Little Nightmares does a great job of instilling a sense of scale wherein you the player feel puny and powerless. the gloomy atmosphere is pitched really well but there are issues with environmental legibility (at least on my crappy TV). this means you end up redoing sequences over and over to the point that the emotional impact is drained. worse is how inconsistent it can be - spent an evening trying to climb onto something that seemed the obvious route forward, got frustrated, gave up. reloaded the game and it worked first time. i don't know what to call that other than "betrayal".

unlike Resi Evil, which is pretty committed to keeping the action and puzzle sequences separate, Little Nightmares main game-mode is time-limited action-puzzles, which means a lot of the game feels like doing a Crystal Maze challenge. except when the time runs out, you watch a child die and have to try it again.

i liked it but wish it had been technically tighter and less cinematically focused.