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Contents.Plot A little girl dressed in a yellow raincoat named Six is trapped in the Maw, a mysterious vessel catering to the whims of sick and powerful creatures. After waking up in the lower depths of the Maw, Six moves through the ship's harsh confines, avoiding the carnivorous Leeches that inhabit it while having regular moments of excruciating, primal-like hunger. At one point, one of the other imprisoned children gives her a piece of bread to eat. Whenever she eats anything, a dark version of her appears nearby while the surrounding area flickers.While attempting to escape the Prison, she is soon pursued by the long-armed, blind Janitor of the Maw, who has been capturing the runaway children, wrapping them in paper, and placing them on a conveyor belt that sends them to a large kitchen. At one point, the Janitor, captures Six by luring her into a cage with food and brings her to the Lair, where the other captured children are held.
She eventually escapes, but doesn’t help the other children.While traveling through the Lair, she makes her way through a room filled with shoes, narrowly avoiding an unseen monster within it. She also discovers a viewing machine in the shape of a giant eye that allows her to see other parts of the Maw. After neutralizing the Janitor,who is also known as Joe to his cult following, by cutting off his arms with a door, Six follows the conveyor belt upwards to the Kitchen (where the captured children are being sent) operated by the grotesque Twin Chefs. After another bout of hunger, Six is forced to eat a live rat. The Chefs are preparing a large feast and attempt to kill Six whenever she enters their line of sight. After managing to escape from them, she finds a way out of the Kitchen, leading her to the outside of the Maw.Six observes a boat ferrying large, obese, suited Guests, who lumber to the Japanese-style dining area of the Maw to feast on the food offered to them there, overseen by the Lady, the masked Geisha-like leader of the Maw. After wading through the feast and its Guests, Six has another bout of hunger.
When one of the Nomes, the recurring harmless inhabitants of the Maw, offers her a sausage, Six eats the Nome instead.Six makes her way further upwards, entering the Lady's Quarters, covered with many broken mirrors throughout the rooms. Chased by the Lady, who displays magical powers, Six finds a non-broken mirror that she uses against the Lady in a battle. Defeating her, Six approaches the now-weakened Lady and bites her neck, killing her and gaining her magical powers.Going downstairs to the dining area, Six walks along the tables with black particles swirling around her. As the Guests notice her presence, they attempt to eat her, but are instantly killed by Six's newfound powers as she walks on. Six approaches a door with an eye encrusted upon it, which suddenly opens, revealing a staircase leading to the outside world. As she leaves the Maw behind, a few Nomes approach the door.After the end credits, Six is seen sitting by the entrance of the Maw, presumably awaiting rescue.
Meanwhile, in the background, a foghorn from an approaching ship can be heard.Secrets of the Maw A trio of DLC levels that offer a 'different perspective on Six’s adventures' were planned. The first one was released in July 2017, the second in November 2017 and the last in February 2018. The Depths A young boy, known as the Runaway Kid (Nintendo Switch version, “The Kid”), wakes up from a nightmare involving him swimming in darkness before being dragged underwater. After leaving the Nursery, he spots the Janitor chasing one of the escaping children. The Kid follows a girl who is also fleeing, but she disappears and leaves her flashlight behind, which the Kid takes.The Kid finds himself in the Depths of the Maw, which are heavily flooded and he has to avoid Leeches and make his way across by hopping on floating platforms. The Depths turn out to be the home of the Granny, who swims underwater and attempts to grab the Kid either by bumping and destroying the platforms he stands on or snatching him if he is in the water for too long. After pushing a television set into the water to electrocute and kill the Granny, the Kid makes his way to a tall wooden staircase with light coming through the top.
He then reaches a ladder and climbs it, pushing through a grate. However, the light turns out to be a flashlight and he is caught by the Janitor and dragged into the darkness. The final scene shows the Kid in a cage next to other cages with children, including Six. The Janitor's long arms reach out and grab the Kid's cage and pull it off screen, paralleling Six's campaign just before she wakes up in the cage.The Hideaway The second DLC chapter is titled 'The Hideaway' and features the Kid and the Nomes.
It starts with the Kid escaping from the paper he is wrapped in, which is ascending on a hook towards the Kitchen, and he falls to a new level of the Maw. With the help of the Nomes that he finds along the way, he finds an engine room where the Nomes are brought to throw coal in the furnace. One of the rooms in the area has a similar viewing machine as in the Lair, where the Kid can see places where Six has been, and he even witnesses Six herself treading through the room of shoes.
During this campaign, the Kid also encounters the Janitor. After finding all the Nomes and bringing them to the engine room to help power up the furnace, the large bucket elevator in the back of the engine room becomes fully functional, ultimately lifting the Kid up to where the Nomes are gathered, presumably the 'Hideaway'. Then, after leaving through a crack in the wall, the Kid eventually finds himself on a rising platform, which is the top of an elevator where the Lady is standing.The Residence The chapter starts at the top of the elevator where the Lady was at the end of the Hideaway. In this campaign, the Kid finds himself in the Lady's Residence, eventually finding a room with several statues of the Lady. After solving puzzles to find three missing statues while fighting off the Shadow Children, he finds the Lady looking at herself in a mirror, her face in the reflection revealed to be gruesome and deformed, possibly explaining why she wears a mask. In the last room of the Residence, the Lady captures the Kid and transforms him into a Nome.
