![]() Each one has a star rating to tell you its strength when you pick it up, and they come in sharp, blunt, or special varieties, this mostly determining whether an enemy killed with it will be cut apart and spray fountains of blood, be knocked away while having their bones broken, or suffer some unusual effect. Some are expected types like swords and hammers, but there are plenty of wackier items to bash baddies with, with things like gnomes, swordfish, lollipops, ice cream cones, and stuffed animals serving as legitimately useful weapon options. If a foe is fighting from long range, its much easier to bum-rush their position before they can hit you, and if you die, the only major penalty is losing some of the coins you collected in the stage, coins which are only used for the purpose of building a statue in the game’s hub world.įairytale Fights does want to trick you into thinking the battles have variety though, with the game packing in well over 100 different weapon types to find in the environment. Maybe if you’re surrounded you’ll have to guard, but this approach works on most every enemy, even ones the game tries to make different. Once you know where an enemy is standing, it’s just a matter of hammering your control stick in that direction to hit them until they die. In Fairytale Fights, attacks are controlled with one control stick while the other handles movement, but the only real thought involved in executing an attack will be the direction you do it in. It’s easy to accept them as the character skins they are, but this is also a missed opportunity in a game that desperately needs something to give its fighting an interesting edge. Unfortunately, despite having four playable characters with very different origins, there’s no real difference between them. A spark of inspiration briefly strikes when the player has to dodge princess-hungry suitors in a race and a twisting palace maze requires some puzzle solving, but most of the time areas are pretty much just designed only to house the game’s bloody yet unfortunately bland battles.įairytale Fights is definitely a hack-and-slash action game through and through, almost the entire experience focusing on the straightforward bloody slaying of any enemy who gets in your chosen character’s paths. ![]() Some of the locations you visit on your journey find their roots in fairy tales as well, the witch from Hansel and Gretel building a candy castle and the giants from Jack’s story having their large house serve up some interesting level set pieces, but at the same time the game spends a lot of time with the heroes fighting lumberjacks and tends to wear out areas by making them too long, the overall experience covering very few distinctly different environments. They do eventually pursue another goal of trying to rescue princesses, their adventures throughout the game told with almost no words but a lot of bloodshed in the ultimate inverse of the typical trimming down and softening of the older and darker fairy tales. ![]() In this land of fairy tales though, to not have fame comes with the risk of disappearance, so the four set off to try and find a new claim to fame, a task that apparently involves spending half the game trying to get back the porridge back for the bears from the Goldilocks story. Little Red Riding Hood finds the wolf dealt with before it ever ate her grandmother, Snow White is woken up without true love’s first kiss, Jack’s spoils from his beanstalk climbing adventure are upstaged, and the Emperor from The Emperor’s New Clothes is denied the moral to his story by everyone freaking out immediately on seeing him bare naked. In a land where classic fairy tales coexist, four famous characters are denied their proper fame by the interference of the far less famous Little Tailor. The most memorable aspect of the game is certainly its concept though. ![]() The strangest thing about this hunt for this forgotten game though is that it was never a fondness for the title that inspired the search, and I certainly wouldn’t have been too beat up about it if it had taken me longer to find it. I realize now that I could have just asked my friend what the game was at some point, but the idea to ask her didn’t come until Fairytale Fights already found its way back to me. Attempts to find it again later were fruitless as the details I remembered tended to flag unrelated results on Google, especially since Alice McGee has a series of corrupted fairy tale games similar in concept that kept presenting themselves as the incorrect answer to my search. Many years ago, I played the game Fairytale Fights on a friend’s Xbox 360 but didn’t quite catch the name of it as I played.
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