Little Nightmares [Let's Play] - 01 - Creepy Cute
I'm finally playing Little Nightmares, a game I put on my backlog for a long time. It's a horror game that follows a miniature child in what appears to be a factory ship and their struggle to escape the various creatures trying to eat them.
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Little Nightmares is a platformer in its core. The child we're playing as is as small as a rat, so everything around us is big. It's common to naviage the area around by sneaking through vents and climbing drawers. The ship's inhabitants are hostile, though... It's implied that when the "adult" on this ship catch us, they eat us.
I love the presentation of the story. The game has no dialogue but uses environmental storytelling and abstract symbolism to let us imagine what's going on and what led to the journey of this yellow child. As I played I didn't know which parts of this game are actual parts of the world, and which are metaphorical.
On the bright side, depsite being labeled as a horror game, it didn't feel like Little Nightmares was a horrific, and it ended up way less scary than I heard... Below you can watch my playthrough of this game:
Watch on YouTube:
Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3R7_tP1xaE70ihKkF8_O7-rKwK-k8ex
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- Cover image is from the game's Steam's Page's header. Screenshots are from my playthrough on PC.
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I loved this game. The simplistic gameplay made it really easy to jump in there and the absence of a written story makes so you kind of have to figure out what is going on and even who you are. This type of game is a rarity and it reminded me of why I enjoyed "Inside" and "Limbo" so much. It's unfortunate that they kind of screwed up the 2nd installment. I hope you post more about this as you carry on through the game because I want to see if the same parts were frustrating to you that were to me.
So, true!!
Haven't played the second one yet, but my brother said he liked it too.