Little Life

Platform games have progressed immensely over the last few decades. Long ago these games were merely 2D, repetitive levels with plumbers jumping over barrels infinitely. Now, they are multifaceted, beautifully presented and often, open world adventures. However, there are some games that embrace the arcade style of yesteryear, combine this retro style with intricate, precise platforming and this culminates to offer a gripping experience. This much is true of the game in question today, Little Life.

This game plays like other intricate platforming adventures such as Celeste, Super Mario Maker and Super Meat Boy. However, has the art style and refinement of games like Woodle Tree Adventures or Foxy Land. This game aims to break the mould while clearly on a shoe string budget. However, does it manage that? We find out in our review of Little Life.

What A Wonderful Life

Let’s begin with the visuals. Aside from the fact that the game is very cute and colourful, with a clear emphasis on using whimsy to cover the cracks. This is basically a flash game and looks like it too. The models, environments, assets and platforming sections all look like generic, royalty free lifts from other titles and as a result, this is not a game that will set your world alight visually.

Gameplay-wise, it’s a slightly different story. It’s clear that this game wants to replicate the harsh difficulty platformers like Celeste or Cuphead for example and to its credit, it does a fine job. The goal is to collect all the diamonds to progress through a stage and they tend to be strategically placed so that only one method will work, making it as much of a puzzle game as it is a platformer. For this reason, we can’t fault the core gameplay or the level design.

However, that is all there really is to this game. There is no new mechanics added in later, no additional perks or powerups, no enemies to deal with and no storyline to engage with. This is a pure platformer with nothing else of note to mention and while that isn’t necessarily a detriment to all games of this nature, this game is not a world beater and therefore needed to offer much more to compete.

The Verdict

Overall, Little Life is a respectable 2D platformer that offers difficult but fair gameplay and well designed levels to challenge yourself with. However, the visuals are poor, the game has no core storyline to push your forward or make you want to continue and the game does nothing to reward players for their efforts when completing a stage.

Pros:

• Gameplay is tight and levels are well designed
• Plenty of levels to clear
• Difficulty makes the game a challenge

Cons:

• Visuals are poor
• There is little to keep the player invested

Sometimes guests from other worlds accidentally come to ours, such guests do not stay long and could be a big problem if they came more often, but the main character was lucky to meet a miniature guest from another world in the erotic simulator - Little Life.

Unexpected encounter in a dumpster

The protagonist was returning from the store one rainy night when he saw movement behind a pile of trash bags. The hero would have passed by thinking it was a mouse or a cat, but a petite girl who was no bigger than a Snickers bar crawled out from behind the trash. The hero spoke to the strange girl and it turned out that she was a guest from another world. The generous hero offered to spend the night at his place until the rain stopped. The girl agreed and stayed with the caring man until a portal to her world could be found.

Pet Girl

The gameplay is reminiscent of an erotically-directed Tamagotchi or Teaching Feeling. The girl lives in her box and your job is to provide her with everything she needs:

• Food - go to work, earn money and buy only the best ingredients for the best mini meals
• Hygiene - the girl will probably drown in a regular shower, but you can help her freshen up
• Caring and loving - compliment the young lady, pet her on the head and who knows, maybe she'll let you have more over time
• Cleanliness - keeping her clean is just as important as paying attention. The girl can not hold a huge broom by herself, so you will have to clean up

All of these needs in optimal mode make the heroine feel sympathy for the main character. Even a non-human feels good to be cared for.

Through trust in bed

When a certain level of trust is reached, the bed scenes gradually open up. Except that you have to try hard to open all the scenes because some exclusive views are only opened for a certain dish or sequence of actions. You could say it's something of an achievement.