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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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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
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.
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
@@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
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.
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 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.
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...
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
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
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’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?!
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 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.
@@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.
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.
"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.
@@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.)
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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
@@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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
"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
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!
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.
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.
The comics say that mirrors are evil and the long-arm is a kid who surrendered to the mirror. The mirror 6 found shows the face without morphing. The lady had to see her face but truth hitting a lost person hits harder than a sledgehammer.
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.
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.
Gnomophobia. I have actually known someone who was afraid of garden gnomes, or at least carried a deep vitriol for them. He was my uncle. Thank you for reminding me of this funny memory I have of my uncle. I'm glad he can keep making us laugh even now he's gone.
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.
The ocean of shoes at the 17 minute mark is depicting the gruesome horrors of auschwitz. There are rooms filled with shoes for visitors today to see. Even just looking at this now, takes me back to when I was there to visit a school field trip. Exactly why it's featured in the game, I'm unsure of. Perhaps it's to show just how many children are slaughtered and eaten? Either way, it gives me shivers.
So much of the second game in particular reminds me of an old game called Ico that had a beautiful little pairing system with your companion where you could help each other through obstacles and around the areas, solving puzzles just like this game. I feel like the second game just oozes the same sort of vibe: beautiful, eerie, childlike essence yet facing such horrible fears and situations. 6 and Mono were all each other had, just like Iko and Yorda
Your video just pointed out how artistically rich LITTLE NIGHTMARES is. So much so its myriad of symbolism is beyond the creator's artistic intent. All your theories are valid, but more importantly, fun.
I know what he said... But the theories are so very good. They're not just schlock that people make up for the sake of it, these theories feel interwoven with the world.
29:50 This scene was 100% inspired by kidnapping in female emperor penguins. Essentially, bereaved female penguins who’ve lost their chicks while away have a chemical in their brain that doesn’t get satisfied, because of this, they will attempt to steal another mother’s chick. The reason I say it’s inspired is because if you’ve ever seen a video of this, you can see it’s nearly identical, as most kidnappings snowball into giant hordes chasing the chick, often (unfortunately) trampling them. If you watch a video on a penguin kidnapping and then watch this scene, you can see the similarities
can i just mention the fact that your voice is soooooooo perfect, not too slow, not too fast, perfect enunciation. it makes it so much easier to just listen to a 1hr+ analysis without me feeling bored or needing to take a break
Your explanation on the creator's response to fans' theories was very well put Creators always have the final say in what their works should mean, but why make such an open narrative and shut down the discussion? The way they put it was so oddly dismissive
@@koolaidman4869 i respectfully and wholeheartedly disagree. Using similar logic, just because you made something doesn't mean people get to put words in your mouth. This is less about absolute truth and more about respecting autonomy. Your example is a bit extreme, heres something a bit more plausable: Someone makes something that LOOKS like a chair, but is actually a table, as somekind of absurdist furniture. They sell it while explicitly saying "this is not a chair, please do not try to sit on it". If someone buys it thinking "the designer is being silly, this looks like a chair so it's obviously a chair. I'm going to use it as chair." The buyer then sits on and gets injured, because the "chair" wasn't designed to handle human weight. People usually mean something when they say things. Despite what you may think, people thay say tables are bicycles aren't exactly running around doing business, and it's absurd to treat everyone else as if they are.
yeah, i appreciate the work theyve done with the narrative, its really well made. but i dont really understand or particularly like their responses to peoples theories. some of them are a bit out there, yes, but like. if you dont want people to theorize, then whyd you make it so easy to? if you think its so silly, then whyd you make it so easy to misinterpret? like, i never really believed the whole "six is the ladys daughter, and this painting of a girl in a yellow rain coat in the ladys quarters is evidence", because that girl just doesnt look like six (different features, longer hair) and you see that same girl AND six in two different places at roughly the same time in the dlc so they couldnt possibly be the same girl, but i was never really _against_ it because i still think its an interesting idea, even though i never thought it was true. thats why people theorize in the first place, its fun. so it just doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me for them to shut it down like that.
