About This Game Emma was living alone with her younger brother until one day he has disappeared in eerie circumstances. Help Emma find her brother and learn what has happened.GameplayThe Madness of Little Emma is a randomly generated action platformer with heavy Rogue-like elements. In her journey Emma will discover tons of varied items and encounter multitudes of unique enemies.Key Features:Over 100 hours of challenging gameplayOver 250 items5 playable characters - each with completely different playstyleAlmost a hundred unique enemy types25 bossesFive episodes and multiple hidden areasPersistent Steam leaderboardA curious story6 cutscenes (intro + 5 endings)XB360 Controller supportTop-quality pixel artCinematic musicLots of Achievements and unlockablesTons of Secrets 7aa9394dea Title: The Madness of Little EmmaGenre: Action, IndieDeveloper:Bartosz BojarowskiPublisher:Bartosz BojarowskiRelease Date: 21 Dec, 2015 Free Download The Madness Of Little Emma .zip the madness of little emma wiki. the madness of little emma items. madness of little emma guide. the madness of little emma скачать. the madness of little emma I was quite happy to see this gem made it to steam and bought it immediately.It's a rather obvious hommage of The Binding of Isaac and it's influences. You'll recognize a lot of things quickly, if you are familiar with BoI. There is, however, a crucial difference: The Madness of little Emma is a platformer, which adds a refreshing spin to it.There are already plenty of items in this game and it is possible to see what they do by pressing Esc and going into the items menu, which removes a bit of the guessing game and makes it easier to learn the ropes.As far as the enemies are concerened, most patterns are easy to learn, though, not surprisingly, there are some that need some getting used to, as well as those that very likely need some tweaking. There's also an insanity meter in this game. The higher it goes, the faster enemies become and the earlier more difficult ones\/variants spawn.Personally, I only experienced a glitch and one crash\/freeze, but I'm fairly confident that those will be fixed\/tracked down quickly, since a look at the discussions shows that the dev is communicating closely with the community to get rid of those problems.This game also comes with a very good soundtrack as far as I am concerened, so all in all I heartily recommend it.Finally: This is my first review, so i hope I managed to touch upon the important points.. Edit: Changed some of the wording and updated it a little bit.The Madness Of Little Emma is a nice little action platformer. If you're a fan of The Binding Of Isaac (TBOI) it should kind of feel familiar as it is heavily inspired by it at times. Normally, I don't write reviews, but this game has so few players that I feel I have to.What is The Madness Of Little Emma?The Madness Of Little Emma is an 2D action platformer set in a dark world. As in TBOI you have one "item room" on every floor, there are sacrifice rooms - though they're not working like the ones in TBOI - shops, dare rooms, secrets and some more. You also have to beat a boss at the end of the floor to go down deeper and deeper until you reach the final boss.But most things still are working quite different than in TBOI. So TMOLE isn't just an "TBOI as an action platformer", but is its own game and has its own appeal.What could be better:- ItemsSome items are really good and fun to play with, but most of the items don't really help you or worse make your run worse. While TBOI also had the same kind of items, I feel that they had more use.After having played some more I don't think the items are that big of a problem anymore. I probably expected too much of them, but unlike in TBOI in this game most items won't make your run. TMOLE relies more on the skill of the player than having great items which doesn't mean that good items can't save your run.Example for "bad" items: I was really disappointed in the shuriken, it looked really nice in the trailer, but when I obtained it, it just felt bad. Having to fight enemies with a shield is pure horror, as you can hit them twice mostly or even just once and you have to wait for the shuriken to return to you before you can throw it again, while their shield is back up.Example for "good" items: The raven. I just love that little ugly bird. He can fly through walls and instantly attacks the first enemy in sight while you can still shoot and he does quite some damage. Always nice to have and it makes the run much easier.Neutral:- It's hardLike really really hard. Maybe even harder than TBOI. But that's ok, I like challenging games. After having said that, you can still beat the "endboss" on your first day playing. The good thing is, that this game doesn't end there. It more or less just begins.I also like the fact that you can control the hardness by collecting madness from items or the hanged girl. The more madness you have, the harder the game gets. Like TBOI elite enemies also get a lot more common, if you beat the "endboss" the first time.But there are things right now that I feel are to difficult. Of course it could be my limited skill, but I find most of the elite bosses to hard. For example elite Liquid Sisters are taking up 2\/3 of the bossroom and the bubbles they shoot, which explode into more shots, are taking the rest of the room. Some bosses are easier than others and you have to get used to most of them and even then it's still a challenge.What's good:- LeaderboardYou gain points by how well you played and by how far you could go in your playthrough. Note that every playthrough counts as long as you play the ladder mode. The Ladder gets reset every two weeks (at the time I'm writing this review).Edit: It seems like the ladder wasn't resetted since i wrote this review the first time.