Granny's ridiculous grab while out of reach

[ImTheCookie]

As I just wrote in a review for the The Depths DLC, I do love a lot of things about Little Nightmares. One of the most annoying things, though, that I've found is that the controls are...rubbish. Not 100%, but there are a lot of times where you'll do something that should work and get completely screwed over by the game/controls.

That being said, what I'm making this thread for is a completely ridiculous moment I had near the end of the DLC whereby The Granny was reaching up to grab me and despite actually getting to safety and completely out of reach, she still grabbed me and killed me. I put up the clip of it on my Instagram:
http://www.thepicta.com/media/1562670820848198262_3186600988

This might sound like such a small thing to complain about but this followed so many moments of her just appearing in my path when I was going full-pelt and she was previously behind me, or the Kid missing a jump by a pixel (so it seemed) and thus causing death and restart - basically just a massive series of being screwed over that shouldn't have happened in the first place. A game being difficult I can handle, but mechanics not working as expected and constant re-starts boils the blood.

If nothing else this proves to just be a rant to get something off my chest. It may be that others are having a lot different experiences than me. But there you go.

[Darthzz]

Sometimes, all the enemies/monsters/bosses/spooks can have very glitchy grabs that can either...

1. Reach you when it REALLY shouldn't have, probably due to some glitchy queing.
2. Not reaching you when they REALLY should have.

Or, my personal favorite...

3. Attempting to grab you, then causing them to break and get stuck or actually grabbing you, getting stuck and forever making a weird noise.

Luckily, most of this stuff doesn't happen that often, but it can be rediculously annoying at times. I think the Granny and the Chefs are the two glitchiest when it comes to grabbing, as I haven't seen it bug out often for any of the others.

[Hupsutin]

The Scary Game Squad had an even more ridiculous invisible pull into Granny's hand. https://youtu.be/3aGE5sz7Ga8 Timed at 36:50.

That's some silly stuff.

[ImTheCookie]

Holy hell! That is just stupid! That's in exactly the same place too, having the same thing of her just appearing right where you jump in. Wonder if that's a recurring bug for that part of the level or just part and parcel of The Granny's grabbing mechanic as a whole.

[gatts]

I think I know what causes this, it's probably you technically get away but right before you reach up the granny finishes the animation, causing death.

[gatts]

Originally posted by Doubleclick:

I had a lot of annoying issues that stacked up towards the end of that DLC. It's a shame because the main game is really well crafted and never held me up for long - just the right amount of challenge to make you think for a minute, but not something so obscure that the flow of the game broke down.

Unfortunately the DLC is nowhere near as good, and they didn't do a good job of keeping the moments of horror away from the moments in which you were likely to die. The end gets to be an awful mixture of trial and error plus the peculiarities of the controls, and as a result I saw the same moments that were meant to be moments of shock (including the demise of Granny) way too many times. All impact of those moments was drained away. It hurts a horror game if the jump scares become humdrum or even irritating, and ideally you'd only see these moments once or twice each.

The leeches got a MUCH bigger shot at being scarier, the granny was scary since you couldn't see her except for a few parts. I think they could of done better, but you were just overhyped.

For example, there could have been a part with rising water and your wall jumping trying to get away from the granny. Ie: wall jumping between 2 narrow walls while the granny is in a small pool of rising water.

Another missed possibility was the Granny jumping out of the water to get to you, and there's a chase scene.