Rafiki wrote:


Little Inferno

Did I ever talk about this? I played it a year ago.

It's a puzzle game about burning things. You get a sticker book identifying item combos to burn with a name and the number of items required, and you have to figure out what items are required with only the name as a hint. The premise can't possibly hold up on its own and it doesn't, but it would be excusable if the burning was spectacular like anyone who bought this game was surely hoping. It's not. Burning shit in real life is awesome. Who doesn't like to huck things into a fire and see how it reacts? If you're going to make a game about it, you need some amazing special effects and this game falls way, way short.

The worst thing is that burning things gives you some cash which you use to order more things out of a catalog to burn, and there's an arbitrary "delivery" time that you have to sit and wait through before you can use your items. Your game will grind to a screeching halt as you sit around and wait for your items to activate and there's nothing else to do in the meantime. The game is also a satire of consumerism and sitting around wasting time watching TV or playing games, but when you're taking my money and deliberately wasting my time you need to go fuck yourself, satire or not.