The Incomparable, number 604, March 2022.

Welcome back to The Incomparable.

I'm Tiff Arment, your guest host this week for an episode of Video Game Club, and we are here to talk about Little Nightmares 2, a creepy hide-and-seek puzzle platformer.

Joining me on this dark and rainy journey, our two companions wearing upsetting hats.

First, let me welcome Brian Hamilton. Hello, Brian.

Hi, if I reach through the computer screen at just the right time, do you think I could just

zoom over to where y'all are hanging out? That would be awesome. I really wish that that were possible. Also, joining us is James Thompson. Hello, James.

Hello, I'm just going to kill all these children with pipes in a totally not upsetting manner.

Your intro is so much darker than Brian's.

Right in line with this game.

I want to hang out with my friends. Let's kill everyone.

So I would like to preface with this game is a prequel to the first little nightmares,

which the three of us discussed on episode seven of recently played.

But you don't need to have played the first one in order to enjoy this game.

You may miss some nods and some reveals might not be as potent.

So a little background, Little Nightmares 2 was released February 2021, four years after its predecessor Little Nightmares, and it can be played on almost all modern

platforms. The story, which predates the events of the first game, follows Mono, our bag-faced

protagonists, who must work together with six, the protagonists from the previous game,

to survive the horrors of the pale city and discover its dark secrets. Okay, let's start off the

spoiler horn so we can get into this completely unfettered. So, you two. We played the first one

together. Well, not together, but we played the first one. Now we played the

second one. And I think we all kind of agree. The second one is way better. So much better.

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