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Little Red Riding Hood and the Mysterious Cave review
Exceptional
by faxeneda

This game is great, there's a surprising amount of content despite being under 500MB. The gameplay is pretty good, the game is mostly an RPG with a mix of both action and turn-based battles, and it works well. It can be a bit difficult at times though, especially towards the end if your stats are low. The only major issues I had was just that the game still isn't fully translated yet, so it's possible that I wasn't using the best equipment and abilities, along with missing a lot hints and tasks from the various NPCs around the game (which I know I am because I couldn't find one of the items required for a craftable outfit from the succubus girls).

I would mention the story but since only menus were translated, I don't really know what's happening. I have a general idea and it seems like it's good, but I don't know enough Japanese to fully understand the story.

Outside of the main gameplay, there is also some side content that unlocks as you progress through the game. The first of these is a rhythm game with two levels, at least currently. The second are some optional dungeons that are available in the back of the gallery area in Tyrol's house. These dungeons are special, not just because they have different mechanics and H-scenes than the main game but also because a different character, Tink, is playable here. The third one I want to mention is the tower defense mini-game, I didn't finish it because it gets really difficult in the later parts, but it's still a nice departure from the main game.

For the H-scenes themselves, mostly they're good. I know that there are some people (mainly Twitter and Bluesky users) who will freak out if they find this game but I like it. I would like to have seen some h-scenes involving more characters than just Tyrol and Tink, though. The only problems I have with the H-scenes are that some of them are longer than they need to be and there are some I never watched because I hate spiders and I don't understand why there are people who are into that.

The last thing I want to talk about is that, while I don't plan on doing a full playthrough on Linux until the game gets fully translated, I was able to play this game on both Linux through Wine and android through Winlator, and they ran mostly fine. There was a problem on both platforms where either some areas didn't have music or there was an issue with a droning sound that's really annoying. I know of several apps for running Windows games on both of these platforms but I'm not familiar enough with them to know how to get music to play in all areas without the droning sound.