Limbo and Inside are masterpieces. In fact, for my money, not only are both of Playdead's sidescrolling platformers two of the best indie games of all time, they've earned their place among the best video games of all time, period. If you agree, I bet you were as excited as I was when Cocoon rocked up at last year's Summer Game Fest with former Playdead Games employees Jepp Carlsen and Jakob Shmid in tow.
Cocoon marks the pair's first outing with their new studio, Geometric Interactive, and having gone hands-on at Summer Game Fest 2023, I can safely say that I'm as excited about it as I was about Playdead's back catalog this side of release. But I can also say that Cocoon is so much more than a simple copy cat or natural evolution of those ideas.
