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swordianmaster) wrote2018-12-28 12:11 pm
swordianmaster) wrote2018-12-28 12:11 pm
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Recordkeeping: Fairune CLEARED
So while I didn't get much for Christmas for myself (only people online got me presents since most of the family's resources and money were focused on making sure the kids had a good holiday) one of the things I did get from a friend was a $50 Nintendo eShop card, with the intent of purchasing Fire Emblem Echoes (which I will touch on when I actually beat it). What was done with the surplus was up to me, though it admittedly wasn't much because Nintendo prices on first-party games. That said, I'd played the demo of this a few months ago and was decently impressed, it was on sale for ultra cheap, and I needed something light and crunchy to get through some bad times (like having a power outage for about 4h the other day), so I'd grabbed it.
Fairune is incredibly retro. I'm not just talking about the 8-bit aesthetic crunchy pixels and chiptunes, I'm talking about the fact that the game does just about nothing to explain anything to you. You're plopped down in the world, told "defeat the sealed evil", told how to find a weapon and create health recharge spots, and then just... left to your devices. Figure it out your own damn self.
And god damn, you will have to do a lot of figuring. The world is decently small (the entire game combined is maybe as big as Zelda's overworld TOTAL, if you're generous), but incredibly labyrinthine and convoluted. You'll wander around a whole lot, you'll rub up against walls in the hope that you missed a hidden passage somewhere (though for the most part the game is good about telegraphing those, save for one case). And god damn it, you'll face tank monsters.
Combat is kind of like vintage Ys but even MORE simplified - you walk into an enemy. If you're roughly the same level as it or higher, the enemy dies. You take a point or two of damage if you're equal level, and gain a little EXP. If you're higher level you just steamroller them but don't get or lose anything. So it doesn't really get in the way, except as an additional form of grind-gating. That's it, that's the entire game. You wander around, find trinkets, unlock areas, progress through increasingly chufty monsters.
.....until the final boss inexplicably becomes a top-down shmup, but that's to be expected.
Honestly? Not a bad game. Nice music, incredibly light, achievements for speedrunning and things like that. It's on 3DS and iOS/Android if you're into that. There's a collection of the entire series on Steam for ten bucks.
Solid 7/10.
Fairune is incredibly retro. I'm not just talking about the 8-bit aesthetic crunchy pixels and chiptunes, I'm talking about the fact that the game does just about nothing to explain anything to you. You're plopped down in the world, told "defeat the sealed evil", told how to find a weapon and create health recharge spots, and then just... left to your devices. Figure it out your own damn self.
And god damn, you will have to do a lot of figuring. The world is decently small (the entire game combined is maybe as big as Zelda's overworld TOTAL, if you're generous), but incredibly labyrinthine and convoluted. You'll wander around a whole lot, you'll rub up against walls in the hope that you missed a hidden passage somewhere (though for the most part the game is good about telegraphing those, save for one case). And god damn it, you'll face tank monsters.
Combat is kind of like vintage Ys but even MORE simplified - you walk into an enemy. If you're roughly the same level as it or higher, the enemy dies. You take a point or two of damage if you're equal level, and gain a little EXP. If you're higher level you just steamroller them but don't get or lose anything. So it doesn't really get in the way, except as an additional form of grind-gating. That's it, that's the entire game. You wander around, find trinkets, unlock areas, progress through increasingly chufty monsters.
.....until the final boss inexplicably becomes a top-down shmup, but that's to be expected.
Honestly? Not a bad game. Nice music, incredibly light, achievements for speedrunning and things like that. It's on 3DS and iOS/Android if you're into that. There's a collection of the entire series on Steam for ten bucks.
Solid 7/10.
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It goes without saying that after reading this line right here is where I tabbed out to wishlist that collection, right.