Limbo

The video game, Limbo, developed by a company called PLAYDEAD is an extremely eerie and atmospheric video game. Right off the bat, you aren't instructed with any directions nor controls. It gives the sense that the player determines wether or not they would play or not play the game, seeing how there are no time limits/restrictions. Once you get the little boy to rise, it's well thought out to have him rise, as though rising from a grave (or the dead/final resting place). He is nameless, faceless, and has no voice, however you feel a sense of attachment to him because you become apart of this virtual avatar that is now you. In addition, I noticed that the sounds in gameplay are ambient, and some sounds are a lot louder than others. This atmosphere it creates, gives the gameplay a suspenseful nature, and leaves the player in wonder and in uneasy unknown. Overall, I think Limbo is extremely well thought out and put together, tying elements of suspense, eerie and a supernatural characteristic that goes beyond our natural state of reality. And by supernatural I mean that in the gameplay, you have no lives, and your death is a big trail and error experience, on top of the puzzle-like game. I believe this game really relates to the supernatural in it's nobel characteristics.