
- 59/100
- Players6 ratings
- 51/100
- Critics4 reviews

2009 · Playlogic Entertainment · Action · Adventure
Fairytale Fights
Using the Unreal Engine 3 like you've never seen it, Fairytale Fights takes popular characters and tales from the pantheon of well known fairytales and turns them on their heads as players must fight their way through hordes of enemies on a quest to restore their own personal honor and re-establish peace in the land of fairytales. Inspired by twisted cartoons like Happy Tree Friends and Itchy and Scratchy, and featuring a wildly colorful and distinct art style, players can cooperatively complete quests in the single-player storyline or compete in chaotic multiplayer battle with up to 4 players online or offline.
- Released
- 23 October 2009
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3Xbox 360
- Genres
- ActionAdventureBeat 'em upFightingHack and slashPlatformerPuzzle
- Developers
- Playlogic Entertainment
- Publishers
- Playlogic Entertainment
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Themes
- Action
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 3
- Country
- Netherlands
- Age ratings
- PEGI 16ESRB MGRAC 19+
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
- Composers
- Pedro Macedo Camacho
About
Fairytale Fights is a 2009 hack and slash action-adventure game developed by Playlogic Game Factory and published by Playlogic Entertainment for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game allows the player a chance to reclaim the fairytale status of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Jack, The Naked Emperor and more.
Keywords
- bloody
- rabbit
- multiple protagonists
- achievements
- gore
- dark humor
- squirrel
- bink video
- party system
- 4 player co-op
- treasure chest
- potion
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Fairytale Fights was developed with the Unreal Engine 3. The game has a volumetric liquid system, where blood drenches the surroundings when the player slice up the enemies multiple times in a frenzied attack. They are also able to slide through the pools of blood and melt their enemies using acid potions. Players have full control over how and when to slice their enemies, called dynamic slicing technology.
The game features a multiplayer system for online and offline play, with drop-in-drop-out gameplay. Fairytale Fights features 140 weapons, and 3 difficulty levels.
Reception
Fairytale Fights received mixed reviews, with a 51% average score for the Xbox 360 version on Metacritic. Some critics were more positive about it, such as Games Master magazine in the UK, which called it "a likeable, if slight, slice of gory Brothers Grimm gaming". However, many sources were considerably more scathing. IT Reviews said that "the dodgy controls combined with some awkward camera viewpoints, plus the overly repetitive levels, slowly sap much of the joy from the experience".
GameSpot went further, criticising the game's lack of pacing, lousy boss fights and "shallow, repetitive combat". Andy Eddy of Team Xbox added that Fairytale Fights's "annoyingly bad game design" held it back from being a better game. He went on to say "Sadly, [Fairytale Fights'] gimmicks aren't strong enough to maintain the game across its entirety."
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