#oh and as long as they either dont bring back the flashlight or change its controls im mostly fine w the puzzles and whatnot

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-blows dust off this blog-

So

Little Nightmares III, huh???

I was trying to avoid being excited about it because no solid release date and 2024 could be a few months from now or a year from now and Idk how long I can handle being so fuckin hyped for this game YEEHAW

BUT I CAN'T, I KEEP THINKING ABT THE GAME AAHAHHGAGA

so here are my thoughts, if you wanted to know

FIRST OF ALL, i am so glad that after we saw LTNM II we thought it'd be co-op but it was just an AI, that we finally get co-op! AND ONLINE TOO, i spent the first day worried it'd be shared screen same room situation since i wasn't trying to get my hopes up but then I realised I can just.. google it.. AND IT IS!!! ONLINE!! IDK WHO I AM GONNA PLAY IT W FIRST AAAAAAAA

anyways, you can definitely tell it's a new studio working on this game, the world feels mostly the same but the character designs themselves are definitely stylistically similar, but not the same. With Six especially, the MC designs were very simplistic and realistic but used colour (or for Mono, a single design quirk being the bag) to stand out against their backgrounds and against the enemies which are largely neutral colours. But these new ones feel... "over designed"? On their own they definitely aren't, but in comparison to Mono, Six, Seven, and even NPCs like the flashlight girl, they have a lot more going on (especially the little wrench kid, Idk which one is Alone and which one is Low yet btw OOP)

Despite it being a new studio and you can tell, new puzzles and environments, they're still doing their best to have the OGs vibes and whatnot to feel familiar, namely in the trailer they bring back the fuses, and the additional gameplay video there's a short scene with an environment with all the shelves you can find in LTNM 1s gnome section (the one with the cart that is affected by the Maws swaying).

But regardless, it still feels different enough my brain is still nervous about it. I also feel In A Way about Tarsier having LTNM II explode and their franchise getting the attention it deserves, only to have it stuck with Bandai and now it's going to likely explode again and they aren't involved. Idk how anyone on that team feels about it, but if it were me omg.

Also the only boss we've seen so far (i hope they add more and i def want some to be a surprise so im not gonna assume this is the only one for now) feels... out of place? it has the design qualities of a LTNM boss, but the size of it makes it more of a spectacle than a warped/corruption of an adult. All the previous bosses fit in their environment, we are the small ones and they are scaled to the world around them. This is the first time, outside monster Six who imo is a bit of an outlier anyways due to her circumstances, we're getting a boss who is this huge and doesn't even fit their own environment. I hope we get a lore reason for this in some way, because currently the boss doesn't have the same vibe as the others and it's throwing me off a bit. Don't get me wrong, it'll be terrifying, but looking at the picture as a whole they are sort of out of place for me rn. I don't hate the bitch either, I'm not gonna be like omg get rid of it or change it, but it does strike me as odd seeing it for now.

And yes the tall man is too tall for a lot of things, but he's not THAT big. He's more like yer tall guy who hits his head off doorways, which happens irl anyways LMAO

Little Nightmares primarily tries to capture the feeling of being a small child and how everything is big and scary, but a doll that huge is out of the realm of reality set up for us already. It's gone from scary corrupted animal to godzilla, if that makes sense.

OH AND THE MIRRORS ARE VERY LTNM COMICS OF THEM TEE HEE < 3

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aaaaand onto the steam page!!

so it appears that we end up on this planet because we areee,,, looking for suitable plants for humans to live on? and while here we are "changing what it means to be human"? are we getting a revival of the transfuser?? how much other cut content has the potential to get put in this??? CAN WE GET DRAGONFLY INTO THE GAME AT LONG LAST? KITEWING SKYRAY????

and as i mentioned the ruins before ^^ THERE ARE RUINS!! and more comments on what really strongly appears to be dna altering as a gameplay mechanic. veryy curious about base building in this one, especially seeing as how much qol improvements were made between sub1 and bz, im excited to see what more they add!! i want hanging items like ceiling plants and lights!!! i crave base customization the likes we've never seen before!!!!

BASE CUSTOMIZATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

these games will never convince me to build a flashlight. its a seaglide or a vehicle or i just dont see. i will never waste my materials on a flashlight ever ever. and new tools!! im telling u now one of them is 100% the transfuser they are BRINGING my baby boy back (holding out hope for the terraformer too 🥺)

i have no idea what to make of the end of that second paragraph. it almost seems like we crashed here again? that and how our ship's ai is "insisting" we "carry on the mission",,,, do we not remember what we're here for? or why?

BIOSAMPLER MAKING A MF COMEBACK!!!! EVERYONE WELCOME BACK THE BIOSAMPLER!!!! im curious into how madatory this evolving mechanic is, and how close it is exactly to the cut version from sub1. OH SHIT IS THIS GONNA BE LIKE SURVIVORS,,,,, DO WE GET SUPERPOWERS,,,,,, CAN I GLOW,,,,,,,

the final part is making fun of me specifically. IM ALWAYS SO SCARED OF THE DEEP DARK,,,, lowkey still afraid of the dark irl whyyy am i obsessed with these games that make me physically ill with fear and stress and whyyyyy am i going to keep playing them forever. THERE IS WONDER AROUND EVERY CORNER. WONDER AND BEAUTY AND AMAZEMENT AND FISHIES.

