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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, indie platformer hit Limbo owes Oscura: Lost Light a giant thank you. Silhouette foreground visuals on a faded background? Check. Creepy monstrous baddies? Check. Environmental deaths coming out of seemingly nowhere to kill you? Double check. Save for its four light-shard powered special abilities, Oscura is a Limbo clone through and through. Now, taking inspiration isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially when that inspiration happens to be one of my favorite platformers of all time. But if a game is going to borrow and steal, it needs to either offer a unique twist to establish its own identity and merits or pull off what it's imitating extremely, extremely well. This is where I find fault with Oscura. It doesn’t really do either. I just feel like I’ve played the game a hundred times before already.
Surprise Attack Games and Chocolate Liberation Front have announced Oscura: Lost Light is now available on the Mac App Store.
Players control Oscura, the apprentice to the lighthouse keeper, who inadvertently destroys the Aurora Stone, plunging the land into darkness. Oscura: Lost Light also features a unique silhouette based art style, as players use light-based powers to traverse the environment. Oscura must master these light powers in order to restore light to the land, which include creating and destroying objects, reversing gravity and slowing down time.
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Johnny Ohm, GIZORAMA - "I often find that the little victories experienced throughout each day are the only things keeping me going. I put my shirt on properly, I didn’t burn the toast, and the mailman didn’t steal my shipment of life-saving medication. All of these are little wins that, while on the grand scale of the universe may seem minuscule, motivate me to put one foot in front of the other. Platformer games are famous for providing these negligible triumphs, and Chocolate Liberation Front’s Oscura: Lost Light, an indie-puzzle-platformer for the PC, is no different."