He then finds his way to the Guest Area and to the room with the sausage in Six's story. The chapter ends with the Kid standing by the sausage, indicating that it is him who Six eats. When the credits for the Secrets of the Maw roll, they are eventually shown on a television set, after which the screen shows a figure reminiscent of the Hanging Man.Very Little Nightmares A mobile app titled Very Little Nightmares was announced in April 2019 and was released in May 2019 on.
The story acts as a prequel to Little Nightmares. Plot A young girl, known as “The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat”, wakes up in the Nest, a large mansion that resides on a tall, narrow island, and attempts to find a way out. Along the way, she encounters Six from the original game; Nomes (the same inhabitants from the Maw); the long-armed, wheelchair-bonded Craftsman; the crunching, handcuffed Butler, who has telekinetic powers; an unseen monster that lives under a large sea of garbage; and the Pretender (also called the Mistress), a young gray-haired girl, who is the owner of the Nest. Upon reaching the first floor, the Girl accidentally breaks one of the Pretender's dolls made from the bodies of the captured children, leading the Pretender to yell for the Butler as she runs out of the Nest. The Girl is then chased out of the Nest by the Butler and with Six's help, escapes into a shed on the other side of the island, but unknowingly locks Six out, mistaking her for the Butler.
The Girl finds the Pretender crying over the doll that the Girl broke, who, upon seeing the Girl, gives chase. At one point, the Girl saves Six from falling down a cliff. The Girl is then cornered by the Pretender, but is saved when Six drops a boulder on her pursuer. The Pretender, who was unharmed by the boulder's impact, leaps at the Girl, causing them both to fall into the ocean where they presumably drown. The story ends with the Girl's raincoat emerging from the ocean and Six climbing down the island to escape.
It is implied that Six recovered the Girl's raincoat, which she later wears in Little Nightmares.Development The game was originally announced by Tarsier Studios in May 2014 under the title Hunger, with no known publisher for release on PlayStation 4. After a teaser trailer in February 2015, nothing was heard of the project until August 2016, when Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that they had entered into a worldwide publishing agreement with Tarsier for the project, which was now re-titled Little Nightmares. Reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScorePC: 81/100PS4: 78/100XONE: 83/100NS: 79/100Review scoresPublicationScore8.5/109/108/108.8/1078/1008.5/10VideoGamer.com9/10Little Nightmares received 'generally positive' reviews, according to video game.Cory Arnold said on ' Little Nightmares hypnotized me with ever-present suspense,' and awarded it a score of 8.5/10.Jonathan Leack from gave the game a score of 3 out of 5 stars saying that ' Little Nightmares appears to have a double meaning. On one hand, the gameplay is a nightmare, regularly testing your patience and will to push forward. On the other, the atmosphere and audio design prove terrifying in a way that horror fiends will admire. There's an equal amount of qualities to like and dislike, but when it comes down to it Little Nightmares succeeds at delivering on its promise of being an interesting horror game unlike anything else.'
Sam Prell of awarded it 4 out of 5 stars stating that 'At times mechanically clumsy, but artistically sound, Little Nightmares might get on your nerves every once in awhile, but its imagery will burrow into your brain and never leave.' Joe Skrebels's score of 8.8/10 on said that 'gleefully strange, unceasingly grim, and quietly smart, Little Nightmares is a very welcome fresh take on horror.' 'An okay platformer but a deeply imaginative horror game, Little Nightmares is worth playing for its array of disturbing imagery,' was Samuel's Roberts's conclusion on with a score of 78/100.Whitney Reynolds gave Little Nightmares an 8.5/10 score on with the consensus: ' Little Nightmares worked its way into my dreams because it's just bright enough, just safe enough to make me let my guard down.
The game isn’t always successful at balancing some game design fundamentals. But when the lights went out, it left me remembering that, really, I'm just a small thing in a dangerous world myself. Also, that monsters with big long grabby arms are really, really creepy.' Alice Bell's 9/10 score on VideoGamer.com stated that ' Little Nightmares is frightening, in a way that gets under your skin. A way that whispers in your ear that you won't sleep well tonight.
Little Nightmares takes things you were afraid of when you were a kid, and reminds you you're still afraid now.' The company 'obviously had many ideas on things we'd still like to explore'.ranked the game 28th on their list of the 'Top 50 Games of 2017', and GamesRadar+ ranked it 20th on their list of the 25 Best Games of 2017, while Polygon ranked it 27th on their list of the 50 best games of 2017. It was nominated for 'Best Platformer' and 'Best Art Direction' in IGN's Best of 2017 Awards. Sales The game debuted at #4 on the UK all-format sales chart in its first week.
The Complete Edition sold 12,817 copies within its first week in Japan, placing it at #15 on the all-format sales chart. As of August 2018, the game has sold over one million copies across all platforms. Accolades YearAwardCategoryResultRef2016Indie AwardWon2017New Games IPNominatedBest Visual DesignNominatedBest AudioNominated2018Outstanding Achievement in Art DirectionNominatedEmotional Games Awards 2018Best Emotional MusicNominatedAwardsAnimation, ArtisticNominatedArt Direction, ContemporaryNominatedGame Design, New IPNominatedLighting/TexturingNominatedOriginal Dramatic Score, New IPNominatedUse of Sound, New IPNominatedOther media Television series Dmitri M. Johnson and Stephan Bugaj of DJ2 Entertainment announced that they will be producing a television adaptation of Little Nightmares. The series will also involve and the pilot will be directed. Comic books Little Nightmares had a four issue tie-in, written by John Shackleford and penciled by Aaron Alexovitch, and published.
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