Where do i even start with this thing? Limbo of the Lost is a point-and-click adventure game, having you solve puzzles to gain access to new parts of the world. The most basic of basic of what you've come to expect from the genre.
The character you take control of is Captain Briggs (who is weirdly Entomophobic, which is to say that he has a fear of insects). Briggs will annoyingly complain to the player from time to time regarding his feelings of the surroundings and what he has been asked to do. If the player doesn't move the mouse for a period of time, Briggs will let the player know about it. Fun Fact: Benjamin Briggs is named after the real life captain of the Mary Celeste.
This is just one annoying character you have to bare with, with a wide cast characters, with you coming across a severed head, an old, green witch and a zombie looking dude. Obviously i didn't pay attention, since all of them are poorly animated and modelled as well as voiced. Any of the jokes, such as referencing the player and the "old, ugly person thinking the main character is attractive but is unattractive herself" jokes fall flat on their face. I'm also never playing this again since i could never skip any of the unamusing dialogue.
Their voices are like grating my ear's with cheese graters and getting them raped afterwards. Speaking of poorly animated and modelled, all of the characters look more outdated some of the stuff from Ripper (1996) (Go check out Spoony's review for that). It's horrendous. Amongst the terrible voice acting and piss poor graphics are difficult to find items that require an unhealthy amount of pixel-hunting, not helped by the less than half-asses graphics.
The puzzles themselves are a mess, requiring intimate knowledge of what you have to do to progress, requiring walkthroughs. At that point, you might as well watch a Youtube walkthrough with someone sad enough to do so (i will be posting Part 1 of one on this review). It doesn't help that your character takes forever to walk anywhere, slowing down a slow game even further.
Overall, it's a painful experience to endure, and it's an experience you shouldn't endure. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! However, let's look into the controversy as an added bonus. Shortly after it's release, on June 11, 2008, GamePlasma published an article comparing specific scenes in Limbo of the Lost with a nearly identical space in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This spawned people to look through the game to find more plagiarism. It was soon discovered that it had not only stolen from Oblivion, but a metric fuckton of other games, like Unreal Tournament 2004/03, Diablo II, Thief: The Dark Project and Thief: Deadly Shadows, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Silent Hill 4: The Room, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, and Hexen just to name a few.
It's even stolen from movies, such as Spawn, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and At World's End. Of course, on June 23rd, 2008, the developers finally stated that the plagiarized art had come from a contractor that they outsourced to. Shift the blame, huh? If you look a little deeper and look at the length 10 year development process behind the game and take a good look at the Amiga Prototype (made you feel old, didn't i?), they've stolen from other Amiga titles. This means go torrent this.