Little Nightmares III ( PS5 )

[gilesgoat]

So "because it seems I am good at those games" ( having completed Limbo, Inside, Little Nightmares I and Little Nightmares II ) I got the III .

What to say .. "athmosphere 90%" .. very atmospheric .. LOVE what they done with the depth of field ..

Now about the game ... ..

"Maybe too simple" ? .. BUT with moments of "THE HECK FANCULO IS GOING ON HERE !!" ..

It's .. really .. if you played LN I/II .. "you can almost predict almost all the levels at first go" .. there are a some levels where you'll die a number of times trying to figure out what you have to do (*) .. others where "what you have to do is clear but it's made really difficult cause precision required" (**).

So the gameplay goes from "smooth smooth smooth ok .. yeah .. " to "FANCULO ()*&$(*&£"*($ MERD*(&£"$&(* RIMERD *&$£&" ..

Some "3D plattform session" IMHO I'd call them "really bad" because it LOOKS LIKE "you are perfectly aligned to jump from A to B" and then turns out "no you are not" but I'd swear "BUT IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE!".

Also some of the checkpoints make you re-do N times 'some time consuming bits' which is a bit of a pain.

Overall I'd dare to say "a must IF you are a fan of this type of game" but I also dare to say "do not expect a very long game".

In fact I think I am at the end .. in 3 days of play .. (***)

But yeah if you liked LN I and II you can't give this a miss.

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Not sure if what I am writing here are cause some bugs that been fixed by a day 1 patch but ONE we DEFINITELY A BUG ( that I found ) on the PS5 version !

(*) some levels suffer from "I have to be PRECISELY AT PIXEL in a certain spot to climb a thing" that doesn't make any sense, I swear I spent 30 mins in a level trying "the impossible" then I watched a video and "oh you can climb that ??" BUT I TRIED ! .. and then I spent another 20 mins trying to climb that bit to find out "it works only in a certain place"

some levels some stuff happens SO QUICK you don't have time to understand what the heck you are supposed to do

(**) certain level require a combination or RUN + JUMP + FORWARD + GRIP and with the gamepad is VERY arkward.

BUG REPORT PS5 ( that APPEARS maybe to be fixed by the day 1 patch ) .. "arrived at the point to jump on the baththub" .. The bathtub, compared to certain screenshots/videos of other players is visibly MORE distant than how it should be ! .. Yet .. with a combination like (**) and "weird timing" I manage to jump on it .. to see that the ( was playing SOLO ) other AI controlled player CANNOT MAKE THE SAME JUMP ! It would have been a game breaking bug cause there was NO WAY to pass that level !

I had to kill and re-launch the game for the patch to work !

(***) I think it's the last sequence .. is HORRID !! .. You need to do a number of DIFFICULT things VERY FAST without mistakes and it's ultra difficult plus the 'camera' doesn not help much !

[gilesgoat]

So I was lightly wrong, I wasn't that close how I thought to the end BUT I FINISHED LN 3 YESTERDAY ...

.. and ..

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WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK !!!??!!!

.. and I am speechless ..

Ok this game has "a few tricks up its sleeve" one of which VERY CLEVER never seen ( or at least me ) before in any other game.

Again "athmosphere 90%" .. but I really have to keep saying "maybe this time they made the game a bit too simple".

I mean I manage to finish it "at first go" apart 3 points one of which turns out was a REAL GAME BUG I had to apply the patch AND restart the game to be able to go through and the other 2 I'd consider them "semi bugs" or "stupidly designed bits" because one was like "yes I am sure you have to do that" but could not make it ( pixel precision ) and the other was like "how on earth one can figure that out ?" ( probably just by trying everything out of exhaustion ).

There are a few "platform sections" where I think "the geom is out of whack" .. i.e. looks like you are perfectly aligned with things to do a jump and you aren't.

But apart from that I can say "it's NOT a too difficult game" ..

So is it worth it ?

YES IF you are a fan of LN 1,2 and/or you never played any game like this one.

Is it "super challenging" ? No, not at all.

Is it "really *SO* easy" ? No, not at all .. probably "I had the experience" of playing LN 1, LN 2 still "on".

Did I get ALL the trophies ? No, many but not all of them ( many are hidden so I have no idea what you need to do ), I tried to be proper with exploration but I may have missed a few secrets.

About the ending .. I won't say a thing .. but .. yeah .. it'll make you question .. many things ...

[MattyP]

Thanks for the heads up on this.

Loved LN but never got around to playing the second installment. Might give this a go at some point. I expect it will make an appearance on PSN+ by the time I get around to it though.