LGR - Faery Tale Adventure: Book I - DOS PC Game Review
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- Faery Tale Adventure was a pretty notable action adventure title back in the late 1980's. But does it hold up amongst other classic CRPGs that are more easily available today?
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"Hazy memory of a childhood game"
Exactly how I found LGR
"High fantasy socialism" I'm gonna need to remember that one
Let me remind you.
@@olivercharles2930 I forgot all about that, thanks
@@redseve You're welcome. I just had to do it lol
I upgraded my video card on my 286 to play this game...
If I trust my memory, when you die your body stays where it happened. Your other self can go back there and collect all you had before dying.
I think that is correct. If you managed to get back at all. I think I managed to get back once. When I died right outside the start town lol.
"The moral of the story: Stay at home!"
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Yes but my problem with it remains. You're a complete weakling once again when you die, except this time you don’t have any starting loot. Finding your way back to a body is darned near impossible due to the sheer size of the map. Even then without some good stats and loot you’re sure to quickly die due to the randomly-spawned hordes of enemies every few steps.
So you *can* find the body, but the point remains: I see having 3 brothers as useless, just stick with the first and reload if he dies.
You aren't wrong from a strategic standpoint... but the game was designed for a sense of adventure and wonder. It wasn't meant to be a strategic speedrun. Although your start is far more challenging with the second brother, and then absolutely BRUTAL with the third brother... the idea is that your knowledge of how the game works has improved to the point that you can make it work somehow... it was an interesting mechanic regardless...
"Fart on these" should definitely be a valid command in all text adventures.
I have a pretty average dirk thank you.
It was pretty ahead of its time if you compare it to other games from 1987 like Ultima. Especially the Amiga version which had really good music. The author David Joiner did the programming, gfx and music and took about 7 months to make the game and released it almost as soon as the Amiga came out. He used all sorts of crazy tricks, like using the disk drive chip to load the map in parallel with the cpu, so that there was no loading time.
An interview with David Joiner here, including recounting his development process of the Amiga version of Faery Tale:
www.abime.net/interviews/view/interview/id/71
For a DOS game from '87, the scrolling is super smooth D:
Remember playing this on the Amiga, but having no clue of what to do as I didn't even know english.
I honestly really loved this game. Played it through with the family during quarantine, made some fun memories.
I still enjoyed your review, despite disagreeing with most of your criticisms. 😅
The Amiga version offers a wonderful soundtrack. Too sad they didn't convert it to Adlib for the pc version.
Yes. This can't be overstated enough. Fantastic sound track on the amiga. I just checked it out on my amiga again.
Remembered this game in exactly the same way. Heard a guy elsewhere online mention the name and thought "THAT'S IT" and "I wonder if LG did a review of this?"
To be fair. The genesis Port is alot better, and this game is boring as you said, however if you farm at the grave yard for like 1 hour you basically cant die and finishing the game can be fun. that's my only advice. . Also, if you want to get the turtle early just follow the south road all the way to the watch tower, use a grey key on the door and there is a sea shell inside, which lets you summon the turtle early. takes 20 minutes to get from starting fresh.
Elite Zararus Genesis (more specifically MegaDrive, in my case) version was the very first I ever played and FUCK was it unforgiving to new players! Still, it pushed me to play it more and more. Too bad it was my cousin's console and cartridge and we lived too far apart from each others. Was the Genesis version a cartridge with a yellow tab on the side as well?
There is a chest just outside the starting village to the south that you could glitch by doing a save reload trick and you could keep opening it and getting all the loot.
After 30 mins your inventory would be completely full and heaps of money.
@@blackidna yeah, they were Electronic Arts cartridges.
@@TheCommanderNZ haaaaaa..... I played on the Amiga. Save and load was anything but trivial... toc...toc...toc...scraaaatch...toc...toc...5 minutes later...
I figured out as a kid that you could stand inside the graveyard walls and stab enemies on the other side safely as they helplessly milled about trying to get me
To me every modern open world RPG is like this. Boasting a giant world but having nothing interesting to fill it with. I cringe everytime I hear "over 100 hours of content."
Grant Bessey Yes I have, and?
