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I’d happily spend ages walking around, checking out the little corners of the landscape, even if the reward was generally a couple of hearts or coins at most. It felt like the already rich world of the first game had been turned into an actual place. The initial stages focused on Twinsen’s home island, in the teeming rain, were very atmospheric and gave a fine introduction to the game’s new sense of freedom. This was a brilliant best-of-both-worlds choice, and the outside areas looked stunning for its time (for context, we’re talking a year before Ocarina of Time).

These issues, combined with the fact I had to give it back to my friend once I was done, meant that while I was amazed by it, it was a flawed experience that I wouldn’t relive. It also had sections where one false move sent you back a long way. Rather than Twinsen’s actions all being mapped to different keys, he has four different moods that you switch between – normal, sporty (for running), aggressive (for fighting), and discreet (for sneaking).Īs such, if you wanted to fight someone, get across the screen at a decent speed, and then talk to someone else before running off, you would have to switch mood four times.

Little Big Adventure’s story of a prophesied chosen one and technological surveillance state sat oddly with its whimsy – it was also often beyond frustrating. I could go wherever I liked solve puzzles talk to the array of anthropomorphic animals and beach balls that made up the game’s citizens get into fights using Twinsen’s fists or his magic ball and enjoy exploring an unpredictable world. Having helped Twinsen escape from prison before collecting his magic ball and ancestral tunic, it quickly became apparent that Little Big Adventure featured a scale and freedom I’d never seen. That set him off a quest that covered the whole world and, eventually, culminated in a showdown with the tyrant. It started with pony-tailed main character Twinsen having grand, prophetic dreams about the end of the world, and you were given control of him after he was arrested for talking about them. Little Big Adventure was set in a colourful fantasy world ruled by a tyrant using his army of clones and teleport machines.

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Offering characters animated in vibrant 3D against beautiful pre-rendered backgrounds, it was immediately full of life in a new way.

It was like nothing I’d ever seen before. That was until a friend lent me his copy of Little Big Adventure, an action-adventure game he was finished with. I was mostly focused on sports and strategy games, with the exception of point ‘n’ click adventures. When we moved up to the PC, there were no such big gifts as a result, my gaming became a lot less diverse. The advantage of being late was that we were given other people’s then-unwanted collections of games, so we played all kinds of different titles, moving on quickly from anything we got bored with. I came to games early as a child, but on outdated systems, playing Commodore 64 games at the end of those platforms’ lifespans and beyond. The impression that Little Big Adventure 2 left on me goes much deeper. This line, from a game I last played almost 20 years ago, has stuck in my memory ever since. The Esmers must live on the hidden side.” I recently typed those words into Google from memory and, boom, the exact phrase came up. “In spite of my powerful telescope, I saw only a couple of flying saucers pass behind the Moon.