Posted on: May 6, 2017
Orca782
验证所有者游戏: 35 评论: 2
Storybook brought to Life
Little Nightmares is my GOTY for 2017 thus far. It looks and feels so polished. I grew up reading a lot of books, kids' books as a youngster. This game seems to me like a lot of those darker books brought to life. The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairytales, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Where the Wild Things Are -- if you could turn some of these stories into a 2(+1/2) dimension video game, you'd have Little Nightmares. The game features no in-game UI, which I personally think is a great way to immerse the player. I am sick of flashy, invasive, screen-real-estate-hogging UI's with life meters, minimaps, health indicators, collection indicators, etc. There's none of that here. For that matter, there's very few 'collectibles' which pop up so often in games nowadays, which is nice. It lets you the player just experience the game without worrying if you missed a Golden Puzzle Piece or hidden treasure room. And experiencing the game is really the focus in Little Nightmares. The art style and aesthetic are slightly reminiscent of Little Big Planet, but decidedly darker and with a more coherent theme. For all I know the developer could have started with a LBP user-made map and then just expanded it to an entire game. The controls and gameplay are not revolutionary or great, but as I say I am far more interested in experiencing this game rather than trying flashy maneuvers or beating the game quickly. In that regard I would say Little Nightmares is sort of a hybrid between a platformer game and a walking simulator. It is apparent to me that the platforming is there really to only get you from set piece to set piece, and it's not so much the focus. Which is nice because it lets the game's level design tend towards creative aesthetics rather than being gameplay oriented. In summary, I love the setting and visuals of this game; it reminds me of so many storybooks that it's the closest I've ever seen to a storybook brought to gaming. Each area is like a page of a (darker) children's book, and I often just have to stop and marvel at how creative and striking a given area is.
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