- RNG\/ randomly generated dungeons including which items, rooms, shops etc you getEvery new run just feels kind of unique and refreshing. You always want to find out, which item you get on the floor. But even though I love that there are 250 items in the game - some of which you have to unlock -, if you haven't unlocked enough it feels like you get the same items again and again. Maybe it's just me, but I get baseball glove like 50% of my runs.- No tutorial-ingYou get to know the basics of the game and thats it. Not even the specialties of the characters you can unlock are explained, so you have to find everything out yourself (or use the wiki). It feels like starting TBOI all over again and I love it.If you want to get into this game, I suggest you check out the official beginner guide by the creater, Hugeowl. You can find it in the steam guides, it explains the basics and helps a lot for the start.- Active ItemsI just like how they work. Most of the time you have to pay some small amount to use the item. In TBOI it would probably suck, but here it works really well.- UnlocksLike TBOI there are different endings, items, bosses etc to unlock. I love unlocking things.After all TMOLE is a fun indie game and it still gets patches from time to time, so it has the potential to get better and better. It may not be a flawless game and sometimes even a little bit too hard, but if you have fun with TBOI you pretty sure will have fun with TMOLE. Also, supporting an indie developer feels nice.. so I played this game a few hours and I must say that its definitely worth the money.- Addictive ... because you want to go further and find new items see new enemys etc- Good music- Nice design- Leaderboard ( I am currently place 25 )only thing I dont like are the spiky things on the ground sometimes its a bit unfair to reach some treasure chests ^^buy it ! :). UPDATE: Since the recent patches, I now no longer continue to have the problem when trying to open the game. It will now open from Steam and the desktop, so that was fixed pretty quickly.Sure, the game is influenced by other Rogue-like titles such as Isaac, but the one thing that this game doesn't do is hold your hand. A 2D rogue-like platformer that easily can stand as one of the tougher rogue-likes on the market. From the couple of hours I've spent in the game, hardly do I even come CLOSE to seeing any 1 of the 4 endings mentioned. Little Emma requires skill, simply put. You'll get damage ups, but the enemy placement and mini boss rooms range from "easy to dodge" to "this room is the WORST". Some of the late game mobs, including these crying women who start bombarding you with explosions that are hard to track, are just a pain to deal with, if you even make it that far with no damage.Is it a bad game though? Absolutely not because it's still a very interesting rogue-like. The story involves two children, Emma (oldest) and her little brother Timmy, who survive pretty much on their own. One day, Emma wakes up to find Timmy missing as well as blood all over the room. As she looks around, she notices a trap door (similar to Isaac's adventure into the depths below) under a rug. Assuming Timmy has been taken or wandered down there, she soon follows. As far as story, it's not strong. I mean it holds a very similar take of the Isaac story that people have accustomed themselves to, but instead of a hateful mother, you're the loving big sister. Whether Timmy went down there on his own is still unknown. Still having a hard time beating it once, I know nothing about the endings.Controls are pretty standard and easy to understand at least for mouse and keyboard. The room you spawn in shows you your controls. A to move left, D to right, W to jump (as well as space), and D to go down platforms you can jump through. You can also use the arrow keys for these commands as well. You can also rebind keys if you have a more comfortable control scheme. To use activation items, you press E. Activation items, unlike space bar items in Isaac, require money to use instead of having to clear rooms. It is here to prevent any of the items from seeming too overpowered, such as an item that freezes everything in the room or turns back time by a couple of actions. You aim with your mouse, left click to shoot balls of spit and right click to drop bombs. It'll be best to have a mouse that you can change sensitivity on because there are moments where it's hard to connect your hits. While the keyboard controls are fine, the controller support is less desirable, even though it's still supported. Every time I've tried to play with the controller, I just put it back down because it feels weird. You also don't have as much freedom with aiming than you do with a mouse. You also can't rebind controller buttons, so right now whatever your buttons are mapped to, that's what you'll have to deal with.The worst offender of this release is the current technical issues. Some issues, like what I'm having, is I can't open the game from Steam or desktop. I simply have to go into my steamapps, common, find Little Emma, and open up the "Win" batch file. That then opens up a command window and does it's thing before the game opens. Slightly sloppy and a small hassle to play a game. You also need Java installed for some reason. These issues don't prevent me from still enjoying the game, but I can understand why people buying and installing would be confused as to why their game doesn't open.In the end, Emma is still an enjoyable experience if you're looking for a rogue-like that is a little more tougher and requires more skill than RNG. RNG still matters, of course, but it's almost treated like it's a second thought instead of a primary mechanic. This game will not hold your hand, it will not pay you kindly with optimistic words of victory. It will wreck you and frustrate you, but not because it's unfair; because you require the skill to overcome the obstacles that lie ahead. If the previous negative remarks about this game get fixed, it'll only continue to show how valuable this game is to the rogue-like genre.. I seem to be addicted to this