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Lil Bub's Hello Earth is a 2016 mobile game featuring Lil Bub. It is an 16-bit platformer/side-scrolling shooter. It was released on Bub's fifth birthday for free and for all mobile devices, Wii U,PC and MAC after a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Plot
The game opens on the planet of Bub Ub Bub, where Lil' Bub finds a fanged cat named Spooky inside a Whomplewhomp tree. Bub feels sorry for Spooky. Bub allows Spooky to spend the night with her. In the morning, Bub finds that Spooky is gone. Bub leaves in her Space Pod attempts to find Spooky but instead encounters the fierce monster Pupilera. After an intense battle, Bub crashes on earth and goes unconscious. When she wakes up, she finds that 8 pieces of her space pod are missing: the Battery, Power Thruster, Power Blaster, Invincibility Drive, Invisibility Cloak, Record Player, Grappling Claw, and Yogurt Cannon. Bub discovers that 8 bosses have her space pod parts. After defeating them, Bub finds Spooky piloting a cybernetic bird. Upon defeating it, Spooky reveals that he can't remember anything after sleeping in Bub's bed. The two go to Ariellpup. The duo discover the Hariless Cycloptic Three-Eared Cat Beast. After defeating it, they drop off the abducted pets at Earth with the line of "Hello Earth!".

Gameplay
You control Bub or her space pod with the Paw Pad. Left or right makes Bub move. Up on the paw pad makes you look upwards, similar to Super Mario World or the 1990s 2-D Sonic The Hedgehog games. Down makes you crouch. In the platformer levels, to the right of the screen, there is a tongue, eye, and up arrow. Up arrow makes you jump, which can be used to stomp enemies, the eye icon makes you shoot lasers, and the tongue icon makes you lick, which if you lick certain objects allows you to regain health. In the shoot-em up levels, the eye is able to be charged, which fires three or five beams, depending how long you charged it. Charging allows you to use the power blaster. the pincer-shaped icon is the claw, and the yogurt is the Yogurt Cannon. You must complete the shooter levels before platformers. Finally, to truly beat a level, you must save the pet and make it to the boss and kill the boss without dying. If you encounter a Luna Moth, you can eat it to jump higher. You can gather mixtapes in platformer levels to be played on the tape mixer. The Bub face and the dot is how your health is shown. The dot varies goes from green, yellow, orange, and red. If you get hit while you have the red dot, you die.

Development
Hello Earth began development late 2016, with a goal of $100,000. It passed its goal with $148,000. It was released in late 2017. It is available for free on the app store or the play store. People can still contribute, although it goes to homeless pets, as it is part of LIL BUB's Big Fund.

Stages

 * Indiana
 * Sahara
 * Areillpup
 * Chimborazo
 * Atlantis
 * Iceland
 * New Zealand
 * Krubera
 * Paris

Reception
Most reviewers agreed that the game was good and mostly holds a 5 star rating.