@@Kei-ye8ifHella late, but I need to get this off my chest. Definitely feel like that example falls flat since it’s likely the creator will get sued because of injuries, in which case, the following questions are likely to be asked; “Why did you make it look like a chair?” “Why make it so weirdly designed with a bare function?” “Did you think your warning was enough?” Sure, these questions come back to the whole “It’s the creator’s final say” point, but that doesn’t make you or your product immune to criticism, whether it’s constructive or not, nor whether it’s the court or an ordinary Joe asking. It’s the same way that just because the developer made the game doesn’t mean they get to rudely eliminate all possible theories. Hell, something we’re all missing is that the theory wasn’t even that crazy. At the time the evidence was mostly clear as day with very little going against it. So again, to brutally shut down the theory in such a manner, is as crazy as the theory sounded to the developer. But hey, I’m just a man with some opinions at the end of the day. If you do end up reading this, I’m sorry for talking about something that (at the time) was 7 months ago, and I’m sorry if it’s too long.
While I can agree that Six may have let him go as revenge for not helping her, I think it's much simpler than that. She saw his face. The paper bag had slipped off, and she recognized him as the Tall Man, and so she dropped him.
I had the theory that the shades we see in little nightmares 2 are acutally the souls of children and what happened to six was that her body was seperated from her soul this is what caused her to develop her insatiable hunger almost like a metaphor six has become empty being seperated from her soul and thus her body manifested a never ending hunger to try and fill what had been lost.
They'd never be top tier horror monsters, but, I could see making gnomes scary. Imagine, knowing the gnomes in this setting in question are hostile and sinister/malicious, hearing them scurry just out of sight, taking turns to scamper audibly behind where youre looking at any given point, knowing each is holding a human's olde timey folding razor, ready for an unguarded moment to sprint past and slash at your ankles.
when the first game came out I thought the ending was a reflection on the proverb "the child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" but with the second game I might lean more into how the circle of violence reinforces itself, either way it comes with some mindless consumerism on the side
Six ate the gnome not just because her hunger was too great, but also because she’s seen what the sausage was made out of and didn’t want to eat it. She saw the meat being prepped and made three herself.
My theory is that the lady _is_ six. With Little Nightmares Two having a time loop, it's possible for Little Nightmares to have one too. That would also explain the pictures. The picture in the ladies quarters of a girl that looks like six could be six, and the picture of her with four others that look like her could be her and/or her relatives. Also, it would make sense because she has the powers six gets after she dies, so it would be possible for her to have gotten it through the time loop. And, my theory on why six dropped mono, is because she was hungry. Shadow six only shows up when shes hungry, and seeing shadow six after she dropped mono would imply that. And before you say she couldn't be hungry because her stomach wasn't growling and she wasn't reveling in pain, the background noise would make it hard to hear and it is most likely amplified in the original game since your playing as six and it adds effect. And when she was holding onto mono she was alread hunched over, so it wouldn't really be noticeable if she was reeling in hunger. And six wouldn't be in pain or have her stomach growling when she was with shadow six because she usually only has small periods of time shes doing that when shes hungry. And she would've dropped mono because she didn't want to eat him, because for all we know shes had to deal with her hunger all her life so would know what it does to her.
The name "Mono" is directly taken from the "monophobia", which is the fear of being alone or isolated with one's self. As well, in a twisted sense of irony, the reason Mono wears a paper bag over his head is because he's afraid of others seeing what his face looks like. So, for Mono to end up alone in the Signal Tower with eyes staring at his face at the conclusion of Little Nightmares II is just... heartbreaking. I'm actually rather surprised TPT didn't include this in his video.
I personally believe six's shadow self purposely sent her to the maw to punish her for dropping mono as well as forcing her to experience worse and worse hunger as they are only seen when six is hungry
Six is absolutely evil, from how I see it. It seemed that way in the first game when she went for the significantly smaller gnome instead of the sausage link, but that can at least be argued as her not realizing what she's doing in the moment. But the ending of the second game, where she actively and knowingly chooses to let go of the person who went out of their way to save her, even if in her mind, he 'let her' get caught, makes her AT BEST a vindictive, petty, piece of shit. Especially given that Mono seems to have not realized that she was trapped, it wasn't as if he looked back, saw she fell, and just jumped anyway instead of helping her. The same goes for him hiding instead of helping her, the tall man was looking right at her, so what good would he have done in getting caught by him as well? Fingers crossed for a Little Nightmares 3 where Six gets what she deserves.
Only at 3:28, so idk if you say anything about this, but in little nightmares 2, its revealed its a prequel. In the secret ending, six absorbs monos ability to go through TV's, but it also made her lose her feelings or smt like that. Also, its why six is always hungry.
