Little nightmares has always been a very important story to me, in my eyes it explores over consumption and also adult behavior like greed/gluttony (LN1) and neglect (LN2). LN1 had a story that has stuck with me for a long time, a child escaping hands that only want her for food to eaten by those who have already eaten too much, and a main villain whose obsession with appearing beautiful made her take the youthfulness from children and the only way to beat her is to show her her own reflection. In LN2 neglect was shown in amazing way through TV's the first character is a hunter who has a kid in his basement and is a taxidermist a fake family set up in the living room as what he sees as his family, they're happy there. The second a teacher whose studies are all bullies yet the teacher does nothing to change it allowing the students to torture one another, A doctor whose patients are mannequins falling apart. The watchers who watch the TV's like their life depends on it chasing tge children only when its turned off, and the man behind it all who runs it for a gain of his own as the main character is him and in a timeloop he tries to get back at the one who broke him.(this is all my interpretation btw but heavily agreed upon)
but then theres ln3 and the podcast to go with it...I dont know what it means. theres no story there, its not "Little" nightmares, its just a nightmare. It doesn't try to look at bad things through a childs eyes like the past games, its just confusing. I loved the game don't get me wrong but so much is unexplained. Lows powers make no sense, the mirrors have no significance? the environments aren't connected at all, stitiched together, the podcast helps make this stuff make a little more sense with the nowhere but without taiser little nightmares looks more and more like a cash grab. 1/3 of the money i spent in the collectors edition was cosmetics that don't change the game I just dont know what to make of this game, the story is a mess, and not only that half of the environments made me think we were in past games when we weren't, jt looked like reused maps of taiser. The controls are actually iffer after going through ln1 again, not only that after looking back, its missing a chapter, your getting a chapter less. A lot of the enemies are underwhelming, and not as good as the past ones, big baby doesn't even COMPARE to roger, and big baby was the trailer antagonist. I hope the dlcs can help improve it but i doubt it, i just hope it doesn't become multi mediad like fnaf, fnaf got ruined after it was games, books, comics and everything in-between. LN was great with the games only. Hell LN had comics but their not canon! and the more well known ones are digital ones that just go over some souls you find in game (ghost kid<3) but this is just confusing. a little bit of stuff with alone confuses me but shes more stable then low in my head ik what they were doing, but what the final boss means to low is confusing, j think hes a councillor? just nothing makes sense besides the stuff explained by the podcast
