Fairytale Fights

never really liked this game at all, was very very tedious, and stupidly hard if you want a platinum, its fun for abit but i couldn't make it to the end as i just got so bored of it so i'd avoid unless you really have nothing better to play

This game is a standard side scrolling platformer that mimics a hack n slash.

The control interface is discustingly bad, however doable.

The story is thin, and the animations lack interest. however:

The game is brilliaint fun, seriously, if you want a game where you can cut up animated critters left right and centre, go out and get this now.

I was lured into renting this title by the promo demo released on the playstation store, i realise now that was just a novelty.

Linear gameplay, clunky controls and an irritating camera make this game a failure, its only saving grace is a few nice weapons and bosses.

I rented this title on the concept alone. Fairytale characters hacking each other to bits, sounds different, a bit edgy. As soon as i started the game, i knew i wouldn't be on i long, but i like to give it a fair go. The graphics are the equivalent of a Wii game, and the controls are not up to much. Players will be infuriated with the jumping sections, the awkward camera leading you to fall to your doom.

The combat is funny though, but it doesn't rescue the game.

So, here's my breakdown.....

Looks - 4/10

Sounds - 2/10

Story - 6/10

Gameplay - 3/10

Overall - 4/10

An interesting concept ruined by the camera angles and poor graphics.

Recieved and returned within an hour.

My first exposure to this game was the 'White Room demo' on the PSN store. It showed the colourful animation, violent bloodletting and dark but amusing dismemberment of cutesy characters. When I played the full game I soon realised this was a one trick pony.

You play as one of four (or six with the free DLC) fairytale characters platforming and fighting in a brightly animated fairytale land. The dark twist is that you are out to reclaim your legendary fairytale status by slashing your way through hordes of enemies in a number of heroic quests. The first quest I undertook saw me fighting through some lumberjacks. My god was it repetitive.

You literally come across ONE type of enemy in each quest and hundreds of that character appear. Attacks are launched with the right analogue stick and you will find yourself simply wiggling it like a drunken monkey in most combat situations. There are a number of weapons classed as blunt, sharp and projectile and the effects can be quite humorous initially. If you fatally wound someone a nice animation comes up to the side of the screen showing their face, head, leg etc being slashed clean off their body but after 20 or so times, it simply becomes intrusive.

While the combat is often confusing and messy, the platforming is much worse. The camera is fixed and depth perception is awful. I found myself dying repeatedly simply because I couldn't line up a jump properly in the third dimension. You will die A LOT. Fortunately the designers realised this and included near-infinite lives. Basically as you kill things and open chests you find money and each death costs you some money. You will usually find several lives worth of money in every person you kill which leads me to think they put that into the game as a 'fix' for the massively broken platform physics and, to come to my next point, the unfair bosses.

In the first quest, the enemy is a giant beaver. It will literally kill you at least once for each of it's different attacks. The simply fact is that you CANNOT know how to avoid its attacks without trial and error. In fact, the timings change later in the battle so you will die a lot. Let me tell you, these are some of the cheapest boss fights I have ever seen!

You can play cooperatively but with all the brightly coloured assault of the eyeballs and the excessive blood on screen, it becomes nothing more than a button mash excercise and your frinds will not thank you for it.

Overall this has a dark and twisted cutesy style which, compressed down to a half a dozen mission with more variety of enemies, would have made a good budget PSN game. But for a full price blu-ray title it is laughable. Avoid.