Eternal Pig

  Creepy dolls, disembodied hands scampering spider-like across hardwood floors, and a teacher who’d rather slap you senseless with a ruler than make you do lines: this sequel has the makings of something incredibly unnerving. If Blumhouse Productions made Roald Dahl’s The Twits, it would look something like this. As a newcomer to Tarsier’s macabre world of shadowy delights, the bag-headed Mono is on a quest to find the Black Tower and confront the mysterious Broadcaster. Perhaps he’s seen the finale of Doom Patrol series 2 and was not happy. The latest demo isn’t giving much of Little Nightmares II’s story away, but it does reveal how we’ll puzzle past some snappy traps – throwing pine cones onto hidden bear traps sets them off in an addictively exciting manner. It’s like popping bubble wrap, but with the threat of losing a limb. Along the way we pull and puzzle across weird, almost Tim-Burtonlike levels, and meet an AI-controlled Six from the original game. With her we’ll overcom...