Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "LITTLE NIGHTMARES III: SALES & REVIEW ROUND-UP"

Starting point is 00:00:03 Now, I believe this is my first time ever getting into Little Nightmares. But as far as that specific fact, I was wondering to myself, how in the world is people justifying four to five hours of playtime for $40? Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? But then I came to realize something very interesting. So when it comes to little night, when it comes to Little Nightmare, one and then when it comes to little nightmares two respectively those two games were around the same

Starting point is 00:00:41 metric so little nightmares three is five to six hours right little nightmares one is is approximately three and a half hours and little nightmares two is five and almost it's like five to six hours so the main thing i was wanting to get at was why are people complaining about little nightmares three when of course it's around the same hours as far as playtime And then I realized this is a whopping $40 when compared to Little Nightmares 1. It was $20, but the complete edition was 30 when it initially came out 2017. And of course, Little Nightmares 2 was $30. So now I've cracked the code.

Starting point is 00:01:19 I wind of the world. Everybody is so irate at the hours because of the price point being increased compared to Little Nightmares 1 and 2. Now that out the way, it's safe to say that this is a interesting franchise. to say the least and a lot of people was gravitating towards little nightmares three because not only is it the next installment but of course this is the first mainline entry not developed by tar seer studios hopefully i'm saying it right acquired by embraces group in december 2019 for 10 million dollars and they shifted to the new ip reanimal in 2026 which is which has a spiritual successor with the co-op horror akin to little nightmares one and two so the main thing you need

Starting point is 00:02:08 know is that band dynamco owns the IP and chose supermassive games like until dawn dark pictures who did little nightmares two the enhanced edition and the 2021 next gym port and that was more of a test run so now when you look at little nightmares three a lot of people enjoy the visually uh the visual aspect of it but of course they they complain about the short runtime because of the price point being more than what they usually charge so for people who are completely oblivious to little nightmares three just knows developed by supermassive games and published by bandanamco entertainment released october 10th of this year on the playstation four playstation five xbox one xxxs nintendo switch nintendo switch two and of course pc and getting

Starting point is 00:02:57 into the review and sales roundup of little nightmares three safe to say that the best performance in my opinion looking at the charts is Nintendo as is currently one of the best performing games on Nintendo and more specifically is number eight as far as the number eighth overall but it's really the seventh most played game on the switch so I think Nintendo is the perfect platform for Little Nightmares 3 but if you want to play a co-op game safe to say a lot of people would probably have more of a console preference than the actual switch platform So going back to Little Nightmare's Three is set in the spiral, which is a surreal cluster of nightmare realms.

Starting point is 00:03:42 You have the Necropolis, which is Sandy Ruins. You have the Candy Factory, which is sticky and grotesque. You have the Carnival. Carnival. And then you have an institute. So your protagonist throughout the game is Lowe, which is a crow mask boy, and then you have Alone, which is a girl with pigtails. So you're going throughout these different worlds with these particular protagonists. And like I said, it's about four to six hours.

Starting point is 00:04:10 Now, with that being said, it's four chapters versus the two previous, no, the last previous tower, the last previous Little Nightmare, which was five chapters. And then the main thing you're going to be doing throughout Little Nightmares three is a lot of puzzle solving, stealth, and chase sequences. And once I saw a platform and I thought to my. myself, well, maybe I should play this game. And then I saw the price tag compared to the hours and I just said to myself, Shepard, just look at the state of gaming.

Starting point is 00:04:42 Like, what is going on? I don't know any game where I would pay $40 for only $4 to 6 hours of playtime. I think that's egregious. That's the most asinine. That's the most backwards compatibility and the user interface I've ever seen in my life. As far as being a user and playing the game, I'm not. paying $40 for 46 hours a main story. Now, you could be like, hey, but if you're a completionist, it can maybe push into 10 hours. I ain't trying to hear all that. You guys. See, that's the problem.

