Teen Teen told me that she has also seen parents standing right in front of the God holding up an exam timetable and praying loudly for divine grade inflation. Parents come in and pay to have their children’s timetables placed next to the God in the hope that he’ll exert a benign influence. Obviously, as an ex-teacher, the first shrine I visited was the God of Education, and inside a glass case on the wall were rows of exam timetables. This temple was dedicated to the Gods of War and Education. I’ve always admired the practical Chinese approach to religion – they don’t pray for world peace or something nebulous in the future, they ask for something concrete and immediate. Our next stop was a Chinese temple – the Guan Di Taoist temple built in 1888. Presumably the children in the picture on the left are the little devils that the street is named after. We walked over a cute little bridge to see the street art portraying the way of life in Little Devils’ Alley in its heyday. The Doctor’s Surgery The way it must have looked originally It’s flaking and peeling and in desperate need of renovation. We found an original pillar outside an old shop house, which had been a doctor’s surgery. The pillars on either side of the shop front describe what the shop sold or offered. One large row of paintings shows the history of Kuala Lumpur. The area has been done up and prettified now, and has lots of street art. It’s a little street tucked away at the back of a row of shophouses The name means Ghost Lane or Little Devils’ alley, and the locals believe it refers to the children of the shopkeepers, who were left to their own devices while their parents were busy shopkeeping, and caused mayhem tearing up and down the little alley at the back of their houses. Teen Teen, my guide, took me to see the street art in Kwai Chai Hong. Let's just hope the main game lives up to the hype when it releases some time in 2022.I’ve made the occasional foray into Chinatown in KL before – I distinctly remember a trip to the market here for frog porridge several years ago – but I haven’t ever explored it properly, so I decided to sign up for a guided tour.Ĭhinatown is famous for its market, which specialises in fake designer clothes and watches and other tourist tat, but I was with a local, so we gave it a wide berth. The fact it can still ramp up excitement is a testament to the art style and gameplay we've seen so far. Little Devil Inside comes away from State of Play as the most unique game showcased despite little being known about what it's actually about. Outside of these details, we still don't know a whole lot, but I like it that way. We also know that Billy is a 19th-century adventurer-for-hire who travels around the world exploring supernatural phenomena while trying to survive, with the overall aim being to fill an encyclopedia of sorts of creatures and occurrences. There's no fast travel in Little Devil Inside but, from what we've seen, exploring and traveling appear to be part of the fun. Following the event, a PlayStation Blog post explained that, regardless of the mission at hand, Billy will be able to explore the world map either on foot, on mule, in vehicles, or on a train. While the trailers have been somewhat confusing but brilliant, outside of State of Play there has been some light shed on Little Devil Inside. It's utterly bizarre and, as someone who is usually pretty invested in the narrative, I don't even care what the story is - I just want to jump into this gothic, occasionally miniature world. The trailer moves quite quickly after that, not telling us too much but revealing sandy and snow-clad worlds, a cooking feature, and. We then cut to Billy fighting angry marshmallows that look like they've swallowed a bunch of magician scarves, with the narrator telling us that, since the mansion incident, stuff like this keeps happening to Billy - poor Billy. The trailer quickly moves on after that, but that moment appears to be the kick-off of the story. We see this as Billy goes to the mansion, which simply screams "horror movie", with tight-angled views and tentacle-like scribbles across the wall, before being tricked by what seems to be the owner who pushed him into a pool with a monster. The aesthetic overall is beautifully niche, adding a wholesomeness to a game that seems to embrace its dark side too. Instead, it appears to adopt a more real-time third-person gameplay view, which in itself is also unique, with the characters looking almost figurine-like. The main gameplay isn't like this though. Billy can interact with the other large (in comparison to the other elements of the world) people and encounters he comes across, with the trailer showing him asking an old lady for directions and trying to move some sheep out of the road.
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