The Endless Horrors of Little Nightmares
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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This is a full breakdown of Little Nightmares, Little Nightmares DLC and Little Nightmares 2.
I'll be talking about the various monsters, theories and what they all mean, all the while trying to convince people to watch The City of Lost Children, that's the real goal of this video, does anyone ever read this section anyway?
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I like little nightmares but did very much dislike/hate that with one of the two being a time loop just feels like no matter what happens no matter what you do no matter where you go it's the same ending
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I'm surprised that you didn't mention "Very Little Nightmares" or the comics for LN2, those add quite a bit more lore to sift through.
Actually the reason old times are full of so many morbid folk tales, is exactly because the times were so hard. They are meant as cautionary tales to keep children from entering danger. Don't go near the rushing river where you could fall and drown, because an old lady will pull you in. Don't go into the forest where you could get lost and killed by an animal, because the trolls will catch and eat you. The simplicity of the stories, implying an intelligent force, is easier to understand as dangerous, rather than the regular, mundane dangers of life. The colorful tales also help children remember the lessons learned, and the vivid imagination of the children ensures that the beast they need to avoid is sufficiently frightening, to keep them at bay.
The harsher the environment a society lives in, the more morbid their folktales will be. Just look at the Inuits
I've never heard it put this way but SO true. I never even thought about it that deep but damn
Very succinctly said. This is exactly why fairy tales and old wives tales are the way they are, they are stories to give hopes and dreams when times seem dark and hopeless. While cautionary tales are told to protect what we hold most dear, our precious young from danger they can't quite comprehend just yet. What a great way of conveying these truths.
Ok but, what I’m the world were the brothers Grimm thinking writing the juniper tree? “Don’t trust step-moms?”
Definitely true! And it's also important to keep in mind that fairytales were also important for adults too. For example, the story of Bluebeard wouldn't offer the best lessons for kids (unless they wanted to teach young girls not to discover their future husband's murder dungeon), so it shows that it was a fairytale intended just as much for adults.
It's pretty much like a horror story for fathers and brothers of young girls back in those times, fearing their loved ones unknowingly being married off to a monster.
The fact that the gnomes have child shaped shadows in the furnace safe room is such a cool detail!
I didn't even catch that, I had to go back and see! Thanks for that.
I'm surprised he didn't mention it
Literal foreshadowing
@@boxofspoons8867BRO
@@boxofspoons8867 pun intended?
The chair underneath the man, who hanged himself at the beginning, is kind of interesting. Not only is the chair still standing, even though using this method of suicide, would've resulted in it being kicked over. But it's also way too far down to have been used as a ledge to step into the noose. What this tells you is that the chair had nothing to do with the death of this man, and might've been placed there by someone else.
When referring to the method of death, it's "hanged".
@@theonlybilge that's true, I forgot.
im betting my left nut that the whole "chair in place and too short" was unintentional and they DID mean to imply that the man hung himself
perhaps a short person tried to save the man? 👀
@@annmatsuoka perhaps someone tried to make it seem like he commited death
To me the tall man being mono implies that he tried to get his friend back, if he wanted to save himself from becoming the tall man, he could either have left them alone or killed her, instead he goes to pick her up and give her a toy to pacify her, ultimately he is a good person and just wanted his only friend back.
Damn never thought about it like that
I never thought about that and now I am incredibly sad.
With how she turned out, it makes me think that he tried to keep her the same way he was.
Although she became more disturbing and monstrous unlike Mono's calm and superior nature as the Tall man.
he had been alone for so long only remembering Six as a positive memory and just wanted something similar....
Omg that's so sad
"The teacher may be playing on fears of snakes"... counterpoint: have you considered that the teacher may be playing on fears of people with 100 foot long necks?
I feel like it may be inspired by Japanese folklore again. There is a youkai that works like that - looks like a normal person and then grows a long neck.
@@Broeckchen I thought the same the teacher might be inspired by rokurokubi
@@Broeckchen Rokurokubi?
@@anoen28just search it bro
Fear of giraffes and elephants 😰
Finding out the gnome six eats is the runaway kid from the DLC made me actually sob. You do so much for him to help him escape, and he unlike six is made to be much more likable. The story intentionally juxtaposes six's ruthless survival instincts with runaway kid's compassion. When I played as six, I was less fueled by wanting *her* to survive and more by my own burning curiosity to learn about the world she lives in. With the runaway kid, however, I wanted him to LIVE so bad. It just goes to show how in this series, kindness is a weakness
You should probably go outside. There’s a whole world you seem to not know is there.
@@jlooks95 Wow, you need a hug, did someone piss in your morning coffee?
@@jlooks95 I actually love the outside; just went on a hike with my bros yesterday. Thanks though! Appreciate the concern :)
@@jlooks95 that was a weird comment bro u need people to talk to?
I mean this game is all about survival. The runaway kid wants to escape and wants to help people, he's not ruthless unlike six who would abandon people in a heartbeat to save herself. It's kinda the same with mono he's kind to six but in the end six ends up dropping him instead of helping him up. Little nightmares shows us how cruel and dark the world can be.
The fact that the designer went “idk how anyone could ever think a child trying to escape and an adult trying to keep the child trapped represents a mother-daughter relationship” shows he had a pretty good, insular home life. 😅
Exactly what is was thinking. Dudes been sheltered his entire life.
@@videogamefreak2001I wouldn't say sheltered more like loved and protected
@@videogamefreak2001 If you consider having a health relationship with your parents sheltered.
I have a healthy relationship with my parents, but I can still understand why someone would try to escape their parents, because not everyone's parents are good people. Not recognizing that's something that exists in the world is pretty sheltered behavior.
And he’d never seen Tangled
I like how six eating the rat is immediately contrasted by the kitchen, to me that shows how she just works off her base instincts and most of the time doesn't even think about trying to find another solution to her problems, just like how she abandons the children and mono, it shows how the only person that matters in her mind is her, making her almost like an animal.
An animal? No. Selfish? Sure. If 3 people were in danger but saving them would kill not only them but you, too, it's then best to just leave them.
Not only would you not help them, you wouldn't help yourself. It would certainly be selfish, but trying to save them is not noble, it's just stupid.