COUPLE OF SCREENSHOTS FROM THE STEAMPAGE. here's a big fish!! and a slightly updated scanner, really showing off the new game engine (LOOK AT THOSE SHADOWS AND THOSE HANDS!!!! LOOK!!!!) this looks like maybe a version of the kelp forest/twisty bridges, with more of those pink peeper replacements.

and HERE is a screenshot showing off multiplayer! and BUBBLE BOOSTERS. this appears to be either the same biome as the above screenshot, or an outer edge of it. look at hose sharks in the background! and salvage on the seafloor? :0

these look like the crab in the trailer, alongside some new fish! LOVING the inclusion of some more crustaceans, i need 4 more crabs in this game at LEAST. and a better look at the new vehicle! there appears to be geysers/thermal vents in the background too,and it looks a bit darker/murkier here, so this might be one of the deeper biomes (the 150-300 meter range, perhaps?). lookie at all those barnacles! the rock texture! the plants!!

thisss is my favorite of the screenshots so far. we're in a cave system! with lava and thermal vents! there even appears to be falling rocks i the background! the sharks here remind me of the shadow leviathan with its color palette, but its also a bit chelicerate in anatomy,,, very interesting, reallyy looking forward to seeing this guys in action. and look!! MESMERS!!!!!

another screenshot of what looks like the biome in the trailer, in some pretty shallow water! absolutely beautiful grass, scatterings of maybe eggs (or just some more plants), those ever recognizable shallows rock bridges, and these big fish that are seen in one of the above screenshots! it seems like they open up like the thermal lilies in bz.

and now, finally, the hidden time capsule screenshots!

plant?? egg?? tool?? what on earth is this thing?? it looks. phallic. please tell me im not the only one who thinks that. not sure how i feel about this thing. this image makes me confused. LOOK AT THE GROUND TEXTURE!!

i think this is a plant! it also looks weird! look at that tree behind it! so many new plants! I LOVE THE PLANTS!!!!

this seems to be that weird egg thing from a different angle, or perhaps the animal itself fully grown. I believe these are iridescent fins! once again, LOOK at the water, THIS GAME LOOKS SO PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!

OK TRAILER TIME

SO PRETTY!! now, because everything in this is cinematic (and it's only a teaser), i would take basically this entire thing with a grain of salt for how accurate it will be to actual environments and gameplay. the cinematic trailers/teasers for the first two games are full of things that didn't make it in. still looks VERY GOOD and im so excited!!!!!!

onto a few specific things, this specific area ^^ shows up in a steam screenshot (which i will get to later), and considering the high amount of light and coral, this is potentially this game's version of the safe shallows! that pink fish that swims by is also the youtube channel's current pfp, and as such is probably replacing the peeper, which was the old 'mascot' fish. this character is also using alterra tech, which i think is very interesting! are we still working for alterra, or are they just such a mega corporation that they make basically all water/space gear? the diving suit looks a bit like the stillsuit with its colors! the design itself reminds me of the cold suit,,, :o

now, the thing about this scene is that it goes by pretty quick, and is supposed to draw attention to the water vortex (and won't it be fun if THAT is an actual mechanic!!! god i would be so so scared), but upon a few pauses and look arounds... there's a building! that is so clearly some old ruins!! it doesn't look anything like the usual ruins/bases we've seen before, so i would guess that these are NOT built by the architects, and instead a new alien race. the assumption is that this planet is also very much abandoned,,, which begs the question, why? not the kharra again, surely? or is it just these surface-level ruins that have been left? and if they went deeper, why? this appears to be the only screenshot/sequence that shows any of these ruins. how many more are there?? I DEMAND ANSWERS!!

also, entirely possible im wrong, but this new character bears some resemblance to ryley, imo. the earlier scenes of him doesn't match too closely, and their hair is entirely different, but this shot specially depicts a very similar face structure, eyebrows, lips, and nose! now, this could be (and probably is) a new guy that just kinda looks like him, but if it IS ryley,,,,, what's he doin here? is he working with alterra still? is he just off exploring various ocean planets? even if this isnt him, i want to know these things. wheres my guy :(

another thing pointing at this being ryley is that this game is intended to be a direct sequel (as opposed to bz being a spin off), and if its in an entirely different environment, then it stands to reason there's a chance theres returning characters. otherwise,, this game would just also be a spin-off!

(also, would absolutely love if that oxygen warning is an actual popup ingame!)

and here's the second character that pops up! the steam screenshots also only show two people in co-op so far, and i do wonder if these are two of the playable characters and not just random models/characters used for the teaser (similar to how bart is a trailer for sub1 despite not being playable, and fred in bz's trailer). this person doesn't seem to be anyone from either game (she looks a tinyyy bit like lillian, but not enough that i can say it could be her), and she's in a new vehicle! everything still looks very atlerra, though, and the two characters seem to know each other, so once again i wonder if this is a lore reason, if these ARE alterra workers, or if this is just to fit in with the aesthetic of the other games.

BIG FISH!!!!! BIG FISH!!!!!!! this thing looks VERY new and introduced in the teaser in a similar fashion that the sea emperor was shown in the first sub1 trailer, so im wondering if this might be THE Big Fish (or simply just one that they've finished the design for). with brightness turned way up, it appears to have a nose and mouth on level with the two humans, much below the light on its head. a similar hunting tactic to anglerfish, maybe? and so many tentacles!! and pincers! BIG FISH!!!!

no exact date for early access, which makes me think we won't get it until spring at the earliest. however, the first two games came out in winter (december for sub1, january for bz), so its possible it will keep with that trend and be out before march. don't take my word for that, though, this is purely speculation.

with this teaser (or potentially before, i was not actively checking this LOL), there's also now a steam page up with additional ingame screenshots and description of the game with a lot of new information!! because tumblr has a screenshot limit, im going to rb this post later with all of the steampage info.

but there is a LOT of new stuff we've learned now!!! pair all of this with this article showing screenshots the devs have dropped in sub1 time capsules (which i will also talk about in the rb), and oughhhh it is a GOOD DAY to be a subnautica fan!!!!!! are we all ready to get dragged back into this fandom?? i hope ur all ready. we're gonna get water vortexed. help.