Review: Like Zelda? You’ll Like Ittle Dew [iOS / Phone / PC]

If you love the Zelda games like Link Before Time, Ittle Dew will be a must buy.

You play as a female character named Ittle Dew with a potion chugging flying squirrel (I think) named Tippsie. You’ve crashed your raft into an island filled with baddies and puzzles. You have one big dungeon with 3 mini dungeons and it goes from there.

Presentation:

The graphics are amazing that’s the first thing you noticed as the might be hand drawn graphics of trees,enemies and characters come alive on an island that has ice,fire and haunted dungeons. It looks great and makes you stare in awe of the beauty of everything that makes this game tick.

Gameplay: 

The puzzles are great and challenging head scratchers but combat can be more of a challenge than it needs to be. You can freeze, teleport, and set flame to just about everything in the game and it looks great. Pushing blocks starts easy but gets hard quick forcing you to think of a plan to get to a new room.

Combat is a chore as it’s hard to make contact because most the time you hit a wrong button or it didn’t recognize it at all. 

Audio: 

Classic Zelda-like tones accompany you as you travel. While in the field and castle the music is light but switches to dark upbeat tone as you fight your way through rooms. A classic masterpiece in its own.

Overall:

Ittle Dew is short, about 4 hours, and it does leave you wanting more but as it follows Zelda well that franchise wasn’t long as well. You have card collecting, heart pieces to get and weapons to buy as it is a very meaty experience – one that will stick with you (and make you want to play Zelda).