The Faery Tale Adventure (Amiga) - Livestream: Part 2 - Octotiggy
7We return to the land of Holm! Will we have enough gold keys to unlock the riddles of Hemsath's Tomb? Will we save the princess and the realm without losing a single brother? Will Bonesy return to continue the conversation? Find out in The Faery Tale Adventure!
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The Faery Tale Adventure is a 1987 role-playing video game by MicroIllusions. In 1996, Computer Gaming World ranked it as the 63rd best game of all time.
The game is based around the quest of three brothers to retrieve the talisman stolen by the forces of evil and return it to their home village Tambry in the country of Holm. The player begins as Julian, the eldest of the three brothers; if unsuccessful with this character, they would then take control of Philip, the next oldest, then finally the youngest of the three, Kevin.
Next to recovering the talisman, which is kept by an evil necromancer, the player must complete a number of additional tasks which ultimately prove vital to the quest - save the king's daughter, gain the aid of a sea turtle, and slay an evil witch - and gather a number of artefacts which enable access to the strange dimension in which the necromancer resides.
The game's gameplay resembles that of Ultima VII (1992). At the time of its release, the game featured the largest game world yet (over 17,000 computer screens).
Each brother had his strengths and weaknesses—Julian is a brave fighter, Phillip has luck and cleverness, and Kevin is gentle and kind. Each of these attributes would affect vital game stats and the success of the quest:
A high Bravery score contributes to Vitality ("Vit"), the characters health. It can be increased by slaying enemies.
Luck determines the number of times a particular brother can be brought back from death if he is killed during the quest. If Luck runs out, the next brother must take up the quest.
Kindness is important for certain key chapters in the game. It can be increased by acts of kindness (such as giving alms to beggars).
The technique used to store such a huge world involved creating small-sized maps out of small shape-sized blocks. Those small maps were reused and fit together seamlessly to form larger areas. Loading was asynchronous, and would happen when nearing the boundary of an area, without affecting the smooth scrolling, animation and music. The game also featured good classical-style music tracks for the time, as well as sound effects.
Like most MicroIllusions games, this game was first released on the Amiga and then ported to other systems. Eventually it was released for the Commodore 64 and DOS, although the graphics for these ports were of substantially lower quality due to hardware limitations.
Wikipedia contributors. The Faery Tale Adventure. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. March 29, 2016, 10:52 UTC. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Faery_Tale_Adventure&oldid=712485299.
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