There are also lots of set pieces and escape type scenes in which you have to do the exact right thing or die, and it can get trying as you have to repeat the same bit of the game again and again. This leads to lots of trial and error when attempting what should be simple jumping puzzles and it's not fun to play. This makes platforming a massive pain in the arse because you can't really gauge distance in either plane and the pov messes with your depth perception. Whereas Limbo had the good sense to keep its platforming to two dimensions, Little Nightmares has more of a 2.5D aspect as you can move up and down. So that nightmare part is on the nose because little nightmares sure is a nightmare to play. Speaking of playing, let's talk about the gameplay. So I felt no connection to the world of little nightmares, nor the child I was playing as. Even Limbo, as vague and lacking in traditional storytelling as it was, had enough going on in the visuals and scripted encounters that I could hazard a guess as to what was happening. There is no story to speak of and what can be read from the visuals is entirely speculative. I've no idea if this was intentional but I guess that at best they thought, "hey, that Spielberg film was striking to look at and the holocaust was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ miserable, let's shoehorn that into our Limbo ripoff in the vaguest most superficial way possible" (I guess that's my positives out of the way).Īs to why the world is the way it is, or why it's populated by monstrosities who appear to be trying their hardest to kill or eat a small child, I've no idea, because the game doesn't tell me. The main character's yellow jacket against grey and often muted backgrounds is even reminiscent of Schindler's List, and the section with all the decaying shoes also invoked the Jewish holocaust. It certainly goes towards creating a moody and oppressive atmosphere. The game is gorgeous to look at, equivalent to the best stop motion films at times, but even more twisted in it's visual design with some of the enemies being particularly creepy and memorable. I'll get my positives out the way first but don't worry, this won't take long. Its style could loosely be described as moody eastern-european cinema.
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