16/10/2025.medialog,games.

I recently played both the REANIMAL demo and Little Nightmares III, I'll talk about both of them in the same entry because even though they are different games you can't really talk about one without the other. For those who don't know, REANIMAL is an upcoming game made by Tarsier Studios, the original studio for the first and second entry in the Little Nightmares franchise, however, the third game was made by Supermassive Games (mostly known for Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology), and, sadly, the difference is really, really there.

Little Nightmares III

Ever since the community got the news that Supermassive was going to take the wheel for the third game there were lots of doubts, not only because a change in studios is almost always something to worry about, but because lately their games seem to be pretty hit or miss. People tried to be optimistic, and it's probably this optimism that led to feelings of poor development on the side of Little Nightmares 3. Not only because Little Nightmares III has lots, and I mean LOTS, of bugs, but also because the game just didn't seemed to deliver. You can get a taste of the franchise, but there's just something missing.

Before I get into what I didn't like about the game I gotta say I didn't hate it. Just last year I went through a Little Nightmares fixation (if you been on my site since V1 you probably noticed) so I was pretty hyped for the news of a third game, that probably helped me a bit, because I must say I saw a few not-so-good reviews of it and I thought I would hate it, but besides the damn frustrating bugs I had a nice time. My criticism is less from a place of hate and more as a fan, I do hope they take the feedback into consideration to keep making what made Little Nightmares the beautiful game that it's known to be. The game is more fun if you're not familiar or if this is your first game in the franchise, both because of how disconnected is from the story in the past games and because difficulty-wise is the easiest one of the current games.

The Story.
I've seen many people express how they didn't understand what the story in Little Nightmares III was about and, as someone who has (somewhat of) an idea of what the story is about, I totally understand the complaint. As a fan, it is kinda cool to see hints of The Sound of Nightmares, to see more protagonists and the journey of more kids through The Nowhere, but I also think this story feels out of place for the main games, it has more the vibes of a spin-off or DLC story rather than a main one, even the story of Very Little Nightmares seems more fitting in the main series. I'm not saying that they should've continued the story of Six or Mono, I think they both ended just fine in their respective games, and I love the idea of new protagonists, but there's just something about Low and Alone that when you think the game is going to expand more about them it just, doesnt. The game also feels like it's battling between trying to be its own thing and also being like "Hey guys! Remember this from Little Nightmares I and II? Pretty cool huh? We have it too!", and the story is one of the most affected aspects of this. Like, yeah, it was pretty cool on their respective games, but we want to see more about what makes III cool! There's so many hints at past games that feel only like easter eggs rather than world building. This worked on I and II because both games are directly co-related, not only universe-wise.

The ending (spoilers)

I gotta be honest, I'm a HUGE >:-( hater of the "This character was in the imagination of the protagonist this whole time!!" trope. I would've preferred for the game to not go that direction, but at the same time, in the perspective of Low, I understand it.

The kids in the Little Nightmares universe, both inside and outside the Nowhere, are deeply troubled and in constant danger. They are often abandoned by the adults, neglected, and sometimes straight up taken advantage of (Like Noone in The Sound of Nightmares), not only that, but often have to learn to leave people behind, and at times, they have to learn that even the other kids will betray you. It's a world where they have to survive on their own, so it makes sense for Low to imagine a companion, a friend that won't betray or abandon him, that helps him through the nowhere and gives him company when he's back in the real world. I don't mind for a little boy to imagine a friend; in fact, I think his dynamic with Alone is pretty fitting in the Little Nightmares universe, as sad as it is. I'm glad they didn't exactly go with another betray ending as many of us feared (the Little Nightmares II ending has left us with extreme trust issues!), or even a super sugar-coated ending, because Little Nightmares has never been about that, and I think at least this is something that Supermassive Games understood.

In a way I think I also don't mind this because, as a former lonely kid myself, I used to imagine having my own best friend who made everything with me, even though that kid never came, sometimes imagination is the only companion for a lonely kid.

