1-1: Heart of the Sunrise

LIMBO /// FIRST
HEART OF THE SUNRISE

1-1: HEART OF THE SUNRISE
General
Layer & Part		LIMBO /// FIRST
Challenge		Complete the level in under 10 seconds.
Music		A Thousand Greetings A Shattered Illusion
Tip of the Day
Some enemies make idle sounds to make them easier to track.
Collectables
4 Soul Orbs  1 Blood Orb Attractor Nailgun Alternate Revolvers Slab I
Enemies
24 Filth  27 Strays  6 Schisms  28 Drones  1 Malicious Face
Rank Requirements
Rank	Time	Kills	Style
S	04:30	76	8,000
A	05:00	70	7,000
B	06:00	60	5,000
C	08:00	40	2,000
Levels
Previous		Next
0-5		1-2
1-S
1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4 1-S, 1-E

1-1: HEART OF THE SUNRISE is the first level of Limbo and Act I, which introduces Drones, Skull Keys, and the Attractor Nailgun. 1-1 also holds the entrance to Limbo's secret level, 1-S: THE WITLESS.

The music used in this level is A Thousand Greetings for the intro, and A Shattered Illusion once enemies start spawning.

Level

Start

Starting off the level, the player enters a bright outdoor plaza dotted with trees, stone pillars, and flowers, along with a fountain in the middle adorned with a dormant Cerberus. However, it quickly becomes apparent that the outdoor scenery is an illusion: the sky is produced from screen walls, the water and foliage are blocky, holographic, and artificial, and various nature sounds and bird calls can be heard playing from hidden speakers.

Two doors are situated to the right and back walls of the room. Inside the far door lies a red pedestal and a locked door, and the right door contains a long stone hallway lined with torches.

The starting room of 1-1.

The river bridge room.

Introduction of the Nailgun.

Heading through the right doorway will lead to a large room with more stone pillars and architecture, with a large stone tower housing a Red Skull Key, along with a blue pedestal further back. Walking up to the Red Skull Key will then trigger a prompt to appear on how to pick up items:

Pick ITEMS up with 'F'

Doing so takes the skull from the pedestal and puts it in the player's hand while leaving arm abilities unaffected.

Shattered Illusion

Returning back to the room with the red pedestal, placing the Red Skull Key on top will unlock the previously locked door, leading through a short hallway into a long corridor with a stone cliff face and a waterfall.

Walking forward into the room will then cause the doors to lock, before introducing the player to Drones: small flying machines that dodge around the player and fire bursts of three Hell Orbs, along with divebombing towards the player upon death. They explode when hit with an explosion or upon hitting anything during the divebomb. However, they can also be parried during the divebomb, redirecting them toward wherever the player is facing and causing them to potentially hit other enemies.

Two Drones will spawn in front of the player during the first wave, with four more Drones spawning once the first two are killed.

Moving forward into the next room leads into a long hallway with a river and a small bridge, with a door at the far end of the room. Heading towards the bridge will spawn in three Drones, with a larger wave of two Drones and four Schisms spawning nearby the door.

Castle

Exiting out of the door leads into a large interior stone room, where the Attractor Nailgun is placed on a bed of flowers. Picking up the Nailgun will then spawn a Malicious Face nearby for the player to test it on.

To the left of the chamber lies a staircase leading up to the door forward, with walking up towards it spawning in four Strays nearby the door.

The door ahead then leads into a long stretch of hallway, lined with carpet, stained glass, and pillars. Approaching the end of the hallway will then trigger a prompt on the Attractor Nailgun's ability to create traps around the environment:

NAILGUN: Use Right Mouse Button to fire a NAIL MAGNET. Can
be attached to the environment to create traps.

A large wave will then spawn as the player heads to the end of the hallway, consisting of fourteen Filth, four Strays, and four Drones.

Returning Path

After the hallway, the path then returns back outdoors to a small room housing a Blue Skull Key, which upon collecting opens a door back into the waterfall arena, with the player now required to head back to the start of the level. Heading into the entrance to the waterfall arena will spawn in two Drones, with returning to the starting room spawning a wave of eight Filth and three Strays on the room's pillars.

