The Faery Tale Adventure
| Developer: David Joiner | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: MicroIllusions | Sound: |
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| Year: 1986 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Role-playing game | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
7/10 | |
A true classic of real time role-playing games. Slay brigands, orcs, and other skeletons, loot their corpses for new items (keys, weapons, gold…), undertake perilous (and incredibly original) quests like rescuing a princess, visiting a dragon’s lair, or killing an evil sorcerer…
Holm (that’s the name of the kingdom where the action takes place) is gigantic, stretching across more than 17,000 screens (in scale, that must be roughly two square kilometres, but believe me, without a map, don’t even try).
The difficulty seems poorly balanced: the hero gets killed in one hit at the start, then, after a few levels, becomes nearly invincible (except to the arrows of archers, for some reason).
As for the music: see Diablo.
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