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Fairytale Fights (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)

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Fairytale heroes as serial killers in farcical bloodbath.

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What parents need to know

Parents need to know that, despite the cute appearance of Fairytale Fights' familiar characters, it is not meant for kids. There are buckets of blood in this extremely violent hack 'n' slash platforming game. There's nothing real about the game, but the concept of fairytale characters becoming serial killer-like murderers would probably disturb anyone under the age of 17. What's more, there's a feature in the game that shows exactly how you butcher and slice up an enemy into sections. Plus, a character called Naked Emperor appears nearly nude, though his privates are covered by a fig leaf.

Educational value: You do learn about various fairytale heroes and heroines in the games, which may make some want to pick up the original Brothers Grimm to find out more.
Positive messages: Cartoon-y fairytale characters will stop at nothing to regain lost fame, and that includes massive amounts of killing.
Positive role models: The game's characters might be cute, recognizable little fairytale creatures, but they don't behave like the ones with which kids are familiar. There's little to recommend their actions, which mainly involve mindless and repetitive slicing, cutting, and general bloodletting.
Ease of play: You use the right stick to attack your foes and the left stick to aim. It's easy to learn, but the left stick is sometimes inaccurate and there's no function to 'lock on' your enemies.
Violence: Kids should not play this game. There is blood in many moments of the game and it splashes and oozes everywhere. You slice and dismember everything from cute bunnies, birds, rats and cows -- along with more human-like enemies -- as you plow through the game. A split screen function shows exactly how you have sliced up your enemy. There is also occasional vomiting. It's all presented in a cartoon-like atmosphere, and the violence never seems real, but there sure is a lot of it.
Sex: One character shows most of his buttocks, and his privates are covered only by a fig leaf.
Language: Not applicable.
Consumerism: Not applicable.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking: Not applicable.
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What to talk about

Talk to your kids
  • Families can talk about which character they enjoy playing the most, Snow White, The Naked Emperor, Little Red Riding Hood or Beanstalk Jack. Would you have enjoyed playing another character from fairytale lore? Which one?
  • Does the violence seem realistic to you or does it seem cartoon-like and inoffensive?
  • Do you think the boss battles, like the one with the giant beaver, are hard enough? Or are they feel too repetitive?

What's the story?

What's the story?
FAIRYTALE FIGHTS is not for kids, but many of the original tales of the Brothers Grimm aren't, either. Here, you’re a fairytale character who’s lost your fame. You’ve become forgotten. You’ve got to reclaim your notoriety by hacking and slashing through a magical, cartoon-y world as Snow White, Beanstalk Jack, Little Red Riding Hood or the Naked Emperor. As you move through beautiful, Candyland-like environments, you slice and dice through hundreds of enemies to proceed. But beware: blood flows everywhere, spilling slowly like honey.

Is it any good?

Is it any good?
 

Clearly, Fairytale Fights will confuse or scare children who've been weaned on edited versions of Grimm. This is a game with such over-the-top violence that the blood its characters spill actually seems to be a character. It can completely cover your immediate environment like something out of a Devil May Cry game. There's even a split screen that shows exactly how you've cut up an enemy, slice by slice.

But while it may disturb kids, any adult who plays will see that the slicing and dicing becomes tedious quickly. While there’s a variety of humorous weapons beyond hacksaws and axes (like a shark skeleton), most seem to cut in the same way. There are camera issues in the game, too: when four or more angry lumberjacks gang up on you, you can’t see what you’re doing from the birds-eye perspective in the game. The developers have created a mood that’s light in the face of a lot of killing. It’s too bad they didn’t make time to design a game that gives you more diversity in play.

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Game Details
Available on: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Not available online
Genre: Action/Adventure
Developer: Playlogic Entertainment
Released on: October 27, 2009
Price: 59.99
ESRB Rating: M for Blood and Gore, Crude Humor, Violence
This review was written by Harold Goldberg
 
 

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Lady-Lithium
teen, 17 years old
12
 
I wouldn't want to be a rabbit..
I love this game, and I'm planing to buy it soon (I've watched walk throughs for it) And I see nothing wrong with it. Though younger kids shouldn't play it due to have little red riding hood beat a rabbit to death. 12+
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doydle11
kid, 13 years old
12
 
Awesome game
Such a fun game and all the blood is super unrealistic. I play this game with my friend's four-year old brother
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Risturo
kid, 12 years old
12
 
Fat Princess Style.
Has LOTS of blood but an M Rating isn't very fair, Should be T like Fat Princess because it is simular.
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miss amy
kid, 12 years old
14
 
very very very violent
man,my parents would TOTTALY freak out if i play this game. at first,they would think the characters spilled red paint all over themselves,but edventully,my parents will find out its really blood,and make throw it away or give it back to the store 4 a refund.so i reccamend this 4 ages 17 and up.
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way245
teen, 14 years old
10
 
Do not buy.
Well to first get started, this game is very bloody and gory. This game is hilarious to play but a WASTE of money. You can see a characters butt and even though they dont talk, there is language. When you first start a level to the side you can read something that tells you how to play and what you have to do. Da-- and B--ch is used only once. And there is also an achievement/trophy you can unlock called Lazy Bas-ard. But all you have to do is stay in the town for 15 minutes.
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gamenerd323
adult
14
 
Fairytale fights is actually kind of fun. There are some decent controls, it's kind of a new idea. Although a game with more sophistication would be a better choice, this game is pretty fun! But the audience it targets is very small. It's too violent for small children and too childish for adults, if your kid is a mature 13 year old, or 14, this game should be fine. And the violence is so unrealestic, it's unbelivable, there are unrealestic amounts of blood and gore with poorly ilistrated characters.
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VForNoVendettas
kid, 10 years old
10
 
Funny
This looks like something I would love to play, but if my parents saw it they would faint.
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GameDude17
kid, 11 years old
7
 
Really funny and fun. Very bloody but not in a real way at all. No bad words so I found this game to not be very bad at all.
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fanboyandchumc ...
kid, 11 years old
14
 
dfgjgtyjut
im back, and i love this game even though i never played this game. some one should make a toon about this game with fanboy and chum chum
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fairytalefight ...
kid, 11 years old
13
 
VIOLENTZZZ
My 13- year old cousin played this, he says its suckish because mostly a girlyish game and he saw the very disturbing tralier. the characters look like they came from fanboy and chum chum.
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Myxboxliveisro ...
teen, 15 years old
15
 
Good for VERY mature kids other than that no.
Okay this game is a good game like it says in the Commonsense review you use the right stick to attack and left to walk/aim it is annoying at sometimes when you have to dodge these saws in a sawmill and when you get killed you lose your weapon no matter how cool/rare the weapon is it does have The naked emperor witch is how its talking about "Sex" on the commonsense rating but it is just a leaf and it only shows his butt witch is not bad at all infact butts are considered jokes to kids these days infact even sponge bob has full shown butts so you cannot complain to your kids about the Naked emperor showing in the game but it is very violent and unlike most of my reviews i would only recommend it to EXTREMLY mature kids that will not have nightmares cause of it.
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Mr. Tostados
teen, 13 years old
17
 
REALLY BAD GAME
When wil they stop making these games?! This game contains only 2 things: over the top gore and all around stupidity.DON'T BUY THIS GAME
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