Reanimal review - The old Little Nightmares team is back, but this isn't what I wanted
Before launch, the discourse around Reanimal seems to largely be its theme, and as Tarsier is renowned for leaving the heavy lifting up to the players, Reanimal's Reddit is already alive with fan theories. Going into this, I had my own theories, the most immediate being that this was a commentary on the environmental impact of toxic waste being dumped into the water, poisoning nature, turning something inherently good into something rotten. I also thought about animal cruelty, as the mutated animals are positioned as the enemy - could it be an allegory for consumerism, and our inability to see livestock as more than a product? The trailers also featured war scenes of trenches and soldiers, so in the most watered-down theory I had, is it just a game about violence, and the senselessness of it? Then there's the treatment of children, and what it says about society's protection of them - like animals, innocent until corrupted by the brutality of life. And I guess right at the end of all that, is humanity the real monster? None of it is looking good for us.Read the full story on PCGamesN: Reanimal review - The old Little Nightmares team is back, but this isn't what I wanted