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Fairytale Fights
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Game Info
Publisher: Playlogic
Developer: Playlogic
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Platform
Players: 4
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Summary
Play your favorite fairytale character, regain your lost fame and save the fairytale world from certain doom! Luckily, a vast variety of deadly weapons lie around, which you can use to shoot and carve up evil villains, bloodthirsty rabbits and many more terribly cutesy characters roaming the lands - and this is where the fun begins! Fight your opponents to the death and fulfill challenging quests while leaving behind a big trail of blood! With Playlogic's unique "Dynamic Slicing" technology, players have the ability to slice up an enemy in any way they like, using intuitive controls. In addition, the game uses the tested powers of the Unreal 3 engine. [Playlogic]
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What The Critics Said
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InsideGamer.nl
The game has a unique graphic style and gives you the possibility to kill cute creatures in a brutal way. With more players on the couch the game comes to its full potential, but at the same time it could be very chaotic on the screen. The biggest downfall is that the gameplay is mostly the same throughout the game and there aren’t many checkpoints. But if you take your time to glide on a massive pile of blood, all will be quickly forgotten.
Read Full Review >MS Xbox World
Fairytale Fights is a valiant effort and a game which tries to turn convention upside down. In this regard it certainly succeeds but what we're left with here is a simple game lacking in variety.
Read Full Review >GamingXP
A funny hack ’n’ slay game taking place in the fairytale universe – great for beginners and advanced players.
Read Full Review >AtomicGamer
The lackluster execution could be partially forgiven if Fairytale Fights were an Xbox Live Arcade title. But as a full-priced retail release it feels like a missed opportunity.
Read Full Review >Gamer.nl
Fairytale Fights is a product Dutch gamers can be proud of. When playing alone, the game offers many hours of enjoyment in lush environments. Better yet, these environments will soon be painted red with the blood of your opponents. The multiplayer is a little hectic and falls short, though.
Read Full Review >Hardcore Gamer Magazine
Fairytale Fights is not a game that’s going to revolutionize the genre. It is, however, a very fun, unique, and beefy (15-20 hours of gameplay) game that’s fun to tear through.
Read Full Review >XGN
Fairytale Fights has become a funny game, but all things are kept too simple. So playing alone will not amuse you, but the co-op on the other hand is really fun. However there is a lag off replay value that might keep you from buying this title!
Read Full Review >Da Gameboyz
In the end if one goes into Fairytale Fights with realistic expectations of what the game is, then one will no doubt enjoy what the game has to offer.
Read Full Review >Extreme Gamer
For what Fairytale Fights sets out to accomplish it does so triumphantly. The big deal here is the price, and as it stands Playlogic is asking full retail value for the game, so that means Fairytale Fights is going to be the same price as something as involved as Dragon Age.
Read Full Review >Games Master UK
A likeable, if slight, slice of gory Brothers Grimm gaming. [Winter 2009, p.86]
Digital Chumps
Fairytale Fights isn't as bad as a lot of other outlets make it out to be, but it's got plenty of flaws. I like the premise and the idea of the game, but the execution is rough.
Read Full Review >Vandal Online
The best of Fairytale Fights is the idea to create the story and background of the game, hands down. Its twisted humour makes it attractive enough to be enjoyable, but only if we ignore its flaws.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
Top off the list with repetitive and uninspired boss battles, an off-kilter depth of field and a one-dimensional economy, and Fairytale Fights is offensive, just not in the way Playlogic intended.
Read Full Review >Totally360
Overall Fairytale Fights has a unique premise and quite a bit of potential. Unfortunately lackluster execution on a couple of key features detracts from the experience.
Read Full Review >Gameplayer Sweden
It is love and hate all mixed up when Little Red Riding Hood meets Dead Rising.
Read Full Review >X360 Magazine UK
The violence and humour grate after a while, but this is still diverting enough stuff. [Issue#52, p.88]
Cynamite
The Brothers Grimm wouldn’t be amused about this title, even if they had been hardcore gamers.
Read Full Review >MondoXbox
Fairytale Fights showed how the Playlogic team contains some exceptional artists and developers, capable to realize some wonderful worlds: unfortunately, it highlighted too some great problems in their game design and QA divisions. Great visual and a very intriguing base idea have been ruined by a very repetitive and unchallenging gameplay. It's a real pity, because this was one of our most watched games and it deserved a better treatment.
Read Full Review >3DJuegos
Fairytale Fights digs an attractive concept because of its unpolished and boring gameplay.
