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With how unconcerned LM can be about terrible things happening around her, and the accompanying music being jolly and gleeful in spite of pertinent problems, it can come across as callous and tone deaf. However, I’m not sure if the tone comes across as the developers intended. There’s a nice bit of variety to the game’s music, as not all of it follows a creepy or eerie pattern. That was so sad because I couldn’t pet them.” Either way, if you liked the aesthetic from FB, it’s much the same in LM. Reminds me of the time a cow kicked over an oil lantern, setting the entire barn ablaze, and killing all of the farm animals inside. Instead, it’s the comments that LM makes about her environment that tends to be more macabre than what inspired her to make her statement. However, though there are moments where things look bleak or perplexing, it’s much more subdued in LM. The art style of LM is quite similar to FB, as it has a light, childish air to it. Fran ate crazy pills like candy, but Misfortune here eats something only somebody taking crazy pills would eat. It’s almost like the developers found out that ambivalence worked well in their first game, so if they gave a similar experience, it’d be met with more applause, without caring if it undermined the whole point of the game. However, with the game outright telling me that you can’t trust anything shown throughout 98% of it, I’ve no basis to distinguish between what was the realistic depictions and where it deviated into nonsense. She’s desensitized to horrific misfortunes, which made me think she was a jinx of some kind. Everybody in town wears a mask to cover any unhappy facial expressions, LM is told to always smile no matter what, and she’s not surprised at all of the sudden, tragic events taking place around her. For me at least, this revelation hurt the world building of LM, as there were signs that something truly sinister was at work in this town. By the end, you learn that there’s a good reason for everything to seem so bizarre, and it’s not solely because the setting for these games is unusual. It doesn’t take long for the narrator of LM to start breaking the 4th wall, and calling into question how meta or strange the game is going to be. “Oh no mister, your son died, and you too are dead? Well, in that case, I’ll let you know that your puppy was kidnapped, try not to get too hung up on that.” All around the planet? I feel like they’d be concentrated in a few, select, areas. The main character is of similar nature to Fran, an 8 year old girl named Misfortune who also is strangely naive, optimistic, and in this case has a cavalier attitude towards grim events.

It takes place within the same canon as FB, and I’ve seen comments suggesting it’s 5 years into the future. I’ll try to avoid spoilers, but LM is rather short and reviewing its story winds up covering many of the plot points. Swiper no swiping… Swiper no swiping… oh no, he swiped my soul! Story Plus, the stakes never seemed that high, though I’m uncertain if some events can be failed or not.

#LITTLE MISFORTUNE BACKGROUND HOW TO#

These prompts always reflect the keyboard controls, but it’s pretty easy to figure out how to do it on the controller. As suggested by the various minigames, there are short events that change up the game’s controls. Glitter can be thrown by hitting the ‘Y’ button, and holding down ‘X’ or ‘B’ picks between choices given throughout the game.

Either way, there’s not much to do in LM, as you mostly just walk left and right with the ‘L joystick’ and occasionally hit the ‘A’ button to check out a background object. You have the option to play LM with either a keyboard or controller, and for the most part I used the controller. And with the bird dead by her side, her heart grew 3 sizes that day. I must admit that I expected more input on my part, thinking it’d be more like the point and click style of FB, instead of something so casual and effortless. However, these are infrequent and quite brief in duration, like a minigame. In different sections of the game, there will be a gameplay mechanic that requires more interactivity, such as hitting an alarm with a slingshot. With how heavily it promotes the choices available, the importance of the narrative, and there not being much to the gameplay, it is more of an interactive story than anything. LM is kind of a strange game to describe, as it’s not quite a point and click game, but the story isn’t text-heavy enough for it to be considered a visual novel either.

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