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Little Kings Story (Wii) | 
| From: Rising Star Games
List Price: £19.99
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as of 30/7/2010 03:37 PDT details
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Rating:  30 reviews
Format: Unknown format
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: role-playing-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: No Operating System
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: rvl p ro3p
EAN: 5060102951544
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Product Description
Little King's Story begins with the story of young boy named Corobo. Shy, and without many friends, Corobo stumbles upon a mysterious, powerful crown while walking in the forest near his village. He soon discovers that the crown grants him the ability to charm any person, and make them follow his orders. Suddenly, Howzer, the bull-knight appears informing Corobo that he is now King of the village and that he must not take this responsibility lightly. Returning to his sleepy village as a King instead of a shy little boy, Corobo begins a quest to turn his small hamlet into a noble, fantastic kingdom.
The storyline, visual look and lyrical music of Little King's Story work in concert to transport players to an interactive, enchanting, fairytale world. By combining gameplay elements from life-simulation, real-time strategy and adventure genres, the many aspects of creating a vast kingdom come to life. As King, players will manage and involve their townspeople in the goals of creating this new territory; enlist them to dig for treasure, build new buildings and otherwise better their community. Of course, leadership is a two-way street, so as King, players will try to conquer rival nations to create a single unified kingdom as well as grant the requests of townspeople at whim. With the Wii Remote as a royal scepter, Little King's Story allows players the chance to be the best king in the world. - An original title for Wii developed by key members of the Harvest Moon, Final Fantasy XII and Dragon Quest VIII teams
- Unique combination of life simulation, real-time strategy and adventure game elements
- Command your loyal townspeople to dig for treasures, construct new buildings, break down obstacles or fight to the death in your name
- Unite the surrounding rival kingdoms under your flag to turn your sleepy little hamlet into the best kingdom ever
Amazon.co.uk Review
Little King’s Story is an original title designed and developed by some of the most respected names in the gaming industry. Featuring the efforst of Yasuhiro Wada (creator: Harvest Moon), Hideo Minaba (Art Director: Final Fantasy XII), and Youichi Kawaguchi (Main Programmer: Dragon Quest VIII), Little King’s Story combines life-simulation, real-time strategy, and adventure elements along with an enchanting storyline to offer a new and unique gaming experience. Once upon a time there was a young boy named Corobo. He was a shy, withdrawn boy with few friends. One day while wandering the forest near his village he came across a crown infused with a mysterious power; the power to charm any person and make them follow any order. At this time an adventurer, the bull-knight Howzer, appears and informs Corobo that he is now the king of his village and that it is his responsibility to become the best king ever. Corobo then returns to his village to begin his efforts to turn his sleepy little hamlet into the best kingdom ever.
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 Finally, A Good Wii Game July 20, 2010
J. Webb
If, like myself, you foolishly purchased a Nintendo Wii on the behest of a loved one, you might be wondering where all the "proper games" are for it. You know, the ones that have stories and don't involve too much of that flailing-about-wildly nonsense. Little King's Story restored my faith in the console by having everything I used to love about Nintendo games. The gameplay mechanics and controls are reasonably easy to get your head round;(if you're familiar with Pikmin, the game is controlled almost identically). The story has a lot of heart, and although it's not quite as fleshed out as a full blown RPG (this is more of a strategy/puzzler with RPG elements - think Harvest Moon) it's full of unusual characters and ideas.
So, there are a few clunky elements, but none you wouldn't expect from this sort of title. The save system is old-fashioned and occasionally frustrating (although an optimist might see this as a refreshing challenge when compared to save-a-minute games that ultimately promote tweak-play). The game doesn't implement the Wii motion controls, but they arguably wouldn't have brought anything special.
The much lauded soundtrack is nothing groundbreaking, consisting of arrangements of famous classical pieces (which can make the tracks annoying if you recognise them - the constant gallop of the William Tell Overture during boss fights instantly springs to mind). As with a lot of Japanese titles, there's no option to turn off either the sound or music, and as with a lot of Japanese titles, you may have good reason to want to turn off either or both.
Central to the plot seems to be the struggle between religion and science as they vie for the support of the little king. The other rulers you encounter and do battle with all have some strange flaw that occasionally makes you think.
