Little King’s Story

Intro
The Little King’s Story is a Nintendo Wii game that falls under a combination Role-Playing Game, life-simulation, Real-Time Strategy, and Adventure genre. It was released on the 21st July, 2009 by its publisher, XSEED Games / Marvelous Entertainment. The game is rated as T (Teen) which contain violent content, mild or strong language, and suggestive themes meaning that it is suitable for players who are more than 13 years old by ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board), while the game’s developer is Cing Incorporated – Town Factory. The game’s storyline begins with a young boy named Corobo who is shy and, without many friends. During his walk in the forest not very far from his village, he stumbles on a mysterious and powerful crown that can grant him the ability to charm a person and making him or her follow his instructions. The shy little boy suddenly becomes King of the village after being informed by Howzer, the bull-knight, thus Corobo begins on a mission to turn his village into a kingdom. You will be playing the role as the King in an interactive fairy tale world (a few wooden huts, and a scrappy wooden shack castle) where you will be managing the village population to create new territory, look out for treasure, build new buildings, as well as trying to conquer other nations to create a single unified kingdom.

The Little King’s Story begins on an island where you will play the role as the Little King (Corobo) who found a mysterious gold crown and suddenly become the ruler of a small village known as Alpoko. He will be accompanied by an adviser, Howser the Bull-Knight and your trusted companion, Pancho. Your quest is to conquer the world and find enough treasure to start improving the village. As the King, you will have to deal with lazy and unemployed citizens, thus this is where you need to build a training school to enable them to be Hardworking Farmers (experts at digging up hidden treasures) or Military Grunts (who can fight against the Monster Uma) each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Every guardian in the mini-bosses game that you defeated enables you to create more followers such as the Animal Hunter (warriors that specialize in ranged combat), Merchant (savvy businessmen who are invaluable when it comes to financing your ever-expanding campaign), Carpenter (handy men and women who specialize in building stairs, bridges and other forms of development), Chefs (specialised combat characters) or building a logging camp where you can train lumberjacks who can smash a big tree into small pieces. For every complete mission, the King would be able to expand the team, creating new unit and train the subjects with new skill.
In terms of control, the game utilized a combination of the Wii Remote (to let you send subjects out, call them back in, add members to your team or change their formation) and Nunchuk analogue stick controls more on its target and movement. As for the game play, it offers battles against powerful enemies that require the usage of different strategy, while the smaller encounter is where you fight with relatively powerful creatures that have bounties on their heads. This mission allows you to collect more money in between the large battles so that you will be able to expand the kingdom and upgrade your team. There are also battles against other rival Rulers which offer different boss fights, ranging from a King who wanted you to match him intellectually through a series of riddles, or to the one who challenge you to a game of pinball. Once you have conquered a number of regions, the Little King would be able to provide a town square with a suggestion box enabling you to receive feedback from your loyal subjects regarding your style of ruling. As for the sound, the game provide famous classical music to match accordingly to each scene, while the introductory movie uses vocal arrangement of Ravel’s Bolero and the title screen calls you to stand proud at Pomp and Circumstance.