@@spankyjeffro5320 I mean in terms of her lack of critical thinking, she doesn't try to think of another way of doing something, she just goes for the first option she thinks of, like how most people wouldn't even think to eat a rat raw, but she doesn't even hesitate.
@@spankyjeffro5320 that's how animals think too. It's called survival instinct
have you considered that this lack of thinking / planning ahead may simply be due to her being literally 9 years old? she's a small child who's been through traumatizing things (likely making her even a bit younger mentally or not used to life working the same way we are). like... comparing a child that young and from that world to an animal for not planning ahead when affected by a supernatural hunger is kind of wild to me. genuinely this is a sincere question and not meant to come off mad / confrontational.
@@marcybons yeah I did consider than, but mono isn't much older then six and he shows forward thinking and selflessness many times during the second game, so the game obviously doesnt use age as a defining feature for how they act
I love the description of the patients in the hospital. People who grew so bored of life that they participated in the Doctor's experiments just to FEEL something.
i find the scene where Six ate the gnome so interesting coz i assumed that Six didn't know that the gnomes were actually children but she KNEW that all the meat were made out of people or children, so now i wonder whether Six ate the gnome because she thought that they weren't the same species as her and knowing that the sausage were made out of children or she ate the gnome with malicious intent
I think it was more of a animalistic instinct, just like the guests
My personal theory is that the Maw itself is an entity that affects people, we clearly see the same with the tower. I like the thought that these massive entities are capable of warping and twisting people, either by driving them mad, or by them being compatible with the entity and becoming basically workers for it (like the janitor and chefs, potentially being highly compatible with the lady and essentially lending her the same abilities as it has since she essentially constantly feeds it, kind of operating like a hive mind but allowing certain people to almost hold higher position than the rest). I think this explains the hunger that constantly worsens, and the insane nature of the guests (who would be just driven mad by the maw, being incompatible with it). I think the tower in the second game only made me believe this more, since certain entities like the doctor and teacher are warped and stuck in an endless loop of doing one task that really has no meaning or benefit anymore, while others are turned into mindless freaks that only have an animalistic instinct to either listen to/watch the signal, or force others into their same fate. I also think Mono being somehow able to control the signal is more a symptom of being compatible with it than evidence that he is the thin man. I think the thin man is just replaced by him (I honestly hate the time loop theory soooo much for a game like this, it feels so lazy as an explanation in a world where SO much is odd and intricate and even the comics seem to have more interesting answers than "oh its a loop and I guess mono just constantly reincarnates but also for some reason it happens before his old self dies because the signal is weird?"). I also love thinking of it this way because it feels more horrifying in a way, if there's entities like the maw and tower who whether consciously or not draw people in and corrupt them, people having a very small chance of "surviving" the encounter if they're compatible but only living on as warped and mad monsters bound to certain tasks, it almost feels lovecraftian - Like there's no possible way to escape, which makes this looming feeling of dread already heavy in the Little Nightmares world even worse.
I definitely believe that Six only ate the gnome because of her knowing that the sausage was made of the meat of other children. From the start to the end of the game she has no was of knowing where they came from or what they are. To her, she probably thought that it would be worse to consume a not living item made of human flesh even when it’s being held out to her, than to eat a still living thing that cannot speak or show facial expression and of which she doesn’t know the origin of.
It's pretty well implied that Six' hunger is not natural, and that what she actually needs to feed on, is not food, but life itself. You'll notice that after she gains her powers, she takes something from the patrons, which kills them. The same thing which the lady did, but much faster. The metaphor for overconsumption is pretty clear, and I think her deciding to eat the gnome shows the side of her which has gotten a taste for the souls of others.
Would a pitbull prefer cold, unappetizing grub, or a live, fresh baby ready for consumption?
I think another reason Six may've dropped Mono is the fact that you're fresh off destroying her source of comfort, one that she willing to share with you, and let you get close to, never thought about all the times Mono had failed to save her before though
I still think the breaking of something that comforted her throughout the time she was trapped, was the final decider in him being seen as untrustworthy. She did still show him something so precious even after being let down the previous times.
@@mooni6799 some people think that something like that would be a weak reason for her to decide to drop him but imo, i think its totally believable. i was in a pretty shitty home situation when i was around her age, and a lot of my belongings were destroyed. often right in front of me. i was like, eight or nine and even thought most people thought it stupid, it really hurt. and it led to me being very aggressive and defensive with my belongings, and prone to holding a grudge. so prone to it, im still very angry at the people who hurt me all these years later. i never forgot. and i definitely never forgave. if i were in her place, at that age, im certain i wouldve done the same thing. shes nine years old and likely has massive trust issues, i wouldnt at all doubt she would make a rash decision like that. understanding the consequences, or not.
@bumbabees I've lived in a similar situation & always have saw her action as reasonable at her age & living situation, I hope you have a lovely weekend
@@mooni6799 hope you have a lovely weekend as well :)
@@mooni6799this take becoming more mainstream is such a breath of fresh air as someone who’s been in the ln fandom since the very beginning. I’ve heard too many people saying she recognized his face as the thin man, or knew she’d eventually eat him, or that she’d suddenly and inexplicably turned evil. People forget how emotional children can be, and how selfish they can become in an environment that will kill anything that isn’t.
the little nightmares franchise captures what i fear most.....
-short people
-the triple K
-starvation
-bad chefs
-fat people
-evil grandma's
-turning racist
-cannibalism
-women
-people from texas
-school teachers
-doctors
-me from the future but evil
-manmade horrors
-getting dumped
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Real
Are you referring to the white supremacist organization when you say the triple K cause I don't understand where that's a thing?
Ik im super late and you prob won't respond but maybe someone else who's also just finding this can lmk.
@@KillM3Softly666i think they're referring to the gnomes/Mono wearing the gnome hat looking kinda like the pointed hoods of the triple K
For the last boss battle against the masked lady, my theory is that Six is using the mirror to exorcise her. In Shinto belief, small shrined hand held mirrors (considering the mirror is hidden behind a locked door or sorts, it could be considered the masked woman's "personal shrine") can be used to exorcise evil spirits by 'reflecting them away', and break when their purpose has been achieved. So, Six wasn't fighting the masked woman but whatever evil power was residing inside her, pushing it "out" of the masked woman and, ultimately, consumining it to be it's next host for... well, aid whatever twisted ideas Six might have.
