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App Review: Little Big Adventure Android
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Little Big Adventure is a new adventure title that is available for iOS and Android for € 3.59. However, new is not totally correct, since the title has already been published in 1994 on the PC and the PlayStation. In some countries the game was called "Relentless: Twinsen 's Adventure". The retro specialists from DotEmu released the game classic for mobile platforms. I played the game 20 years ago on a PC and loved Little Big Adventure. But can Little Big Adventure for mobile live up to the expectations?

In the game, you take control of Twinsen. Twinsen lives on Citadele Island, where the evil dictator Dr. FunFrock punishes the people. Twinsen is a dreamer, and one of those dreams has brought him directly to the psychiatry. Because Twinsen dreamed of the destruction of the planet through Dr. FunFrock. So two goals have already been set: To escape from the Psychiatry and to overthrow the dictator. The control of Twinsen is done by simply tapping on the touch screen. You simply tap in the place where Twinsen shall go. With a double tap you can attack opponents. By holding your finger on Twinsen and pulling it away in a small curve Twinsen jumps. Basically, the controls works pretty well, but it would have been nice if the developers would have given Twinsen a little more intelligence so that he could also run around obstacles. So you must always tap here and there on the screen, so that Twinsen can reach the desired position. This is especially frustrating when you're trying to escape from an enemy.

Graphics and sound have noticeable aged - in 1994 no one thought about retina graphics. So you can see pixels in the game the voice acting sounds compressed. But this hardly disturbs the adventure and Little Big Adventure still manages to create a fascinating atmosphere. Unfortunately DotEmu has also taken some things from the original, that are outdated nowadays. First, the game world is relatively open. That is nothing bad, but there is no help except some hotspots where to go and how to deal with obstacles. A much bigger problem is, that Little Big Adventure features an automatic checkpoint and save system, so you have to play through some long sections again and again and again. A manual saving is not possible. And that is really frustrating.

My conclusion:
Little Big Adventure is a wonderful adventure. The story is great, the locations and characters fascinating and the music full of atmosphere. Unfortunately the title can't show his strengths. Twinsen can't find the paths to a tapped position by himself, and in particular the automatic save system creates a lot of frustration. Hopefully DotEmu delievers an update in the near future, because otherwise a good adventure can't show its potential. - Little Big Planet 3 OST Steam punk'd