
They recover with a little rest, and once they’re in a fighting mood again, all their hit points can be restored with food.įood is collected on the battlefield, and can even be hunted for during fights, or in between them. Back at the village, they need to be re-equipped, and they also need to heal up before they can go back into the fray. When raiders take too much damage, their weapons break and they’re forced to retreat. Luckily, losing isn’t too painful thanks to the game’s food system. Selecting all your raiders so they’ll attack at once can be hit-or-miss, often leaving one group to gawk stupidly at the sheriff’s men while vulnerable archers are chewed on by dogs. Moreover, fiddling with the touch controls sometimes winds up being less fun than an arrow to the left buttock. You can make sneak attacks by using each level’s terrain to your advantage, but at the end of the day, winning fights typically involves unleashing your raiders on the enemy and praying they have more endurance than their opponents. This is particularly problematic when the battlefield is swarming with look-alike friends and foes. The top-down battles in Little Raiders: Robin Hood’s Revenge are engaging and can get pretty intense, though the tiny on-screen character make the action a bit hard to see at times.

If you succeed, you’re rewarded with new recruits and / or weapons, food, or treasure. Since raids form the backbone of the action in Little Raiders: Robin Hood’s Revenge, the more you have, the better.Įach raid requires you to reach a specific goal (for instance, kill ten men, protect an innocent person from enemy fire for a certain time, kill a boss, or destroy a certain tent or object). The game’s town, which is where heroes are housed, trained, and equipped, is located on the trunk of a gargantuan oak tree that’s guarded by a forest spirit.įeeding acorns to the spirit prompts it to make the tree grow a little more, thus allowing for more warriors to live on the tree and participate in raids. And though the game’s setting is based on old English myth, it also carries a touch of Hayao Miyazaki’s influence. Little Raiders: Robin’s Revenge is a mix of town-building and action.
