Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes

I hate this game with all my heart.

Like if teacher crackable broo (kopstoot toad ahh)

Отличный проект во вселенной "Little Nightmares". Атмосфера 10 из 10 . Хорошо что разработчики убрали этот гребаный режим капюшона в котором не было ничего видно . Рад что когда добрался до прохождения уже появилось отключение этой бесполезной штуки .История прекрасна как и во всех играх этой серии . Надеюсь ещё увидим VR проекты в вселенной кошмариков .

Скучно умноженое на бесконечно !

A great return to form. My main complaint with the third game was that it didn't feel like the first two, and this game nails that feeling the third one was missing. Little Nightmares is a great franchise to have a VR spinoff. My only complaint is the lack of smooth turning and how sections like the conductor hiding halls are a bit long and annoying to get through, but other than that I had a good time playing this game

TLDR: Interesting in concept, runs fine, and looks cool, but is exorbitantly boring. Felt more like an unofficial demo or mod than an official, $30 game. (Please excuse the poor formatting. I don't write reviews often). Little Nightmares: Altered Echoes, [b] in my opinion [/b] , is a very good and very interesting idea in theory, but is very poorly executed here. The visuals and performance were both very good! Seeing and doing things in the perspective of the tiny children was very cool, and I didn't experience any (confirmed) bugs or performance issues caused by the game. In spite of that, I played through most of the game (I got to the final chapter), but even so, I literally could not bring myself to finish it because it turned out to be so incredibly boring. By then, the novelty of being small had worn off, and I figured that nothing had happened so far, so nothing [i] would [/i] happen, and I'd be better off doing something else. Gameplay-wise, the game is fine. The controls work as intended and they're generally not clunky. But, the Snap Turning doesn't work for chase sequences, especially if those sequences have sharp turns, which most of them do. Often, I couldn't evade an enemy without either completely stopping my movement to turn my camera, clipping a corner and subsequently getting caught (during the one chase that was actually fast), running into a wall because I didn't turn enough fast enough, or I turned too fast, knocked myself off balance, and almost fell over. Additionally, the game is extremely bad at telling you where you need to go unless your path is linear, or unless your objective is to explore (both of which are fine on their own, don't get me wrong). During the second chase sequence, I got stuck for at least 40 minutes because I would reach a dead on an otherwise completely clear and linear path, and die before I figured out where to go next (which is impressive, for a reason stated later on). However, in stark contrast to the above paragraph, the puzzles in the game are way too easy. Every single one is a "find the missing object" puzzle, most of these objects are either right in front of you or are barely hidden (either they're behind you, or are in open cabinets), and almost every single one is a crank used to open a door. The two most interesting puzzles that I came across were a puzzle where I had to find more than one thing, and one where I had to go around in a linear circle and plug some plugs into some sockets. The roster of enemies is incredibly lackluster, and none of them are scary. There is only one enemy per general area, and there are entire sub-areas (not singular rooms) where the location's singular enemy doesn't appear at all. This game has no equivalent to LN2's Bullies, or the Residence's Shadow Kids, or LN1's Leeches. I counted a miniscule five rooms with environmental hazards, but each area only has a singular enemy that you need to avoid. In addition, enemy behavior and perception is all over the place. One enemy saw me even though I was completely obscured under a table, and another was either so blind or so poorly coded that I literally thought their vision was based on movement -- until I got caught even though I wasn't moving (and wasn't in their way, so it wasn't like they found me by bumping into me). The chase sequences have absolutely no stakes or intensity because the enemies move incredibly slowly -- even though they've been shown to have the ability to move much faster. Unless you literally stop moving for a good three to five seconds, the enemy will never ever catch you. SPOILERS AHEAD! The game doesn't seem to have any story beyond the premise, that being "Six's soul tries to find her body". There's no visual storytelling to tell you more about the locations, no lore about Six, and none of the game's general locations are connected to each other -- or Six. The first few sub-areas are connected to each other because [spoiler] you're in the Thin Man's realm and the constant hopping around is expected [/spoiler] , and another two sub-areas have an obvious connection because [spoiler] one is a Train Station and the other is a Train [/spoiler] . But nothing explains why you're there, or what the places have to do with Six (beyond literally the first room in the game). The entire game feels like taking a virtual tour showing off set design, not a story. And finally, the game just isn't scary. There are set pieces that momentarily give you a sense of intrigue or foreboding, but those instances only last a moment, and they mean nothing. There's no lore attached to them that you wouldn't already know from past games. There are no jumpscares, no scripted moments where the enemies almost catch you for dramatic effect, or even death jumpscares, specifically. Whenever an enemy catches you, they just freeze right on top of you, your character gasps, and your vision fades to black. Not even an enemy's presence is scary or foreboding, because you're either hiding from them and you [i] know [/i] they won't see you because they're all legally blind, or you're in a chase scene that has no stakes because you can look over your shoulder and see that the enemy is still leagues behind you, and is moving at about the pace of an ant -- or they're so far behind that you can't see them at all. All in all, absolutely not worth the $30, even though I very intensely wish it was, and tried very hard to trick myself into liking it (hence the 5.5 hours of play time). I can't even recommend trying to get it on sale because there's literally nothing there. If you're still interested, I'd recommend finding a playthrough and watching some of it before you decide.

*FYI you CAN remove the hood vignette AND smooth turn- fixed in an update Prior to this game's release, I was completely unfamiliar with the Little Nightmares franchise. So before playing this one, I purchased and played through all 3 Little Nightmares games using UEVR mod. In my opinion, playing the main games first (at least one and two) contributed enormously to my enjoyment of this game. Highly recommend playing those first if you haven't. You feel SO small in this game. They nailed the atmosphere. The environments and colors. It truly felt like you were inside the first or second Little Nightmares games. It also had some surprising VR interactions. You could climb almost anything, pick up and throw almost anything. There were crayons and chalk that you could write with and matches you could strike right on a box. Those little interactions are the things in VR that can turn a decent game into a real experience. The only thing that threw me at first was you cannot jump. I was assuming this would be a first person puzzle platformer and couldn't figure out how that was going to work without a jump button. But to clarify- it's more stealth, climbing and light puzzles.