Very Little Nightmares is a puzzle-adventure game created for iOS and Android that was released on May 30th, 2019, by Alike Studio and Bandai Namco.
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Very Little Nightmares is a mobile puzzle adventure game where the user takes the control of The Girl in The Yellow Raincoat during her spiraling escape from an odd mansion.
Be smart, resourceful and ready for anything while exploring every nook and cranny of the place, for even the smallest error can lead to a fatal misstep.
Plot
The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat sees a dream in which she runs away from someone and locks herself in a shed, propping the door with a board. Waking up, the girl notices that the balloon on which she flew pierced the roof of a mansion called The Nest, bursting and stuck among the wreckage. She then pulls the lever above her, causing the remains of the balloon to crash to the floor. After that, she continues on foot.
On the way, she comes face to face with a girl in white running through the pipes to the ventilation opening. Having run through the cell warehouse, she rescues a child in a red scarf, thus encountering the Craftsman, an old disabled man with long arms and legs. Running away from this monster, she manages to hide in one of the boxes for dolls, sent by elevator to the buildings of the Butler, who has the gift of telekinesis. The heroine manages to get away from him, hiding in the halls of the Pretender - the little spoiled mistress managing the Nest.
Finally, the girl reaches the main entrance to the Nest, where the Butler immediately sees and starts chasing her. She runs out into the garden and for some time objects above and beside her are launched at her by the telekinetic Butler. A girl in white helps her to escape from him, along with whom she opens the gate and runs across the trench, where her new partner falls behind and the heroine locks herself in the barn, still thinking that the Butler is chasing her.
After passing through a dump of dolls, the girl accidentally attracts the attention of the Pretender, who is sitting on the edge of the cliff with a broken doll. Aggressively reacting to the heroine, she chased after her, while not thinking about her own safety. Despite the danger, the girl in the raincoat saves the surviving "partner" in white from falling onto sharp rocks, for which she, in gratitude, throws a boulder at Pretender. For a few seconds, the girls looked at her, and while she was unharmed, abruptly stood up and attacked the heroine. Unfortunately, both of them did not maintain their balance and fell into the ocean, having crashed and drowned to death.
The scene after the credits shows how the girl in white (who was actually Six) runs to the raft on which she floats away.
Gameplay
Players take on the role of the Girl in the Yellow Raincoat and must navigate the Nest to find a way to escape, solving puzzles and evading enemies and other dangers along the way. Unlike Little Nightmares, which is a 3D-based puzzle platform, Very Little Nightmares is a mobile grid-based platform, with each room being its own level, and players can only tap to direct the Girl in the Yellow Raincoat to walk, run, or interact with objects.
Characters
- The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat - The protagonist of the game. Outwardly similar to Six because of the yellow raincoat. She crash-landed into the Nest with her hot-air balloon.
- Six - Throughout the story, she tries to escape from the Nest, repeatedly encountering the Girl in the Yellow Raincoat.
- The Craftsman - An old man with long limbs and reverted feet; constantly sitting in a wheelchair making handcrafted dolls.
- The Dump Monster - An unknown creature that appears in a landfill.
- The Butler - Personal servant of the Pretender. He has the gift of telekinesis.
- The Pretender - The main antagonist in the game. A little spoiled girl, who communicates with her toys all alone in the Nest.
- Child Prisoners / The Dolls - Children who are kidnapped from the mainland to the Nest. Most of them have been turned into dolls.
Reception
Very Little Nightmares currently has a score of 4.6 stars out of 5 on the App Store.
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