The World of Little Nightmares III I think the game shines the most when it gives itself permission to just be Little Nightmares III. Some levels feel too similar to the ones in the past two games, which in itself is not a bad thing, but the best ones were definitely the original maps. The first chapter in the desert was beautifully made, once it got to nighttime and you knew the doll was around it gave a perfect sense of eeriness, I LOVED this one part when you go to another room and the Doll is just waiting and looking at you, just *MWAH* BEAUTIFUL! The carnival chapter is my second favorite, I love carnival maps in general and I think despite being a populated map with lots of lights it still had its fair share of creepiness, you know the danger is around, and it's cool to just be around. Also, around the final chapter, the gimmick with the doll that puts you between the Nowhere and the real one was one of my favorite things in this game, I would've loved if they made more things in that direction, but sadly, the game lacks a bit in the gameplay department.

The gameplay.
One of the biggest complaints I saw is that the game is too expensive for its short runtime and an overall simplified gameplay from what's expected in the franchise, and that's something I agree with. People were excited big time for the co-op gameplay, a first in Little Nightmares! But the hype lost momentum from the fact that local gameplay is not an option. Some people also think that co-op, even if fun by default because you're playing with someone else, seemed to be affected by how few times you actually have to cooperate with each other and are mostly just exploring and going from point A to point B.

As a loner myself, I played the game on my own, and playing with the AI was fine most of the time, I expected this from Little Nightmares II where Six was a pretty cool NPC to play alongside with, not only because of her being helpful but because she has its... Moments. However, the few times the AI didn't work were pretty frustrating, especially because many times it wasn't even the fault of the AI and more of the bugs, ESPECIALLY at the end of my run.

I played as Alone because I just thought she was cute, and through the game Low actually did stuff on his own, the times I had to call him to do something were rare, except at the end, where he has to (minor spoilers) shot at the eyes of the final boss. My Low just WOULDN'T do it! In past bugs I encountered in my gameplay every time a bug stopped my game experience I had to restart the whole chapter, but for this the distance between the start of the chapter and the final boss fight was too much, so I had to drop it for the moment. I'll probably replay the game (or at least the final chapter) as Low, and I don't feel that bad to haven't finished the game on the first run because there were just a few minutes of gameplay and the ending, but man. I don't fully blame the game for this bad experience (there's some blame because of the bugs), but it was a bit frustrating, I wish I could've gotten a smooth experience just like I did with Little Nightmares II.

Little Nightmares III conclusion.
So, as I said before, I think the game was fine, but I don't think it feels like an improvement of Little Nightmares II or even Little Nightmares I, and as a sequel that's a really bad note to hit. I'm looking forward to the extra content coming for 2026, but this practice of putting out a game that doesn't feel finished and that you have to wait extra time for the complete experience is not a good thing. I might talk about the other two games in another entry, about my love for them and what I think about stuff (I'm a HUGE!! Six ADVOCATE!!!), or add another entry when the extra content comes out, but for now, those are my feelings about Little Nightmares III.

REANIMAL

I left REANIMAL for the end because since it was just a demo it was just going to be a shorter one, but man, I'm SO SO EXCITED for the full release! I've been so hyped for this game ever since the teasers came out. It looked so more creepier that their work in Little Nightmares from the get-go and from the look of the demo it's definitely going to deliver. I love the aesthetic, the designs are SO CUTE!! And the fact that THEY TALK! it feels so natural. I liked the muted characters in Little Nightmares besides their cute little "heeey!" "ooooi!" (Six my beloved), but hearing the characters have dialogue in REANIMAL feels so good, it makes me more excited to know about them, how they then ended up there, also the fact that the group feels bigger than just one or two kids, I'm so mad that I was so into it and then BANG!! A reminder that this was in fact just a demo, I can't wait for the full release T__T!! (a quick sidenote but forgive my low-res screenshots for this one lol, REANIMAL sadly didn't ran smoothly on my humble PC T__T Hopefully by the time of the release I'll get a better graphic card) The game villains we saw so far, especially the big guy. He looks so gross and creepy, the fact that you see him go through a corpse to get in another room is just >___< The environment looks beautiful, things look even more huge than before. Even if it's a short demo I'll probably replay it because there seems to be more masks than the one I got. I just, I don't know man I have nothing but hype for this game!

