![]() There are four different classes of characters to choose between, and each plays differently enough that it’s worth building a group that has different classes in it. There’s some light teamwork involved, which helps gel the multiplayer experience together. There’s very little downtime in Fat Princess Adventures, and that adds to the fun for everyone involved. That’s hardly a bad thing, as it keeps players progressing rapidly while running into endless waves of enemies to knock out, and not backtracking all over the place on treasure hunts and the like. ![]() There are some minor side quests, which are entirely optional to enjoying the overall game, but from a couple of group sessions, the structure of the game is firmly focused on driving people through the main narrative quests. As you might expect, the plot follows a traditional fairytale format, while its sense of humour twists things around to throw biting sarcasm and satire into that. It would seem that 2016 is going to be the year where your old 32-inch televisions are simply not going to be enough, when even small downloadable games are making the assumption that players can access larger screens in order to pack more detail in, so it’s time to make the upgrade if you haven’t already.īecause Fat Princess Adventures is so carefully honed in on that multiplayer experience, storytelling is firmly backgrounded. While the developer has done an admirable job in streamlining the user interface so as to not annoy the other players in a multiplayer session (each player can pull up their own inventory menu in a corner of the screen without pausing the game for everyone else), actually reading the text describing the various bits of equipment is a strain on the eyes on anything but a large television. You’ll want to play this on a larger television screen, because the camera is pulled back far enough that it’s difficult to make out details in the environment, and read the information displayed on your inventory screen. The game is designed around a group of players working together, and the hilarity of the carnage that can be achieved in groups more than making up for the relative difficulty in actually tracking what is going on. The effect is not dissimilar to an obscure PlayStation 3 game from a few years back – Fairytale Fights (though it’s a much better game, which we’ll get on to in shortly). It’s still all a load of nonsense, but it’s suddenly a very adult kind of nonsense. Suddenly the cutesy characters and twee humorous sarcasm expressed through the narrative takes on a sharper, more biting edge. Very, very, bloody, with enemies splattering into crimson arcs that paint the landscape a very grisly red. See, Fat Princess Adventures likes to be bloody. Squint, and it could almost look like a classical Disney production.īut then you get into a scrap, and things very quickly take a change for the twisted. Essentially the characters and environments look like they should be from an overly-exaggerated and sweet fantasy world, where bobble-headed humans skip their way through brightly-coloured forests and the like on their way to rescue princesses and perform other feats of heroic daring-do. It’s like Diablo or Gauntlet, basically, and that’s much more in line with my sense of fun.įrom the outset, there’s a neat juxtaposition between the art aesthetic, with cutesy charm clashing with just how adult the whole experience is, and that’s used to great comic effect. ![]() Where Fat Princess is a strategy/ action game where two small armies of characters duke it out, Fat Princess Adventures is a light RPG, with a heavy focus on co-operative multiplayer (especially local multiplayer) between a couple of players. So I got to go into Fat Princess Adventures with a clean slate, but my lack of history with the franchise is largely irrelevant, since Adventures belongs to a completely different genre. Related reading: For a more “serious” take on the genre, Diablo 3, on PlayStation 3 or 4, will scratch the co-op RPG itch. Mostly because I’ve never been a fan of the kind of exclusively combative multiplayer experience that it offered – it’s one thing when the game is effectively free (I play the odd game of League of Legends here or there), but it’s quite another to ask me to cough up cash for a game I can only enjoy on the provision that there are enough compatible players out there when I’m in the mood to play it. I’ve never played a Fat Princess game before.
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