Faery: Legends of Avalon is a big role playing game packed with a very distinctive ambience and graphic style. Create your character, embark in a great adventure and discover the fantastic world of Avalon! You will have to understand why this magic world is dying, and save the kingdom from certain disappearance. In a thrilling adventure where your choices will shape the story, develop your character, his abilities and special powers, as well as his equipment through the victorious battles and accomplished quests! Numerous dangers await you and the battles against some of the creatures and monsters of the game promise to be formidable. Gain power and experience, and assure the support of friendly companions you will meet through your journey. Carefully select who will fight at your side, and live the incredible experience of being accompanied by a dragon, a troll, fairies and other fantastic creatures!
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não dá pra dizer que não tem falhas. o sistema de combate é simples e só foi minimamente engajante pela presença de uma mecânica de vantagens e desvantagens elementais. a história é boba, esticada demais e tem o gancho mais bobo do mundo para uma sequência que nunca foi feita (e talvez nunca será). ainda assim, é um daqueles casos em que é impossível não torcer pra esse jogo. é bem aparente que ele não foi finalizado apropriadamente por uma questão de ambição excessiva, o que gera problemas como a conclusão anticlimática que seria na verdade a primeira metade da história, além do mundo final ter sinais claros de uma produção correndo para atingir seu prazo. mas ainda assim, é um jogo que tem uma vibe imaculada em todos os mundos que você explora, como o lugar onde todos seus habitantes vivem em uma árvore gigante (relativa às proporções dos personagens). o design dos personagens variam entre genéricos e completamente inspirados, como o ADORÁVEL chugflea e seus primos distantes. voar nesse jogo é sempre uma delícia, algo que o próprio CRPG Book elogia como algo que deixa as travessias constantes entre um ponto A e um ponto B, algo visto em abundância nesse gênero, bem menos maçantes. em topo de tudo isso, cada skill que você avança muda uma parte diferente do seu corpo, o que permite uma quantia gigante de personalização da personagem que você controla, além de me deixar fazer uma fada com uma cauda de escorpião, longos chifres circulares e antenas de percevejo.
se você gosta de crpgs feitos na europa com orçamento baixo, esse jogo é uma boa escolha, apesar de sua simplicidade. mas se você gosta da ideia de um rpg onde se controla uma fada viajando por mundos visualmente bonitos e interagindo com maravilhosas criaturas esquisitinhas, esse jogo foi tão feito pra você quanto foi para mim. relativamente curto e fica bem barato na steam durante promoções.
would love to see this game made today with a decent budget, as it's one of the very few unique fantasy rpg games out there! very charming and cute!
The turn-based combat may not be difficult, but this RPG certainly isn't lacking in depth. For example, armor and weapons do more than just protect you from damage and increase your attack power. Each set ties into a certain playstyle by giving boosts to specific abilities. You can mix and match pieces to go for a more jack-of-all-trades approach or stick to one category and excel there while letting your party members pick up the slack in the other areas. You're given a lot of freedom to define what kind of fighter you want to be. Something that has become a staple of Spiders' games.
Your ability to shape the experience isn't just limited to there though. Player choice pops up in some unexpected ways. Of course you have the traditional big decision moments to make across the story that influence how the other characters view you, but you can also choose how you want to progress through main quests from a gameplay standpoint as they often give you two methods of completion. One usually combat focused and the other being exploration based. As you level up the skills you invest in will actually start to change your physical appearance. Depending on which abilities you pick, you could end up with a tail or a pair of horns. It's an interesting and original feature.
Despite being a budget downloadable title, length isn't really something the game struggles with. You get about 8-10 hours of content for a pretty low price and there is some replay value. Where it does drop the ball though is with the ending. The conclusion is an abrupt cliffhanger that left me scratching my head until I did some research. It turns out this was originally meant to be the first entry in a larger series. However, it didn't sell well enough for the sequels to get made so the tale remains unfinished. A darn shame given how charming Faery is.
I would love Spiders to revisit this universe in the same way they did with Mars: War Logs. The world they created here is worthy of further exploration and I would jump at a second chance to put on some fairy wings and soar again. The French developer launched onto the scene with an authentic vision and created an enchanting standout from the fantasy RPG pack.
9/10
So you get a kinda workable turn based battle system, some decent but ultimately underhwelming locations and a storyline that hints at a lot that never arrives with a mass effect style 'Good/Bad' dialogue system that doesn't really make any difference to a thing.
So yeah. Its not horrible but its so low effort and barely there to the point where you may as well not bother.