Finished this today. Couple of hours longer than the first game, but still fairly short. I'd say that's understandable in this game's case, because you'd either need to come up with a *lot* of varied stuff or really stretch some already existing levels to turn this into a game that's 10-something hours long. It was also fairly cheap for me.
As for the game itself...I suppose I liked it! My complaints are fairly similar to Brad's and I also died an ungodly amount of times. The combat was crunchy in a good way when it worked, but the "don't miss or you're dead" brutality of it during certain parts really frustrated me. A good number of chase scenes had me die because of either not being able to climb fast enough or not managing to drop the weapon I was carrying to move faster.
I think I would place this maybe a bit above the first game, but mostly just because of the more varied scenery. In general, it's really just more of the same that Little Nightmares 1 did almost four years ago. The added combat was ok at parts, but as a whole not that great and the story was maybe even more vague than previously and maybe less satisfying by the end of it all.
More vague story is good imo. First game's ending went in an unnecessary direction. I think I feel the same kind of generally positive reaction to the first game, but I'm a sucker for cool visuals and this game seems to have them.
Finally looked up Buckfast, and... wtf who would make this? God damn fortified wine is bad enough. I’d imagine it’s meant as a cocktail additive but I also imagine Jeff isn’t using it for that.
Jesse’s not actually dead. There’s that little post credits thing that supposed to tell you she’s alive. They kept it small because it’s a retcon and rabid fans be rabid. IMO she was the best character primarily because her character (and the rest of Avalanche) was created anew, from adults with modern understandings of the world. Contrast that with the main crew where the writers weren’t actually free to write them well, being hamstrung to write into the tropey characters otherwise they might piss off the very-sadly full-grown adult whiney diehard fans.
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