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IGN Review of Fairytale Fights
Once upon a time... There are countless stories that start off with this oft-used phrase, including many beloved classics that we first start hearing as children, such as the likes of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Jack and the Beanstalk. While these tales are practically ingrained into our brains from an early age, Playlogic has tried to turn the stories on their heads and offered up a violent, sarcastic and (sometimes) humorous take on these classics.
Fairytale Fights puts you in the shoes of Little Red Riding Hood, the Naked Emperor, Snow White or Jack (of the beanstalk fame) as you work through the land of fairytales (Taleville) while trying to restore your name to fame. The idea is that these four characters are old hat and have fallen out of fame in recent years, so you wander off to do some heroic things, like chop animals in half.
While all of this blood and gore is nice and actually done fairly well, that's basically all that there is to like about the game. The combat is as bland as it gets. You use the right analog stick to attack, and pressing it in different directions will cause different actions. But, that doesn't matter as I just wound up spinning the analog stick around whenever I was attacking and that worked perfectly fine.
Aside from the actions being unrewarding, you'll find elements of the combat to be cheap and frustrating as well. Some people will shoot you repeatedly as you attempt to move in and attack them. Blocking doesn't work as well as it should and some enemies will kill you repeatedly (die, then spawn again and die right away).
Given that Fairytale Fights is a straightforward brawler by and large, the level design largely comes down to what it looks like coupled with enemy placement. The art style here is almost good, and the visuals even look somewhat impressive from time to time. But then the camera zooms in on a character and you get a good look at the uninspired and bland character design. More impactful to the actual game design though is that you'll find sections of the levels repeated a couple times in some spots. Copy-and-paste does not make for good game design.
Aside from a couple specific puzzle-esque segments, like one spot in a maze where you need to reorder paths to get through it, all you're doing is fighting. Given the repetitious level layouts and incredibly bland combat mechanics, you'll find yourself bored to the brink of death after not too much time.
Many of the boss fights are set up to be memorable battles and are almost fun, but repetition continues to be the name of the game. In pretty much every case, said bosses are incredibly tough requiring that you hit them about a billion times. Since you have infinite lives, this isn't a problem, but they keep going on forever.
There are a couple features that help make the package a little more interesting and inviting, like an Arena mode where you can fight it out with others and online co-op play through the story mode, but neither of these really elevate the experience to anything that I'd call fun.
©2009-10-28, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Fairytale Fights puts you in the shoes of Little Red Riding Hood, the Naked Emperor, Snow White or Jack (of the beanstalk fame) as you work through the land of fairytales (Taleville) while trying to restore your name to fame. The idea is that these four characters are old hat and have fallen out of fame in recent years, so you wander off to do some heroic things, like chop animals in half.
While all of this blood and gore is nice and actually done fairly well, that's basically all that there is to like about the game. The combat is as bland as it gets. You use the right analog stick to attack, and pressing it in different directions will cause different actions. But, that doesn't matter as I just wound up spinning the analog stick around whenever I was attacking and that worked perfectly fine.
Aside from the actions being unrewarding, you'll find elements of the combat to be cheap and frustrating as well. Some people will shoot you repeatedly as you attempt to move in and attack them. Blocking doesn't work as well as it should and some enemies will kill you repeatedly (die, then spawn again and die right away).
Given that Fairytale Fights is a straightforward brawler by and large, the level design largely comes down to what it looks like coupled with enemy placement. The art style here is almost good, and the visuals even look somewhat impressive from time to time. But then the camera zooms in on a character and you get a good look at the uninspired and bland character design. More impactful to the actual game design though is that you'll find sections of the levels repeated a couple times in some spots. Copy-and-paste does not make for good game design.
Aside from a couple specific puzzle-esque segments, like one spot in a maze where you need to reorder paths to get through it, all you're doing is fighting. Given the repetitious level layouts and incredibly bland combat mechanics, you'll find yourself bored to the brink of death after not too much time.
Many of the boss fights are set up to be memorable battles and are almost fun, but repetition continues to be the name of the game. In pretty much every case, said bosses are incredibly tough requiring that you hit them about a billion times. Since you have infinite lives, this isn't a problem, but they keep going on forever.
There are a couple features that help make the package a little more interesting and inviting, like an Arena mode where you can fight it out with others and online co-op play through the story mode, but neither of these really elevate the experience to anything that I'd call fun.
©2009-10-28, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved