With some enemies swarming you or jumping at you rapidly, it's just too slow. That's because all the melee weapons you're provided with are too big for you, so you have to drag them across the floor, heave them up, then crash them down.
Thankfully, it's used sparingly, but if you ever have to fight your way out of a situation, prepare to be endlessly frustrated. Unfortunately, whether it happens in big spaces or small spaces, the combat is pretty bad. As a result, even the more elaborate ones never get too frustrating, because you always know the solution is here somewhere. This makes it much easier to explore every nook and cranny for that hidden key, that secret lever, that solution satanically scrawled on the wall in erratic chalk markings. While exploration makes the levels more expansive than they initially appear to be, the puzzles often happen in small, truncated spaces. The puzzles make the most of space too, though in a very different way. There are still limits to this-the camera remains fixed and eventually you'll hit an invisible wall-but it makes the levels feel more like actual places and not like simple A to B throughlines as some sections can feel like in other sidescrollers.
Since it's a 2.5D affair, there are times when you can wander off into the background and explore, sometimes finding hidden collectibles or easter eggs nestled away. Little Nightmares 2 makes the most of open spaces. Six is basically there to help you complete puzzles, give you general hints when you’re stuck, and protecting her drives a lot of the narrative, loose though it may be. It offers very little instruction or handholding (apart from a literal handholding mechanic with your partner, Six), but that suits the eerie tones, and such trust in the player is welcome. It's tempting to keep focusing on the visuals, but the gameplay doesn't just exist to lead you from one scene to the next. The aesthetic plays a big part in elevating the game's inherent creepiness, building a foreboding sensation with each footstep. While "it's a chase game" is a simplistic reduction of what Little Nightmares 2 is-and doing so ignores the great puzzle aspects of the game-it's definitely built around the notion of wringing every ounce of creativity possible out of relatively simple gameplay loops.
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