So… I really enjoyed the first Little Nightmares game but was honestly very let down with the second one. A lot of the room layouts felt like they were copied-and-pasted from the first game. Other than the teacher lady who could stretch her neck, none of the monsters were particularly scary. You had a knockoff Slenderman, and then there was like a huntsman with a Looney Tunes looking rifle–the ones with the funnel on the end.
I also hated the fact they added combat. Picking up and swinging an axe that’s as large as your body and trying to swing that heavy piece of equipment at disembodied hands leaping toward you incredibly fast speeds is… not fun. You have to have perfect timing, but there’s such a long delay between pressing the attack button and the time it takes for your character’s tiny little body to swing the dang thing. That handicap didn’t add to the suspense, it just made me angry.
Hoping this game will be better, although it feels too soon. Hard to believe the second game came out over 2 years ago now. Time moves so strangely in a post-COVID world; I feel like the pandemic just started last year. I’m happy about the addition of co-op, as my dad enjoyed watching me play the others. He would actually come up with solutions to a lot of the puzzles before I could. This will give us something to do together.