It's possible that the lady started out like 6, but discovered what she had done. She isn't actually disfigured, but sees herself as a monster. She breaks the mirrors arround her because se can't stand to look in her own eyes and wears the mask in case she can't avoid it. It adds an extra tragic note to the fight, as six defeats her by showing her who she is, and then immediatly becomes the same, repeating the cycle.
I heard thats its supposedly a obsidian mirror which is used to kill Witches
i absolutely agree with that, yes, I just meant it as an extra layer adding to the japanese feel/vibe to it all! Sorry if it didnt come out like that, english isnt my first language so sometimes i kinda sound weird when explaining things.@@NuvyHotnogger
I think the power Six has after absorbing the Lady will in the end consume Six too. We see this in the Little Nightmare DLC, of how the Lady is old and wrinkled and drove her mad.
And the fact that Six after destroying all the Mini Lady statue is given the Lady mask is a subtle remarks that The Mask finds its succesor.
If i can combine this two, then its probably that The Lady is in fact Six. She wears the mask after we get it and have to absorb everyone too sustain her hunger, which in turn corrupted her body into that of The Lady. Same as Mono slowly corrupted by the entity and became the Thin Man.
And i think that both Six and Mono represent Two of the Seven deadly sins. Six who always hunger and never stops her craving is Gluttony. And Mono who has considerable strenght and apptitude by holding a weapon and use it to bring down and destroy everything violently, and his aftermath who is full of Anger and spites to everyone except himself is what we call Wroth.
@@gregrenox9644Hm....yes...."wroth"😂 Anywho that's actually very interesting
I'm surprised you didn't mention how at the hospital, you can come across a room where the wall is adorned with several deformed masks that resemble the faces of the various monsters you come across throughout the series. This could mean that nearly every enemy you encounter, from The Janitor to The Doctor, are actually wearing poorly-made masks in an attempt to appear human, making you wonder what they truly look like...
in the first game you can see the chefs reach under to scratch an itch
that explains why the bottom half of the janitor's face is all wrinkled and looks like it's falling down, it's a mask. I had always wondered why it looked like that
the chefs will actually lift up their masks occasionally
@@eldritchcupcakes3195 I remember noticing that too but thinking that they were just scratching in between their neck rolls
@@lailagroh1659ngl I think it’s his skin, his hands are the same colour as his face, but his upper part is a lot darker ( like a skull )
I think that's the message. Everyone fights their dark side, their monsters inside, but once you give in/ give up, you become that monster. In this game series literally. 6 becomes hunger incarnate, the boy from the second game becomes the tall man he feared. The bizarre thing is that the boy to become the tall man, must first beat his fear of him in the first place. The true nightmare is that you become what you fear the most.
I should start fearing of having a ferrari, then.
@@SRCepTeryou become ferrari...
Aight guys, I'm saying bye before I turn into a Windranger
Because Mono is the Thin Man, it's my personal theory that Six is in a time loop of her own, and that she, like Mono, IS The Lady. Forever trapped in a cycle of killing her future self and becoming the thing she's trying to escape. Just like Mono.
You're right, if I could hug you I would.
But there is always a reason to something. If Six was stuck in a loop, how would it start? Mono has different powers which can do different things, where his future self is trying to save its past. But for six, it is different.
@user-im6zb9zh4s for a time loop we may never know, but remember this games world does not follow logic.
Isn't this a really popular theory though? I saw it practically on every video when the second game came out
Yes and no.
Six might be small due to malnourishment, she gets hungry a lot during the game and at some point some reaches one of the earliest stages of starvation in wich hunger makes you eat anything that your brain recognizes as food regardless of it's quality, taste or origin and eats a gnome alive, Six might be older and been on the maw longer than most of the kids you see in game but lack of available food, stress and fatigue might've hurt her development
That's a good take, but it's unlikely.
@@SquishyTheVampire yeah, six is a little too strong for a kid constantly at the verge of death
nah purposefully letting someone go who you already have saved is definitely evil. everytime mono let six down you could objectively argue it was outside of his ability to save her, six let him down while in full control of the situation.
dude, she is a child. there are many reasons for her to have done that, and she has been through a lot. i don't think she would be the only one to make this kind of desicion in that position
Yeah I feel there is a big difference between her just letting him drop after already catching him, intentionally throwing him off essentially, and him trying to get away during tense situations or hiding in situations he didn't really have power to help her in at the time. Tho considering Six is a kid herself she would likely not see the greater context to those situations
I feel like it means more to the story to have Six make decisions based on a lack of compassion, or maybe a sinister side to her. She's a kid, but she's allowed to be morally grey, or even downright villainous. These games are meaningful because of the darker aspects, so to me, trying to explain away Six's actions kind of seems like missing the point, but I also don't want to take away anyone's right to interpret the story.
@@sbubbeyare we gonna just forget the time we caught her breaking fingers on a mannequin hand? She’s diabolically evil
Well to be fair, Six is portrayed as ruthless, so it wouldn't be out-of-character for her to essentially kill a friend that let her down.
I remember my first play through of little nightmares 2. The twist was so good and made me actually be invested in some confusing plot. Everything about it is perfect: Janky controls, medium levelled puzzles and a dark creepy ass atmosphere to get me invested in.
Same. Which is why it infuriates me that we're probably never going to get a satisfying conclusion for Six's story.
Still, the flashlight control is so bad lol. I died like 6 (irony?) times in that chapter lol
@@CroakingBrokingI died like 10 - 20 times lol
@@AuthorMorgan7436 Still, I expected the game to have more problems that I will hate, but it actually didn't. So props to them for only having one bad section, which is already very good for new games.
Invested, invested, invested. The investment had me invested
"Sitting cheek to cheek, shitting with your bro" is wild
Little Nightmares is truely one of the most unique horror games out there. Wish more horror games took the direction this game takes, especially in art style
To be fair I'm glad more games don't. The art style MAKES these games. If we had a ton of immatation knock off's then it'd lower the overall respect this series gets for its art direction.
Whilst I do understand your point, I'd rather see another little nightmares production then fakes.
Just look at the Resident evil games. Blah.
