![]() ![]() The environments are varied, and the charming artwork and music make adventuring a pleasure even when hordes of enemies are spewing fire and goo at you and your paltry stick weapon. It’s fun to just explore this weird island, talk to the locals, and find hidden caves and upgrades. The open nature of Ittle Dew 2+ holds much of its appeal. I’ve never seen so many varied iterations on pushing blocks! And make no mistake–in and out of dungeons, this game’s puzzles can take some work to solve. You’ll eventually need items only found in the dungeons to go about gathering the game’s many Secret Shards, but the puzzles are all there from the start for you to stare at blankly for as long as you want. You can do everything out of order if you want. There are eight dungeons, and you can see the first vaguely indicated on your blank map, but how and when you get there is up to you. Ittle Dew 2+ tells you little about itself when you begin. Advance Wars 1+2: Reboot Camp review: Two steps forward, few steps back.EA Sports PGA Tour Review: Teeing off a new generation of championship golf.CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story review: The perfected 2D side-scroller.After Us review: Lifeless and uninspiring.At first, she’s armed with only a stick to fight with, but as she travels she can pick up three other weapons, and all four are upgradeable for use both in combat and in puzzle-solving. In order to escape the island, she needs to collect eight raft pieces from each of the island’s eight dungeons. With her is her bored companion Tippsie, a flying fox. You play as Ittle, a young adventurer woman who has somehow washed up on an island that seemingly caters to adventurers just like her. ![]() Second, except for its genre, it’s not much like The Legend of Zelda. First, it manages to capture that feeling we all want back of not knowing where to go next and having to puzzle out the next destination or solution. But Ittle Dew 2+ does two key things right. Top-down action-adventure games have this problem constantly, because everyone compares them to Legend of Zelda, and some try too hard to be just that. When we talk about nostalgia for old gaming styles, we often misrepresent what was actually there by conflating it with how we felt about it at the time. By Rebekah Valentine 5 years ago Ittle Dew 2+ scratches the itch for a top-down action-adventure, and its wry humor and countless hidden challenges give it a spark all its own. ![]()
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