My Little Hero [iOS]

Your favourite toy has been stolen and you must don your cardboard helmet, sheathe your wooden sword and take it back from the enemy.The story and the feel of My Little Hero is very cutesy yet it seems to be aimed at an older audience than what it's tone would imply.

The game is a Zelda style 3rd person adventure and just like Zelda your levelling up is achieved through collecting new items. The combat is not as involved as a Zelda title though and you mostly just resort to mashing the attack button with most enemies. However the enemies are quite interesting and there are plenty of attack patterns you must learn so you can time your headlong mash attack correctly. Collecting your toys hidden across the levels adds an extra element of replayability and on some of the levels they are quite well hidden. However for the most part the level design isn't particularly interesting and they often make you back track over the same old boring ground.

The difficulty curve could have been improved greatly. The beginning of the game is quite easy, a little too easy in fact, then suddenly it has a difficulty spike that eases off as you get to the end and unlock more powerful tools.

As mentioned before the graphics of the game are quite cutesy. The monsters that you battle are actually your toys and a lot of them have a patchwork like quality about them.The worlds are varied and interesting enough to make exploring them exciting but by the end of a world you may be a bit sick of the feel.One annoying thing that the game does just a bit too much is put trees and other things that block your camera view.

There is a game in here somewhere.

It's at a "limited time offer" of a dollar on iPhone and 2 dollars for iPad and for these prices it is well worth the adventure. The game released with many bugs and whilst there has been a patch which fixed many of the issues I faced, (mainly crashing) I am still hopeful that there will be another patch to make the game even smoother.Overall though I enjoyed the game, though I found the main content a little short, however for a dollar it is not too bad 7.5/10.