In an overall conclusion, I'm hoping Supermassive takes the feedback into consideration for the future entries of the saga, if they plan or are greenlighted to do so. It's a shame that, inevitably, both games are going to get compared and REANIMAL is obviously going to look better in the eyes of the community. There was a bias even before Little Nightmares III came out and people already knew they would dislike it, and I'm not saying that like, there's no reasons to dislike the game, I totally agree with some of the criticism, but there's also a lot of people that just seem they didn't wanted to like it from the get-go. I hope both games can co-exist and we get the full potential for both of them. Little Nightmares has a special place in my heart, but I know that a lot of the merit goes to Tarsier Studios, so I'm excited for what's to come, and if this is the end for Little Nightmares I just hope the game just ends with a banger.

11/10/2025.HALLOWEEN >:-D!!!,personal.

In this modern age many people are indifferent to it, but I really like to watch TV, and I have a soft spot for open television. We have cable at my home, but I can't really afford to pay for an extra device in my room, so I only have a rabbit ears antenna and a small flat tv that belongs to my little brother (mine just stopped working out of nowhere a few months back), for me, TV is a companion, a distraction, something for me to not go to sleep in completely silence and darkness, alone with my own thoughts. When I started writing this entry I was just going to talk about my childhood nostalgia related to the television but since we're on SPOOKY SEASON >:-D!! I thought, well, why not talk about both my childhood trauma and the nostalgia that comes with it? I noticed that, oddly enough, a lot of nostalgia can also come from a scary place, and I think that's kinda sweet. Obviously beware on some of these videos, especially in the screamers section lol.

Little tangent about what made me want to write this entry; my TV doesn't catch many channels, and out of all of them there are only like two that have night-time programming instead of just letting the infomercials run. These past few days I've been watching this one channel named "Maussan Televisión",a channel run by Jaime Maussan. If this name rings a bell even as an outsider of Mexico, it's because you might remember him from that whole alien fiasco from last year that sparked some memes for a while, from this you can kinda get an idea about the contents of this channel; conspiracies, the paranormal, LOTS OF ALIENS!! some other regular shows here and there and... Alternative medicine... For some reason? o__O It's dumb, and I love it >XD it was this channel that brought back the memories of staying up late and catching shows that I wasn't supposed to be watching at that age, and I'm not talking about sexual content (te estoy viendo, noches de Golden), but just some good classic spooky content.

There was this one show named "El Mundo Paranormal de Vane" (Vane's Paranormal World) that would air at midnight in our local TV channel, and this was one of the first shows that I would watch that would give me feelings of "Ooooh I shouldn't be awake!". From my memories and a few archives online, the show was about urban exploration, scary stories, some special episodes with movies (I remember watching Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County for the first time on this show) and some classic scary videos from the internet. Mind you, this was around the mid to late 2000's, so a lot of these videos were straight up just screamers. Little Milky was horrified by it, but at the same time, fascinated! I remember having Cartoon Network in the go-back button on the remote so every time something scary seemed to be around the corner I would just go back to my safe space lol T_T this is were I would fall for some of my first jumpscares. There was this one video that I had the misfortune to tune the channel in the moment of the jumpscare lol. It was about a security camera in night vision recording a hallway, an alarm seem to go off and at one point there is a white face screaming directly at the camera, I haven't been able to find this one, maybe is out there but my memory got things mixed up because well, childhood memories do that sometimes. Funnily enough, my first screamer wasn't from this show, but is the first one I remember from TV!

