Sure, these were used, filthy and broken hospital beds we were traversing, but in these playful moments “Little Nightmares 2" approached the macabre with the kind of surprise present in Tim Burton’s early work. I set down the controller to just admire the sense of wonder the art conveyed. In one scene, Six and Mono hop and climb among beds that seem to be floating in air.
In a game where some commands can be approached with skepticism - when we don’t want to know what’s in the shadows, it sounds like a dare when we’re told to press a button to turn on a flashlight - I often felt a sense of hope through Six. But in our COVID-19 year, the games that resonated asked us to rethink how we view the end of of lives. To appreciate modern life, I can’t stop playing games about deathĮxtra lives. It’s not a fear of evil, per se, but apprehension about the unknown and what lies ahead. “Little Nightmares 2,” like the original, feels rooted in fairy tales rather than gore, violence, grotesqueness or pure jump scares and stealth, tapping into the mix of fear, apprehension and curiousness we feel as children and carry with us into adulthood.
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Of course, the game’s appeal stretches beyond that demographic slice (the first game in the series has sold more than 2 million copies). “Little Nightmares 2" is a horror game for people who don’t necessarily think they like horror games. And then there were moments I turned on all the lights in my apartment, as if surrounding myself in brightness would make it easier to play.īut I mainly want to talk about what I thought were moments of pure beauty and thoughtfulness. I even had to set the controller down once or twice when my nervous hands made it impossible to properly maneuver the slow-moving child protagonist at the heart of the game. I jumped more than a few times while playing “Little Nightmares 2,” frightened by a sudden movement or the scurrying of something in the dark.
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