Well being able to save yourself is indication of strenght of some kind however the ability of saving the others with you as well represents even greater amount of resilience and durability within ourselves
The first LN is definitely the best one of the series. Perfectly paced, logical placements of bosses, boss types match the environment and story, and consistent storytelling.
I'd like too see a manhunt 2 video, ive recently got the first game through backwards compatibility on series x, but the sequel isnt backwards compatible and ive not played manhunt games, ive seen videos on the games including totals manhunt 1 video, but i cant see why theres not a manhunt 2 video, its so entertaining to watch these videos because instead of saying 1 thing about certain things, we get proper details about multiple things in the same areas or parts of the game, what items are used for, what type of enemies are or what personality they have, the subtle changes in gameplay or little details we may not pay attention to or notice without someone pointing out Please do a manhunt 2 video
I kind of saw it as six being a different version of herself after we save her. Like thats not the exact same six as the one we were with most of the game. She wasn't hungry the entire time we were playing as mono, but as soon as she turns back to normal her stomach growls just a few moments later? If she can turn into a giant monster like that, who's to say she isn't a different six who just looks like the original? Maybe the shadow six we see throughout the game is the real one thats still stuck in that TV world?
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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.
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
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.
"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?
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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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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 )
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
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@@boxofspoons8867 pun intended?
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
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.
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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?!
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 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.
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.
"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.
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.
5:03 : “Six isn’t incapable of showing emotion, she’s just selective about it”
Also Six : *chucks Nome*
Love that Mono's story ends on a monotone
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...
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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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yeah because indie horror has been just so absolutely fantastic in the last few years (oh wait)
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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.
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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 SUCH an atmospheric experience.
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
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
That fuse was like: "Nah I'ma do my own thing."
The masked ladies hum is forever stuck in my head since playing for the first time and now I constantly hum along with her
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
To my knowledge, Tarsier isn’t developing the third game. The third game is being developed by Supermassive Games.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
"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
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!
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.
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.
Calling the teacher a "Throat GOAT" is just fucking hilarious,
I loved both games the atmosphere and design is really cool. It’s one of the only games where I turned my music off while playing
The comics say that mirrors are evil and the long-arm is a kid who surrendered to the mirror. The mirror 6 found shows the face without morphing. The lady had to see her face but truth hitting a lost person hits harder than a sledgehammer.
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.
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.
Gnomophobia. I have actually known someone who was afraid of garden gnomes, or at least carried a deep vitriol for them. He was my uncle. Thank you for reminding me of this funny memory I have of my uncle. I'm glad he can keep making us laugh even now he's gone.
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.
Just doing my job for the manhunt 2 video !!
The ocean of shoes at the 17 minute mark is depicting the gruesome horrors of auschwitz. There are rooms filled with shoes for visitors today to see. Even just looking at this now, takes me back to when I was there to visit a school field trip.
Exactly why it's featured in the game, I'm unsure of. Perhaps it's to show just how many children are slaughtered and eaten? Either way, it gives me shivers.
So much of the second game in particular reminds me of an old game called Ico that had a beautiful little pairing system with your companion where you could help each other through obstacles and around the areas, solving puzzles just like this game. I feel like the second game just oozes the same sort of vibe: beautiful, eerie, childlike essence yet facing such horrible fears and situations. 6 and Mono were all each other had, just like Iko and Yorda
1:27:23 well yes that also the signal tower adds bodies to it's ever growing mass, but that flesh in the scene specifically is the Signal tower itself
Your video just pointed out how artistically rich LITTLE NIGHTMARES is. So much so its myriad of symbolism is beyond the creator's artistic intent. All your theories are valid, but more importantly, fun.
10:15 My bro just called the blind guy "highly vigilant"
I also appreciate "No Longer Human" by Junji Ito on the shelf. Good book.
I know what he said... But the theories are so very good. They're not just schlock that people make up for the sake of it, these theories feel interwoven with the world.
29:50 This scene was 100% inspired by kidnapping in female emperor penguins. Essentially, bereaved female penguins who’ve lost their chicks while away have a chemical in their brain that doesn’t get satisfied, because of this, they will attempt to steal another mother’s chick. The reason I say it’s inspired is because if you’ve ever seen a video of this, you can see it’s nearly identical, as most kidnappings snowball into giant hordes chasing the chick, often (unfortunately) trampling them. If you watch a video on a penguin kidnapping and then watch this scene, you can see the similarities
27:49 I guess you could say... Little Nightmares two main themes are:
*Fear & Hunger.* (Out now on Steam!)
can i just mention the fact that your voice is soooooooo perfect, not too slow, not too fast, perfect enunciation. it makes it so much easier to just listen to a 1hr+ analysis without me feeling bored or needing to take a break
Your explanation on the creator's response to fans' theories was very well put
Creators always have the final say in what their works should mean, but why make such an open narrative and shut down the discussion? The way they put it was so oddly dismissive
IMO just because you made something doesn't mean your interpretation is correct. If I built a table and called it a bicycle would I be right?