game, despite my frustration for how it just drops me into bullet-hell. I find myself wanting more control over which power-ups I receive, and more opportunity for clever escape. Some rooms are dead-simple, while others are pretty much impossible.. unless you have the right power-ups, of course. Frustrated but addicted is bad, so I cannot recommend the game.. Although I enjoy this game, I don't feel like it offers much more than many of the other rogue-lights I've played. I feel like its good, but I don't feel like its for me.That being said, that doesn't mean its not for you. It's definitely fast paced, has an enjoyable environment and atmosphere, and requires some point awareness at times. Do I recommend this game? Yes. Not for me, but I wouldn't tell you not to try it.. I was on the fence for positive\/negative on this one... I'm going thumbs down. <aside>Why don't we get a scale 1-5 or something, Steam? C'mon!<\/aside>It's like the creator wanted to make Binding of Isaac, but that was already done:* Play in a series of increasingly deep basement rooms and floors? Check.* Lots of random power-ups that can have synergistic effects? Check.* Big Boss to fight at the end of the floor? Check.* Body fluids as weapons? Check.* Treasure chests, coins, and bombs? Check.* Shops with undead shopkeepers? Check.* Sad and creepy back story and enviroment? Check.To be fair, the creator has said s\/he was inspired by TBOI, but I just don't find this game as fun. Some things I don't like:* Your main weapon is <i>spit<\/i>. Yes, you happily spit at your enemies, not the sad tears of TBOI. To me this is just weird.* Your shot range is about 1\/4 the screen width, but enemy shots fly across the entire room. This cannot be improved (at least that I've seen so far except by one or two powerups). You can get hit by an enemy that died eight seconds ago.* Edit 2\/26 addition: A consequence of the previous point: if the shot doesn't move very quickly (happens with some enemy types) or at all, the shot will stay on the screen for a VERY long time. Beyond all reason. Waiting for you to touch it.* TBOI is played as a top-down view of rooms. TMOLE is played as a side view of rooms with platforms. Jump, jump, jump. I don't find this fun, maybe you will.* F*cking spikes everywhere. You can prevent damage if you jump up from them quickly.... once. After that they are extended, good luck getting past them. Half the treasures are spike puzzles, or you just can't get them unless you want to die for them.* To compensate for all the spikes, there is a ghost character (Elizabeth) that can fly and shoot through (some) barriers and is not affected by spikes. This character has some limitations such as increased damage received, but I can't seem to enjoy playing with any other character.* Edit add 2\/26: Elizabeth can shoot "ghost" spit through most barriers, unlike the non-dead chars. She can also fly. This compensates for the platform craziness required of other chars, but some of the items you pick up nullify her advantages. E.g., bouncy spit prevents her normal ability to spit through barriers the enemies can't. Many other items are useless (e.g, she can already fly so catching that item doesn't help.) Hope you have that item catalog handy!* Most rooms are too dim to easily see the walls. You can get stuck because you can't see the dim wall stopping you while you are trying to get away from enemies. Did you die unexpectedly? Oh, that slightly less black wall in the already noisy background was there.* Items are just random and weird and often not helpful. If you don't remember what the item does, too bad (e.g., the one that drops your fire rate really low). There is a catalog, but finding the item in the list before you touch it is not easy. Once you pick it up it becomes part of a separate list (but too late if it's bad).* Edit add 2\/26: The game seems to confuse "hard" with "impossible". A hard game would require more skill to succeed in, but some rooms are just absolutely impossible. Bullet hell with bullets all moving at different speeds, and your char speed is way too fast to reasonably maneuver in the tiny intervals between them. Or enemies with insane advantages (I'm looking at you, brown liquid sisters.)* The occasional, infuriating, unexpected crash to desktop. I was having a good game, too!!* The painful rare but not-impossible punishment of having your luck dropped to zero. Majorly reduced chance of bombs, coins, and hearts.There is some interesting creativity to differentiate it:* Arena rooms give a reward after surviving a fight.* Edit add 2\/26: Arena mode is a way to learn about many items that otherwise you only occasionally encounter.* Sacrifice rooms give a reward for giving up health, bombs, and coins.* Special and secret levels: beehive, dark tunnel, space, others.* Creative enemy types, even if most have analogues in TBOI.* Unique and consistent, distinct art style* Good musicBuy it if TBOI is not enough for you. But get that one first.. If I were grading on concept alone this is probably an "A" for me. That concept being that of a roguelight twin stick platformer featuring a seedy cartoon atmosphere and tons and tons of unlockables.Obviously heavily influenced by the Binding of Isaac everywhere from concept to theme to mechanics all the way down the line. No suprise to find it's still a winning formula her even while I wish it was more original in some aspects it's still a fun ride.I would say the underlying platforming\/shooter mechanics are solid but not spectacular. To elaborate on that point a bit I just feel that the running around shooting etc. feels functional here as opposed to spectacularly fluid or satisfying. Luckily the vast number of unlockables and different playstyles and upgrades makes the experience a plus 1 and the fact that I got this for just under 2 bucks makes me smile and shake my head at some of my other purchases.6\/10
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