The Last Friend: First Bite

I can't think of anything at all to say. It's good enough that the demo is worth playing, but the full game probably isn't. It says a controller is recommended but a keyboard and mouse is probably better Yep, I can think of absolutely nothing at all to say about this game.

CONTROLS Not as seamless on a keyboard, but the game does claim at the very beginning that it is better played on a game controller. If the game is playable on PC, maybe they should have catered to keyboards as well. It's not terrible, it just feels like it could be a little more seamless. CHARACTERS Characters are not very relatable or interesting. The puppy is bossy and he is small so may be the most relatable part of the game. VISUAL STYLE Very vibrant and colorful and very vector-like. The style seems consistent MUSIC/SOUNDS Although I did not like the sounds overall, I think they first very well with the theme IS IT CAPTIVATING After spending a hour or so looking for games, this was one of the more captivating ones I found. The colors are vibrant and happy and it seemed like a silly fun game LEVEL DESIGN Each level was unique. There was a good escalation in difficulty CHALLENGES Challenges felt very balanced. Sometimes they felt too easy, but I ended up dying and then changing my strategy and winning. It wasn't frustrating STORY It doesn't feel like there's much of a story when first starting the game. The story is introduced in the description of the game, and built there rather than during the game. I am sometimes left wondering what the purpose is of the game and why there are dudes dancing OTHER NOTES - The icon on the PC looks like Unity icon - When killing an enemy near the far right edge of the map, I was unable to pick up the scraps - Unable to change the option to turn off Fullscreen - There's a round that doesn't seem to let you use your turret friends, but keeps indicating that you should gather your turret friends. Story and maps/levels should stay consistent - I was able to find and mute the sound quickly at the start of the game - Why does ALPHA teleport the dogs when he rescues them. It doesn't seem like they are working together even though that's what the game description says. It seems like they are being captured again. Story inconsistencies perhaps. Pokemon vibes? CLOSING REMARKS Cute and fun. Interesting and entertaining. Curious to see what other adventures that game contains but not $15 levels of curious (current cost on day of release)

"The Last Friend: First Bite" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "The Last Bite". The Last Bite is a badly made ripoff of Plants vs Zombies with a nonsensical "space dog" skin, made for the Nintendo Switch, but an objective failure, in no small way than this looks more like a flash game/mobile app that compares poorly to even other Nintendo Switch games (I don't think I need to point out we're here on Steam for PC games, not Nintendo Switch toys for kids). But this isn't completely relevant because this is not The Last Bite, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "The Last Friend: First Bite" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $15 USD on buying The Last Bite, and I don't recommend you do that either. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

I thoroughly enjoyed the prologue missions and can't wait to sink my teeth into the full game.

I still played this demo with keyboard and mouse. Still works. very fun game

Even being more into cats than dogs i liked it and reminded me some old school street fighter games from past. Pretty enjoyable to pass time and fun too. Totally recommend to who want give it a try ^-^s2