Little Kings Story Review

Review of Little Kings Story
by WarrenHayashi (38,808 pts )
Edited & published by Michael Hartman (11,077 pts ) on Aug 14, 2009
4

Little King's Story has style and charm that never stops entertaining the senses and keeps you coming back for more fun. This adventure is far from little and sneaks up on you with fantastic themes and countless hours of constant and useful entertainment.

The Good PartsRating Excellent

Little Kings Story for the Wii

Little Kings Story is a video game adventure of global conquest, genocide, religion and urban expansion that's shockingly deep, entertaining and satisfying to play. This video game adventure sneaks up on your senses with fantastic themes in a charming and stylish world. You'll undertake story quests that further the plot, listen to the complaints of your citizens and manage all aspects of your kingdom as you keep the peace.

Little King's Story is a strategic RPG that starts out slow to introduce casual gamers and kids to the game play and then it picks up once you have learned the basics. The pace of the game play is slow at first but as you play you're tasked with building infrastructure and providing your citizens with useful and gainful employment. Little King's Story does borrow from fun and stylish video games like Nintendo's Pikmin and Animal Crossings and it includes elements of entertaining video games like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

Little King's Story is a huge adventure that gets bigger the farther you progress in this video game adventure. It took me 5 hours just to unlock all areas of the full map, let alone begin to search out the other kingdoms surrounding my kingdom.

The Bad PartsRating Good

Little Kings Story is a fun and entertaining kids' game

Little Kings Story doesn't include an auto-save or instant-save feature to save the game at important or troublesome spots that you're having problems with. Little King isn't much of a fighter, so, if he gets involved in combat and gets killed, which is easy to do. You'll be forced to start over from the beginning of the adventure because of the lack of an auto-save feature.

Little King's Story doesn't implement any of the Wii-specific controls such as motion-sensing and infra-red detection in the control scheme. This makes the action of the game play feel like a step-back in video game history because you need to do lots of button mashing in order to play this video game. Town Factory and Cing really missed the boat in terms of making use of the Wii's motion-sensing ability to improve this video game.

The Graphical PictureRating Good

The graphical presentation of Little King's Story is soft and blurry at times which makes the environments look foggy at times and lack resolution. They did make intelligent use of light-blooming and atmosphere to give Little King's Story a stylish, charming and unique visual appearance. The fantastic watercolors in the fantasy settings are bright, crisp and clean and include visual-glitter and sparkle that the kids will love. The animation of all the characters and moving objects in Little King's Story are smooth and fun to watch.