Red's Larva Sized Adventure

Red and the Larva Sized Adventure is a 2D platformer developed by Butterfly Studios for the Nintendo 3DS on February 21, 2012. A sequel entitled Red and the Planet of Larvae was released on the Wii U in 2016. Unlike the previous games in the series, only Red is playable.

Plot
While peacefully basking in the sun, Red was resting in it until... KABLAM! A new nemesis named Mos-Mos the Mosquito showed up with her long Proboscis and began to suck on Red! Causing her to turn into a helpless larva. As Mos-Mos flies away, Red notices that as a larva, she can find a unique way to stop this new adversary.

Gameplay
Similar to the Rouge's Gallery series, you control Red with the 3DS's stylus. Sliding the stylus upward can cause Red to shoot a line of Silk. 16 of the 18 powers return. With Dragon and Psychic being removed. Though unlike the other Red's Adventure games, where her hairstyle determines her powers, She has a pink ribbon on her head (Taken from the Red the Animated Series episode "Two young adults and a larva") and the ribbon's color determines the power. She can also use her silk powers to stun foes or toss them in a ball. Just like the previous installments, the worlds are all different themes. World 1's a grassland, World 2's a desert, World 3's a beach, World 4's a twisted fun house, World 5's a cave system, World 6's is an Icy glacier, World 7's a volcano and world 8's Mos-Mos's hideout.

Development
After the series' focus on the Wii, Butterfly games wanted a more unique game for the Series. Though unlike the current game, it was originally intended to be a third installment of the Rouge's Gallery Series. But was made into it's own separate game to prevent confusion with Rouge's Gallery of Motion, a game on the Wii. The larva aspect was implemented as a new way to innovate gameplay on the 3DS with partial inspiration coming from Kirby Mass Attack. Mos-Mos was chosen as the main antagonist because they though A Mosquito could turn Red into a larva with it's proboscis. Though Mos-Mos was originally male, it was changed to Female because they thought a male mosquito sucking on Red wouldn't make any scene. So the Game was first revealed as an E3 2009 demo entitled "The Larva Adventures of Red" and the game was in 3D as opposed to the final 2D version. Though the 3D demo was met with major criticism and the developers decided to turn it into a 2D game. So on February 21, 2012, Butterfly Studios released the game on to the Nintendo 3DS with the game being published by Nintendo.

Reception
Red and the Larva Sized Adventure met Mixed to positive reception. The graphics were praised for it's chibi artsyle, but the gameplay was criticized for it causing artificial Difficulty in some levels. Especially in World 6 with all of the ice. the villain was also criticized for her repetitive nature but was also praised for her three forms being unique from each other. Her second form (the giant Red blob) was also the reason for the game's E10+ rating. Mooshroom Milk called it "A rest from your typical platforms" But they criticized some parts of the game for it's dark shading.

Trivia

 * This is the first Red's Adventure game where Rainbow isn't playable or shows up. Though in the E3 demo, he did.
 * This is the last 2D Red's adventure game that uses the same engine that the famous 2003 game, Red and the Rainbow of Dreams uses.