You can tell the artstyle is influenced a lot by Jan Svankmajers animations. Silent Hill 1-4 were also influenced by those films.
There’s also Bramble: The Mountain King, which has similar 2.5D platforming to Little Nightmares, but the horror is centered around Swedish folklore.
Pppsssttt . . There's a podcassttt . . I'm a character in ittt . . oOOooOOO . .
I think what makes the game more eery is its score and sounds than artstyle. For example when we eat the gnome, you can actually feel that thing. When you're around bosses, you can actually feel unnerving environment that we're surrounded by.
>Video essay says horrors are endless
>It has an ending
😩😩
"No more edging, he's going full bust!"
This isn't called little horrors is it?
The nightmares continue beyond the video
If you liked these games you should try Bramble:the mountain king, it's a game where you play as a little boy who has to try to save his sister and encounters various nightmarish scandinavian fairy tale creatures
That game a hell of an experience. There is no punches pulled on child murder.
Yes!!!! That game was actually freaking good 👏
Bramble was truly an experience! One of the most amazing games I have ever played!
heart of darkness
It IS good! I got it!
I m still mad at six. The way she betrayed mono still gets me
And its even more infuriating the way people try to justify it, i just don't get people nowadays..
@@fluttershystayshigh4202I don't think they're wrong to justify it. because we don't have confirmation one way or the other. but I also think it's acceptable to still love the character, but hate her for doing that.
That made me love her more actually. It's unjustifiable, she's just irredeemable - she's the cause of every bad thing that happened at the end of every little nightmares game. A straight up menace 😭
@@Therefore_-us8tx sometimes evil people are just amazing
@@fluttershystayshigh4202it's not justifiable but instead more understandable
When little nightmares 3 comes out it's very possible we'll see Mono again as the Thin man. I also love his name Mono, it tells you all along that he is the thin man. Mono is a setting on a TV and whenever we see the door in little nightmares 2 the sounds are muffled just like putting your TV in mono.
I fokin' love Mono, best main character ever!
Mono is an audio setting. It's when the audio in both left and right speaker are coming from 1 source and playing simultaneously. As apposed to stereo where the audio is coming from multiple sources which allow each speaker to play a different sound but at the same time. It's why all headphones/ear buds are labeled L and R.
It's also a neat little riff on Six's name, since Mono means one or singular. Who knows, maybe Little Nightmares 3 will give us the second, third, fourth, or fifth of this group of number-named children.
1. Im probably wrong but last I checked (~1 year ago), the devs said they would NOT make LN3
2. The name "Mono" gives no indication that he is the Thin Man
3. That is not what mono means
4. OMG LISTING TO SOMETHING IN ANOTHER ROOM THROUGH THE WALLS AND DOORS MAKES IT SOUND MUFFLED
@@PuncherOfWomenAndMinorities incel name, incel post, incel love life
E: and little nightmares three is scheduled for an early 2024 release if you even Google it at all. you really destroyed your own credibility pretty thoroughly there, wow.
1:19:28 “no more edging, he’s going full bust” brilliant 💀
Seeing the gnomes shadows in the runaway kid story was such a good hint that these gnomes were children. You don't see their pointy hats. I loved those wee guys.
I'm still butt hurt that the first little nightmares has no platinum. One of the trophies is to run through the game in under an hour with no deaths.
It's so difficult. Just from a platforming perspective. I would try speedily running and just catch a corner wrong and fall. Back to the start. 😢
I think this series is about the cycle of abuse, either a child becoming their abusers in order to survive and escape their suffering, or because the world around them rips away every other choice until being a monster is the only path left
Makes sense
"The child wants to escape and the adult wants to keep the child trapped forever. How people see that as a mother-daughter relationship, I just don't know."
So strange to hear something like this from the creator of dark-themed horror game... There is one story that I heard and will never forget... Mother just ditched her little baby in the forest where gnats just sucked that little girl dry. F***ing gnats. Heck, we even have some extremely creepy and dark songs about parents that try to murder their children for various dumb reasons. IMO the cruelty of some human beings are pretty much like abyss.
Me thinks it was masked sarcasm? And the creator just sucked at trying to pretend it wasn't a possibility? Cause creators of dark genre titles usually either lie and say no to a theory that's later proven to be true, say nothing/ignore it, or come out later and say "yes that's true". ...Or the dude could just be, oddly, pretty blind to reality which should be impossible for people that deal with dark genres.
literally ask anyone with mommy issues, its just our lives
@@tovahwulfIf that's what he wanted to do, he wasn't good at sarcasm. He pretty much said that people are wrong with that idea even though it's the only one that can be made with the evidence. It's like he's upset that we don't just know the story at face value and assumes we know what's actually going on, honestly it's a little pretentious. (I think I used the right word.)
Adding on that some people drew the themes of snow white from it. A matriarchal ruling figure who is vain and obsessed with a mirror.
It really feels like the writer was annoyed that so many interpreted it in a way he never intended or pictured, and spoke too hastily in condemning it.
I’m actually blown away that the developer can’t imagine a controlling mother-daughter relationship being a stories theme. Has he never heard of rapunzel?!
I love the hidden meanings in Little Nightmare games, and while the characters never speak they have interesting personalities, they are so simple and the silence and overloud sound designs make the game more horrific.
The meaning of Six extreme hunger that seems to kill her shows how much she must've been starved, and Mono who hides his face behind a bag shows his fear of being judged.
With the sound of nightmares in mind, perception and symbolism makes a lot of sense in lore.
@@dusktheowlgryphon It truly dose. The two games so far are filled with hidden details in sound, locations and characters designs I could spend hours just analysing each different chapter in the games.
"How people could see this as a mother-daughter relationship I don't know."
Nobody said it had to be a HEALTHY relationship.
I think the part that unsettles me the most about the Twin Chefs is the music that plays whenever they spot you. In any other context, the sound of a tuba or trombone playing in time with the steps of a large, overweight figure would solely be used for comedic effect. Yet I vaguely recall having my own nightmares of being stalked by a giant, dopey creature who wants to catch and/or eat me, all while similar goofy music would play, telling me to get away. I grew up watching shows like Barney or Sesame Street, so I wasn’t necessarily afraid of full-body suits. What scared me back then was the idea of confronting something that would normally be considered friendly or silly, but instead turns out to be deeply sinister (which may partially explain why I’ve grown to have a soft spot for Mascot Horror as an adult).
