The Overlook | Little Deviants Review

<p>This is a new feature here on Bagogames I&&num;8217&semi;d like to introduce where I take a newly released game and write a quick review of it due to the game lacking in certain key areas&period; With this being said&comma; and with my newly obtained piece of hardware I&&num;8217&semi;d like to look at one of the many launch titles of the PS Vita&period; Many who had pre-ordered the Vita back in February of this year&comma; got <em>Little Deviants<&sol;em> as a free game pre-loaded onto the 4gb memory card bundled inside the box&period; Now if you didn&&num;8217&semi;t pre-order it like many consumers &lpar;me&rpar;&comma; you are probably wondering if this tech-demo like game is really worth the asking price or if it should be ignored like most of the release games for the Vita&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The graphics are mediocre at best&comma; compared to other high profile games&comma; this doesn&&num;8217&semi;t really push the Vita&&num;8217&semi;s graphical power to it&&num;8217&semi;s limits&period; Though it&&num;8217&semi;s relatively awesome to use augmented reality cameras to immerse yourself into the world of Little Deviants&comma; it really doesn&&num;8217&semi;t offer much more than competing products from other companies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;little-deviants-review&sol;little-deviants-screenshot-1&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-12185"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-12185 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;04&sol;06214743&sol;Little-Deviants-screenshot-1-300x168&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The gameplay is really where this game hooks you in terms of Vita capabilities&period; Though I&&num;8217&semi;m willing to admit that this game offers just a little more then what a free game on a competitor&&num;8217&semi;s console will offer&comma; what it does offer is down right addicting&period; You will be latching on to some of the minigames&comma; than others as they either repeat themselves or function better than the others&period; For example&comma; the game uses a lot of mini-games requiring you to use either the touch pads or the gyrosensors of the Vita to either kill enemies or to avoid them&period; Then there are games like the singing one&comma; that require you use the mic&comma; which only appears a few times&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t know if the developer at BigBig intentionally did that knowing the microphone on the Vita isn&&num;8217&semi;t well traversed in picking up pitch&comma; or if the game itself is too early in the Vita&&num;8217&semi;s infancy that it can&&num;8217&semi;t handle different pitches for singing&comma; but overall the other games are worthwhile to play&period; The player though will experience boredom after large amounts of play if they don&&num;8217&semi;t like beating their own or other players&&num;8217&semi; online score because this game suffers for being repetitive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;little-deviants-review&sol;little-deviants-screenshot-2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-12186"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-12186 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;04&sol;06214734&sol;Little-Deviants-screenshot-2-300x168&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The music and sound are good and the story is non-existent&period; Yes there is a story to speak of&comma; but doesn&&num;8217&semi;t really add anything to the overall gameplay&period; Deviants&comma; which are basically aliens in the shape of balls&comma; are attacked by bots which end up destroying their ship and cause the Deviants crash onto earth&period;The environments that the player is offered to play in are also the center piece at least one play through&period; There are many levels to play in&comma; which features great grasslands&comma; ice mounts and other various landscapes&period; These are unlocked by completing each of the mini-games till one gets either a bronze&comma; silver&comma; or gold metal&period; This is what is at the core of what this game has to offer&comma; is unlocking new areas&comma; different Deviants&comma; parts to the Deviant&&num;8217&semi;s ship that they need to get back home and cats called Moggers &lpar;which are in game trophies essentially&rpar;&period; This lack of story&comma; and repetitive gameplay while still having it be addicting and rewarding is why I&&num;8217&semi;ll give this game a <strong>3&period;2<&sol;strong> out of 5&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;