@@koolaidman4869 i respectfully and wholeheartedly disagree.
Using similar logic, just because you made something doesn't mean people get to put words in your mouth.
This is less about absolute truth and more about respecting autonomy. Your example is a bit extreme, heres something a bit more plausable:
Someone makes something that LOOKS like a chair, but is actually a table, as somekind of absurdist furniture. They sell it while explicitly saying "this is not a chair, please do not try to sit on it". If someone buys it thinking "the designer is being silly, this looks like a chair so it's obviously a chair. I'm going to use it as chair." The buyer then sits on and gets injured, because the "chair" wasn't designed to handle human weight.
People usually mean something when they say things. Despite what you may think, people thay say tables are bicycles aren't exactly running around doing business, and it's absurd to treat everyone else as if they are.
yeah, i appreciate the work theyve done with the narrative, its really well made. but i dont really understand or particularly like their responses to peoples theories. some of them are a bit out there, yes, but like. if you dont want people to theorize, then whyd you make it so easy to? if you think its so silly, then whyd you make it so easy to misinterpret? like, i never really believed the whole "six is the ladys daughter, and this painting of a girl in a yellow rain coat in the ladys quarters is evidence", because that girl just doesnt look like six (different features, longer hair) and you see that same girl AND six in two different places at roughly the same time in the dlc so they couldnt possibly be the same girl, but i was never really _against_ it because i still think its an interesting idea, even though i never thought it was true. thats why people theorize in the first place, its fun. so it just doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me for them to shut it down like that.
@@Kei-ye8ifHella late, but I need to get this off my chest.
Definitely feel like that example falls flat since it’s likely the creator will get sued because of injuries, in which case, the following questions are likely to be asked;
“Why did you make it look like a chair?”
“Why make it so weirdly designed with a bare function?”
“Did you think your warning was enough?”
Sure, these questions come back to the whole “It’s the creator’s final say” point, but that doesn’t make you or your product immune to criticism, whether it’s constructive or not, nor whether it’s the court or an ordinary Joe asking.
It’s the same way that just because the developer made the game doesn’t mean they get to rudely eliminate all possible theories.
Hell, something we’re all missing is that the theory wasn’t even that crazy. At the time the evidence was mostly clear as day with very little going against it. So again, to brutally shut down the theory in such a manner, is as crazy as the theory sounded to the developer.
But hey, I’m just a man with some opinions at the end of the day. If you do end up reading this, I’m sorry for talking about something that (at the time) was 7 months ago, and I’m sorry if it’s too long.
"Heart-retching" is a solid term for a type of fear induced...this channel teaches me new things every day
While I can agree that Six may have let him go as revenge for not helping her, I think it's much simpler than that.
She saw his face. The paper bag had slipped off, and she recognized him as the Tall Man, and so she dropped him.
I had the theory that the shades we see in little nightmares 2 are acutally the souls of children and what happened to six was that her body was seperated from her soul this is what caused her to develop her insatiable hunger almost like a metaphor six has become empty being seperated from her soul and thus her body manifested a never ending hunger to try and fill what had been lost.
A video on Outlast would absolutely fuck
They'd never be top tier horror monsters, but, I could see making gnomes scary. Imagine, knowing the gnomes in this setting in question are hostile and sinister/malicious, hearing them scurry just out of sight, taking turns to scamper audibly behind where youre looking at any given point, knowing each is holding a human's olde timey folding razor, ready for an unguarded moment to sprint past and slash at your ankles.
when the first game came out I thought the ending was a reflection on the proverb "the child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" but with the second game I might lean more into how the circle of violence reinforces itself, either way it comes with some mindless consumerism on the side
Six ate the gnome not just because her hunger was too great, but also because she’s seen what the sausage was made out of and didn’t want to eat it. She saw the meat being prepped and made three herself.