Isn’t it interesting how the runaway kid tries to help the gnomes and anyone he can but gets killed in the process. While Six who never gives it much thought and thinks more selfishly is the one who lived and gains power. In this twisted world it makes sense that being good gets you killed while being evil is the “good” thing.
I think if you read the Playstation blog Q&A, it's pretty clear that many of their answers are deliberately vague or even sarcastic. I particularly like this one: "Sure. They escaped The Maw and sailed off into the sunset on a 32-foot yacht called ‘The Endeavour’, where they sipped champagne and played shuffleboard in their pajamas. Then they woke up." They clearly don't want to provide concrete answers about their work's meaning, and the answer about the relationship between the Lady and Six should be read in that context.
Yup, the way he says that sounds like the guy is gaslighting and having fun doing that.
@@matthieuwojcik6609 being ironic isn’t gaslighting 💀
if you’re being gaslit by sarcasm then you must be very easily convinced.
5:03 : “Six isn’t incapable of showing emotion, she’s just selective about it”
Also Six : *chucks Nome*
Gotta give a MASSIVE clap and round of love to the composer, Tobias Lilja. one of the few composers who can perfectly encapsulate:
- Horror
- Solitude
- Hope
All in a single track. Even if the Bonus Tracks for LN2 were a lot more experimental (same for the upcoming LN3).
Prison Waltz, The Lady Circles and Room with a View are the perfect examples.
👏👏👏👏💖💖💖💖
It makes so much sense that six doesn’t react to the hanging man or other dangers by crying or screaming, because in the comics she’s referred to: “the child that has seen things they shouldn’t” or something like that
I just love the horror of the signal tower, the closest thing to a god we have saw until this point.
In case you're interested there are short comics expanding the world, introducing other monsters like an evil mirror and a storm creature.
I love how 2 shows six saving mono more than once on long jumps because she wants him to survive. But when she’s taken she recognizes mono as the tall man and that leads to her dropping him.
Little Nightmares is proof indie game industry needs to be protected at all cost
yeah because indie horror has been just so absolutely fantastic in the last few years (oh wait)
@diemarxistischeliga7983 don't respond to this bot, dudes just regurgitating a line he saw got alot of upvotes on reddit. Not a hint of soul in him.
Ah yeah because AAA games overall have been great these last few years... oh wait.@@diemarxistischeliga7983
@@diemarxistischeliga7983If stuff like Garten of BanBan or Poppy Playtime are the only indie horror games you know, then sure. Otherwise, indie horror has been pretty decent throughout the years.
@codylawler2652 are you a member of the comment Police? He's not exactly wrong.
The fact that the gnomes at 48:41 have shadows in the shape of children is a nice hint at foreshadowing
i never noticed that :0
Love that Mono's story ends on a monotone
I've noticed a recurring theme in LN2 of the mimicry of life. The Hunter creates and poses taxidermied people in a home setting. The Teacher lectures porcelain children in a school setting. The Doctor creates and monitors mannequin patients in a hospital setting. The only real "people" are those seemingly responsible for the false humans as well as the masses of faceless "nobodies" glued to their TVs. I wonder if this is supposed to tie-in to the message the game might be trying to portray about media consumption.
44:06 I think that the game being made by swedes, the old hag resembles Näcken (Näkki, Nicor, Nøkk, Nøkken, Nixie). In nordic folklore Näcken is usually potrayed slender woman or man with long damp hair, who tries to lure people into water, and then drown them. The tale is mainly used as a warning for children not to go near bodies of water. I remember my parents telling me not ot go near a murky pond that was near my home as a child, because Näkki lived there. After that I had nightmares of Näkki pulling me uinto that pond...
There’s another little nightmares game called very little nightmares that gives a bit more back story to six. I also think it says a lot about six as a character that she constantly pushes Mono to go first into danger and the fact the gnome only interacts with Mono in the dlc makes me think it’s supposed to be the spirit of RK somewhat warning Mono
Those aren’t the same characters
I don't see that solely because Little Nightmares 2 is a prequel to the first game, I believe
@@aduckofsomesort very little nightmares does show 6 so yes they are you just don't play as her.
@@chelsthegameruiner8669 it is and very little nightmares is a prequal to little nightmares 2
The only videogame series that has made me cry a lot and made depressed, first i had this weird feeling when six ate the gnome when the gnome was already offering her food made me disgusted, then playing the dlc and knowing that the gnome was the run away kid made me cry and being sensitive for 3 days like if someone near to me has passed away. Then in LN2 seeing how six let go mono to become the thin man made me sad as well
in the second one, my take is that she didnt leave him so he could become the thin man but she left him because she recognized him as the thin man. she firgured out that was who he was becoming, and in an attempt to kill him so the thin man doesnt get created, she actually made him into what hes become
I think you got some things wrong, like when mono left six getting crushed under the building only for him to coma back is not six feeling betrayed, but more like “oh you actually came back for me instead of leaving me” the second time we can see her reaching out for him instead of giving up or not even trying to reach out for mono’s knowing he will betray her, now when she is a monster she is not aggressive towards us UNTIL we destroy her toy, i mean she is showing us what makes her vulnerable and when he try something she doesn’t crush us just push us away, i think that later on she realizes that even those that care for her can hurt her intensively thats why she decided to let mono go, he is a variable that can and will hurt her according to her
This is probably why Togetherness plays during the falling building scene and not the latter scene
honestly these games gives me how this is a story of a girl who’s been burden by trauma bevane the toxic thing she didn’t want to become
the loss of innocence
I don't know if it was mentioned, but Little Nightmares 3 isn't actually being made by Tarsier Studios. Or at least the same devs who made the first game. It's being made by Supermassive Games from what I found, also known for making Until Dawn. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on how you see it, but the fact that the giant baby monster in the trailer is actually concept art from the previous games, at least shows they're making the effort to try and honour the series.
When the interest of the first 2 ones relies on the creative genius of a small studio, a studio change for the 3rd one usually isn't great news...
