Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic (1997)

I played this game once when I was a child, from a collection of obvious harr-arr shareware that was released in EU/Germany way back when... and I just kind of fell in love with it.

It was recently re-released in a sort of 'remastered' version where the camera and keymapping are much better, so go play that over at Gog.com if you ever get interested in it.

Little Big Adventure 2 (or Twinsen's Odissey) is an adventure/action, platformer/puzzle with a charming isometric view and 3D models. The graphics are quaint and fitting for the time, making them rather impactful on a first view as I vividly remember looking at Twinsen's (the protagonist) oval-shaped face with this singular unique hint of a ponytail and his partner, Zoe, with the same wild coconut head and little hit of a ponytail - but blonde - and remembering them both.

In this installment, you start under the directive of wanting to CURE YOUR INJURED DINOFLY (it's perhaps one of the most repeated phrases in the early stages of the game, which makes it extremely funny in my eyes), whom got injured during a flight in the sky when an anomalous tempest struck Citadel Island. Obviously there's more at work, but you have to start from somewhere and your beloved Zoe - this time - cannot accompany you as she is expecting a most-likely oval-shaped child.

However, as soon as you clear the cloudy skies, you find out that there's more to CURING YOUR INJURED DINOFLY than what you've previously believed...

Charming but particularly punishing in some of the stages where you have to aim (bless the remaster for giving an help with it because my brain remembered how hard the Desert's ball target practice was) one of your weapons (Ball(tm)), LBA2 reprises some of the themes of Little Big Adventure (or Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure) and it's villain, of course and expands on them somewhat.

A rather pleasant experience.