Ever trying to escape both the clutches of these incessantly hungry people and The Maw itself, you solve puzzles, jump and climb around, unlock doors, and ascend the ship, hoping to not slosh around the insides of someone’s intestines. This ship is populated by the gluttonous: obese, overindulgent people obsessed with stuffing their face with anything and everything they can find-including you. In Little Nightmares, these nightmares are grotesque and terrifying.Ĭlad in a yellow raincoat, you play as Six, a short, starved, little person (not a midget), navigating through a ship known as The Maw.
(They respawn only to repeat this unfortunate life perennially.) Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares presents us with the third circle of Hell, wrapped into a Tim Burton-esque package comparable to PlayDead’s Limbo or Inside. These hapless souls must live the rest of eternity trapped in this location while filth rains upon them should they try to escape, the three-headed dog, Cerberus, tears their body apart. This circle, this desolate and bleak wasteland, is home to the gluttonous, those who overindulge: eating, drinking, coitus, you name it. While traveling through this underworld, the two poets stumble into the third circle of Hell, filled with excrement and filth.
In Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, Dante and Virgil-a Roman poet and Dante’s guide-journey through the nine circles of Hell in search of deliverance, reprieve, and salvation for Dante’s soul.
