History VideoGame / LimboOfTheLost

'''Nilmates:''' Well, to be quite honest with you, I do think it may have been my bodily emanations.

* LastNameBasis: Generally, if anyone refers to Briggs by name, it's always just his last name. The only person who refers to Briggs by his full name is, well, Briggs himself.

'''Nilmates:''' Ah, well, you happen to see, he put me up here, didn't he, e' said I was putting him off his food! Sod.\\
'''Briggs:''' How?\\
'''Nilmates:''' Well, to be quite honest with you, I do think it may have been my bodily emanations. ... Well, you know, my sort of [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness odoriferous redolence]].\\
'''Briggs:''' ..What?\\
'''Nilmates:''' (Sighs) Well, to put it bluntly, I stink! Mind you, ''he's'' got some room to talk, his awful flatulence...(lapses into muttering)

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%%* CardCarryingVillain: All the members of the Cult who summoned the Soul Taker in Chapter 3. [[spoiler: It is mentioned that they need seven souls for something, which doesn't make any sense since one of them, O'Negus, already has a large collection of souls in his possession.]]

%%* DarkWorld: The entire setting, as it's supposed to be some kind of... symbolic... thing.

%% EyepatchOfPower: One of the items which has no use whatsoever.

%%* EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding: See GainaxEnding below.

%%* MeaningfulName: Mr and Mrs [=DoGood=].

%%* NominalHero: Alright, Briggs is supposed to be humanity's last hope and greatest hero. [[SociopathicHero Why]], [[SmugSnake exactly]]?

%%* SilenceYouFool: One of the characters you meet early in the game says that.

%%* WhoForgotTheLights: It's a horror game, so it's expected.

%%* EyepatchOfPower: One of the items which has no use whatsoever.

* GISSyndrome: If ripping from other games wasn't enough, [[http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Items the "creators" have apparently used the internet]] for item graphics as well.

* SoulJar: Every Lost Soul [[InformedAttribute (apparently)]] has a bottle which holds their soul. Notably, O'Negus has a shop where he keeps soul bottles he has found, in case their original owners come looking for them. [[PlotHole Or, alternatively, he's looking to sell them to the highest bidder, depending on how the writers are feeling at the moment.]]

* SociopathicHero: Briggs fits this trope to a tee. In just the prologue alone, we have him commit the following: one act of murder, two acts of desecrating the dead, six acts of theft, one act of employing date rape drugs, and two acts of destruction of property. One puzzle involves Briggs clamping a bear trap over a guy's head just to steal his pen.

* CopyAndPasteEnvironments:
Expect yourself to be getting very tired of looking at the same cave bridge over and over.

* CopyAndPasteEnvironments: [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} Quite literally.]] Within the same game, too. Expect yourself to be getting very tired of looking at the same cave bridge over and over. The fact that the environment is made up of screenshots from other games is hardly the game's only failure.

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: If you pay very close attention during Chapter 3, you can notice that Danny Scurge (the guy with the extended coughing fit) and the Jailor (the guy who keeps notifying Briggs about the new dead citizens) are in fact two different people, even though they use the same character model and have (presumably) the same voice actor. The only difference between them is the clothing they wear (black vest for Danny, green vest with a badge for Jailor), and the only tell-tale sign that they're two separate people is the mystery reveal sequence, where you can see the two standing next to each other... if you can make that out from underneath the smoke effects.

[[ThisIsGonnaSuck But that's not what the game is famous for...]]

For one, [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} pretty much every background is shamelessly ripped from another game, without so much as a mention or acknowledgment to be found - not even in the credits.]] Secondly, [[PixelHunt the items you need to pick up are often dark in color and hard to make out against the usually-dark backdrops, making progress a chore]] (in one instance, an item is partially obscured ''by your compass'', which can't be taken off of the screen). Third, the game's animation, CGI and otherwise, would look primitive in the late 1990s (the game, by the way, was released in 2008). Fourth, there's the "Join us... Join us... Join us now!" whisper that plays in the background every time the game is loaded[[note]](which, considering the game's habit of randomly crashing on Windows 10, means you'll probably hear it a ''lot'')[[/note]], shamefully ripped from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series.

Due to its impressive amount of plagiarism, the game was pulled off store shelves.

Even in light of all these facts, it [[http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost_Wiki is not immune]] to TheWikiRule (the wiki just notes what is stolen).

And whatever you do, do not confuse it with ''VideoGame/{{Limbo|2010}}'', which is like the exact opposite of "bad" by many people's standards.

* ButtMonkey: William Nilmates is encountered at least once per chapter and each time he's subjected to some grisly slapstick to the point that it becomes annoying rather than funny.

* ObviousBeta: Despite spending 13 years in development, the results indicate that not even ''half'' of that was put into development.

