#Little nightmares 2 characters six series#

In my two playthroughs I could piece together my own interpretation of the story as I went along, each time finding more clues to what is going on. Exploring is often rewarded with collectables, but not so many that the player feels overwhelmed to collect them all. The environment is rich and allows for exploration, not locking the player into a set path that they must immediately follow.

Some games need the story to thrive, and others don’t need them at all, but here, it works perfectly. Players who care about it can take their time figuring it out from the scenery, pacing, and characters, whereas people who are more gameplay focused can blitz the game without obstructive, unskippable cut scenes. Within ten seconds of being in the game you already have control of your character and are left to your own devices to figure out the story. Little Nightmares does not hold hands when it comes to storytelling.

So, let me get down to saying why exactly I thought Little Nightmares is a fantastic game. Yet even with these high expectations to meet, I have played Little Nightmares to completion twice now today. Now the reason I bring this up is because I am not much of a critic but when I’ve been looking forward to a game this much then my standards are going to be pretty high. When someone tells me a game is coming out in a control style I enjoy and then tells me, on top of that, that it’s basically set in Bioshock’s Rapture, then I’m going to be hyped for it. Now I’ve been looking forward to Bandai Namco’s horror puzzle-platformer for a while now, ever since playing the demo at EGX. If anyone here knows any answers who are the Nomes? Who left the messages in the bottles? Why do the children and the ‘adults’ look so different? Be sure to let me know.

#Little nightmares 2 characters six series#

Speaking of which, they appear to have a comic book series that somehow went under my radar. Also, the game may have dangled the promise of answers before me only to snatch them away, it only whet my appetite to know more about the Maw and all its secrets. The atmosphere had me terrified every time I went near a body of water and the game had ways of catching me unawares and scaring me without the use of jump scares. Despite all the environment that they give her and the details within manage to make her feel more than just a reject idea that didn’t fit into the main game.Īll in all, I enjoyed The Depths. ‘The Granny’, as this enemy is called, seems to have no purpose aside from being an obstacle for our character. The other enemies in the game have actual functions a jailer to keep the children in check, the chefs to prepare the food and possibly children. The main enemy of the level, however mysterious and unexplained, worked. Yes, the door was a greater nemesis for me than the main enemy in the level. My only other gripe with the game was one room in particular, that goddamn crank room, was so frustratingly precise in its timing that I often got killed by the door. The quality was equal to the main game and reasonably priced compared to other games and their obsessions with micro transactions. I want to know and The Secrets of the Maw DLC had a frustratingly little amount of secrets to tell.Īside from this, the additional content held up well. Now where as this can be read as just revealing more of the Maw that players haven’t seen yet I, and I’m sure many others, was disappointed in the lack of answers or even clues to what is going on in this world. To quote Stephen Haylett, ‘We needed to introduce a new character to shed some light on the darkest secrets of The Maw and give a different perspective on Six’s journey.’ In this interview it suggests that The Depths and Secrets of the Maw DLC pack in general would answer some plot elements of the main story and what is going on in the world of Little Nightmares. However, there is one major glaring problem with The Depths that entirely depends on whether you read the article Secrets of the Maw: Your Questions Answeredthat you can read in the link. You play as one of the unfortunate children that you have been seeing all the way through the main story as Six, but this one has a little more fight in him. ‘The Runaway Kid’ is entirely what he suggests. Instead of the faceless, mysterious Six you play as a boy known as ‘The Runaway Kid’. The game starts you off in a familiar area but with an unfamiliar protagonist. The phenomenal gameplay and atmosphere is back in The Depths and does not disappoint. Spoilers ahead folks, but I will try to keep them minor. Once as my usual natural route and second as my achievement rampage so I have a comfortable understanding of what The Depths has to offer Little Nightmares fans.

I am back talking about Little Nightmares after playing through the new DLC twice.