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I get it! It's Little Nightmares II because there are two of them now!!!!

I might get some flack for this, and I definitely am in the minority opinion here, but I just didn't really like this game compared to the first. There's plenty of good here though. The atmosphere in this game is really stellar, even more than the first game. The environments are great and I truly am unnerved in each and every one of them. However...in terms of gameplay I really don't like this game, the small segments of "combat" specifically. The controls for attacking the weird hands or doll children just felt plain bad and completely unnecessary. At one point I was just stuck trying to kill like 5 doll children in a row, and I kept dying. Instead of spawning me back where I pick up the weapon, it spawned me....in the middle? I had to run back and grab the weapon every time I failed, which was very tedious. It really feels like this combat was thrown in at the last minute. Without getting too detailed, there were other segments that felt very unpolished/buggy, such as the "Weeping Angels" segment. Many times my flashlight would directly be on one, and it would move to kill me anyway? Idk, maybe this is just a skill issue. Maybe one day I'll return to this game and I'm not completely abandoning it, but for now I have no desire at all to play it and it's shelved.

Reviewed on Jan 23, 2024


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