Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style
Last week, as I was making my way through the whitewater rapids that Steam's regular flood of new releases have become, something caught my eye. Sandwiched between an old-school dungeon-crawler and a game whose thumbnail featured a haggard old farmer pointing a shotgun at some sort of flaming demon bull (true story) was Lili: Child of Geos, a PC port of one of the absolute best iOS games I've ever played.
BitMonster Games' Lili is easily one of my favorite iOS titles. Its graphics are beautiful, its writing is charming, and the gameplay itself offers a fun, non-violent take on the action RPG. I love Lili so much that I recommended it as one of the games I would love to see covered alongside books and movies in women's magazines, which have pitifully little gaming coverage considering just how many gamers also happen to be women.
But how does Lili: Child of Geos stack up against its portable predecessor?