Reanimal (PS5) Review

Reanimal is coming at us in a weird way, and there’s really no avoiding that. This is a game made by members of the original Little Nightmares team, clearly pulling from the same design DNA, and releasing into a world where Little Nightmares 3 also exists. It’s impossible not to compare the two, and even harder not to view Reanimal as a response, intentional or not. It feels like a game that exists to quietly ask a question: was it the series that mattered, or the team behind the original idea that made it? After spending a good amount of time with Reanimal, the answer lands somewhere in the frustrating middle, leaning toward the team.

On paper, Reanimal sounds like it’s setting itself up for success. You play as two siblings returning to an island that was once home. Something terrible happened there while they were gone, an incident big enough to fracture the island into three massive sections and leave it crawling with things that very much do not want you there. Within each... Read more