Little Misfortune

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  • Summary: Little Misfortune is an interactive story, focused on exploration and characters, both sweet and dark, where your choices have consequences. Starring Misfortune Ramirez Hernandez, an imaginative 8-year-old, who seeks the prize of Eternal Happiness, as a gift to her Mommy. Led by her newLittle Misfortune is an interactive story, focused on exploration and characters, both sweet and dark, where your choices have consequences. Starring Misfortune Ramirez Hernandez, an imaginative 8-year-old, who seeks the prize of Eternal Happiness, as a gift to her Mommy. Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, they venture into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bit of bad luck unfolds. Sharing the same universe with the cult video game Fran Bow, created by the visionary dev-duo Killmonday Games.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 2 out of 5
  1. SpazioGames
    Sep 27, 2019
    85
    Little Misfortune brings back all the dark visions from Fran Bow and it's another disturbing and fascinating adventure.
  2. Adventure Gamers
    Sep 25, 2019
    70
    Don’t be fooled by the glitter and sparkles: Little Misfortune is a surprisingly dark but very engaging grown-up tale about a little girl trying to find beauty in life’s ugliness.
  3. The Indie Game Website
    Sep 30, 2019
    70
    Dark humour is used liberally throughout Little Misfortune’s exploration of bleak themes. Half of the time, you don’t know whether to laugh or recoil in horror. Either way, it’s easy to become absorbed in the plight of our little heroine. It’s pretty short for the price of admission and arguably a little too much of a cinch to play, but a loveably weird tale all the same.
  4. CD-Action
    Oct 25, 2019
    45
    The story made me uneasy not because I thought: ‘those are the kind of things that shouldn’t be said out loud’ but because I thought: ‘it’s unsettling how poorly it is written, how badly they depicted a child’s naivety and how everything is just too over the top’. [12/2019, p.78]
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  5. Riot Pixels
    Dec 16, 2019
    37
    Right now, Little Misfortune is at the top of my personal list of bitter disappointments of 2019. I would have overlooked many of its flaws, if it were just a pilot episode in a series. Alas, this is a finished product.
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  1. Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Sep 20, 2019
    Despite having my skin crawl at almost everything Mr. Voice said, his breaking the fourth wall to rope the player into his scheme creates an awful sense of complicity. Thankfully, this is directly balanced by the joy whenever you can lead Misfortune into any small act of rebellion against him. It’s a giddy combination of adult smugness at getting one over on a rival combined with childish conspiratorial whispering under a blanket fort.

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  1. Positive: 26 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 41
  3. Negative: 9 out of 41
  1. Nick014y
    Sep 28, 2019
    10
    Wonderfull game! Such great graphics! The story is breathtaking. I cried in the end(
  2. Fatima612
    Jan 3, 2021
    10
    Incredible game with an interesting plot and amazing graphics! I liked every single part of this game.
  4. BeyMann
    Mar 26, 2023
    10
    That is so touching game. I think metacritic think healthy while scoring games. This game is proof for that, it should have higher score.

    I    That is so touching game. I think metacritic think healthy while scoring games. This game is proof for that, it should have higher score.

    I wish the game to be longer. I want to spend more time with Misfortune... So I will play it one more time!