My theory is that the lady _is_ six. With Little Nightmares Two having a time loop, it's possible for Little Nightmares to have one too. That would also explain the pictures. The picture in the ladies quarters of a girl that looks like six could be six, and the picture of her with four others that look like her could be her and/or her relatives. Also, it would make sense because she has the powers six gets after she dies, so it would be possible for her to have gotten it through the time loop. And, my theory on why six dropped mono, is because she was hungry. Shadow six only shows up when shes hungry, and seeing shadow six after she dropped mono would imply that. And before you say she couldn't be hungry because her stomach wasn't growling and she wasn't reveling in pain, the background noise would make it hard to hear and it is most likely amplified in the original game since your playing as six and it adds effect. And when she was holding onto mono she was alread hunched over, so it wouldn't really be noticeable if she was reeling in hunger. And six wouldn't be in pain or have her stomach growling when she was with shadow six because she usually only has small periods of time shes doing that when shes hungry. And she would've dropped mono because she didn't want to eat him, because for all we know shes had to deal with her hunger all her life so would know what it does to her.
48:50 Wow this is the first time I’ve notice that the nomes have human shadows…
The name "Mono" is directly taken from the "monophobia", which is the fear of being alone or isolated with one's self. As well, in a twisted sense of irony, the reason Mono wears a paper bag over his head is because he's afraid of others seeing what his face looks like. So, for Mono to end up alone in the Signal Tower with eyes staring at his face at the conclusion of Little Nightmares II is just... heartbreaking.
I'm actually rather surprised TPT didn't include this in his video.
9 seconds in and this is already the best video I've ever seen, take my life savings
I personally believe six's shadow self purposely sent her to the maw to punish her for dropping mono as well as forcing her to experience worse and worse hunger as they are only seen when six is hungry
Thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos. I enjoy and love each and everyone of you videos and hope I can be as inspiring as you!
Also, a nice detail is that in the furnace room, you can see the gnomes have shadows of children, foreshadowing Runaway Kids' fate.
Did anyone else see that when he shined the light at the gnomes they had child like shadows, this is a possible foreshadow to how they are children
20:30 "it's like looking in a f*cking mirror" ow!
Six is absolutely evil, from how I see it. It seemed that way in the first game when she went for the significantly smaller gnome instead of the sausage link, but that can at least be argued as her not realizing what she's doing in the moment. But the ending of the second game, where she actively and knowingly chooses to let go of the person who went out of their way to save her, even if in her mind, he 'let her' get caught, makes her AT BEST a vindictive, petty, piece of shit. Especially given that Mono seems to have not realized that she was trapped, it wasn't as if he looked back, saw she fell, and just jumped anyway instead of helping her. The same goes for him hiding instead of helping her, the tall man was looking right at her, so what good would he have done in getting caught by him as well? Fingers crossed for a Little Nightmares 3 where Six gets what she deserves.
Only at 3:28, so idk if you say anything about this, but in little nightmares 2, its revealed its a prequel. In the secret ending, six absorbs monos ability to go through TV's, but it also made her lose her feelings or smt like that. Also, its why six is always hungry.
Well being able to save yourself is indication of strenght of some kind however the ability of saving the others with you as well represents even greater amount of resilience and durability within ourselves
The first LN is definitely the best one of the series. Perfectly paced, logical placements of bosses, boss types match the environment and story, and consistent storytelling.
The city of lost children is a masterpeace !
I'd like too see a manhunt 2 video, ive recently got the first game through backwards compatibility on series x, but the sequel isnt backwards compatible and ive not played manhunt games, ive seen videos on the games including totals manhunt 1 video, but i cant see why theres not a manhunt 2 video, its so entertaining to watch these videos because instead of saying 1 thing about certain things, we get proper details about multiple things in the same areas or parts of the game, what items are used for, what type of enemies are or what personality they have, the subtle changes in gameplay or little details we may not pay attention to or notice without someone pointing out
Please do a manhunt 2 video
Is it just me or does six's raincoat sometimes look like a gnome?
That foreshadowing
the fact that the thin man gave six her music box and toys breaks my heart he still doesn't want to hurt her just want to stop the loop
OH RIGHT! If you shine your flashlight at any gnome, you can see the Childs shadow as if they were not gnomified
I kind of saw it as six being a different version of herself after we save her. Like thats not the exact same six as the one we were with most of the game. She wasn't hungry the entire time we were playing as mono, but as soon as she turns back to normal her stomach growls just a few moments later? If she can turn into a giant monster like that, who's to say she isn't a different six who just looks like the original? Maybe the shadow six we see throughout the game is the real one thats still stuck in that TV world?