Da Fuq I Just Play?: Fairytale Fights

<p>I have A LOT of games&period; They traverse all the generations that have been&comma; and there are some gems in there that I&&num;8217&semi;ve yet to play&period; <em>Fairytale Fights<&sol;em> happened to be one of those&comma; I popped it into my Xbox 360 recently at the behest of a friend&comma; and the first thing that entered my mind was &&num;8220&semi;Da fuq am I playing&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; that didn&&num;8217&semi;t mean I was playing a bad game&comma; it just meant I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know what the hell I was playing&period; There are so few games that catch me off guard like this one&comma; that I just don&&num;8217&semi;t know what to think about it until I put a few hours into it&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m about four chapters into this game and I still don&&num;8217&semi;t know what&&num;8217&semi;s going on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;05&sol;04230712&sol;fairytale-fights-screenshot-gamer-investments-review-3&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-83519" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;05&sol;04230712&sol;fairytale-fights-screenshot-gamer-investments-review-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fairytale Fights" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"473" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I put the game into the disc tray and waited for my Xbox 360 to load the game&comma; once it did I was taken to a world of twisted fairy-tales where death loomed at every corner&period; It was as if Walt Disney had had an acid trip and now it was time for the chickens to come home to roost&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re greeted to the fairy-tale hub world and get to choose a character&comma; you can be Little Red Riding Hood&comma; Beanstalk Jack&comma; Snow White or The Naked King&period; Seeing as how I wanted to make this experience as whacky as possible&comma; I chose the Naked King&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve never been in a naked fist fight&comma; so there was no reason for me not to try it digitally&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s not fully naked&comma; there is well placed fig leaf on his royal junk&comma; so you won&&num;8217&semi;t be grossed out as you play&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I mastered the controls quite quickly&comma; which was good seeing as I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to spend lots of time dying learning how to control my little naked despot&period; The combat did take a bit of getting use to&comma; you fight the right thumb-stick&comma; something that many games shy away from seeing as it is an unnatural way to play&period; If I&&num;8217&semi;m playing a beat&&num;8217&semi;em up I expect to use face buttons to pound on my enemies&comma; I had to teach myself that hitting a face button means I&&num;8217&semi;ll jump or drop my melee weapon&period; Once I murdered a few lumberjacks I was good to go&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;04223718&sol;144878-image001&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-84225" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;04223718&sol;144878-image001&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fairy-tale" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"449" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story&&num;8217&semi;s stretched very thin&comma; once you pick your character you have to help Goldilocks and the Three Bears find their missing porridge in the magical crock pot&comma; which leads you through Fairy-Tale land&period; I found myself battling a host of mythical creatures&comma; and turning them into a bloody mess&comma; which the game is nice enough to show you in graphic detail in a split screen montage&period; I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t expecting to watch a lumberjack be disemboweled on one half of my television as I defeated him with his own axe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m still trekking through this game&comma; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t realize that it would be so long&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m about to start chapter 5&comma; and I googled it and there are sixteen chapters in the whole game&period; So I&&num;8217&semi;ll be wondering what da fuq I&&num;8217&semi;m playing for quite sometime&period; Hopefully this article will have piqued your interest and I&&num;8217&semi;ll be slicing and dicing you in the area&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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