Koei Tecmo and Gust have lastly debuted the very first console game outing for Hiro Mashima’s massively fashionable Fairy Tail manga and anime franchise, so followers of the sequence have been protecting a really shut eye on the way it has been shaping up because it was first introduced. Initially slated to debut earlier this spring earlier than being delayed a few months for additional polish, how has this debut game outing stood as much as the strain? FAIRY TAIL is a profitable seize of every little thing that makes this franchise particular that followers actually don’t need to miss out on.
FAIRY TAIL is a role-playing game that particularly caters to followers of the franchise with all kinds of characters to select from. There are loads of smaller moments all through that followers will need to re-experience or get a peek into brand-new sorts of character interactions there won’t have been time for within the unique run of the manga and anime. If there may be one main flaw, sadly, it’s the truth that FAIRY TAIL caters to followers a lot that it won’t be straightforward for newcomers to leap in.
There is a semblance of data wanted to totally benefit from the game’s story due to the place within the sequence it takes place. In a courageous transfer, FAIRY TAIL neither recaps the entire occasions of the sequence nor does it begin from the very starting. It as a substitute finds a enjoyable new sq. one place to begin every little thing over. As a litmus check of how a lot you may totally take pleasure in what the game has to supply, here’s a temporary description of the place the game’s story takes place.
Following Grimmoire Heart’s assault on Tenrou Island and plenty of of Fairy Tail‘s main gamers are presumed killed by Acnologia, seven years later Natsu Dragneel, Lucy Heartfilia, and the opposite main gamers within the guild return to the world and work to get Fairy Tail again to the status it as soon as held. Without giving an excessive amount of extra away about how far the story goes, suffice it to say {that a} extra skilled fan will higher admire among the later cutscenes and particular animations.
Part of the game’s catering to skilled followers additionally comes into the convenience of the gameplay itself. FAIRY TAIL is a role-playing game the place you’ll be able to discover smaller areas all through a map and may tackle (or keep away from) monsters that present up in your method. Battles are turn-based with every of the participant’s characters utilizing magic, fundamental assaults, or gadgets in opposition to enemies which can be positioned on a three-by-three grid. Certain magic assaults hit sure areas, and can even deal out extra harm by exploiting a sequence of weaknesses and resistances.
Much of the enjoyable in these battles comes with upgrades that you would be able to make to your characters. Along with the story missions, there are a ton of aspect missions to assist improve each a part of the expertise. To become profitable for the guild and for your self, you tackle missions (very similar to characters would do within the anime) that both contain going to seize an merchandise and delivering it to an NPC or taking out a set of monsters in an space. Each profitable mission earns not solely cash, however renown for the guild that results in a number of enjoyable upgrades.
Taking on missions makes your guild higher, and thus makes the missions extra fruitful. At the identical time, you may earn cash and components to develop locations within the guild (similar to Library or Laboratory) that provide up smaller different buffs similar to rising the quantity of EXP characters who aren’t in your social gathering earn. Doing all of this naturally will increase particular person character stats similar to Bonds (which permit for follow-up chain-attack probabilities), Ranks (which buffs characters in particular methods), and extra. It’s all in-built a method that scratches that completionist itch. There are tons of rewards and upgrades that include finishing these (typically required) missions, and you actually really feel that within the warmth of battle.
Just like within the sequence, characters can really feel tremendous highly effective with many of those upgrades going at a single time. That’s on high of different character boosts like Awakening (which is a gauge that may be sacrificed for an extra observe up strike and even used to save lots of your self from a tough hit) and the Fairy Meter, which unleashes a robust workforce assault that itself will be upgraded. There’s simply a lot to develop, and a lot to make your self stronger, that you will need to soar into battles to improve additional. If you do not, and simply need to improve every little thing as quick as attainable, there are even choices to show off battle animations and have characters on auto-mode by way of battles.
Traveling round between areas is a breeze with fast journey choices proper off the bat, you’ll be able to skip by way of principally any cutscene or immediate, characters are all animated effectively and retain their anime seems to be (with some additional fan service particulars established followers of the work will you should definitely acknowledge), and every playable character comes with quite a lot of assaults. It’s all within the service of capturing what makes Fairy Tail such an amazing expertise. FAIRY TAIL is bombastic, breezy, and filled with enjoyable to observe characters, besides, this time, it is us making all of it occur.
Rating: 5 out of 5
FAIRY TAIL is now out there for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. This evaluation was primarily based on a PlayStation Four code supplied by the writer, and it was performed on a base mannequin PlayStation 4.
