Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes

Amazing game. Everything about it is perfect in my eyes. I am a huge fan of little nightmares and the new levels blew me away. Only negative thing per usual is the cost of the game for the amount of time spent within said game.

I absolutely love the Little Nightmares franchise, yes even the third game. And I do love this game as well, in every aspect besides gameplay this is a 7/10 Little Nightmares experience. I have some small complaints but they mainly have to deal with the fact that this is a VR title, some awful lag, simplified mechanics and odd visuals are basically expected. However what is NOT expected and has me unfortunately not be able to recommend this title is LITERALLY one main feature present throughout the entire game that I have come to absolutely. fricking. despise. "Scrambling" I don't know if it has an actual name in game but I call it scrambling and what I am referring to is the vaulting/climbing mechanic this game has, and how ABHORRENT it is. This mechanic is the absolute DEATH of me and makes this game INFURIATING to play. The game needs to be way more lenient about how high up you need to be for it to move you because I could pull myself like fifteen feet above a ledge and this game would not move me onto it, which is absolutely obnoxious considering how often this happens during chase sequences so you are just scrambling trying to hoist yourself up over and over and over again just to inevitably be caught because the game refuses to put you on a ledge. Its horrible. Other than that game is fun, I got way way motion sick during it which is odd because I usually do really well with VR, but idk. Just thought i'd mention it.

The idea is great, the actual game is alright. First up I didn't mind the hood being on as it added to the immersion but thankfully the game has been updated so you can turn that off if it annoys you. The only section I found of the game to be scary was the schoolteacher, that actually kicked the adrenaline into gear. But as the game has no jump, which I'm surprised doesn't seem to annoy people more than your character wearing a hood, the gameplay is simplified af. It's also very short. (2.6 hours for me, felt like a demo.) The first few areas just feel like dead corridors with no decoration except the same ladder asset repeated. But then you get into areas that feel more like the game, like the school area and the train which do a really good job of replicating the game. It's a shame it's all for this annoyingly simple game that really ignores any mechanics you'd recognise from little nightmares. You can only open the doors you need to to progress, and they either open automatically. or you open them by spinning a lever. So no you won't be grabbing any doors by the door handle to open them like in the original, remember the game has no jump. So it just feels like a Little Nightmares walking sim with the only real gameplay being stealth sections. Idk man if you're gonna make a VR LN game, actually make a VR LN game where you carry over as much of the gameplay from the original as you can. Arkham Shadows did it. And actually make a lengthy game with variations on the gameplay aside from walk section, stealth section, walk section, stealth section rinse and repeat.

Experiencia muito boa na verdade, apesar de infelizmente ser muito curta. No inicio do jogo achei que não tinha tanta profundidade em relação a gameplay além do básico que tem na maioria dos jogos vr... Bem... E de fato isso é meio verdade, mas ele utiliza elementos e mecânica já conhecidas em VR para inovar em um dos pontos mais fortes da franquia: As perseguições, que é uma das coisas que eu mais gostei nesse jogo apesar delas variarem bastante, algumas são "aperta o botão de correr e não olha pra trás" oque é ok eu acho, e outras realmente justificam o fato de o jogo ser VR e essas são realmente MUITO BOAS. Sobre os graficos... É... Dá pra ver claramente que eles estavam mirando na versão standalone do quest. Por outro lado, tem alguns efeitos bem maneiros e cenários muito bem feitos. Gostei demais do jogo mas achei o preço cheio um pouco demais para o que entrega, tipo... zerei o jogo em 3h e pouquinho, juntando mais 30 reais você consegue comprar half-life alyx que além de simplesmente ser melhor jogo de vr já criado, possui pelo menos 15 horas de gameplay na campanha. Enfim, apesar dos pesares, o jogo ainda é muito bom, recomendo :)

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Yeah this hits the spot. Now don't get me wrong, this has some "flaws" in quotes because I don't agree per say, but I think it's fair that some players don't want to see the hood on the edges of their view, i personally don't mind it, i think it's a fun addition. But aside from the complaints that you can see in the other reviews and in the discussions, I will say this with my chest: give this team control over the IP going forward. Little nightmares 3 was a disaster that just did not hit for most people, it didn't manage to recapture the energy that tarsier had with the series and fell flat in many, many ways. This game though? Does not, now i can't totally say it is standing on it's own, it could very well be held up in my eyes by a return to characters and environments of the second game, but I say it's worth a shot to let these guys give a try to the next mainline game, because they really just seem to "get it" better than the people who did 3. It's just a shame that probably won't happen because this is a random spinoff vr exclusive title that barely got any advertisement. I was EXCITED for this game, and I didn't even know it had released until yesterday, Bandai clearly didn't see it going very far, so I doubt the team behind it will be getting much recognition internally, but a man can dream.

For fans of the first two Little Nightmares games, this was a rather fun entry. The game takes place during the events of Little Nightmares II and gives us a deeper dive into one of the story elements within. By no means does the game reinvent the wheel or really add anything new gameplay wise, but it's rather interesting to see how the gameplay mechanics of Little Nightmares translates to VR, and quite enjoyable.

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