Game developer Tarsier Studios and publisher Bandai Namco have revealed the latest trailer for the upcoming survival horror-meets-puzzle platformer video game “Little Nightmares” and it is arguably the most terrifying yet.
A number of gaming critics have been impressed with the eerie setting and unsettling characters of “Little Nightmares,” and with the release of its latest trailer a few days ago, it has only validated how suspenseful the game is going to be for gamers.
Both Tarsier Studios and Bandai Namco have also announced that gamers will finally get the opportunity to steer protagonist Six around The Maw and it is going to officially happen beginning on April 28, 2017, when the game rolls out to the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and the PC.
Equipped with just a lighter, Six must hug the vessel’s shadows while keeping a watchful eye on just about everything else if she wants to avoid harm, details the PC Gamer.
Six has nine lives?
The latest trailer of “Little Nightmare,” entitled “The Nine Deaths of Six,” outlines what happens when Six lets her guard down.
Be it falling from heights, being suffocated by disturbing snake-like creatures, or getting stuffed head-first into a gutted fish, survival in “Little Nightmares” clearly isn’t going to be easy.
Bandai Namco said in an official press statement that while trapped in The Maw with nothing but her wits and a lighter, Six must find light in the darkness and strength in her weakness to survive the attentions of its monstrous residents and escape to the world outside.
The game publisher also cautioned that Six, obviously referring to the gamer, should be careful as each room is a cell, each resident a threat, and both puzzles to untangle.
It added that the gamer needs to hide and sneak from danger, climb his or her way out and escape the chasing monsters including The Janitor, who was the new character revealed in “The Nine Deaths of Six” trailer.
Apart from coming to the gaming consoles and the PC, “Little Nightmares” shall also be available digitally on GOG and Steam.
A boxed version will also be made available for most retailers, and a collector’s edition will be exclusive to Game stores officially called as The Six Edition, which includes a 10cm-tall Six figurine, the game’s official soundtrack, an A3 poster, and a sticker board. More information can be found on the game’s website.
A mission to escape
“Little Nightmare” features Six, a little girl trapped in a prison called The Maw where every room is a puzzle. The main mission of Six is to escape, evading a particular enemy who probably wants to eat her.
Bandai Namco also revealed pre-order details and a collector’s edition of “Little Nightmares.” All digital pre-orders come with the Scarecrow Sack and the Upside-down Teapot Mask, two in-game items that help Six blends in.
Digital pre-orders on PC and the PlayStation 4 come with the digital soundtrack, an exclusive theme on PS4 or a wallpaper on PC. “Little Nightmares” will also be available at retail, and that version too comes with the original soundtrack.
In terms of storyline, a nine-year-old girl named Six is kidnapped from her home and taken to work in The Maw, a surreal underwater resort catering to the whims of the powerful elite.
When an unexpected twist of fate offers her a chance at freedom, Six takes a journey through the bizarre and unpredictable world of The Maw and catches a glimpse at the corrupt heart of modern happiness.
The game was originally announced by Tarsier Studios in May 2014 under the title “Hunger” with no known publisher for release on PlayStation 4.
After a teaser trailer in February 2015, nothing was heard of the project until August 2016, when Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that they had entered into a worldwide publishing agreement with Tarsier for the project, which was already re-titled to “Little Nightmares.” The game was also announced then that it would no longer be a PS4 exclusive.
“Little Nightmares” promises to bring gamers straight back to the world of monsters as imagined by a child, filling him or her with that inflated sense of wonder and horror only a child can feel.
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