Limbo walkthrough part 311/10/2023 A gorgeous synth soundtrack accompanies your journey, occasionally threaded with a dampened piano glissando that never fails to inspire dread. Devious but fair, Cocoon does not lack for difficulty or the ability to astound.Ĭocoon’s sound design deserves ample praise alongside its visuals and gameplay. I won’t spoil how many orbs you’re expected to juggle by the game’s end, each with their own special ability, but by Cocoon’s conclusion, my initial hesitations had all but vanished in the face of the game’s inventiveness and pitch-perfect pacing. You can place the green orb inside the orange orb by leaving the green orb inside the orange world, then popping back to the overworld, where you can pick up the orange orb again, now with a green orb floating inside it. And now, it isn’t just about moving between them, but layering them. Suddenly, it isn’t just about bouncing between two worlds, but three. It isn’t until Cocoon introduces a second orb to the equation that the game’s complexity comes into focus. Defeating the first boss unlocks a new ability for the orb - the ability to reveal invisible orange platforms - but even that, audiovisually pleasing though it is, is mostly just a means by which to uncover more pathways to orb receptacles that open doors or power bridges.īut simplicity, in Cocoon, is short-lived. Early challenges involve placing the orb on receptacles to open doors or power bridges. You carry the orb out and away, into a new world where you use it to solve switch puzzles. Then, something sinister awakens and dives into the orange orb. ![]() You kneel on it, and suddenly you are launched up and out of the world, into a dark room with an orange orb. Quickly, though, you find a strange apparatus on the ground: a metallic grate with off-white tendrils poking through its vents. Initial puzzles are simple - just switches or pulleys. A streak of light strikes a mountain, traveling down and into a metallic cocoon at its base, which shudders and opens, revealing the player character: a bipedal insectoid most closely resembling a beetle. Image: Geometric Interactive/Annapurna Interactive via Polygon It’s the rare game that leaves this much room for interpretation, a deliberate ambiguity that complements Cocoon’s satisfying but linear puzzles. What is parasite and what is symbiote is left for you to decide. Entirely wordless, Cocoon’s narrative is evocative but elusive. The end, the beginning, and their interrelation. It is difficult to say with precision what Cocoon is about. (There is still the occasional undulating biomass.) Similar to Limbo and Inside, Cocoon is a short but memorable experience, a single-button puzzler with evocative visuals that starts quietly and ends on a spectacular crescendo. Carlsen was the lead gameplay designer for Limbo and Inside, and his influence is prevalent here, albeit with about 100% more color and 85% less horror. Ĭocoon is the debut game from Geometric Interactive, founded by former Playdead employees Jakob Schmid and Jeppe Carlsen. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. ![]() ![]() Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences.
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