Author: Night Wanderer - Da Bu Slip
preface
Little People Save the World is not a game for single players, it is more suitable for two-person play, whether it is "difficult" with brothers (girlfriends) or "sweet double row" with the opposite sex, you will get an unparalleled online experience. Little People Save the World is a dungeon action-adventure game that transforms into the main gameplay. In the game you will receive a wand to give you the ability to transform. When you're in jail, you can transform into a rat and move freely through a narrow hole; when you need to cross a river, you can transform into a turtle or mermaid to swim freely in the river; when you need to cross a canyon, you can transform into a ghost or dragon to soar between the skies. However, at the beginning of the game you don't have so many shapes to transform, everything needs to be slowly accumulated by the player.
A pre-game experience driven by graphics and music
IGN gave Little People Save the World a 7, commenting that "the game itself offers a wealth of diversity and fun side quests." The perfect transformation ability customization system encourages players to experiment with different skill sets, and the clever dungeon design drives players to use all the abilities they have at hand. The game's experience highlight period is dragged down by the boring early stage and the tedious late stage, but overall, as a unique and humorous action RPG game, it is still worth playing. ”
For IGN's comment, I personally agree with it, because for single players, this is a 7-point game. Early in the game, as my title suggests, the only two driving forces for the player are graphics and music. Because in "Little People Save the World", the player only has one transformation option at the beginning, and in the early part of the game, the mouse's attack method is extremely monotonous, and it can only use its teeth to bite and damage only one. Players can only rely on passive skills when using rats: poisoning when dealing damage to kill enemies.
Fortunately, this "limited" time is not very long, basically between fifteen minutes and half an hour will unlock the next character guard. The specific unlock time is affected by the time it takes the player to complete the mission. The character of the guard is simpler and more direct than rats, and attacks can cause a lot of damage, far better than rats. Unfortunately, players can only use these two characters for a long time to attack, and in the early stages of the game, the two characters do not have enough skills to match, and players will quickly enter a boring period. Perhaps the production team also took this into account, so "Little People Save the World" put a lot of effort into the picture and music, compared to DrenkBox Studios' previous work "Mexican Hero Scuffle", this time "Little People Save the World" is more exquisite in the picture, whether it is a castle or various monsters are very fantasy style. The game music is quite dynamic, with different styles of music in each area. Although only one kind of music can be heard in the early stages, the excellent graphics and BGM may indeed make up for the player's tediousness in the early stages.
The above content is only for single players, and the real fun of the game "Little People Save the World" is that the two-person connection is, of course, the premise is to find a friend who is really interested in the game to play with. During the process of playing, the communication between players can appropriately make up for the tedium in the early stage of the game. Moreover, the pace of the game will be significantly accelerated when played in two players, and the difficulty will also decrease compared to single players. For example, for death, as long as two players are not in the same state of death, the other player will be revived in a few seconds; for the completion of the task, it can also be completed quickly with the participation of two players, shortening the player's accumulation time in the early stage of the game.
The core gameplay of the game is transform-driven
Players will find a variety of combined gameplay in the transformation system in "Little People Save the World" after surviving the early stages. The transformation system uses a random way of changing with almost no cooldown, and players can change their characters and their skills at any time during battle. By the middle of the game, you'll basically unlock more than ten characters, such as magicians, robots, necromancers, and slugs that I personally prefer to use. Readers who may see this will have some questions, why do you want to unlock so many characters? And why match skills? Can't I level it directly with a character's skills?
This brings us to the game mechanics that Little People Save the World created for the transformation system. It is true that the player can always use a certain character in the beginning, but after 3-4 hours of the game, the shield mechanism will appear, and the player needs to use the corresponding attribute attack to break the shield before using any attribute attack to damage the enemy. This causes the player to have to break through the shield by switching characters in the early stages, which will unlock a series of characters by the way. The attack methods of each character in Little People Save the World vary greatly depending on the character's race. For example, the horse's attack weapon is its hind legs, the mouse's attack is its teeth, and the ghost attacks through the aura. As a result, characters such as horses are destined to be difficult to use, but sometimes players need their attribute skills to break through shields. Based on this need, Little People Save the World has designed a customizable skill system.
Players can freely match the non-locking skills of various characters at will, such as installing the rat's bite on the guard, so that the guard who does not have the dark attribute attack can get the dark attribute attack; can also install the ranger's bow and arrow skill to the horse that does not have the sharp attribute, so that the horse has the sharp attribute and can also achieve two-way attack before and after. Therefore, in the middle of the game, players will tend to find their own character form and character skills. Small People Save the World In order to further encourage players to unlock characters, different dungeon monsters have shields with different attributes. If players want to play in the dungeons without fear, all they need to do is unlock various character forms.
Unlocking character forms in the game is fun, it is not gradually unlocked as the game progresses, but requires the player to complete specific tasks to gain experience to unlock. For example, the final dragon form requires two C-level characters and an S-level character to unlock, and these characters are leveled by special characters released by the system. The most common task should be to use a skill to kill an enemy. These missions are not difficult, but they do require the player to complete them deliberately, and it is another unique fun.
For single-players, the middle of the game will be particularly interesting, in a way more interesting than the duo. Because when playing in two-players, once a player enters the skill definition interface or the mission completion interface, another player will also enter the corresponding interface, and this player can only watch the previous player perform various operations. This non-standalone design not only delays the rhythm of the battle, but also increases the boredom time when playing with two people. However, playing in two will make the character unlock faster. Overall, the transformation system and corresponding mechanics of Little People Save the World are quite good, and you can feel the charm of Little People Save the World whether you are a solo player or an online player.
A two-week design worth experiencing
The fun of Little People Saving the World will be more monotonous late in the game, because the player has basically fully unlocked all the characters, and the motivation to complete the character level tasks will decrease. However, with the excellent dungeon characteristics of "Little People Save the World", players still have good fun in late battles. For example, there is a dungeon feature that is: All Damage *9999, which means that any attack will deal a spike. For dungeons with this feature, the player can bring the passive of the Egg, and the player can only take up to one-third of the damage of health. By switching passive skills reasonably, the player's fault tolerance rate can be greatly improved. Therefore, the whole game in the later stage is more for different dungeon characteristics, re-matching character skills. In addition, the game has a lot of interesting side characters worth challenging. For example, rescue Laura, Ranger Challenge, and race against wizards. Although it is not denied that the game "Little People Save the World" is not as interesting as the mid-term experience in the later stages, there are still interesting ways to play.
When the player completes the weekly objective, the game's two weekly episode will inherit the player's content in the weekly objective, but the difficulty and characteristics of the dungeon will change. Although the monsters are still the same model, due to the changes in the dungeon, players will get a completely different gaming experience than the one-week program.
epilogue
I personally will give "Little People Save the World" an 8.5/10 rating, which is about 1.5 points higher than IGN. Because although the early stage of the game is weak, the game always has to be told. The early stage is only about one-tenth of the more than ten hours of game content. And the game's excellent graphics and BGM can completely make up for this lack of early stages. So the overall rating will be higher.
Overall, Little People Save the World is an excellent action-adventure game. Not only does it have a flawless appearance: exquisite game graphics and well-crafted BGM, but also a great game kernel: rich and varied character design and a highly free custom skill system. While the fun decreases after the player unlocks all of the character content, the dungeon features and the new experience of the two-week objective are enough to make Little People Save the World a good stand-alone/online game.