I do know I say this quite a bit, however I’m all the time looking out for issues which are a bit like Stardew Valley, however not. (Incidentally, for these all for my battery chicken farm efforts, I’ve elevated the scale of my coop while giving the hens three squares of house to roam outside through the day.) Last week at the Wholesome Direct I discovered of the existence of Little Witch In The Woods, and I’m agog, reader, pure agog on the state of this game.
It’s from Sunny Side Up, a teeny dev crew based mostly in South Korea, and truthfully I can’t recover from how pretty it’s. You play as an apprentice witch (dimension: small) named Ellie, and can spend your time making potions, finding out magical creatures like birds that develop flowers on their heads, or spherical rabbity blobs referred to as Squishychubs. As the valedictorian of her witch faculty, Ellie appears to anticipate a little bit of a greater placement than the tiny rundown forest city she leads to. A witch’s work is rarely finished.
A trailer got here out at the end of last year, however for Wholesome Direct the devs supplied slightly little bit of recent footage, exhibiting Ellie brewing potions after which chugging one down for a velocity enhance, and throwing one to stun a pack of Squishychubs.
But the half I’m most in awe of is the animation. Look at little Ellie go! Marvel on the ineffable cuteness of her run! Chuckle on the glug, glug, glug movement as she downs a complete bottle of potion in a single go!
Little Witch In The Woods doesn’t have a Steam web page or something but, however we are going to apparently be blessed with its existence subsequent yr. I’m undecided I can wait. I’m additional excited by the truth that the trailer has an impeccable sense of comedic timing. I like the second the place she will get splatted within the face with honey and her expression doesn’t change, however she stops bouncing fortunately up and down in her idle animation. Or her continuous chasing of the triffid, the little plant with legs, solely to then run again the opposite manner pursued by some form of large sentient water drop. That form of tone counts for lots with me.
Run, plant, run!
Even although we don’t know a lot about how the game will really play, we’ve seen clips of style staples like fishing, villagers to make pals with, gathering vegetation and elements – and naturally, doing bits of magic. I actually can’t wait to get my arms on this one. What is the magical model of battery hen farming, everybody? Answers please on a postcard to RPS Treehouse…
