There are fantastic systems to help with the combat, you can toggle the battle animations at a click of a button in combat, you can easily see the effectiveness of the type of attack before selecting and even linking all the area’s generic monsters into one battle. It’s an enjoyable grind collecting items, killing monsters and travelling around the world to see a little more dialogue or unlock another ability or complete a job request. As you progress through the story you will be building up the guild as you go but along the way you’ll also do side quests, community requests, building improvements, remodel facilities, update equipment and improve bonds between characters. If you’ve ever played an Atelier game then you’ve already a rough idea of what the real gameplay loop to Fairy Tail is.
The highlights being the fantastically well written extra character interactions and various side quests you can complete along the way. Fairy Tail does drag a little halfway through the story but you can easily distract yourself with a lot of content here. What’s surprising is how much of the manga is in the game, you can expect the Magic Games Arc to finish and still have a few more arcs and even extra snippets of the later ones left. After the short introduction to the cast and a rough guide to the combat system, you’re blasted to 7 years into the future and tasked with sorting out the failing guild ( unsurprising given all the strongest wizards were in the time bubble) After a few hours of getting to grips with the town and setup you’re straight of into the Grand Magic games arc. Is it a cash in on a series finishing up, or is it the S Rank Quest we’ve been waiting for?įairy Tail doesn’t start at the beginning of the manga nor in the middle during the time skip ( the usual shōnen “3 years later” moment halfway through a series) It strangely begins just before the skip occurs during the battle with Hades. I was disappointed that Koei Tecmo didn’t hand the IP to the Dynasty Warriors team but what we have is a new type of JRPG from Gust instead. As a fan of the series I had all but given up hope for a new game, the last entry was an average action game on the PSP. When it comes to the anime things stay ropy, it has some of the greatest music of all time and yet some of the blandest animation and too much unnecessary filler.
On the other it’s incredibly cheesecake boobs-first fan service heavy in nature and has characters that look a little too familiar to other manga series. On the one hand it has fantastically drawn shōnen action moments, compelling characters, some incredibly original ideas and interesting plot twists. Fairy Tail has always been a strange manga.
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