Game Thoughts: Little Nightmares II

When I was a kid, I absolutely loved Rugrats: Search for Reptar, a 1998 PlayStation platformer packed with episode-based mini-games. Two levels absolutely terrified me: “Toy Palace,” where you had to defeat a giant gorilla by throwing boxes at it, and “Incident in Aisle Seven,” where you similarly had to defeat a giant crab. I was so scared of these level bosses that I would always ask my mom to beat them for me.

I’ve basically been terrified of “scary” video games ever since. In fact, I think Li...