Screamers & internet related

I'll try not to talk about the most known and popular videos, but honorable mentions go to Obedece a la Morsa, the Saudi Arabia encounter with a witch, There's Nothing, I Feel Fantastic and Body of a Pig for living rent free in many of the restless nights of young me.

My first screamer.
In an appropriate fashion, the first screamer I remember watching was shown to me by my older brother. Back when we got our first family PC he called me to our computer room to show me a video. It was of an explosion near a ship with no sound at all, he told me you were suppossed to wait for the sound the explosion made, and then GAAAH!! Screamer!!



Looking for it I realized how obscure this seems to be compared to the more popular ones, so now I wonder, where the fuck did he even got this one from? lmao T__T I also think these kind of screamers where there was nothing scary to begin with were the worst ones, and they made me develop trust issues on the internet e_e which by itself is not a bad thing really lol I avoided many suspicious links thanks to this, so thank you, cruel people out there!

El Mal.
There really was a time when screamers would be EVERYWHERE!! And sadly, for little me, that also included bootleg DVD's. Back then I remember that I loved watching the extra content on DVD's and the bootleg ones had them too, even if most of the time they were not related to the movie at all, they would have some funny, musical or scary videos. The one that I found was named "El Mal" (The Evil), this one has become pretty infamous here in México (and probably other places in latin-america) because back then not many kid's had computers or internet at home, so they had no idea what a screamer was, I've read from many people that this was their first screamer and they found it in the extras of a kids movie DVD. There's also some fun irony in this specific extra because it's an ANTI-PIRACY one LMAO! The guy in the video gives his testimony and is like "I heard a voice while I was burning this DVD... It said to me... "Don't be a pirate! Don't be a pirate!", and this could happen to YOU!!". The video then cuts to a trashed room and the text reads "Look how the door at the back closes", at the same time the music stops just for good old screamer tension. Then suddenly GAAAAH!! Scary ghost lady screaming at you. Something more comes after it but I obviously stopped watching after the screamer. While looking for this one I realized that El Mal seems to just be a translation of an internet screamer, it makes sense, but who would've thought! Scaring people can really unite people around the world lol



This screamer really FUCKED me up as a kid, and after this I got scared to look at extras ever again lmao T__T I remember a few years after, when me and my family visited my dad's family, I went to the computer room from the hotel to play dress-up and Disney games and some kids on the other computer were watching scary videos. We talked about them for a while, I told them about this video because of how much it had stayed with me lmao T_T Thankfully, this was the only one I watched on a bootleg DVD, it seems these extras had not only other screamers, but also, from what I've read from other people, you could also find way more upsetting videos, like gore, shock videos or even sexual content, is a whole rabbit hole.

The lady in a Call of Duty Monkey Bomb tutorial.
That's an insane title isn't it? And this one is not even a screamer, but I'm adding it here because is more internet-related than TV-related, and it hunt me for many nights while trying to sleep. I remember I found this one in a scary videos playlist, and while watching it I thought that maybe the playlist author add it as a mistake, or that maybe the creepy part of it was just the monkey doll, but I kept watching because the tutorial part was actually kinda interesting lol. The video is a simple tutorial on how to make the Call of Duty Monkey Bomb prompt and, at some point in the video (around 2:33 to be specific) the tutorial glitches, the video stops, and when it comes back the video is now in a room with a little girl crying in the middle, the video glitches a bit again and now, behind the girl, there's a woman in black with her face covered by a veil. The woman gets in front of the camera, uncovers her face, and you now notice that she has no face at all, the video then goes back to normal.
I gotta say I LOVE this video, I think the fact that there's no audio for the scary part adds a lot to it, I also like that it takes so little screentime in the overall video, so it really takes you off guard. I think they used makeup (?) for the lady's face, but whatever it was it looks great! You just know that this looked real as fuck for me as a kid. These guys obviously have talent and I imagine they had fun making this video, so even if little me was scared of that lady for many years current-year me actually appreciates it and remembers it fondly!

