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Fairytale Fights
- Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- Price: $59.99
- Genre: Action/Adventure
Common Sense Media says
Fairytale heroes as serial killers in farcical bloodbath.
Parents say
Kids say
QUALITY
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.
What's it about?
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?
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.
What families can talk about
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?
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Kid, 12 years old
July 20, 2010
AGE
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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Kid, 12 years old
September 25, 2010
AGE
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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AGE
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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AGE
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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AGE
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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Kid, 12 years old
May 7, 2011
AGE
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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Kid, 10 years old
April 10, 2011
AGE
Funny
This looks like something I would love to play, but if my parents saw it they would faint.
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Kid, 12 years old
August 21, 2010
AGE
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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AGE
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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Kid, 12 years old
December 13, 2010
AGE
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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| Platforms: | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Developer: | Playlogic Entertainment |
| Release date: | October 27, 2009 |
| Price: | $59.99 |
| ESRB rating: | M for Blood and Gore, Crude Humor, Violence |
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