Adventures of Lolo

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A round blue hero, a single screen, a scattering of hearts and a treasure chest that refuses to open until every last one is collected. That is the entire premise of Adventures of Lolo, and it conceals some of the cleverest puzzle design HAL Laboratory ever put on the NES. King Egger has carried Princess Lala off to his castle, and between Lolo and the top floor stand 50 rooms, ten floors of five, each one a lock waiting for exactly the right sequence of moves.

The rules fit on an index card, which makes the depth all the more impressive. Lolo gathers Heart Framers, and certain ones grant a few magic shots that seal an enemy inside an egg for a precious few seconds. That egg can be shoved out of the way, parked in front of a Medusa to block her deadly line of sight, floated across water as a makeshift bridge, or shot again to clear it off the board for a moment. Emerald Framers slide around as movable cover, Skulls lie in wait, and some creatures do no harm at all but freeze in place the moment Lolo brushes against them, which can either seal a corridor or save the room. Later floors hand Lolo new tricks, such as smashing rocks or laying down a bridge, just when the toolkit seems settled.

Mistakes cost little and teach a lot. Box yourself into a corner and you can restart the room for the price of a life, and every failed attempt reveals another piece of the answer. The best rooms hinge on a single insight, often the realization that the monster you were carefully avoiding is the key to the whole layout, and that moment of understanding is as satisfying as anything on the system.

Lolo and Lala come from HAL's Eggerland games, a puzzle series that had been running in Japan for years, and this cartridge gathered stages from two of those games to introduce the pair to North America in 1989. Its success surprised HAL itself, and the series continued with Adventures of Lolo 2 and 3 on the NES while the studio went on to create Kirby. Critics have described it as simple on the surface and deceptively complex once you get going, and that is exactly how it plays: one quick room before dinner that quietly turns into an evening with a notebook beside the controller.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1989
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
HAL Laboratory
Players
Single player
About the game

Adventures of Lolo is a puzzle game released in 1989 by HAL Corporation for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is based on the Japanese Eggerland video game series.

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