This unusual, unwieldy, unchangeable choice didn't add any value to the overall design, and it made my thumb pretty damned sore, to boot. Combos frequently travel away from enemies despite pressing the stick towards them, and it's very common to push down and have an attack go in any direction but. It might have made sense if the direction pressed actually corresponded to the direction that attacks go in, but there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it. Making matters worse, attacking is bizarrely mapped to the right stick and requires constant tapping to maintain the offensive.

No matter what you have, it's all about the same. Axes, pliers, rolled-up newspapers, paddles, chandeliers, swords, mandolins, swordfish, hammers, chainsaws, slingshots, magic wands, and dozens of other things can be found and used, but there's not a lot of appreciable difference between types of weapons and not nearly enough variety in their use to make up for the extremely shallow combat. To be completely fair, there are a wide variety of weapons to be wielded. Once you've seen the first fifteen minutes, you've seen the game. It's literally attack, attack, attack and move on. No grappling, no spectacular super moves, no leveling up, no stats to increase, nothing to earn, nothing to learn, no way to customize or personalize characters… nothing. In this particular case, sadly, that's all the player gets. This is a time-tested formula that has proven successful many times in the past, but there's usually more to it than just that. In a nutshell, players take one of four fabled characters and essentially walk from left to right while killing everything that crosses their path. I'm sorry to say that Fairytale Fights didn't bother going any further once the main idea was penciled in. What's not to like about this concept? I was halfway sold just thinking about the possibilities, but having potential is one thing… Actually capitalizing on it is something else entirely. Snow White taking shots with a blunderbuss? Even better. Red Riding Hood wielding a cleaver sounds pretty exciting. Take well-loved tales everyone knows and skew them in a hyper-violent way. I mean, don't get me wrong-the premise is golden. Green light.' The fact that this happened simply does not compute. At some point, someone had to have looked at it and said 'Yeah, let's go with this. WTF The amount of ice needed for my right thumb after two hours.Īfter playing Fairytale Fights, I couldn't help but wonder how this game got made. LOW There is absolutely no depth to the gameplay. HIGH Skewing classic fairytales is a great premise.

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