Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure

aka: LBA, Little Big Adventure, Little Big Adventure (Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure), Little Big Adventure: Twinsen's Adventure, Twinsen's Little Big Adventure Classic
Moby ID: 748
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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

  • リトル ビッグ アドベンチャー - Japanese spelling
  • 双子星传奇 - Simplified Chinese spelling

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Average score: 83% (based on 34 ratings)

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Average score: 4.1 out of 5 (based on 132 ratings with 6 reviews)

So good, it might even make you start liking the French

The Good
Specifically, I loved the clean, innocent look and feel of the game, as well as its French quirkiness and style. This game is absolutely charming. It's like the movie "The Princess Bride;" on the surface it seems to be made for kids, but deep down it's really for adults. This game is easily in my Top Ten favorite games of all time, and might well be in the Top Five.

The Bad
As I remember, the controls were a bit tough to manage in some of the action sequences, but I finished the game (a compliment in itself) and I'm by no stretch of the imagination an action junkie.

The Bottom Line
Relentless is a tough game to describe, because there really isn't another game quite like it. There are a lot that are like it in one way or another, but taken as a whole, it's kind of unique. I guess it's best described as a third-person isometric adventure, with some shooter and arcade elements. But whatever it is, do yourself a favor and pick it up!

DOS · by Jim Newland (56) · 2001

a very good game!

The Good
If you buy this game, I bet you will think it was made yesterday. Very good graphics with a very nice story and very funny characters. Smoke weed and play this game while listening to trance and you should get where that voice tell's you to go ;-). Any way, a really good game. The animation is perfect, and even though it has some bugs, it's a real piece of art. Buy it(or is it abandonware already?) and enjoy every minute.

The Bad
You cant really talk to people and the story never changes. Every time you start a game, and it doesn't matter what you did, people will say the same things to you. Lack of player-creativity.

The Bottom Line
LBA is a very fun game with high graphics to the last detail. Some bugs at the graphics can get you crazy, but remember, it's from 1995!

I don't know what about you, but I just love classic games, and this is a true classic. Buy it and i assure you, you will enjoy it.

DOS · by maor mor (2) · 2004

An entertaining fairytale, consistent in its presentation and storytelling.

The Good
This game has a fantastic, adorable atmosphere. It takes place in an odd universe that has a very unique and wide range of strange creatures and an exciting mythology. The graphics are very good and the illusion of this fantasyworld is very consistent and well done. The adventure is grand and long and very varied and takes you to a lot of different places around the strange world in your quest to save your girl and, of course, the world. The gameplay is interesting and quite original. You have four "modes" that you use to get through the adventure. You can sneak in "sneak mode" or fight in "aggressive mode". It's up to you to do what's right in the different situations. This game has it all. There's a lot of arcade action as well as the many quests and puzzles. In short, this is one of the most well crafted games I've ever played. It has some of the greatest moments ever in an adventure game, such as the military attack on the fortress. Real nice.

The Bad
This really is one of the best games I've ever played but it still has some irritating flaws. The most irritating thing about the game is the controls. They are a bit sloppy and the little bugger keeps running in to walls and falling down, which brings us to the next little flaw. Every time that you run into a wall you lose some energy and the little guy acts all woozy. This is very annoying since it is quite hard to control the little bugger as it is. When you try to flee from some bad guys you often find yourself running into a wall and the the bad guys are all over you and you're screwed. This may sound trivial but it is extremely annoying, and they had fortunately removed this feature in the sequel. It really isn't very entertaining dying from running into a wall. There are plenty of ways to die as it is in this game, believe me. Also, at times you have to run back and forth a bit too much, as in all adventure games. No biggie, but I have no patience for these things. Especially not when Iäm in danger of knocking myself to death on the nearest wall while trying to get out of tight spot.

The Bottom Line
A grand action adventure with a very consistent and world, full of life and myths and strange creatures.

DOS · by Joakim Kihlman (231) · 2004

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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

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Game added by Loki.

Windows added by Picard. Macintosh, Android, 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, Kayburt, completer90.

Game added January 14, 2000. Last modified October 2, 2023.