    Good job guys! Have a wonderful day.    … Expand
  5. Review123
    Sep 24, 2019
    8
    Great, it's funny and has a good story, I had some fun with it, but if your taste is not games that you interact with stuff most of the time,Great, it's funny and has a good story, I had some fun with it, but if your taste is not games that you interact with stuff most of the time, then dont buy it. The review Mandy released was pretty stupid, it' s
    the dev's choice to not make it a Point and Click, this doesnt make any sense, and considering the game has nice art, music, humor etc. That does not mean the developers tried to make a quick buck.    … Expand
  6. PublicNuisance
    Jul 7, 2021
    8
    I have seen a lot of people online saying how they liked Fran Bow but didn’t like Little Misfortune due to the lack of puzzles. I canI have seen a lot of people online saying how they liked Fran Bow but didn’t like Little Misfortune due to the lack of puzzles. I can understand that because I have the opposite reaction for the same reasons. Fran Bow was a puzzle game that had a fantastic narrative while Little Misfortune is just a narrative game without the puzzles. I disliked the puzzles in Fran Bow so Little Misfortune was basically giving me what I enjoyed from Fran Bow and leaving out what I didn’t. The art style is great and carries onto the credits which is a unique one. The voice acting is fantastic. Both Misfortune and The Voice. There are moments which are sad, funny and in between and they nail all of them. Misfortune has a interesting accent and way of speaking which is a mix of child and adult. There are a lot of points which are pretty macabre, to the point where I surprised the developers took it as far as they did but was glad they did. The nightclub full of hamsters comes to mind. I don’t think the game would have grabbed a hold of me the way it did if they had of held back. The music was also very interesting as it made me think of an Eastern European disco and a cyberpunk synth type of vibe. There isn’t much in terms of “game play” here. Most of the game is you making choices and interacting with the environment to proceed. I don’t say this as a slight against the game because the story was great. Had the story been bad then the game would have fallen apart because there was nothing else to hold it together but luckily it was good. In regards to choices when The Voice says that there are no good or bad choices, just consequences, they mean it. It made me think of the episode of The X-Files with a genie who when granting your wish would always find a way to warp what you asked for in a way you hadn’t expected. For instance a person asked for a boat and got it but then realized they would have to pay docking fees, maintenance fees and taxes on the boat that they hadn’t thought of and thus they couldn’t even use the boat that they had asked for. There are a lot of things like that associated with the choices you make in Little Misfortune so don’t try to over analyze it, the Voice will find a way to turn your choice bad regardless and I have to say that was a sadly realistic take on things from the developers. I was left with some questions such as just how Morgo was defeated; who was responsible for what happened to Misfortune; what role we the player played seeing as how the Voice talked to us as well but overall enjoyed myself. The middle part of the game had some stretches where not much happened in the story but it got past that.

    I played Little Misfortune on Linux. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any bugs. There was an option for V-Sync; PostFX and resolution. Alt-Tab didn’t work. You could manually save whenever you wanted and there were 3 save slots available. You could also just use the auto save feature if you wanted. You can’t pause or skip cut scenes. The game ran great with no drops in frame rate.

    Game Engine: Unity
    Graphics API: OpenGL
    Save System: Manual and Auto
    Input Used: Mouse and keyboard
    Game Version Played: 1.0

    Game Settings Used: V-Sync and PostFX on; 1920x1080
    GPU Usage: 0-57 %
    VRAM Usage: 685-1219 MB
    CPU Usage: 3-8 %
    RAM Usage: 2.2-2.7 GB
    Frame Rate: 132-144 FPS

    If you are willing to accept narrative over game play then Little Misfortune has a lot to offer. A great story; voice acting and art style. It has it’s limitations and leaves some questions on the table but overall I came away impressed. It is equal parts cute; macabre; sad; and funny. There is a demo available for those who want to try it first.

    My Score: 8/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 21.1.2 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Manjaro 21.0.7 | Mate 1.24.1 | Kernel 5.12.9-1-MANJARO | AOC G2460P 1920*1080 @ 144hz    … Expand
  7. PlasticSquid
    Sep 29, 2019
    6
    I have to be brutally honest about this. The game was OK at best. My thoughts are listed below.

    First, the good. There are several things    I have to be brutally honest about this. The game was OK at best. My thoughts are listed below.

    First, the good. There are several things to like here. The art direction is solid, the characters are good, the story is decent (even if its potential wasn't fully realized), the voice acting and music are pretty good, and the dark humor keeps it funny. There is some intrigue and mystery in the story and, initially, the choices seem like they might really affect the game. In these areas, the game excels. The Fran Bow references are an added plus and the content matter makes you think.

    Now for the bad. The game play is almost non-existent. It's very linear. Despite the narrative of the story, the choices don't seem to make much of a meaningful difference. There isn't much depth to the mechanics when compared to Fran Bow. There is no inventory, you cannot really use items, the puzzles barely even exist, and, when they do, it's basically spoon fed to you. When you reach the end, you feel like you're still missing at least half of the game. The endings aren't even really that diverse or consequential.

    The game had a lot of potential. Perhaps it can still be expanded upon with more chapters. I know the team put a lot of work into it and I was really looking forward to it. The demo seemed very promising. The final product, however, was sort of a let down. It might not be what they want to hear but I think their next move should absolutely be in the Fran Bow universe - sequel, prequel, or otherwise. Get back to the roots of their first hit, get more sales, and then try again with Different Galaxy instead of jumping into it next.    … Expand
  8. Lixjyiq
    Jun 27, 2021
    0
    This GAME IS GOOD. JUST WATCH JACKSEPTIEYE. FKINGG GOOOD. WHO GIVE 0 IS PIECE OF SHEET.

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