It’s just a shame that there isn’t any voice acting in the game, as it is all text based. Whilst there aren’t that many team mates in the game, they are certainly varied and each has an interesting reason for joining your quest. This desperate act of virtual loneliness brings me nicely on to ‘Companions’ (or team mates to you and me). This influences how people react to you, and in some cases they might “love you a little bit more” based on your response although they never call, or even text you back – it’s been several days now, why hasn’t Azielle got in touch?! Normally this is broken down into either asking more questions, providing a positive response, or being a bit rude and giving a negative retort. Taking a leaf out of Mass Effect’s book, when you engage in conversation with an NPC you are presented with a dialogue tree giving you several options. Once this is done, and the opening cutscene has finished, you are asked to go and speak to King Oberon. Gender, colour, size, eyes, and even make-up are catered for, allowing for some interesting looking creations if you are willing to put the time in. To start with you are asked to create a character using a surprisingly in-depth customisation tool. That’s where you come in awoken from stasis you take on the role of either a Fairy or Elf and are tasked with the unenviable job of passing through the magic mirrors to find out the source of the problem. Soon magic became a distant memory, allowing the Fairies to live in peace – that is until the magic realms started to disappear. King Oberon took his Fairy people and retreated into the enclaves, far away from the human world. We men are fickle creations though, and soon began to turn against the Fairies, considering their magic to be childish or in some cases demonic. A long time ago the world was filled with magic, and Fairies and men peacefully co-existed under the reign of King Oberon, who resided on the island of Avalon.
That’s not the case in ‘Faery: Legends of Avalon’ though, as you take control of the butt-kicking, bow and arrow wielding type of Fairy that would rather give you a bloody nose than shake your hand (probably).Īs is usually the case with the fantasy genre, the game’s story isn’t a bright and cheerful one. Everyone always wants to be a Mage, or a Warrior, whilst the poor little Fairies are reduced to bit-parts, sprinkling magic dust as they go. Some might say that Fairies are an underrepresented species in the world of videogames.
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