Quick Look: Little King's Story

Finally, a game devoted to the adventures of King from Tekken when he was a young lad...no wait, im thinking of 'Tekken Babies' (out Q3 2010)

It's like a combination of Pikmin, Fat Princess, and Harvest Moon- at least that's the vibe I'm getting.

Apparently this game is hard as fuck.

Something that looks "casual" can be deceiving.

This game is fantastic, easily my favorite non-Nintendo Wii game ever.

God, I wanted to watch a quick look but this game is so boring. Damn!

By far the best Wii game I've played in a long time. First one of this type that has given me that old Harvest Moon vibe since, well... Harvest Moon. Constant upgrades for your king and kingdom, coupled with taking over and building on the areas of the world map is super addictive. The combat is pretty simple, but the complexity comes in when managing large groups of various classes. You will be hitting the D-pad a lot to reorganize your units. The game offers no motion control (of which I'm thankful tbh), which begs the question of why this is a Wii exclusive. Hopefully, it will catch on and we might get an HD version on 360 or PS3 sometime.

Looks pretty neat. Not really worth plugging in the Wii though.

" Apparently this game is hard as fuck.Something that looks "casual" can be deceiving. "

Little King Planet!

I thought you were doing a Conker's Bad Fur Day quick-look from that picture.

Looks like overlord to me. a bit less evil maybe.

The dots are the units' health
but anyways this game is amazing, an hour in there is this priest called Kambell and he runs the soup church and every boss is hilarious.  It sometimes gets hard to target one enemy though because all the red targets get cluttered

They probably should have done the quick look just a bit further into the game.  It ramps up in complexity and awesomeness pretty quickly.  I'm sure Ryan will mention that in the review, though.  A lot of people are dismissing this as a casual game, but it's easily one of the most hardcore, complex, and unforgiving games out on consoles right now.

I wish I had a Wii, this game looks perfect for me !

The little dots above their heads are their life points. When it reaches 1 full dot, they grow really old, like in Dark Crystal when they're drained of their life essence. That guy lost his hat and went bald and grey haired. Same thing happens to the king, he gets a big grey beard :)

Looks rad, I haven't seen it in stores yet though..

This looks like it controls like ass with the pikmin being sent out in only 8 directions.

This is probably the biggest surprise of the year for me, I'd even go so far as to say game of the year for me so far.  It definitely ramps up in complexity and content later on.

I'm also really digging the humor in this game, as it can be surprisingly dark and just plain weird at times.

For example, talking to one of my townsfolk, this gem came up:

"Princess Apricot is really kind. She let me lick it.  Her lollipop is so delicious!"

WHAT?!

vinny wants to be a little princess LOL

I feel horribly disapointed that no one exclaimed "Turn your gold coins and bags of cold into COLD HARD CASH".

Am I the only one who thinks the light bloom is a little out of hand here?

The ridiculous amounts of light bloom in that game, makes it look like a blurry mess.

This Quick Looks make me want to play Harvest moon...

Looks like a good game. Though I kinda wish it was multiplatform since it seems like you don't need any sort of motion control to play it.

This art style looks mad generic

" Looks like a good game. Though I kinda wish it was multiplatform since it seems like you don't need any sort of motion control to play it. "

game looks great . Love these quick looks

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Looks like overlord to me. a bit less evil maybe.

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I now hate my wii even more.

Ralph as in John Goodman as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones.

Somehow I felt bad when my Pikmin died, but when they're communist villagers, I don't mind.

really?

What's up with this game? "I hate you!"

Maybe it's just not my kind of game, but that looked pretty boring.

Ryan and Vinny QL Go!

Hilarious

The art style is terrible.

I dunno... despite being a mashup of a bunch of other games, it looks like a lot of fun. I'm actually thinking about getting it, if I can pick it up on the cheap.

I love how games are having less originallity now. Its like the designers said "Screw trying to work hard to make a good game, lets just steal a concept from a popular game so we can make easy money." First Overlord and now this, when are games gonna stop taking Pikmin's ideas?

The light bloom is to give a water colour quality to the game, one that resembles the concept art.

Little King Story is awesome, I've had it for a while now, It's been out in Europe for a few months.

Easily one of the best Wii games.

You don't want a fucking turnip walkin' around, man!

Light Bloom is obviously awesome and should be used everywhere in a game.

Looks really fun, especially since your dudes don't immediately croak when they touch water :)

Finally a Wii game I'm excited to play.

I never played Pikmin. Should I be ashamed of myself and go fix it?

Little Communitsts Story out now on the Wii?

When the game said "i hate you" it was because ryan kept sending his dudes charging into walls over and over again.  If you do that too much your villagers will start to hate you.

Endurance run!