The sea of shoes that The Shoe Monster dwells in strongly resembles shoes left behind from those victimized in concentration camps.The television Six uses to distract The Janitor also conveys the black-and-white image of a housewife cooking and singing a bizarre jingle in a kitchen, dressed in a skirt and hair bow appropriate to 1940s women's fashion. Bits of newspapers can also be seen scattered on the floor in The Maw's library while Six attempts to escape The Janitor, and are written in a Basalt font and format appropriate to newspapers of that time period.
In the beginning of the first game, Six awakens in a suitcase where several black-and-white photos can be seen attached to the suitcase's inner lid, baring a heavy resemblance to black-and-white photos of the 1940s, before colored photos were invented.Additionally, The Maw's Guest Area is clearly based off a classic Japanese eatery, complete with sliding fusuma doors and tachiwaki-style wallpaper, and some of the Guests themselves can be seen donning masks which resembling yōkai, or spirits and demons from Japanese mythology. Since The Maw is specifically stated to be a restaurant catering to insatiable appetites, this would indicate that The Lady has served as its hostess for quite some time.
In the DLC "The Residence", it is confirmed that she is in fact an actual geisha, as portraits in her private quarters reveal that she was working as one when she was a normal human woman at some point prior to the events of the first game.
This could be supported by several prominent elements featured in the series In conclusion, do yourself, a favor and purchase Little Nightmares 2, it's fantastic.The Little Nightmares franchise (or at least the events of the first game) may take place in an alternate version of World War II Japan. I got so addicted to the world of Little Nightmares that after this one I already played through the first one, purchase the Very Little Nightmares mobile game, went through every available official comics, and spent too many hours watching theory videos on Youtube.
You might think that the price of this game is too high for the number of hours it takes to complete but honestly, I don't regret paying full price for this at all, this is the type of game that'll give you an experience that you'll remember for years to come. Also, if you collect every glitching remain you'll be treated with a Secret Ending, so you can look forward to that!
I got them all on my second one and it took roughly 3 hours since I knew how to solve every single puzzle already. If you want to complete the game all you need to do is find 18 glitching remains and 12 hats. My first playthrough took me roughly 7-8h to complete and I missed a lot of the collectibles, which aren't that many, to be honest.