The Cursed Kleenex Commercial.
I've been a fan of Shrouded Hand for a while, so when I looked back for this video and realized it was made by him it was a pretty cool surprise! This has no screamer on it, but I love the way he made the cursed version of it, how he takes advantage of the low resolution of the video to make an uncanny mess. I can also understand why people would make a scary story about the original commercial, the vibes feel pretty off and even today I'm still a bit creeped out by the song. OMG!! Amazing Dancer!!
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't watch this video as a kid, but while looking through old screamers I found this one and OH MY GOD!! This might be peak screamer because that lady at the end is HORRIFYING!! Just like the cursed Kleenex commercial the low resolution really adds to her looking more uncanny, and from out of all the faces in the screamers this has aged pretty well. I'm glad I didn't see this one as a kid, it would've SCARRED ME!! If someone reading this saw it as a kid, I'm so sorry for you lol T__T

TV related

Pucca: Funny Love Stories, Caughting in the Rain.
This one made me nervous while watching TV as a kid. Even though regular episodes of Pucca used to air on Jetix, they would also show the shorts in between commercials, and these mother fuckers LOVED to air episode 14 late at night. I think I rarely, if ever, catched this episode at daytime. Nowadays I think it's a pretty cool homage to japanese horror in kids media. The episode is about Garu getting caught in the rain, so he looks for shelter at a nearby house porch, while in there he starts to hear a faint crying from inside the house, so he goes to check out, getting spooked by this girl a few times until, at one point, he looks at her from behind and it seems to just be Pucca! A bit more relaxed, he tries to scare her back, but before he does he looks at the window only to notice that Pucca is actually outside. He looks back to the girl only to see that she's on her real form, slowly getting up and turning her face to him. Scared as fuck, Garu runs to the exit before taking a final look back, only to get jumpscared by this ghost girl! He jumps outside, scared, and the short ends.

After watching this episode for the first time I got super nervous even just watching the intro from the Funny Love Stories, scared of being this one again lmao T__T once I noticed it really was I would just change channels. I don't even think the jumpscare by itself his that scary, is the whole build-up, the tone feels so different and out of place from every other Pucca episode so it makes it more eerie, it's an amazing piece of child horror media, but even watching it again these days I can completely understand being scared of it. There's another similar episode from the regular series that had a jumpscare at the end of it (linking the latin-american version because the english ones I found on youtube doesn't seem to have the jumpscare on them ?_?), and despite other people saying that they got scared at that one I don't really remember feeling the same, I think it's because, like I said before, the scary part of the episode is the build-up, the regular episode is more akin to a traditional screamer that takes you off-guard at the end of the episode, nice episode still! I got some nostalgia looking for this episode, I want to watch Pucca now T__T

Facundo and the ghost girl.
Facundo was the host of the TV show Incógnito, and in one episode he would get in a cemetery because, as an sceptic, he wanted to prove that ghosts weren't real. He tried to approach the visit with more of a funny and even cynical approach, challenging the spirits to show up to him. He would get his wish and find what seems to be a little girl in front of a grave that would scare the shit out of him lol. This is a classic one on Mexican television and I do remember watching it live; it was terrifying as a kid. Facundo also maintains that, at least from his perspective, this was completely real, and I don't mean that this was a real ghost or something but it could've been a random girl on that night or someone playing a prank on him, so his reaction was completely real. I think this mixed with the whole build-up makes for an amazing spoopy video, I love it.

Servicio a la Comunidad.
This is another classic from Mexican television; I was thinking of just adding it to the honorable mentions but this is something special.

