Small Saga is a Final Fantasy-style RPG where rodents wield switchblades and cigarette lighters

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As an owner of two cats who regularly bring home all manner of half-eaten wildlife from the neighbouring bins, hedgerows and overgrown student gardens, I often wonder how these adorable murderers are perceived by the local mice and rat population. If it's anything like ginger puss cat Tiger in Jeremy "Aviary Attorney" Noghani's turn-based RPG Small Saga, they're going to be in trouble, as these rodents come bearing switchblades and cigarette lighters to fend off their deadly foes. It's an intriguing take on the classic Final Fantasy-like job types of other RPGs - the switchblade is to protagonist Verm what Cloud's Buster Sword is to a regular human, while Siobhan's lighter allows her to cast fire 'magic' as the party's mage - and based on its hour-long Steam Next Fest demo, it's shaping up to be just as grand a tale as its lauded genre mates.

Or should that be 'tail'? As the eagle-eyed among you may have spotted, our mousy hero Verm is missing his distinctive wiggly appendage, and the thrust of the game will be about him seeking revenge against the 'yellow god' (that is, a rather mysterious human in a hazmat suit) who took it from him. It's a charming mix of medieval fantasy tropes in a modern day setting, and I enjoyed seeing how relatively mundane objects and places like a London supermarket got mythologised as a heavenly buffet for these lowly sewer-dwellers. To get a glimpse of what else Verm and his friends will be getting up to, have a watch of the trailer below.

Indeed, with the opening of the demo taking place in the drains of London's underground, I was immediately cast back to the early moments of Final Fantasy XII - a JRPG that also begins in a similarly dank maze of pipes and rather suspect pools of murky