Just an awful game. Whole dungeons are reused practically as-is -- this in a game where the main story takes you through the median dungeon twice over, and side quests double that! The combat system is theoretically interesting but it doesn't really work -- outside of lategame boss fights, there's not much reason to do anything other than spam skills.
Performance issues, shitty characters, grindy as shit, and terrible story.
Literally dropped after 10 hours.
Literally dropped after 10 hours.
Jogo divertido e engraçado, mas com muito grinding.
It's another late gen ps3 title that runs like hot garbage at frames no one wants. You basically play this game for the cutscenes that are slightly cringe. Very Very barebones
The best thing I can say about the game is that it's easy enough to grind levels. Just slap a full AOE on some characters and board wipe over and over.
The best thing I can say about the game is that it's easy enough to grind levels. Just slap a full AOE on some characters and board wipe over and over.
If you were truly searching for the most standard of the JRPGs, something that has everything the medium already did but didn’t try even a little to put our something new or memorable, a title where the protagonist would be your average lovable goofball, the side characters the most basic standard heroines and stock personalities, you’d probably be happy to get Fairy Fencer F. It’s not that it is inherently a bad title, rather if you bought a Neptunia game you’d get the same combat system with some sort of substance put into it.
What Idea Factory did with this game was releasing just the bare minimum: the dungeons are linear and uninspired, ever more than Neptunia I mean; the characters never bother to be surprising or entertaining; the plot plays exactly like you imagine from start to finish; the combat is also pretty bare. Everything gives the feeling that this game was made out of obligation rather than because a team of creatives had and idea and came together to release this idea to the world.
I enjoyed my time in Fairy Fencer F, but I can’t help but think that despite being light-hearted, mindless fun I could’ve gotten better from similar titles.
What Idea Factory did with this game was releasing just the bare minimum: the dungeons are linear and uninspired, ever more than Neptunia I mean; the characters never bother to be surprising or entertaining; the plot plays exactly like you imagine from start to finish; the combat is also pretty bare. Everything gives the feeling that this game was made out of obligation rather than because a team of creatives had and idea and came together to release this idea to the world.
I enjoyed my time in Fairy Fencer F, but I can’t help but think that despite being light-hearted, mindless fun I could’ve gotten better from similar titles.
I love this game but holy shit, it's not good. It's fun, sure, but dear God is it hard to sit through.
(this is a repost of my Steam review for this game with some modifications. you can read my original review here: https://steamcommunity.com/id/huuishuu/recommended/347830/)
As much as I love Fairy Fencer F, as much as it is among my favorite games from Compile Heart, as charming as the game is to me, I unfortunately cannot recommend it anymore due to the existence of Fairy Fence F: Advent Dark Force. FFF:ADF is pretty much the same FFF but with A LOT more content. From additional stories, new endings and even new playable characters, it's pretty much an upgraded version of FFF in basically every single aspect. Even has a graphical upgrade too.
As much as I love Fairy Fencer F, as much as it is among my favorite games from Compile Heart, as charming as the game is to me, I unfortunately cannot recommend it anymore due to the existence of Fairy Fence F: Advent Dark Force. FFF:ADF is pretty much the same FFF but with A LOT more content. From additional stories, new endings and even new playable characters, it's pretty much an upgraded version of FFF in basically every single aspect. Even has a graphical upgrade too.
I still remember the mass confusion that originated when Compile Heart announced the Galapagos RPG project to create games “for Japanese players” as though their prior projects weren’t already influenced primarily by otaku culture. Over time it’s come to represent their more experimental titles that are funded by the Neptunia cashcow, but the original project in this brand was anything but. There’s definitely a desire present to be taken more seriously, as evidenced by marketing playing up Yoshitaka Amano and Nobuo Uematsu’s relatively minor contributions to the game to claim their Final Fantasy pedigree, but it’s really just a different form of pop art from Neptunia, one spares the self-referential edge and invests heavily in stock fantasy tropes.
I probably made it sound a bit worse than it is, because it’s literally just… okay. Fine. Mediocre. My main criticism narratively is that protagonist Fang is a narcissistic, envious ass whose traits are vindicated instead of developed from, but otherwise the story’s functional, and the midgame twist didn’t blow my mind but it did enough to shake things up and keep me mildly engaged. I’m also incredibly sympathetic to Neptunia combat from having been exposed to it for so long, so the usage of a modified version of that battle system appealed to me, and the minor innovations to it lead to finding new fun ways to break the game. Still, despite there being far worse JRPGs, I really can’t recommend this at all because there’s just nothing that’s really that special or appealing you can’t get elsewhere at a higher quality.
I probably made it sound a bit worse than it is, because it’s literally just… okay. Fine. Mediocre. My main criticism narratively is that protagonist Fang is a narcissistic, envious ass whose traits are vindicated instead of developed from, but otherwise the story’s functional, and the midgame twist didn’t blow my mind but it did enough to shake things up and keep me mildly engaged. I’m also incredibly sympathetic to Neptunia combat from having been exposed to it for so long, so the usage of a modified version of that battle system appealed to me, and the minor innovations to it lead to finding new fun ways to break the game. Still, despite there being far worse JRPGs, I really can’t recommend this at all because there’s just nothing that’s really that special or appealing you can’t get elsewhere at a higher quality.
"I’m afraid I don’t have many kind words about Fairy Fencer F as a game. All the very few moments of potential are quickly squashed by the terrible writing, the annoying characters, the repetitive gameplay and the insulting design. It’s like Compile Heart decided to collect the worst bits of the most mediocre and sub-par RPG titles of the last generation and give you the full tour of them. After the hours I spent on this game I think it’s clear what the F actually stands for; a fiasco."
Full Review: https://andrearitsu.com/2014/09/19/fairy-fencer-f-review/
Full Review: https://andrearitsu.com/2014/09/19/fairy-fencer-f-review/