Another quite random NTSC release, Little League is a kid-friendly baseball game, not dissimilar to the Mario sports series. Based on the sport of baseball, LL is full of all the cute colourful graphics and chibi syle characters that you would expect from one of these kids sports ventures. Now, as far as sports games go, one issue I normally have with them is that if you are not into the sport, it can be very difficult to pick up and get the hang of. I suppose for most people, if you don't like sport X, you wont be interested in playing sport X games. With this in mind, LL is refreshing in the same way the Mario sports games can be. It does a great job at explaining baseball to a novice like me, and the tutorials make the game understandable. It's easy to pick up and play. The downside is that that's all I can really say in terms of positives. LL is an extremely shallow game with few redeeming features, which really should have been a cheap arcade title. There is a severe lack of features in the game, and while I am not expecting a detailed baseball game, I was looking forward to some cool powerups or mini games, like the Mario kart series. These were few and far between. There are barely any game modes and the gameplay itself seems almost random. Through my short time with the game, it didn't seem to make much difference how I played and I wasn't able to get much better as I practiced. My final complaint is the poor camera, which leaves it impossible to see the action at times. What is boils down to is this. LL is a cheap arcade game that never really should have got a full retail release. It may seem novel at first, but this shine wears off very quickly.