I can confidently say that I'd recommend this game to other people, unlike what a lot of the reviews on this game say, I believe the game is a 7/10. I've been looking forward to this game for months now, Little Nightmares is one of my favorite game series, so whenever I found out they were making a Co-op Little Nightmares title, I was immensely excited. One of the main criticisms of the second game was that they advertised two characters which lead people to believe the game was Co-op, but it turned out it wasn't. So to finally have the chance to play a Co-op Little Nightmares game was incredibly exciting to me. I went in with high expectations, and I left satisfied, which appears to be a sort of unpopular opinion with this game.

I played through this game with my close friend and we managed to beat the game in roughly 4 hours of gameplay, Little Nightmares games are known for not being the longest games out there, so when I see complaints about this game not being long, I get rather confused. I get the argument that 40 dollars for something which is a mere 3-4 hours long is quite upsetting, but in the perspective of Little Nightmares, I don't personally see the validity in this. I beat Little Nightmares 1 in under 3 hours, while also searching for secrets and taking my time. I really feel like the length of this game FEELS longer because you can play with your friends, which is another thing I'd like to talk about. Your friends don't have to pay for the game, they could've easily just made it a requirement for both players to pay for the game, but they didn't. It's a 40 dollar purchase from 1 person that multiple people can enjoy. I feel like that alone made it worth 40 dollars to me personally, but I understand why for others it might not be an excuse. The world's economy anymore, especially in the part of the world I'm living in, The United States, is incredibly rough and having a spare 40 to buy a game that doesn't even last you long is a very hard choice to make.

I also just wanted to briefly give my thoughts on my actual issues with the game, because there is a few I have that are rather confusing why those issues even exist? The enemy AI feels incredibly janky sometimes, I can't really explain what I exactly mean by this, but you'll know what I mean if you've played the game before. Some of the puzzles (the minecart one in the candy factory) are incredibly mind numbing and not fun to do at all. It feels like I'm just WAITING to finish a segment so I can actually get back to the fun stuff, which is upsetting. My last main issue with the game is how incredibly clanky the grabbing items mechanic is in this game? I understand it's a new studio and they might not know exactly what to do for the items, but it just felt terrible grabbing anything or climbing. Also there is no rewards for completing specific achievements or finding specific collectibles? The costume feature feels incredibly underutilized and seems like it was just made to make some extra money for the game, which I really don't like.

Another small issue I had with the game was that the pre-order bonus for the game wasn't exclusive. I had assumed the "Dark Six" costume would've been exclusive to pre-ordering the game, but it wasn't. I felt sort of scammed to see it being sold as the cheapest DLC you can buy. I don't know, that's just a nitpick though.

That's basically all I have to say about the game, I'd definitely recommend it if you have a friend willing to play it with you. Just remember this game doesn't support Couch Co-op, at least not yet. I don't know if it's something that'll be added in the future or not. I don't see it being likely.