Little Nightmares 3 won’t have couch co-op to preserve “atmosphere & immersion”

Bandai Namco lastly lifted the lid on the long-awaited third sport within the Little Nightmares collection, and it appears to be like unbelievable. One concern that has arisen with the sport is that it’ll not embrace a couch co-op mode. The crew says that they determined not to embrace the native multiplayer mode as a result of they want to preserve the “atmosphere and immersion”. However, Little Nightmares 3 will embrace on-line co-op play, regardless of native co-op play being some of the requested options by followers of the collection.

“Little Nightmares is obviously a different type of horror game than the sort of things we traditionally make,” Supermassive’s sport director Wayne Garland tells me. “Dark Pictures, The Quarry, Until Dawn, they tend to be explicit horror. It’s all through the characters and how they’re driving the story in a very clear narrative. Little Nightmares 3 is much more implicit in that way. You find a lot of the horror through moving through the environmental setting, the actions of the antagonist, the character’s influence, the sound. And really, that’s what gives you that sense of unease you feel as you traverse the world.”

“Although Supermassive’s past work has featured both local and online co-op modes, the Little Nightmares team has taken this propensity for silliness into account, says Garland. “We’ve been asked questions about online versus couch co-op. Couch is something that we considered, but again, when you come back to the atmosphere and the immersion that we’re trying to elicit through Little Nightmares, I think it was important for us that we stuck to our online co-op only rather than traditional more party aspects.””