To those in VitaGAF who've played New Little King's Story, how is it? I keep hearing it's decent and am told 'it's like Pikmin', but I've never played Pikmin, so that tells me nothing.
Your character amasses a small army of hirelings around him. Each hireling has a class, and can be given equipment. You sort of 'shoot' your hireling at things to accomplish stuff. For example, you shoot a lumberjack and he'll run straight ahead, and if he hits a log in your way he'll chop it up. Or if you shoot your soldiers and archers at an enemy, they attack.
Army Corps of Hell has the same sort of system, though is more focused on combat and far darker themed.
You can amass a fairly large army (30 or so iirc?) in NLKS which does cause framerate issues when you're in your main city, though isn't an issue when you're out adventuring (which is most of the time).
The world is gated metroidvania/zelda style, in that you can't get into certain areas until you have the proper units.
Gameplay/bosses is simple yet fun enough. Too easy if you ask me, but good for a casual romp. Combat can be cool, since you can use different units to, say, jump on a weakspot of a boss and then send other units in while it's trying to get them off, etc. But it's just never hard enough to feel truly 'tactical'.
Story is cutesy cutesy stuff, mildly annoying/cloying if you're not into it though you can just click through. There's a lot of goofy equipment, and your hirelings will actually wear it... so you can put armor on your soldier, or, if you prefer, goofy stuff like a panda mask or whatever. Lots of variety there if you're into dress up (i'm not, I just went with the best stat buffs).
There's also a whole mating game where you can expand your army, but I found just shooting all units into the church without actually paying attention was a far better use of my time.
Platinum requires rubber banding your vita for 6 hours or so once you're done everything else. Not a terribly hard plat otherwise. Clear every area, find some secrets, do a tiny bit of crafting for equipment. The rubberbanding is because you need a small set of characters to 'love' you, or something, and each takes a couple hours of use 'in game'. Since you'll likely stick with one during your campaign, you need to spin in circles with the rest.
It's worthwhile at the right price if the above sounds interesting. It doesn't quite make the leap to great for me, but I can see someone really enjoying it if they just want that casual adventuring sort of thing.
