Limbo

Awesome atmosphere, challenging puzzles beautiful style and art direction, but still... a bit shallow in the end. :(
 
I honestly think that had the price mark been lower than 1200 MS points (like 400 to 800 - tops - instead) I may have given it a slightly higher score, but the fact that this thing costs 1200 points is a bit perplexing considering it has 0 replay value, as far as I am concerned.
 
There are only a small handful of secrets (many of which you will encounter as you frustratingly try to figure out what to be doing anyhow), and puzzles and advancement always has a single means of accomplishment, meaning once it's all done - that's all there is to it.
 
To make matters worse, getting it done doesn't take much time at all. If you are bright and generally think outside the box, you can whiz through the whole thing in one to two hours. If you're not the brightest penny in the fountain, you could spend upwards of ten or even a hundred hours going through it, if you even do manage to complete it.
 
The puzzles are challenging, but they can also be frustrating.  Some might consider its approach toward challenging you to be creative - and in many ways it really is - but at times it's also giving you nothing to work with. Typically in a puzzle you know *what* you need to do and need to figure out *how* it is you do it. Having the "what" in a puzzle usually gets your brain working to arrive at the "how", but In Limbo, much of the time you don't even have the slightest clue what you need to be doing or where you need to be going. That's a set back because this is still just a video game world - where you are still limited to what the developers want to allow you to do. If it were the real world you would know what your limits are, but in a gaming world, the lack of knowing what you're able to do at times can become very frustrating. Our protagonist is so young that he apparently hasn't taken swimming lessons yet either as having submerging your head under water will spell death. This is what I mean about the lack of a concrete set of concepts which you know you can work with, which often leaves solving puzzles to be just as frustrating as challenging since a huge portion of the time you will spend simply trying to see what the developers chose to allow you to do.
 
I also though I should comment on the fact that it was said in the main review how the developers took a very minimalist approach - that is no joke. Actually, they did it to the point where you can argue as to whether it went too far. Not only is there nothing on screen over than your character and the level, there isn't even any indication of when the game is saving to your hard drive (which is just outright pushing it put you in a position to where you don't know that you're game is writing to your hard drive just because the developers wanted everything to be minimal).
 
That is not to say that the game is completely broken beyond repair... It just has some gameplay mechanics issues which seem to have been glossed over for many people in lieu of a beautiful presentation.
 
I too adore the style and presentation, but the lack of replay, the somewhat repetitive puzzles,  lack of variety in the levels, short length, and flawed game-play mechanics unfortunately take their toll on something that really deserved better than that.
 
If they dropped the price on this in the near future I'd recommend it, otherwise, I'd just recommend playing with the demo some as you'll get the same exact experience.