Childish Life Prologue is a simple, spooky and cute adventure horror game, so then the story.
A young girl named Xiao Yi wakes up in a hospital, she has no memory of how she got here, all she knows is she must escape and get home.
The likes, the pixel graphics art style is very good, has a good use of color, animation, shading and textures especially when it comes to character an enemy design. The levels are good, with a little bit of diversity, even those a lot of scenery is repeatedly used it's spaced out and set up in a way that each looks different so it does not get boring. I especially like the nursery as it’s a good contrast to the run down Hospital being both cute and creepy at the same time.
The enemies/monsters are all very good each one has their own creepy and spooky look and sounds, my favorite are the nurses in the nursery levels, the way they rise up with their bones cracking and those adorable yet spooky sounds they make it was quite haunting.
The gameplay was good it's basically you go around collecting keys in order to open a door, but as you progress it gets a bit harder with enemies and traps, but your also given two power-ups like the ability to do a super dash and the ability to make copies of yourself that can also light up a dark room and distract enemies, which was given to you by an adorable ghost Kitty that follows you around and can point you to different keys, both of these power ups were good and implemented quite well, especially the copy power up.
The story is okay although it was a bit confusing, [spoiler] I think it was hinting at what killed our main character, being child abuse, but I'm not entirely sure. [/spoiler] The music and the sound effects are good, I especially liked the sound effects for the nurses in the nursery levels being both adorable and creepy.
The atmosphere is good it keeps you on edge as you explore the hospital and tense up at all the sounds; it gets a bit more intense when you see the monsters for the first time.
The art for each of the game over screens was good, the game being free was very good.
Now is this game scary, yes actually it's quite scary for first time players, I also like that it doesn't really have jump scares as the horror and scare factor relies on atmosphere, sounds and the monsters.
The dislikes, now the game did have one bug in it, when I died the first time the game wouldn't load the checkpoint making me have to turn off the game and turn it on again, but that only happened to me once.
The game can be a bit bull crap with this one really annoying flying nurse that has the ability to rush at you, it's easily dodgeable but when you're being chased by other monsters or you don't have a visual on the flying nurse then it can be quite frustrating.
Also I wish there was multiple endings for the game depending how many keys who pick up because the standard ending is just kind of bunk, finally the game doesn't have achievements which I feel like this game should have them.
So now that I've told you all this Childish Life Prologue is a simple, spooky and cute adventure horror game, it has good gameplay, vary good pixel graphics art style and vary good enemies/monsters. So do I recommend this game yes I do, it is short but a good horror game and it's free, honestly I am hoping that the developers of this game make another game.
