The Little Inferno Entertainment Fireplace! It seems like everyone has one these days. Everyone I know has one... and everyone I don't know has one too! It's so toasty I could stay here forever!
Little Inferno is close to a perfect game, everything comes together to fit one purpose. The art style fits the tone exactly, the music is fantastic and appropriately placed, the gameplay complements and adds meaning to the message, and the message is important but also surprisingly helpful and uplifting. Every sentence feels carefully chosen and placed and laced with lots of hidden signficance. After one playthrough there's still much more for me to learn, but I've already taken in a lot and it's good to feel that it hasn't been tapped out yet. It's a short indie game, based around simple but addictive casual game mechanics. The one problem with the game is that eventually the gameplay becomes slightly too long and painful on your time. That's an important part of the theme, but it doesn't make it easier to bear. But with careful use of stamps that can be overcome.
This is as far as you need to go and should go if you haven't played the game. I won't spoil anything directly, but I want to talk about what the game's theme means and it really is better to discover it yourself.
Little Inferno is about your time being precious and the wonderful important things you can do with your life. It wants to make you question the time you place in grindy ultimately meaningless consumable media, but it doesn't condemn it or you for doing that. This is why the game doesn't feel annoying and preachy like it should have. The game is interesting and addictive and it's not unnatural to be sucked in and the people who make it are creative people living in the real world.
You can quickly be drawn into the static image of nothing but the fireplace in front of you and when things happen in the story you carry on playing the game, carry on looking at the screen and don't turn away to deal with whats happened. It is easy to be drawn into huddling around the fireplace ignoring the cold outside but the game doesn't treat you like a bad person for it. Rather it wants you to know that you're a better person than you think and you can always do more. When all your dreams are satisfied, what should you do? Dream bigger!
Dream Bigger! An utterly beautiful game!
The Little Inferno Entertainment Fireplace! It seems like everyone has one these days. Everyone I know has one... and everyone I don't know has one too! It's so toasty I could stay here forever!
But it can't last forever.
Little Inferno is close to a perfect game, everything comes together to fit one purpose. The art style fits the tone exactly, the music is fantastic and appropriately placed, the gameplay complements and adds meaning to the message, and the message is important but also surprisingly helpful and uplifting. Every sentence feels carefully chosen and placed and laced with lots of hidden signficance. After one playthrough there's still much more for me to learn, but I've already taken in a lot and it's good to feel that it hasn't been tapped out yet. It's a short indie game, based around simple but addictive casual game mechanics. The one problem with the game is that eventually the gameplay becomes slightly too long and painful on your time. That's an important part of the theme, but it doesn't make it easier to bear. But with careful use of stamps that can be overcome.
This is as far as you need to go and should go if you haven't played the game. I won't spoil anything directly, but I want to talk about what the game's theme means and it really is better to discover it yourself.
Little Inferno is about your time being precious and the wonderful important things you can do with your life. It wants to make you question the time you place in grindy ultimately meaningless consumable media, but it doesn't condemn it or you for doing that. This is why the game doesn't feel annoying and preachy like it should have. The game is interesting and addictive and it's not unnatural to be sucked in and the people who make it are creative people living in the real world.
You can quickly be drawn into the static image of nothing but the fireplace in front of you and when things happen in the story you carry on playing the game, carry on looking at the screen and don't turn away to deal with whats happened. It is easy to be drawn into huddling around the fireplace ignoring the cold outside but the game doesn't treat you like a bad person for it. Rather it wants you to know that you're a better person than you think and you can always do more. When all your dreams are satisfied, what should you do? Dream bigger!