WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO PLAY LIMBO WITHOUT SPOILERS DO NOT READ!!!!!

LIMBO as LOG member Kaillif Ammen says if very vague with little description and back story. For this reason LIMBO is up for a lot of interpretation. The following is my interpretation of the story of LIMBO.

As I described at the beginning of my review, Limbo is in Catholic theology Purgatory. From the title I feel the boy is traveling through purgatory which composes of the two evils of Earth. The dark scary forest filled with dangerous life forms and the cold, solitary city filled with dangerous machines and no life. It is the two sides of Earth - Nature and City. Purgatory is representative of the evils of earth. Now why would a little boy and his sister be in purgatory? Well continuing with the Catholicism, a lot of Purgatory's residents are un-baptized babies and children. Children not baptized by the Catholic Church are doomed to Purgatory. So most likely the boy and his sister were raised in a non-Catholic household, most likely Protestants, Atheists, Jews, Muslims etc.



Now as for the enemies you encounter in the forest. There has been some speculation by LOG members Taylor and Kaillif that you provoked the spider and children enemies by simple walking towards them. I disagree. The spider is ten times your sides and could probably kill most of the inhabitants of Purgatory. The spider is a monster which tried to kill you and which the Boy must kill in order to survive. The other children are also non-Catholic inhabitants of Purgatory and have, in my opinion been driven insane by the sheer terror of living there lives in Purgatory. So in their madness they have banded together to destroy any living thing in Purgatory that they sense as a threat. The Boy is the threat. The last living creature is the mosquito. The mosquito was in your way to finding your sister. Your sister meant more to the Boy then the mosquito so using the mosquito is his only option to find his sister. It had to lose its leg.

Now the big one, the ending. In my opinion the Boy and his Sister died in some sort of accident, probably a car accident and they are now stuck in Purgatory. The ladder to heaven is too high for either of them to reach. They are now stuck in Purgatory together and in my opinion will be driven insane by Purgatory and join the other children in killing newcomers to Purgatory.

LIMBO is an incredibly deep, sophisticated and stunning game. This is simply my interpretation of the events of LIMBO. There are numerous different interpretations you can put on it and this is only one of them. The fact that so many interpretations can be put on it is a testament to why this is a must play game and a definite masterpiece.

Written by Matthew Byrd: Gamertag: ColonelByrd95