I have waited for months for Fairytale Fights to finally hit shelves.Yesterday was that day, and frankly I did not think I would be very impressed and addicted to the game; but I am, Oh, I am.
I have always been a Mario Bros. lover, I like the cartoon like graphics, I adored the lush colorful environments, and the adventure was not so bad either. Mario however only sticks to Nintendo consoles, and as much as I love the Nintendo Wii, I still prefer the controls on the PS3 and Xbox 360 so much more.
When Fairytale Fights was first introduced to me, I had to check it out because the environments were lush like they are in Mario games, the graphics were also very similar, and the game featured one of those oh-so-addicting adventures...only Fairytale Fights is not the typical adventure game one would get from a Mario Bros. game, Fairytale Fights sets itself apart in a whole new realm of sick, psychotic, and extreme cartoon gore.
Your probably thinking, so what? Lots of games these days feature blood, gore, guts and mayhem. Yes, that's true, but no game displays blood baths quite as therapeutic and fun as Fairytale Fights does. Fairytale characters we all remember from childhood have been transformed into mean devilish killing machines, and they are out for blood, lots and lots of blood. Sweet!
Fairytale Fights basically throws you into a dark version of childhood fairy tales all mixed, mutated, twisted and horrendously fun.
You begin as either Little Red Riding Hood, Jack, from Jack and the Beanstalk, the Naked Emperor, or Snow White.
The characters themselves all stand out in clearly obvious and ridiculous ways. Red Riding Hood looks like a possessed version of the real thing, while the Naked Emperor hides his goods under a small leaf, his large erect nipples though are in full view for gamers to see. Snow White awakes looking demonic, and sounding demonic, while Jack looks like a twisted odd version of his former heroic self.
You begin the game as Red, but you are free to chose whichever fairytale hero you want.
The very first area you are dumped in is a cute colorful town where you can witness townspeople chopping fluffy pink bunny rabbits in half, or listen to a meat farmer chop down his cleaver onto a cute little pig. This area is basically your main menu. It is here where you get a taste of the gore filled adventure that you are about to embark on.
Here you can upgrade your players statue by collecting coins to pay for the upgrades. You can also adjust the sounds, graphics, and check your kill statistics.
From the main menu you can also begin your adventure. If you don't feel like finding the correct storybook on the main menu that will lead you to the adventure, simply press the start button and chose to go on your adventure.
Once the game begins you get a basic idea of what the whole point of the game is. The main plot shows lumberjacks stealing Goldilocks porridge, and it becomes your job to retrieve the porridge cauldron from the thieves.
You must slice and dice your way to the very end of the fairytale. The adventure however throws in other fairytale twists besides just Goldilocks fairytale. You will encounter other childhood classics along the way, all with their own unusual, strange yet fun, micro plot.