Little Nightmares is a perfect example of doing lots with so little. It succeeds as an excellently taut piece of visual storytelling while also delivering a compelling gameplay experience. It happens to be one of the more unique horror games out there thanks to a detailed art style, fantastic animation, and top-notch sound design.
Hands down the best use of your money for a horror game, LN is a masterpiece by itself with genuinely terrifying tension building and creative character design while LN2 is the best follow up to a video game ever made. it may not be perfect, but it is 100% worth its asking price, the only downsides are some unfair tough combat section/puzzles but overall is one of the best horror franchises ever made.
There may be other games in a similar vein to Little Nightmares, but it really is a truly unique adventure making fantastic use of the 3D space and lighting. Occasionally the controls feel a little clunky, but it’s forgivable as you experience a macabre game and world unlike any other.
Little Nightmares is a dark, gripping and unsettling horror game. It succeeds in transporting you to a place where you’ll be biting your nails and sharing every pounding heartbeat with your on screen counterpart. Some frustrating sections can pull you out of the moment and the game mechanics themselves are not particularly original, but the much like the grotesque inhabitants of the Maw this game will grab you and not let go until the end.
Little Nightmares: Complete Edition lands on Switch with all the previous content, telling two parallel story about two kids, their nightmares and a devious and sick world that is sinking into the darkness.
Little Nightmares boasts some superb character and environment design, and exceptional sound too, with parts of the Maw screaming as if the ship was a gigantic bionic seafarer. Its story is compellingly told, and the way the main game connects with the DLC is immensely rewarding. But you never really feel like you have full control of Six, and the long breaks between restarts can dump you into a painful loop of spending less time in the game than you do in loading screens.
Un gioco stupendo a livello di presentazione, ma un po ripetitivo nel suo gameplay. Little nightmares è un puzzle game a tema horror con una fantastica veste grafica. Tuttavia la narrazione è praticamente nulla, e il gioco lascia interpretare quasi tutto al giocatore. E quindi per quanto sia un fan del horror non posso evitare di dire che, la narrazione non mi ha colpito particolarmente nel modo in cui l'ho interpretata, e non sono un fan del dlc che è mostruosamente ripetitivo. Il gioco base è bello ma non memorabile secondo me.
Little Nightmares is a painful game to play and review. It wants to be a new Limbo, and it could have been even better than that. In fact, it could have been a masterpiece. Instead, it's a beautiful mess whose developers seem intent on sabotaging their own work.
The art and storytelling of Little Nightmares are masterful. The graphics and sound design is fantastic. The creepy, grotesque characters and settings will stay with me for a long time. Some sequences gave me the creeps, including one fleeting image towards the end of the main game that literally made me shiver all across my body. No game, not even Resident Evil in Virtual Reality, ever gave me such a deep gut reaction. The ending of the DLC story, which is included, creeps on you like the final twist of the best horror novels, leaving you in a state of mixed horror and fascination.
All of that goodness, however, is almost completely wiped out by some of the worst gameplay mechanics you could possibly experience. Many sequences in the game are insta-death, trial and error affairs, and some involve pretty precise sequences of actions. That approach might work well for the genre, if it weren't for the maddeningly imprecise controls, which never once give you the feeling of being in charge of your character. Quite simply, the game demands precision, prevents you from attaining it, and then proceeds to punish you for that.
All those shortcomings could still make for a very frustrating game that's worth playing for the story alone–but the loading times make sure that playing Little Nightmares becomes not just frustrating, but a repellent experience. On the Switch, every single death is followed by staring at a black screen for about forty seconds, waiting for the scene to reload. Imagine what it means to go through the same three or four actions twenty times, desperately fighting the unresponsive controls, sometimes only lasting a few seconds, and then waiting for nearly one minute every time you fail. That's borderline evil game design–the kind that could lead even the most laid-back player to hang his head in despair, or throw a tantrum. To make things worse, all of those defects seem to grow worse as you play, and they reach ludicruous levels in the DLC.
Little Nightmares shines for its artwork, story, and amazingly crafted atmosphere. Unfortunately, those qualities only makes its baffling shortcomings more evident.
I don't think I've ever been so disappointed. I was looking forward to this for a long time but kept putting off buying it. I wish I never did. I was hoping for a dark atmospheric platformer like Inside and Limbo. So were the developer's I suppose, but they decided to make a torture device instead.
The controls are garbage and everything is trial-by-death. Which could be forgiven if there wasn't a 25-30 second load screen every time you die. Doesn't seem like a lot on the page, but in practice it's an excruciating experience. And you will respawn in the middle of a chase not knowing that you need to be hold run immediately or die again and wait for another load.
It gets a 2 only because of the art direction is terrific. But thinking of what it could have been only makes it more frustrating.
SummaryINCLUDES
- Little Nightmares
- Little Nightmares: Secret of The Maw
Immerse yourself in Little Nightmares, a dark whimsical tale that will confront you with your childhood fears! Help Six escape The Maw a vast, mysterious vessel inhabited by corrupted souls looking for their next meal.
Unveil all the secrets in a parallel escape...