%%* BareYourMidriff: Mrs [=DoGood=] and the Mystic French woman.

Due to its absolutely massive amount of plagiarism, the game was pulled off store shelves.

* EyeScream: First, Briggs decides to steal someone pen by clamping a bear-trap like device on his eyes. Later on said pen is used to squirt ink in the eye of a harmless sea monster. Earlier you meet Bugsy, who (because of Briggs again) nearly had his eyes eaten by his pet, the Woodgator.

* EvilIsNotAToy: The members of the cult [[spoiler: are turned to statues after the creature they summoned is banished by Briggs, who claims that this is the price for the ritual. Oddly, he himself doesn't run into any consequence for manipulating the Soul Taker.]]

* GainaxEnding: Really, the whole game is one long MindScrew, but the ending is particularly weird even by the rest of the game's standards. [[spoiler:After you successfully manage to stop the 4 horsemen of apocalypse from killing Briggs, all of a sudden he ends up wandering into a party set up in his honor by almost every character in the game, followed by everyone singing a song about how Briggs should be the King of Limbo. No explanation is given on how or why this happens.]]

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: The final chapter contains a puzzle related to both the four horsemen and the seven deadly sins. On their seals, they are all represented as skeletal undeads with various distinctive traits (War wears a roman helmet and Plague wears a broken hood.) [[spoiler: The hooded guys who take Briggs prisoner in the final segment may be them.]]

* GuideDangIt: Very few puzzles in the game are signposted in any way, and since the game does not allow you to ask [=NPCs=] about anything and does not give you any clues when inspecting objects, managing to figure out solutions to many puzzles without using a guide often borders on a miracle. For instance, Chapter 3, how likely the player is to realize that they need to press a specific, easily missable button in the stables in order to enable a puzzle in a completely different location that has no obvious connection to the stables?

For one, [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} pretty much every background is shamelessly ripped from another game, without so much as a mention or acknowledgment to be found - not even in the credits.]] Secondly, [[PixelHunt the items you need to pick up are often dark in color and hard to make out against the usually-dark backdrops, making progress a chore]] (in one instance, an item is partially obscured ''by your compass'', which can't be taken off of the screen). Third, the game's animation, CGI and otherwise, would look primitive in the late 1990s (the game, by the way, was released in 2008). Fourth, there's the "Join us... Join us... Join us now!" whisper that plays in the background every time the game is loaded[[note]]Which, considering the game's habit of randomly crashing on Windows 10, means you'll probably hear it a ''lot''.[[/note]], shamefully ripped from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series.

Due to its absolutely massive amount of plagiarism, the game was pulled off store shelves. An alternative is to read the excellent LetsPlay from the Website/SomethingAwful forums by LetsPlay/TheDarkId: [[http://lparchive.org/Limbo-of-the-Lost/ it does an excellent job pointing out each and every insult to your intelligence without forcing you to actually play it]]. There is also another LetsPlay by [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=400406 Wields-Rulebook-Heavily]] which also does a good job at covering the game. For those who would prefer a video playthrough, Vinny of WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPe1GqeeDr4 livestreamed]] the game in its entirety; the stream is preserved [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc94szfcNDHdHdZewnAvKeBXWYZVGdtT here]].

For one, the game is an "asset flip" almost a decade before [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]] coined the term; [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} pretty much every background is shamelessly ripped from another game, without so much as a mention or acknowledgment to be found - not even in the credits.]] Secondly, [[PixelHunt the items you need to pick up are often dark in color and hard to make out against the usually-dark backdrops, making progress a chore]] (in one instance, an item is partially obscured ''by your compass'', which can't be taken off of the screen). Third, the game's animation, CGI and otherwise, would look primitive in the late 1990s (the game, by the way, was released in 2008). Fourth, there's the "Join us... Join us... Join us now!" whisper that plays in the background every time the game is loaded[[note]]Which, considering the game's habit of randomly crashing on Windows 10, means you'll probably hear it a ''lot''.[[/note]], shamefully ripped from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series.

For one, the game is an "asset flip" almost a decade before [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]] coined the term; [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} pretty much every background is shamelessly ripped from another game, without so much as a mention or acknowledgment to be found - not even in the credits.]] Secondly, [[PixelHunt the items you need to pick up are often dark in color and hard to make out against the usually-dark backdrops, making progress a chore]] (in one instance, an item is partially obscured ''by your compass'', which can't be taken off of the screen). Third, the game's animation, CGI and otherwise, would look primitive in the late 1980s (the game, by the way, was released in 2008). Fourth, there's the "Join us... Join us... Join us now!" whisper that plays in the background every time the game is loaded[[note]]Which, considering the game's habit of randomly crashing on Windows 10, means you'll probably hear it a ''lot''.[[/note]], shamefully ripped from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series.