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It must be said that, where PlaydeadвЂ™s blank stories encourage debate about metaphor and meaning, Little NightmaresвЂ™ wordless style is a little harder to swallow when the story seems more straightforward. ItвЂ™s quietly masterful (not least for a studio releasing its first original game) and never more so than in the giant, twisted figures of those trying to stop you proceeding. Every enemy, every room, every meat grinder you use to make a rope of sausages to swing from, contributes to the story of The Maw and SixвЂ™s seeming breakout. Little NightmaresвЂ™ closest relatives are PlaydeadвЂ™s exemplary Limbo and Inside, not just because of its faint glee at the idea of a child in mortal peril, but in how cleverly it braids together puzzle design and storytelling.

At around five hours long, Little Nightmares feels slightly too brief вЂ“- the implied sense of scale suggests there was surely more Maw to see than the route Six takes вЂ“- but thatвЂ™s perhaps testament to how much fun Tarsier has with throwing ideas at us and leaving them aside once theyвЂ™re done.

LITTLE NIGHTMARES XBOX HOW TO

Guiding a tiny, raincoated character called Six from left to right through the sea-swaying innards of The Maw (an ocean facility with a slowly revealed, despicable purpose) is a matter of avoiding instant-death hazards and gentle puzzling about how to proceed вЂ“ but it rarely feels as plainly mechanical as that. If you were going to be dull about it, youвЂ™d describe Little Nightmares as a 2D stealth puzzle platformer. ItвЂ™s a design that horror games have always favoured, but where most shock by using the moment of being found, Little Nightmares captures something more nuanced: that creeping fright of waiting to be caught. And then theyвЂ™re back, youвЂ™re caught, the game is over.

You run from a pursuer, hurriedly choose a hiding spot, then just wait вЂ“ with only breath and heartbeat in your ears вЂ“ for a pair of legs to pass your slim field of view.

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