I'm waiting to see what that game will turn out to be, but I'm not really hyped, for that reason.
The whole of the first game reminds me of the circle of gluttony. It’s a hellish design full of excess.
Sad that mono does the leap of faith in two significant times with six. The first time when you've just met, then the last time after you've been through it all together and she's grown more callus and cold.
If you go to the scene with the hung man at 2:59 and compare it with the scene of mono becoming the Thin Man 1:38:25 you can see that the chair he sits on is the same one under the man hanging. The characters also have the same lower body design with a small gap between the pants and the shoes.
I think the case with the "MASKED LADY" is that she isnt really ugly but mainly she has been cursed that any reflections shows her REAL beauty and Age. A self reflection of her own action in a literal reflection.
"No more edging, he's going full bust"
Comedic gold
LIEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!
Little Nightmares is a series that i cant find the words to describe my love for. It gives me this warm feeling in my chest, the music, atmosphere, design, its all so beautiful. Even though no one says a word, Mono and Six have become such iconic characters in my eyes, especially Mono. The twist ending made me so sad and desperate for a way to save him and a third game. Im so happy and ecstatic that we ARE actually getting Little Nightmares 3.
During the hospital i was hoping you would show this video from tiktok i saw, where a players strategy was to just spin mono around while moving forward like a tornado XD.
i have a theory and a few ideas for the lore behind the world of little nightmares, the symbolism of eyes everywhere and that nasty flesh creature when the six gets freed. The eyes could be representing this Lovecraftian thing, consuming everything through the tv signal.
But now six after the maw also has this power to absorb things, which made me think, what if she goes back with this new power and tries to absorb the eyeball creature?? Maybe that was her goal all along?
I think that the flesh eye monster is the thing that turns people into nightmares, when mono gets betrayed the flesh closes in around him and then the tall man scene happens, I think that's why there is eyes everywhere throughout the entire game
8:20 On the other hand, her growth could very well be stunted due to malnutrition, as we know all of her goals are based around food.
This explanation of Six completely changed my perspective of her. I used to believe she was simply an inherently evil person, a callous protagonist, as if we were following in the steps of someone who has turned into a villain due to some inexplicable "darkness" inside of her.
However, after following your explanation, I've reached the interpretation that, rather than being a "bad" person, Six's cruelty is simply the result of endured trauma built up overtime during her time in the twisted world she finds herself in. Given that 2 is a prequel, you can somewhat witness her descent into becoming a more ruthless person after going through each obstacle in the story.
First, she's evidently either kidnapped by the Hunter, or hiding out in his home, unable to escape him by herself. And it seems that, from the tally marks on the wall, she's been there for a while. The music box her only source of comfort, paralleled in her boss fight. Then, as pointed out, throughout her journey with Mono, although his intentions are good and his heart is in the right place... He lets her down rather frequently. The bullies kidnapping her, although being made up for through Mono's journey to rescue her, definitely left a mark on her, and I feel like her brutal attack of the bully after we find her isn't some indication of her "inherent" violent tendencies, but rather a quick manifestation of the fear they induced in her rising to the surface - as in, her anger towards them being let out through her murdering one of them, as if taking back her power in a way. Then as they go on further into the messed up city, the other instance of her violence peeking through is her snapping the fingers of a mannequin's hand in the Hospital while we weren't in the room, which I find to possibly be a stress response on her part. And as mentioned, the time in which we jumped to save ourselves, then hiding from the Thin Man and allowing her to be taken... I feel like 2 is where we get to witness the trauma endured in this world weighing down on her, turning her into a much more cut-throat individual. As Mono was quite literally her only semblance of safety, having it be seemingly ripped away from her, even if only for brief moments until he came back for her, is indubitably traumatic. Him breaking her music box towards the end, her only comfort as she found herself disfigured and mutated, was something of a breaking point for her as well. I think she let go of him for the mere fact that she didn't trust him anymore, that she found him to be a liability in her mission to escape. I don't completely discredit the idea that maybe she just knew he would become the Thin Man, but I never found much basis for this theory, as I don't think she experienced the time loop. I think she simply found it inconvenient to keep him alongside her, and in her feelings of betrayal and abandonment, got back at him once the chance presented itself. So Six is a bad person, but it's only natural that she became one after enduring what she's gone through. It's not that her actions are justified, but they are certainly expected from living in an environment such as this one.
And what's even more interesting is that, whereas Six succeeds and thrives through her merciless methods, Mono, an empathetic character who goes out of his way to backtrack and save her, even if he doesn't always do a great job at showing it, ends up abandoned and trapped in the city, not having made it out like she did. As if in this world, empathy is disencouraged, dangerous even, which reminds me of the first game, where the two instances of someone offering food to Six rendered them in a much more vulnerable position (i.e the child at the cafeteria who gave her bread and remained hungry, and Runaway Kid who gave her the sausage and ended up being eaten.) It ties back to your idea that the game can be a representation of capitalism. When you step on others to get your way, you get far. When you go back and try to help others, you're punished by the system. You don't win by being kind. There's no room for that in this world.
A TotallyPointlessTV video for an early Christmas present is amazing
Some of the children were also her size, I think it has to do with the amount of food they're given
When six moves towards the lady to feed, the lady actually turns her head to expose her kneck.
I think the lady knew six was coming, attempted to resist but eventually gave in. She isnt her daughter but was brought here to become the new lady by forces unseen and unknown.
Her name erased by the number of her sucsession, six...
1:20:20 I mean, when I played it I found the "lighthouse" strategy to be effective and simple on my first attempt.
This game was soo creepy it's just makes u feel soo unease and even uncertain at times it also was one of the best games for me
I did not expect to be so emotionally invested in these stories. They're just beautiful and haunting.
Real
This game was SUCH an atmospheric experience.
To my knowledge, Tarsier isn’t developing the third game. The third game is being developed by Supermassive Games.
That fuse was like: "Nah I'ma do my own thing."
To add to Six being shaped by the world around her - there's actually a mobile game, Very Little Nightmares, where you play as the original owner of the yellow raincoat. The girl in the raincoat helps Six, who seemingly helps her fend off the antagonist in return - only for the villain to not be dead, and to die in a mutual kill with the protagonist. Having tried to help another and failed, it makes sense that Six stops trying to save anyone but herself.
