Best / Most charming games you never played - Little Big Adventure / Relentess

Deusfaux

-with mod permission-



"WOW…How can I even start to describe this game? Well to be honest, I can’t. At least not just by playing it. To tell the truth I had to look around the net for various other reviews for this game. I needed to see if they managed to catch the magnificence of Little Big Adventure in their review, but no-one had even come close to give the game its justified glory. And I can understand why. This game is without a moment of doubt the BEST game to ever be released in 1994!"

-Made by French dudes Delphine, who also made the excellent Flashback . First published by EA, second game by Activision in NA

-Full speech!

WHAT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_big_adventure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Adventure_2

DETAILS and IMAGES
http://www.mobygames.com/game/relentless-twinsens-adventure
http://www.mobygames.com/game/twinsens-odyssey

GET
http://www.lbahq.com/download.php

MANUAL
http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.2188

EXTRA (review / discussion / inferior download)
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/149/Little+Big+Adventure+-+Twinsens+Adventure.html

VIDEO (walkthrough of initial moments)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47jR4D9rgxs&feature=related




I suggest the first d/l link for LBA1. You don't need any of the other downloads. Same goes for LBA2. Just the game.

You will also need something like Daemon Tools (a virtual CD drive), unless you want to actually burn a disc with Nero or Alcohol. http://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon

Then run the game in DOSBOX (www.dosbox.com to get). I suggest a front-end like DosBox Game Launcher or D-Fend Reloaded to help you with that. OR just use the XP hacked version that install provides for you if you can't be bothered with DOSBOX. LBA2 was always Windows so just use the link it provides on the desktop.

If people want my .conf file to use with DosBox, I can paste that here. DosBox will be truer to the original game, especially with regards to music and sound. Picking Roland MT-32 or Waveblaster in the setup will use GM synth - and that's what you want (unless you know how to work Gravis Ultrasound). I think fiddling a bit with DosBox is worth it.




ARROW KEYS to move
CTRL for behaviour selection
SPACEBAR for action of that behaviour
TAB for inventory
ENTER to center on you
ALT comes later

Tig

My friend is a huge fan of this game... Used to run one of the big fansites and stuff. I believe he's on first-name terms with Frederick Raynal to this day.




It seems to be one of those games which inspires great fondness and loyalty in everyone who played it.
The fan community seems very active as well, from what I've seen... Pretty impressive for a game from 1994.



I kinda wish I had owned a PC back in the mid-90's. <_<

l337CrappyJack

God, this game MADE my gaming formative years growing up. I've got a PSP with custom firmware, and a copy of the PS1 version of this, and it breaks my heart that the PSP won't play the CD audio properly. I would kill to have this wherever I go in my pocket.

UncleSporky

With this thread already treading on seemingly shaky legal ground, you probably shouldn't mention that, Jack.

Deusfaux

there's some character (maybe a female rabbibunny) somewhere in the middle of the 2nd game that made my heart flutter when I was 10. must find this part

Deusfaux

why don't you guys play this over the weekend?

Chance

Oh Em Effin Gee!

Thank you so much for telling me the title! I was thinking of this game just the other day, and realized I would never be able to remember the name.

When I was a wee thing we moved from the city to the country - my parents told me it was because they were worried about the influences of city life (my older brother made lifelong friends with Mary Jane despite our location), and in return for removing us from our beloved city they agreed to buy him a horse, and me a dirt bike.

I never got my bike, but they bought me an Aptiva PC. When, at the store, I adorably asked the sales lady if it came with a game, she threw in Relentless.

Loved it. It was my only game for a long, long time.

Deusfaux

that's one happy customer

Deusfaux

and last attempt to get the word out. I suppose more people would play games from the last few months than this

Deusfaux

Guy just updated both for better Vista / 7 compatibility!

http://forums.videogames101.net/index.php?topic=64.0

maximumzero

Remember reading about "Twinsen's Odyssey" in PC Gamer in the mid-90s (In middle school, no less) and about it being "Better than Super Mario 64".

Atheraal

Man, 1994 was such a great year for gaming. This, Sonic 3, Super Metroid, Master of Magic, Earthworm Jim... I'm sure there's more. But yes, LBA is an excellent game. I loved it, from the stance selection system to the happy little running into a wall animation.

Bastable

LBA, so much fondness I have for this game. I remember walking into the computer game shop with my father to buy a 3dfx card, Tomb raider required it. And there was relentless on a display computer, I was captivated from the start even as a teenager I marveled at the uncertain narrator the game created with you starting off in an insane asylum for hearing gods voices. The cute gfx with the viscous and shocking violence when you beat people and frankfurters to a pulp were sublime. And the initial setting of twinsen in a struggle with cult of personality dictatorship, magnificent.

Luscious game, and a magnificent sequel.

facetious

I've heard good things about this before, and always wanted to try it; downloading now. Thanks.

Satsumomo

LBA brings me such sad memories.

I had it forever but never understood the game, I guess I was too young, but one day I installed it and got the hang of it. But this was back in the day where autosaves did not exist, however for my fortune (or misfortune) the game had a quicksave function, which I used a lot.

So much in fact, that I saved right before one of those elephant dudes hit me in the face with a bullet/sphere thing. If you died in this game, it was game over, no continue from last level, nothing. Game over.

I was pretty far in the game, and saving right before dying ruined it forever. I never got to playing it again.

Dangerbird

I remember downloading the demo from a local BBS and playing it when I was a wee lad. I couldn't get over how awesome the open world was, and how cool it was that you could sneak around, or just attack random people.

Then I saved my allowance and bought the full game, and it was awesome, so very awesome.

The best part was at the end when you join the rebels to assault the city. Even though it was presented in such a cartoony lighthearted manner, it all seemed very serious to me back then.

Docken

Both these games are epically awesome!

Anyone who hasn't played them and likes action adventure in the slightest should do so immediately.