Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure
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Somewhere in the universe, there is a beautiful planet called Twinsun. It is populated by four different races, which have been living in peace and prosperity, until a mad scientist Dr. Funfrock of the Quetch (human-like) race used his newly invented cloning and teleporting techniques to create an army of fearsome soldiers and become the planet's dictator. Twinsun's inhabitants have not lost hope, placing their faith in the old legend about the benevolent goddess Sendell who would save the world. However, Dr. Funfrock totalitarian regime forbade displaying any images of the goddess and her worship.
A young Quetch named Twinsen was just a regular fellow until he had a dream, which surprisingly involved the outlawed goddess. It seems that Dr. Funfrock was no stranger to mind control; in his opinion, even dreaming of the goddess was illegal, and he promptly ordered to put the perpetrator in prison. Now the unlikely hero must find a way to escape and eventually save his planet from the clutches of its insane ruler.
Little Big Adventure (Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure in the US) is primarily an adventure game with strong action elements. As usually in adventure games, the hero must talk to other characters, and collect and use objects. However, not all the problems have to be solved with dialogue and item manipulation. The player can activate four different behavior modes for Twinsen: Normal, Aggressive, Athletic, and Discreet. The first is used for peaceful exploration and conversations; Aggressive mode allows Twinsen to punch and kick other characters; Athletic mode must be applied when it becomes necessary to run quickly and jump; Discreet effectively puts Twinsen in a stealth mode, making it possible to sneak by hostile character unnoticed. While activation of a particular mode is often required to solve a problem, many situations can be dealt with in different ways.
The game universe is rendered with characters in full 3D, while the environment uses isometric graphic tiles. The CD version (which was released earlier than the floppy one) features pre-rendered animated cutscenes, audio music and speech; all these features are absent from the floppy disk version.
Spellings
- 双子星传奇 - Simplified Chinese spelling
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Trivia
1001 Video Games
Little Big Adventure appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Development
Originally, this game was was meant to be made for the SNES, with the use of the Super FX chip. Also, in early previews, the was mention of Twinsen being able to drive vehicles. The final version of the game lack this feature but it is included in the sequel.
LBAWin
It is not easy to get to run this game on modern PC's. For different reasons the game has its difficulties with DosBox. The best way to play it would be LBAWin, a Windows port created by a former Adeline programmer. It requires the original DOS disc to play and can be downloaded here.
Technology
The programmers used some tricks in this game: The game's soundtrack is made of both redbook audio and midi syntesizer. The video mode is SVGA for most of the game, but if you zoom, the game uses standard VGA.
Awards
- Computer Gaming World
- May 1995 (Issue #130) – Adventure of the Year
- GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/1999 - #71 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
Information also contributed by Mark Ennis and micnictic
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Encyclopedia Twinsunica
An in-depth encyclopedia about the universe of Little Big Adventure. -
LbaWin
The official Windows port of the game -
Little Big Adventure - Hebrew translation
Hebrew translation project. -
The Magic Ball Network
Probably the biggest fansite for the game with an active community and quite a lot of content. -
Walkthroughs
several solutions posted on the Spoiler Centre
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- MobyGames ID: 748
- Steam App: 397330
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Contributors to this Entry
Game added by Loki.
Windows added by Picard. Android, Macintosh, Blacknut added by Sciere. iPad, iPhone added by Kabushi. FM Towns, PC-98 added by Terok Nor. PlayStation added by Grant McLellan.
Additional contributors: Trixter, Itay Brenner, Isdaron, Jeanne, //dbz:, Sciere, Solid Flamingo, Crawly, CaesarZX, Patrick Bregger, FatherJack, ZeTomes, completer90.
Game added January 14th, 2000. Last modified March 16th, 2023.