Little Nightmares

wightnnerdy's Little Nightmares (PlayStation 4) review

Little Nightmares Review

Little Nightmares is a puzzle/platformer with a strong emphasis on atmosphere. It plays like a LIMBO or INSIDE only with the ability to move in three dimensions rather than strictly side to side. You control a small humanoid creature that has to complete puzzles and avoid giant half-human/half-monsters in order to progress. The puzzles mostly revolve around climbing things like giant, monster-sized furniture, or collecting things to distract the monsters in order to slip by. These scenarios are never spectacular and usually require a fair amount of trail and error. Aesthetically speaking, Little Nightmares is WIERD. The creatures that inhabit this world are disgustingly grotesque, and the atmosphere is spooky and on point. It’s a short 2-3 hour game that could have used a another chapter (especially considering the final chapter is pretty short already) and I would’ve liked to see a little less abrupt deaths.

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Little Nightmares has good ideas as well as some clunky ones in a marvelously dark journey through a hungry Hell 0
Little Nightmares(PlayStation 4) by axalon0 on October 06, 2017
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Fantastic Atmosphere bogged down by some technical shortcomings. 0
Little Nightmares(PlayStation 4) by master_prophet on May 04, 2017
Little Nightmares excels at building tension rather than going for cheap jump scares. It’s fascinating game that unfortunately is bogged down by some serious technical issues at times.You play as six, a girl whom I assume is going through a personal nightmare in her sleep, as this world she’s in is obviously not real. The game has a fantastic atmosphere that is reminiscent of games like Limbo and Inside, but lacks the polish that those games have. Part of the problem with the lack o...
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