The collectable items that so often become annoying when strewn around a game in awkward hard-to-reach places are made a little more desireable by the fact that each is a genuine piece of artwork submitted by fans in a competition. (Cue "Awwwww".)
The cutesyness of this game, as with many Japanese games, hides a depth that's hard to find in a lot of current Western releases, which tend to focus more on looking like "real life" while simultaneously offering the same emotional content as a bowl of potato salad. I really can't recommend LKS more, especially if you've enjoyed previous games like Harvest Moon. It's a solid game, and even if players begrudge the developers' failure to make proper use of the Wii's motion controls, said players can always pause the game at regular intervals to run about outside waving their arms in the air. Or something.
 Support developers like this - buy this game! March 30, 2010
Mitya (Nottm., UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I cannot praise this game highly enough. Nintendo has always struggled with a lack of quality third-party games on its platforms, but this is right up there with the best of them, although I wish it were marketed a little more as it deserves a wider audience.
The game sees you control a little boy who is appointed king of a ramshackle, financially struggling kingdom which is surrounded by other, more powerful kingdoms. Your task, in a nutshell, is to grow your kingdom, improve the lives of your people, invade surrounding areas (the inhabittants of which have all been infected with UMA, a sort of evil-causing virus).
You could call it "strategy lite", since it doesn't go into tedious depth regarding resource collection. You do collect stuff, but it tends to be surreal things like junk, turnips or "priceless" pieces of art which, to the untrained eye, look like a 5-year-old did them with a crayon.
But where the game really shines is in its charm and humour. Such attention to detail is on display here that you'll just marvel at it. All your citizen classes act differently with their own quirks, and your main warrior rides a cow into battle. 'Nuff said. There are so many amusing items to collect, amusing characters along the way, that it just oozes charm.
This is not so much a game for kids as a game that kids can play. Any game-loving adult will get a lot out of it.
Get it and let's have a sequal.
 Initial response. Disappointing March 15, 2010
Ian (Bristol, England)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is very much a preliminary review after a couple of hours play. I hope to come back and edit into line with all the rave reviews but at the moment I am feeling a little underwhelmed.
I should explain that I am new to console gaming though have spent far too much of my time PC gaming.
My first impressions of this game are that it has a few problems.
Firstly I do not think that the animation looks that good. It is really not that easy to distinguish characters and items. I am used to much better even in older PC games such as Civilisation II and III.
I was very surprised to find that the interaction with characters is by way of speech bubble type text. The characters do speak a language at times but I cannot work out if it is Japanese or a fantasy speak.
I am even more surprised by the lack of gameplay instructions. The manual in the case is just a few pages. Gameplay seems to have to be learned by trial and error and in particular by conversations wih one of the main advisors to the king. I have spent most of my time so far wandering around trying to work out how I can achieve anything. A little more help would be in order.
Finally, and this may be a killer, the save system is appalling. To save a game you have to trek back to your "palace", climb on the throne, summon an advisor and tell her to save. This is a pain even when you have scarcely explored beyond the palace grounds. Quite how I am supposed to do this when far from home and about to face danger is beyond me. Perhaps this is a gameplay design but I fear it is going to spoil my fun.
I can only hope that sticking with it will reap rewards.
Diamond in the rough February 26, 2010
James Abela (Kuala Lumpur)
This is one of those games that when you first look at it, it looks nothing special. The first hour of play was an ok experience with a fairly basic introduction to the characters and gameplay, but as the game progresses it is a wonder to behold. The world becomes bigger, there are boss fights, large areas to explore and many characters. This is a deep game, which I think will last you many hours. In some ways it is like The Sims, but the Sims with an army at your disposal. Despite the cutesy graphics this is not a game particularly well-suited to young children and I think that is why it hasn't sold well.
fab!! February 16, 2010
Moomin (Bristol, UK)
Don't be fooled by the cartoon feel....once you get going, there's alot more to this than dodgy classical music and fun graphics!!! It keeps opening up new worlds and possibilities, each one has a different aspect and will involve different tactics to complete....soldiers and brute force aren't always the ansa!!
But seriously, a good fun game for anyone.
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