The doughy and splendidly disagreeable horrors of Little Nightmares will return subsequent 12 months in a sequel, Bandai Namco introduced in the present day. Little Nightmares II will ship us out into the broader world as one other spooky wee child, this time a lad with a paper bag on our head, and our yellow-coated pal from the primary game is coming alongside. She’ll be an AI-controlled buddy maintaining us firm on our puzzle-platforming journey, sadly not a friend for cooperative multiplayer. Though I’m unsure my standard co-op buddies could be a lot use once we’re shouting “WHAT IS THIS AWFUL DOUGH-CHEESE-MEAT-MELT PERSON?” anyway. Anyway! Meet a number of the new horrors within the announcement trailer.
I do like our child, Mono, twatting a doll with a ladle in there (he’ll “be able to wield a range of items picked up from the environment,” Bamco say, including “an extra layer of challenge to the game’s puzzles and encounters with enemies”). I don’t think about violence will clear up a lot of our issues. It wouldn’t be Little Nightmares if we felt any actual energy.
“I love it,” our former Adam (RPS in peace) stated of the primary game in his Little Nightmares review again in 2017.
“There were times when I didn’t, mostly when I had to replay a section where I kept failing to line up what looked like a simple jump over and over, but by the end I was smitten. It’s a grotesque, horrid and eventually hopeful in its own morbid fashion, and despite many moments that feel like reimaginings or echoes from elsewhere, it has enough extraordinary images and sequences to stand alone. It’s precisely the kind of horror game I love – grotesque but not gross, and interested in thoughtful pacing and escalation rather than jumpscares and shocks. Also, linear though it is, there are some collectibles I’d like to hunt for and the whole game is short enough that I’ll happily play it again, or watch someone else playing.”
If that has you curious and also you missed it the primary time round, hey, it’s on sale on Steam for 2 days. That’s £four for the bottom game, or £eight together with expansions.
Little Nightmares II is due a while in 2020.
