Find a heavy object? Swing it to to smash something coming your way, or to destroy a weak wall.
Find something on the ground? Throw it as a distraction or to knock things over or around. Unlike the first game, you can defend yourself. What’s even a remotely horror themed game without eye opening death animations though?
This is a good time to point out that deaths in the game are only temporary, but can be sharp, to the point, and at times shocking. You’ll be hiding a bit from these big, horrifying creatures, adults really. You walk, run, jump, climb, slide, and duck down. A lot of cinematic platformers usually leave you helpless. There’s action, but it’s mostly running away. The game also teaches you what to do organically. Little Nightmares 2 hits a nice middle ground, as long as you pay even a little bit of attention, you’ll get the gist of what’s going on. Quite often do games fail at doing this, either showing too much, or just being annoyingly vague. Yelps, cries, and calls are all you’ll get. The sound design is fantastic, and especially powerful at a certain setpiece, I’d prefer not to spoil. It’s dark, foggy, the sounds are all just enough to make players a bit uneasy. Oozing with it’s creepy atmosphere, Little Nightmares 2 puts you right in the mood to be spooked. Just shy of four years, we have a sequel, but does it disappoint? Or does it reach the surprising heights the original had. Little Nightmares was one of those games that was a critical darling coming from a developer who until then only worked on DLC and ports for other studios and IPs. Following up to critically acclaimed games, especially the surprise new IPs that come from smaller developers can be hard.
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