Another World established the cinematic platformer: a silent protagonist, no interface of any kind, rotoscoped animation, and death as the ordinary way of learning what a room contains. Limbo is built on all four. It has no heads-up display, no dialogue and no explanation, a boy moving left to right through a hostile landscape, and a design that expects repeated death as the means of understanding each trap. Both games also refuse to state their premise: the player is dropped in with no account of where this is or why, and the silhouetted art keeps it that way.
