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I started playing it last night. I finished last night. Time played: 2 hours by Rafiki 11/27/2012, 9:55am PST If you skip the story parts, the game probably comes in at a little over an hour. That sewer segment you hated? 10-15 minutes, tops. It's impossible you played it in 5 minute chunks over weeks, unless you were listening to dubstep and practicing slow motion. They should have named this game, "Wait, that's it?" because that's what you'll be saying constantly. There's a really neat helicopter chase sequence over rooftops, but like everything else in the game it ends up being too short. The game is also just one big long linear corridor. Games like Flashback allowed you to explore several screens at once and required it, because you would have to visit them to discover what was there, find items, and then piece together in your head what needed to be done to proceed. In Deadlight you just keep following the one direction you can go in until you hit a dead end, then solve the one puzzle that lets you proceed. It sucks because what they have could have made for a really great game. The backdrops really are gorgeous, the controls are good, the mix of parkour and combat is fun, and there's a neat sequence or two. But everything's so short and so stripped down that the game just feels like a good demo. The ending screen should have been an ad asking me to buy the full version when it's released.

Deadlight by ra 10/26/2012, 12:26pm PDT     Limbo sucked? by McMoo 10/30/2012, 5:29am PDT         Hours of traps you couldnt see, reload, har har NT by LimBLOW 10/30/2012, 5:31am PDT         Yes. Some people think it was better than Braid, but really it was just easier. NT by Jerry Whorebach 10/30/2012, 7:03am PDT         It was praised by the same people who gushed over Braid by re: 10/30/2012, 7:34am PDT         A big scary spider followed by a shitton of lever-pulling physics puzzles. by MM 09/18/2013, 9:51pm PDT             Limbo encapsulates the entire human experience in one puzzle platformer. by Jerry Whorebach 09/19/2013, 1:24am PDT                 Best Caltrops post? Best Caltrops post. NT by Entropy Stew 09/19/2013, 3:48am PDT     It's good overall, but I almost stopped playing it by fabio 11/23/2012, 11:27pm PST         I started playing it last night. I finished last night. Time played: 2 hours by Rafiki 11/27/2012, 9:55am PST             Steam says my playtime is 2 hours by fabio 11/27/2012, 11:02am PST     on sale for $3.75 NT by fabio 03/27/2013, 2:07am PDT     This stunk by Arbit 04/02/2013, 10:44pm PDT