Reanimal is a survival horror game, stealth game, and a cinematic platformer. The story follows a brother and sister as they try to escape a hellish version of their home while attempting to save their three friends. The two must work together, explore the islands, escape from monsters, and solve various environmental puzzles in order to progress.
Honestly I couldnt afford to play it myself but I did watch Jackseptieye’s full playthrough. I very much enjoyed trying to piece together the story as many people call it the sequel Little Nightmares should have gotten. The art style and animations were beautiful. all enemies seem very much well animated and thrilling to see to have the player gripping the control for their dear life. Jack also mentioned that the haptec feedback really made him feel like he was in the realm which sounds exciting.
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Parts I very much enjoyed seeing:
The seen where the skinsuit guy riding the bike was hilarious and very much unexpected. That’s true circus comedy imo.
Seeing all those buildings collapsed during explosions and chase scenes were a sight to see. It really made them feel very immersive when a players is locked into the game.
The glow gratual evolution of the sheep overtime and the connection to the girl, the enemies to the very end when it becomes its own boss that basically restarts the loop all over again.
The tank being used at the end was awesome. Nothing more to be said.
Now things I wish I was more of:
We didnt get much out of the underwater horse looking enemy. All that happend was we took his eye and ran with it as we are being chased. I don’t even thing he died becasue all we saw is that we took the eye and ran strait to the whale and never deal with e seach horse again. (idk if he even was a horse)
I want to see more of the whale becasue that dude was long but he only unrolled a but and left off with some of himself still a bit folded. hopefully game asset hunders will dig up so we can see more.
He didn’t get the secret ending tho. At least not yet. I actually saw that through another YouTuber - Gamersault. It left me with more questions.
My theory did match his everything being a planned sacrifice of the girl with the only difference I have a belief of a reason why they did such a thing. I belive they did this is because they possibly promised a ticket to free their souls. After finding the coffins, we leaned how the boys have all died:
bay head was hanged
hood got shot
bucket fell off a ledge
bandage stepped on a landmine
The last coffin was not of the girl but her pet rabbit as a lure. She ends up seeing the rabbits corpse at the end where she is standing a summoning circle and latter bagged up to be thrown into a well. It can’t be told if they truly got their freedom but it does seem like the cycle will be repeated as the well starts to over flow with her body floating up like it did at the begining of the game.
An alternate theory I have is when she got eaten. She started to see the the sacrifice that was made when they were all alive as she does deeper into the sheeps stomach. My only possible evidence is the setting the boys were in where it was done is a cabin then a well inside the cave which didnt match with the sheeps stomach since we entered the somach with her and all we have saw was nothing but deep red lighting and wet inner flesh/ stomach intestines or whatever.
Thats all I got, Tell me your thoughts if any. Would like to hear your take :)
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Both were made by Tarsier Studios, as is Reanimal. THQ Nordic is the parent company / publisher.
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