Servicio a la Comunidad (Service for the Community) was a collection of spots that would serve as somewhat of an ambert alert, giving information about missing people and asking for help from the viewers, they would air at channel 5, hhich had an audience of mostly kids and teenagers, so getting these spots between cartoons was a bit off putting. Even if as a kid you didn't fully understand the seriousness of a missing person, you'll get the feeling that this was something serious. It also didn't help that many of these photos were in really low resolution, making for some uncanny and sometimes not even legible faces at times. To me, this was one of these things I would see on TV and made me think of changing channels, but I wouldn't because it felt disrespectful to me, I felt like I owed my attention to these people, even if there was nothing I could do about it.
As I said before, this is a classic for the Mexican community not only because it would be creepy to see as a kid, but also because in recent years it has gotten somewhat of a creepy-pasta and even a conspiracy theory status, as some people said that Selene Delgado is not a real person but just a phenotype of missing girls collected into one. This theory was popularized by FlorecitaDreams video about it. Servicio a la Comunidad also gained a bit more of traction because of the rise of the analog horror popularity, and people would make edits inspired by these spots.

Extranormal zombie episode.
This show used to air every sunday and I loved watching it with my family, it was like our tradition. It was campy and pretty fun to watch. I didn't find many things on the show scary, but there was this one episode that scared the shit out of me for two reasons: I watched it alone and it was about something that I was deeply afraid of as a child (even as a teenager), zombies. Of course now I watch it and understand that it is not real and that zombies are NOT!! coming, but back then my fear of zombies, by itself, knew no rationality, and to think that there was even a little possibility that they were real was HORRIBLE for my little kid mind. I think it's also funny that the opening of this segment has a warning of not letting kids watch without an adult, probably exactly because of this reason and the fact that as a kid things look way more real than they are, and little me suffered the consequences of having to watch this one alone T__T The lack of context and them filling the blanks didn't help, and like for example, for the second video, it showed one of the things that filled my nightmares for many years, the zombies overpowering you and tearing you apart x__X watching this was horrifying but it was one of these "it's so scary I can't look apart" moments for me. The third video also stayed with me for some reason, like now I can see that it is just a girl in a costume but back then, probably from being already creeped out, it seemed more real. I'm glad someone archived this episode on the internet so I could watch it again and notice that it's just not as realistic as my child mind made it to be because otherwise I'll probably be super freaked out about this memory x_X

The color bars.
To end off this entry, I'm gonna talk about one I have no evidence of. It's a weird one because it wasn't even scary or anything, just off-putting and kinda odd. So, back in the day, as many other kids, I was afraid of the color bars at the end of regular programming, even these days they feel odd, I know there's nothing wrong about them but it's just one of these things. Back then a certain channel, even for just a while (for like a week I think) would air something just before the color bars: home videos.

This same channel would air this one show named "Ay Caramba!" that was basically just America's Funniest Home Videos but with a latin-american host (that for some reason was a 3D donkey lol), at first I thought they would probably air some episodes before ending the schedule for the day, but no, they were just regular home videos with nothing funny or even interesting happening on them, I remember one of them just being of a woman walking beside what seemed to be her kid learning to ride a bike, they also had this uncanny detail to them: no audio. Like I said, there was nothing scary about it, but out of all the things I saw on TV after hours, the adult cartoons, the infomercials, the scary videos, the national anthem THIS was the thing that made me feel the most out of place, the thing that made me feel like I was watching something that I wasn't supposed to, and hell, maybe I wasn't! Why was this little Mexican girl watching them on TV at midnight out of all places? These days I still watch that channel, hoping to see something like that again to maybe record it and archive it for myself, but I doubt it will ever happen again. Television is just not the same as it was back then, and to be honest that's fine, as I'm not the same little girl anymore, so things don't look as whimsical as they used to.

Phew! That was a long one! Thanks for reading this silly entry, there's something nostalgic about being afraid as a kid of things that are just not real treats, especially as you grow up you get scared of more and more tangible things. Maybe one day I'll make an entry about the videos or media that have scared me as an adult, I was also considering adding some vocaloid horror in here because there were some songs, art and PV's that scared me as a child, But I think that would be better for another entry! So for now, that was it! Happy (upcoming) halloween!