Read Full Review >ZTGameDomain
A fantastic concept poorly executed. All of the visuals and presentation seem in place, but the monotonous gameplay and boring combat really drag down the overall experience.
Read Full Review >Multiplayer.it
Fairytale Fights' promises end up being sadly unfulfilled. Its gore and fun approach crashes upon awkward controls and boring gameplay. It's definitely a missed opportunity.
Read Full Review >Gamervision
This decent idea got buried under glitches, a bad camera, and frustrating gameplay, and there seems to be no reason for that to have happened.
Read Full Review >Gamer Limit
Though Fairytale Fights has a really great idea, it seems to have been slopped together with little thought pertaining to gameplay.
Read Full Review >Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
Just behind the beautiful swan's plumage hides the monotony of an ugly duckling. [Christmas 2009, p.84]
Planet Xbox 360
The chaos is fun to be a part of for the first few hours, but it becomes redundant too quick to recommend for anyone who isn’t looking for a title to play online or offline cooperatively with a family member or friend.
Read Full Review >VideoGamer
It's nice to look at it and is amusing for a short while, but as soon as the presentation gloss wears off you're left with a dull hack 'n' slash that makes use of an overly simplistic control system. Without the substance to go with the game's amusingly twisted appearance, Fairytale Fights never really gets past the opening chapter.
Read Full Review >GamePro
There's just nothing to hold your interest over the long haul and while roaming around with some friends helps, it just isn't entertaining enough for me to recommend it to anyone, not even those who love fairy tales and platform titles.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine UK
Cutesy gore and not a lot else. [Christmas 2009, p.94]
Cheat Code Central
Despite its many promises, this game falls short, with redundant gameplay, unreliable controls, and lackluster storytelling.
Read Full Review >GameZone
Fairytale Fights could have been the next Castle Crashers, but its lack of depth and overabundance of repetition shows that some tales are better left untold.
Read Full Review >Console Monster
Normally, you would expect a happy ever after though, unfortunately, Fairytale Fights has no fairytale ending. Whilst it is a unique title with some strong ideas amid a distinctive style, the lack of a true storyline, the clumsy combat and repetitiveness of the title fail to make Fairytale Fights a must-buy purchase.
Read Full Review >Game Chronicles
If you are looking to get an ultraviolent fairy tale fix, you would be better off to use that $30 to download Castle Crashers and buy a DVD of Shrek II.
Read Full Review >GameShark
As a hack-and-slash platformer, Fairytale Fights could have been a success. On top of a consistent and admittedly appealing theme, it has all the right ingredients to fit the genre: countless weapons, challenging levels and 4-player co-op. But with repetitive gameplay and unrewarding challenges, this title falls very, very short of becoming the next Castle Crashers.
Read Full Review >TeamXbox
It doesn’t seem like Playlogic dug in to finish the game, which left it to work (or not work) based on its gimmicks. Sadly, those gimmicks aren’t strong enough to maintain the game across its entirety.
Read Full Review >GamerNode
While it can be briefly enjoyable and provide a few giggles and chuckles, it quickly becomes repetitive and boring. Co-op helps, but in the end, poor controls and lack of genuinely entertaining qualities will drive most players away.
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
From interface to basic design, it's marred by numerous game design decisions that simply should not have made it to the finished product.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine
Straightforward, button-mashing combat through the game's Quest mode with up to three friends may clutter up the screen during heated duels against an onslaught of bad guys, but it provides the otherwise muddled Fairytale Fights with its only true high point. [Jan 2010, p.78]
Thunderbolt
From an intriguing prospect to an abysmal game, Fairytale Fights has turned out more like a horror story.
Read Full Review >Teletext GameCentral
There's no fairytale ending for this beat 'em-up, with its striking art and terrible control scheme.
Read Full Review >Gaming Nexus
Fairytale Fights has one of the very best set-ups of any game this year, yet it's marred by repetitive gameplay, annoying combat, levels that go on forever and bosses that stand out for all the wrong reasons.
Read Full Review >GameCritics
Fairytale Fights would have been starkly disappointing as an XBLA or PSN download-only title, but as a retail game taking up shelf space, it's absolute failure.
Read Full Review >Game Revolution
It's ugly; it's slippery; all of the enemies blend together because they're all the frickin' same... it's awe-inspiringly bad, really. Not since Superman 64 have I played something this stomach-wrenching, and at least in the end that was funny-horrible. This one skips by funny-horrible and goes right back to bad.
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