Starting point is 00:05:16 And of course, when it comes to the DLC, they do have DLC titled The Secrets of the Spiral Expansion Pass that has two planned story chapters. So when it comes to this type of pivotal move, as far as making it shorter but increasing the price point, some could say that It basically is because it's not the first main line. Some could say it's because it's the first mainline entry not developed by Tarsier Studios. So maybe you have to blame Embrace a group. Maybe you have to blame their new name as far as Reanimal. Maybe they're trying to get you off the breadcrumbs trail.

Starting point is 00:05:56 But when they took over for $10.5 million, they basically said to themselves, we're going to get our Monday's worth by any means necessary. I know that ain't who I think it is. So anyways, when it comes to the review roundup of this specific game, a lot of people have given a glowing reviews basically all, most of not all, said it was way too short, right? They said, well, also they said a lot of other things, as far as saying it was undespired.

Starting point is 00:06:23 I mean, you see a lot of scores from 60 to 75 out of 100. Game and former game at the 75 out of 100, saying that it was beautiful, short co-op adds a little spice i gene gave it a 60 out of 100 saying uninspired retread few scares limited co-op and of course you have destructoid that gave it a 60 out of 100 saying it was repetitive and lacks old dread so now that i'm looking at it as far as the steam reviews because that's more of the reviews i look at because steam i think does a great job on on having certain boundaries and guidelines as far as how to how and who can leave a review that has

Starting point is 00:07:01 has 52% ladies and gentlemen a whopping 52% and it was positive initially but you know hey 52% if I was in school safe to say little nightmares three will be failing compared to his predecessors so a lot of people do praise the atmosphere the co-op concept and of course the music but when it comes to other games that you could play which you've seen right now um as far as a co-op aspect split fiction is the best co-op aspect you can have in the year of 2025. I mean, it's just not even close. Like, I think it's one of the best games of the year, if not the best. It's my personal favorite, but I'm not mad at other people who think other games like Ghost of Yote or Expedition 33 or Hollow Night Silk Song deserve that mantle of the best game of the year. I'm just saying Little

Starting point is 00:07:48 Nightmares 3 is far from the case of being game of the year. And of course, it may be one of the worst entries into the Little Nightmares franchise because there's three of them. So if you word of rank them safe to say that it's not in the top two and there's only three of them so it's not the greatest uh yeah it's not the greatest outing for little nightmares and of course with that being once again because you can't blame the old developers for this with this being the first mainline entry not developed by tarzier studios some could say that that is the pivotal factor and why the quality is lackluster so when you look at the steam numbers um it currently has a 24 hour peak of 2100 people playing it it is a co-op game so I'm not too stickler for the numbers but of course the all-time

Starting point is 00:08:32 peak was 19 days ago as far as 22,000 so a lot of people was anticipating this but it seems like the word of mouth is doing more harm than good for this uh for the overall longevity for this game so I don't think that the sales as far as this game bringing in 20 million plus lifetime as of mid 2025 I don't think the sales is indicative of where this franchise is going because of course the first one grossed around 48 millions as far as Little Nightmare's ones specifically Little Nightmares 2 grossed around 25 million and then you look at this one selling around 20 plus million it seems like it's on a downward spiral a spiral it doesn't seem like it's going upward maybe that's why they sold it in the first place after the first one compared to the second one

Starting point is 00:09:22 they said to themselves hold them now this is not the trend that we want it's not the upward trend that we that was going to happen so they sold it while it was hot and i think that's why we're at the position we're at with little nightmares three so it does seem like visually is very interesting but it's a short-lived experience for 40 so that being said click my link to my bio let me know one of my social media is what do you think about little nightmares three do you believe it should have been longer if you played it do you enjoy it do you think people are just tripping and at the end of the day do you think that this is the worst little nightmares game out of the trilogy Thank you.

Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "LITTLE NIGHTMARES III: SALES & REVIEW ROUND-UP"

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