In addition, when commenting on Six dropping Mono, the official twitter account said "Extracting someone from a fantasy can be deeply upsetting for everyone involved". She was happy and safe with her music box as a monster, but Mono took it upon himself to "save" her, taking that escapism away from her. Her decision to drop him could have easily been out of spite - he took away her comfort in the world because he didn't want to be alone.
just the artstyle and animations alone is insanely amazing and the fact no one ever talks makes it so much better tho the game can be quite clunky and far from perfect it still will forever have a big place in my heart.
my theory of the lady is that what we see in the mirror is what she actually looks like but har magic keeps her young so when she looks in a mirror she sees her true self kinda like the story of the immortal man with a painting that ages instead of him as long as he doesn't look at it he will never age. (forget the name)
to me it feels the wall of flesh is a greater entity if not meant to be symbolic seems the main villain as it seems to control the thin man in some way or use him rather as the signal as the sequal seems very eldrich in nature.
Man can't wait to get my hands on the 3rd game and I really do hope it turns out good as a new Company is taking over aswell as with coop i doubt we will get much answers on the world as a whole but hey we can always hope.
The guy is Dorian Grey.
@@9GodslayerGood on you! The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of Oscar Wilde's greatest works, in my opinion.
The masked ladies hum is forever stuck in my head since playing for the first time and now I constantly hum along with her
YES! i never thought you'd cover this series. I love the themes of hunger in the first game, and the second game being centered around identity and control.
I am cautiously optimistic about the third game, as the original devs aren't working on the series anymore. They got bought by another company and Bandi-Namco couldn't strike a deal to get them back. Good luck to the new team though
Little Nightmares 2 was the first horror game that I played through completely, nor have seen any previous gameplay online, and I absolutely loved it. Wish I could go into more games blind.
Little nightmares 2's Hospital level is the scariest level I've ever played. i will never forget those mannequins
Little Nightmares 2 ends with a paradox where six leaving the thin man behind inevitable creates the thin man anyway.
Calling it now the third game will end with both protagonists escaping on a ship; the same ship that you here at the end of the first game.
Oh I just noticed something. When running from the school boys if u fail the classroom segment. Mono runs like he's in zero gravity just like some nightmares do
"the child wants to scape and the adult wants to keep the child trapped forever, how people could see thie as a mother-daughter relationship, I just don't know" oh boy let me tell you about MY MOM
The first chase with Janitor when he's sending the children down to the kitchen is always scary, because once he hears you, he won't stop looking for you, and aside from the occasional rats, he's supposed to be the only one in there.
So if something or someone makes the floorboards creak, he knows something isn't right and a child as escaped.
I adore every LN game so far, even the mobile game. Cool concepts and great executions!
Oh, and the TV jingle in the second game is such a bop
Regarding the third game, Tarsier has no involvement, unfortunately. After the second game, they decided to move on to other projects, feeling they’d told the story they wanted to with the first two games. Bandai Namco, on the other hand, still has the rights to the IP, so have handed over developing privileges to another studio. I’m cautiously optimistic that it could still be a good sequel. That being said, it will be a truly momentous task to not only recreate, but add to the mythology of the twisted, unique world Tarsier created.
One of my favorite things about Little Nightmares is the way the monsters of this world have very normal/innocent sounding names/labels.
You wouldn't think the "chef(s), teacher, doctor, janitor, bullies, lady" would sound outlandish or scary. It's just so simple but very ominous in this type of atmosphere.
That ending with Mono pissed me off so. SO much. He saved her 3 times. THREE FUCKING TIMES, AGAINST IMPOSSIBLE ODDS. And the one time he falters OUT OF DESPERATION she judges him for until his literal end, even though seconds earlier was one of the three times he saved her.
Edit: Two times, both out of desperation. I have no doubts Six would have done identical shit. It's easy to judge when you literally don't have a chance to see from the other side. Its pretty clear he thought helping was just a path to get them both killed instead of just Six rather than choosing to sacrifice her.
I know Six isn't a "good" character, but just damn. Heartless shit.
The theory about Six being the woman's daughter reminds of a similar theory for Portal 2. It's fairly popular but the idea is that Caroline, a woman whose mind was incorporated into Glados, is actually Chell's mother. The theory has a lot of evidence and just instinctively feels right, but I ultimately think that the story is more interesting if Chell and Glados are unrelated. It also feels like a red herring.
But god, I hate it when creators get so snide about different interpretations of their work. (And when they make fun of fans for trying to interpret their work at all.) I also fully believe that an artist can be wrong about the meaning of their work. I'd recommend checking out what Ray Bradbury has to say about the meaning of Fahrenheit 451.
The amount of times I rage quitted on the hospital part when trying to escape the mannequins! Eventually learned to just spin around really really fast and move at the same time 😅worked a treat
Honestly, Mono never intentionally let Six down, in 2 of those situations, he really can't do anything to save her not because he didn't want to, but because he *can't* The first time he "abandoned" her when the building collapsed, Mono probably didnt even notice Six stumbling and falling behind him, and the second one with the Thin Man, it's actually heavily hinted that the Thin Man caused some serious headache to Mono, which is why he was clutching his head, not only was he scared, he was in pain, even if that's not the case, what was he supposed to do anyway? Mono saved Six way more times than him "abandoning" Six unintentionally. He went out of his way to save and free Six from the Hunter, he went through a whole school full of psychotic porcelain children and a disturbing teacher just to save her, he went throught half the city, possibly got his ribcage broken, defeated a powerful monster, solved some trippy puzzles inside the Tower, just to save her.
Not saying it's wrong for Six to feel betrayed by those moments, she's just a kid after all and kids misunderstand stuff most of the time. Six betraying Mono is understandable especially for a terrified 9 year old kid in an unforgiving world, but definitely NOT justifiable, she's still an asshole for doing that lol, she had an intent to, not just abandon, but to *kill* this boy that helped her countless times.
I love you, dude. In a healthy, non-parasocial way lol. You’re my favorite creator tbh and it was a joy to see this upload for Christmas. Another one to add to the sleep playlist for regular rewatching.
I have been avoiding Gamer Supps because I’m afraid it’ll make my heart explode and my liver fail, but for you, I might just go for it.