Returning through the hallway leading to the blue and red pedestals will spawn a group of four Strays in front of the player before making it into the next room. Heading towards the blue pedestal and placing the Skull Key will unlock a nearby door, leading into a small cathedral-like hallway. Walking forward will trigger a wave of eight Strays and two Drones.

Final room.

End

After the hallway lies a small room housing the exit elevator, with inside the room containing a flowerbed, pillars, and a skylight in the middle of the ceiling. Approaching the door will trigger a wave of four Strays and two Schisms, with six Drones spawning once the first wave has been killed.

Once all the enemies have been defeated, the exit elevator will open and unlock the end of the level.

Challenge

For this level's challenge, the player needs to find a hidden secret exit situated in the first room in order to clear it in under 10 seconds. This secret exit lies underneath the fountain situated in the middle of the room, which requires the Marksman Revolver to activate by tossing a coin into the fountain. If done correctly, the fountain will slide out to reveal the exit. If done quickly enough, the challenge will be completed. This secret exit then takes the player to Limbo's secret level, 1-S: THE WITLESS.

Secrets

For the level's secret exit, see the Challenge section above, as it covers the same topic.

Secret Orb Locations

#1	Soul Orb - In the room housing the Red Pedestal and the locked door to the waterfall arena. To the left wall lies a pillar leaning up against the screen, with a discolored patch of the screen nearby. Walking into the patch will lead into a small hole with the Soul Orb.
#2	Soul Orb - In a room connecting to the Red Pedestal room. Within the same room as the first Soul Orb lies a door by the left wall, which leads into a tall room with a large stone tower. Climbing up to the top by jumping up will reveal a Soul Orb at the top of the tower.
#3	Blood Orb - Within the Waterfall arena where Drones are introduced. Heading through the waterfall that sits at the left side of the room will reveal it to be a hologram covering up a small crevice housing the Blood Orb. Walking towards it will spawn three Drones in front of the player.
#4	Soul Orb - In the hallway after the introduction to the Nailgun in the Castle. Lining the walls of the hallway lie rows of lit stained glass windows, with one of them being unlit. Walking into the window will reveal the Soul Orb behind it.
#5	Soul Orb - In the second to last arena, sitting above the entrance by the right-hand side, with the Soul Orb hidden in a small nook.

Slab I

The first slab, found above the final arena through a skylight window.

Hidden through each of the levels in Limbo lies a set of stone slab buttons, which are revealed after finding hidden secrets or completing optional challenges. Collecting all four slabs grants the player an unlockable variant to their Revolver in 1-4: CLAIR DE LUNE, the Alternate Revolver or "Slab" Revolver.

The first Slab is located above the final arena, accessed by breaking the glass skylight within the center of the room and jumping through it into a room above. Pressing the Slab will then cause it to light up, before a prompt then appears below:

Somewhere in the depths of Limbo, a mechanism is set in
motion.

Gallery

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  The start of the level
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  The hallway offshoot connecting to the Skull Pedestal hub and the starting room.
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  The Skull Courtyard
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  The Red Skull
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  The Red Skull pedestal room
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  The headless lion statue featured prominently in the Red Pedestal Room
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  A closer shot of the lion statue with the stone sun.
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  The small tower room that houses the second Soul Orb
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  The walljump segment leading to the Waterfall arena
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  Inside the waterfall arena
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  The river hall leading to the Nailgun
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  The Nailgun Room
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  Castle Hall
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  The Blue Skull courtyard
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  The Blue Skull in it's pedestal overlooking the Chapel
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  Chapel Arena
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  The final Skylight arena
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  Stained glass depicting the Father and Hell.
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  Stained glass depicting the Blue Skull Key.
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  Stained glass depicting the Red Skull Key.
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  Renders of the statues found throughout 1-1 and the rest of Limbo. Renders by Victoria.
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  In-progress render of the trees, by Victoria.
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  A high-poly render of the Sun statue, also by Victoria.

Trivia

• The title of the level is a reference to "Heart of the Sunrise" from the album Fragile by Yes.
• Along with the alchemy motifs being introduced with the Skull Keys, the broken lion statue with the sun is a potential reference to the symbol of a green lion eating the sun. The green lion represents aqua regia, and the sun with a face represents the dissolving gold.