Hal_Incandenza
1998
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TBD
2019
2021
As someone who thought the first game was just fine, I'm very pleased to say that Little Nightmares 2 is a vast improvement. The graphics are much more polished, the environment is more varied, the story is more ambitious, there are more intense chase sequences with creepier enemies, and the addition of a secondary companion character added more variety to the gameplay which is still very similar to its predecessor. The gameplay still relied heavily on trial-and-error which might be frustrating, but the improved checkpoint system and controls more than makes up for it. While its game mechanics are sometimes too reminiscent of Playdead's INSIDE, this game offered enough new material to deliver an entirely unique experience. I do wish that the story is less cryptic, but at the same time its open-ended nature allowed for more interpretations to be made.
2017
I'm roughly 40% into the game and I just gave up. The abandoned buildings set an effective creepy atmosphere and an encounter early on with the ghost girl was suspenseful but the rest of the game just kind of deflates from the strong beginning. None of the subsequent monsters are remotely close to being as scary as the ghost girl, hardly anything was known about the main characters, and the lack of any compelling backstory whatsoever makes it hard to trudge through the game which quickly devolved into a series of frustrating cat-and-mouse stealth with no satisfying payoff. It's competently made, I just have no interest in finishing it.