Mono being in time loop maybe has to do with regret rather than a literal time loop. Living in regrets not saving Six to stop himself from becoming like what he is, always looping maybe in one of those fantasies his past self would actually save Six instead of being a coward. Living in regret and never accepted the truth made who he is... Thin Man. Though I don't know what his power suppose to mean.
I don't know how that i just realized this now but,six's companions both from the first and the second game (the first one is in the dlc and not literally as her companion but as a side character) they both ended up in kinda same fate except the first one is kinda... Better than how mono have to sit/wait for eternity and basically stuck in a loop
Thank you for your take on the "Six is the Lady's daughter" theory. My eyebrows went waaayyyy up when I saw the designer's comment about "how could anyone interpret this antagonistic relationship as indicative of a mother and daughter???" It's so self-evidently out-of-touch that it almost reads like a parody of itself. Like, obviously he had a good mother, and that's great, I'm genuinely glad for him, but to act like even the *possibility* of an abusive mother is preposterous is just... a weird take? The mother-daughter relationship (mother-child in general, of course, I just feel like the way nurturing, caring qualities are stereotyped as "feminine" adds an extra layer of pressure to the responsibility felt between mothers and daughters, specifically) is built up as something almost sacred in popular culture, and for the many of us who *don't* have positive relationships with our mothers, that can be an extremely alienating and isolating thing. Like, thinking back on all the Mother's Days where you see all of the cards and flowers and commercials build up the concept of Mom™ as a sainted figure, and feeling resentful and strange because that's not how your mother feels, but then again, if everyone *else* is saying their mothers are Good, maybe yours is too, and you're just a Bad Child?
I actually love the "Six is the Lady's daughter" theory even *more* for the implications of parallels between real-world abusive parent relationships. The way Six violently defeats the Lady, absorbs her power, and becomes a nightmarish entity in her own right is really powerful imagery that makes me think of cycles of abuse. When your parent hurts you, it can be comforting in a dark way to imagine repaying them with all that hurt, but then you have to ask yourself, by feeding that hatred, are you just hurting yourself, too? Can you really say you're free if you're now bound by those same hateful, hurtful feelings that drove your parent's actions? It's not a clean, pretty question, and there's no clean, pretty answer, which makes it work so well for a game as grimy and visceral as Little Nightmares.
I don't mean to be harsh on the designer. It was a weird response to a fan theory, and my deeply personal feelings about the theory are definitely coloring my reaction to it, but obviously the game is still a beautifully grim creation that's ripe for discussion.
Anyway, great video!
Yknow... I'm not sure if I really like the way these games end. But I've never really been too enthused with these types of endings where they're both (seemingly) loops AND bad endings at the same time. Its boring.
I know that's probably simplifying it too much, but eh. I hope they do SOMETHING that gives EVERYONE a definitive end.
Even though im very late, i wanted to point out that if you get caught by the thin man, he doesnt hurt/kill you, unlike other deaths, he just stares which proves your point of thin man trying to save his younger self!
Calling the teacher a "Throat GOAT" is just fucking hilarious,
I've always seen Six and the children as a different "species" than the adults we see. The vessel is just IMPOSSIBLY big, even to an adult. Even the beds the children sleep in seem to be too big for them--as if maybe the beds are recycled from children of the Big Ones.
But it could also all be a metaphor.
I interpret the mirror thing differently, not a continuity error but a deliberate decision. Body dysmorphia is a very strange thing to experience, it really warps your perception of yourself, I think the lady can look at her reflection but only when she can control the situation, hence why all the mirrors are cracked, if she can distort her reflection then she isn’t truly seeing it, and so when she’s looking at herself in the full length mirror, it’s an intentionally private moment, in darkness, where she assumes she is alone, and therefore can take a moment to face her reflection and dwell at her own appearance, she looks at herself with a mournful gaze, as if she is sad that her beauty is long gone, and whether it is truly gone and she has aged, or it’s something she’s seeing, a dysmorphia that contorts her perception of herself so that all she sees is what she believes as ugly. So when Six uses the mirror to fight her off, my interpretation is that it’s the lack of control, being made to view her reflection unwarrantedly, not being able to pose herself in a way that makes her feel is more flattering, not being able to control the angle, the expression on her face, and therefore, the image she sees, an image already misshapen and distorted by her dysmorphia, being all the more worse to look at as that tiny ounce of control she has over her appearance is being taken away, and used against her, her ultimate weakness becoming her end.
Cant believe he didnt even mention the widely passed around theory that the person hanging at the beginning of part 1, is actually Mono/The Thin Man from part 2. Their evidence of this is that the person has unnaturally long and thin limbs, like the Thin Man, and the chair underneath him. Is the exact same chair that Mono sits on at the bottom of the tower of part 2.
There’s something so soothing about this narration style, it’s just comfy (even when the topic certainly is not 😂)
I like that the hunter from the start of little nightmares 2, has a single barrel shotgun, he has likely killed hundreds, though he can reload quite fast, so maybe he doesn’t need a mossberg, or a spas 12.
Probably one of my favorite video game series of all time right up there with silent hill. It’s one of the few games I have fully completed with how much I’ve played it. Your videos have been great to watch for this very reason and I look forward to more great retrospectives!
I find it really cool how the entirety of Little Nightmares II is a loop. Mono becomes the Thin Man (?) because Six drops him and he lives in isolation in the TV realm and developed warped powers/strengthened it, Six drops Mono because she recognises Mono as the Thin Man ( who captured her ) and drops him not realising it reset the loop.
Once Mono becomes the Thin Man, he uses the TV realm to "go back in time" to capture Six, to ensure that the events of Little Nightmares II happens and he basically causes himself to turn into the Thin Man. The TV realm probably warps time in a weird way to let the Thin Man interact with his past self.
Not sure how Thin Man knew about Six's weaknesses/vulnerabilities (?), maybe it's part of how the loop works, Mono realises Six's weakness when fighting her larger/monster form, and Thin Man uses that to contain her in the TV realm in the future. (?)
TLDR: Mono and Six are both victims to the Thin Man ( future Mono ) , and Thin Man forces the loop to reset ( ensuring his own existence ) by controlling what happens to Six and Mono.