Grant Bessey It's also not a modern open world RPG, being released in 1996.
***** That's exactly one of those. As much as I want to like these games they massively overstay their welcome to me.
***** Newer Bethesda games are far from "Boasting, giant worlds"- Skyrim, Oblivion, and Fallout 3 are like 16 square miles large.
***** I personally thought Skyrim had a lot to do in it's world. it's chalked full of shit to do and explore in it's giant world, unlike Daggerfall. I liked Daggerfall, but it was one hell of an empty world.
You do in my made-up High Fantasy Socialism, which is what I was referring to here, and didn't just say Socialism ;)
I know this isn’t really relevant but my dog died in my arms tonight, I have no idea how to cope with it but this video helped me take my mind off it. Appreciate your content and thanks for your hard work.
Two things I seriously miss living in this increasingly digital-only age.
So this is the origin of the walking simulation that has plagued modern MMOs :P
Halls of the Dead? Don't own it and have never played it, but I hope to eventually. Apparently it was made by an entirely different team of designers, and published by someone else since Microillusions went out of business not long after FTA1.
Like you, this was one of the first PC games I played in 1990 on a 386 with my dad. Spent quite a bit of time on it until we upgraded to a Pentium 120mhz and the game ran so fast you died of starvation within a second of starting. My hazy memory of it was definitely flattering.
You forgot to mention that since Julian was the best fighter of the three, and the game was 99% combat, the game was basically over when he died. Kevin was as lame as he sounds, unable to kill any enemies and with no friendly NPCs to make his kindness stat useful.
Still feel like trying it out again though...
It's worth it.. but get an Amiga emulator and play the real version... the ports were terrible.
edit in some footage from No Mans Sky in and you got a brand new review.
I've got a full review of it if you want to relive some memories!
Genesis version was superior in features. Played the hell out of it!
Protip: Map is so big, just make bee-lines straight to the things you need to do, otherwise its just a timesink.
I LOVED this game back in 1993, so addicted to it and finishing it. If you're a hardcore RPG'er and want to play one of the games worthy of RPG history, id recommend it. For everyone else, u can pass.
"Genesis version was superior in features." To PC perhaps, but not to the Amiga version, not by a long shot, and that version is from 1986.
I agree. And trying to play with only a mouse to move and fight on PC seems painful.
Dude. What's up with the way the character walks? It's like you're whole body is sloped backwards about 15 degrees to the left. Weird.
LGR, the fact that you reply to so many of your comments is truly great. You're one of the few TH-camrs who truly listens to your audience.
The DOS version of this game's music is not great... The Amiga music is absolutely fantastic! Or atleast the stereo rips of the music I've found online are pretty sweet.
Game was originally made on Amiga.. and was vastly superior in sound on that platform and less buggy.
The Amiga version, the only version I ever playd, was unfortunately extremely buggy.
Oh what do you mean? I don't remember any bugs... And I went all the way through and finished it.
you sure you played the Amiga version? There were numerous graphical glitches; the goose had severe graphical errors if you saved the game with the goose nearby, the turtle sometimes vanished entirely, green jewels stopped working, sound channels sometimes dropped to half, the information row in the dialogue window sometimes were cut in half, save games sometimes were corrupted in saved to DF1 etc. etc.
Hmm yes definitely an AMiGA man. It was a looooong time ago, maybe I've just forgotten some of the bugs you mentioned. Certainly they must have only come up rarely for me. Because they didn't affect my gaming experience.
You over-looked that when a brother dies and another brother takes his place - You can regain all the original possessions by finding your dead brothers corpse
FTA was my favourite game of the 80's - I played it for months and could simply could not stop - loved the music as well - I still want to know who wrote it
The Amiga version was much, much better...
Gluesponge (James Taylor) It really, really is. All the ports were terrible. Also, if you search near that sign just south of town, youll find a chest with some money and food in it. Also when you are new, as soon as you can get a sword, go to the graveyard. You can kill the bad guys through the fences but they cant hit you back.
I got an amiga 500 again just to play this game in particular...although i am sure ill get much more use out of it than that.
what a game. If you head east from tambury for about a minute then slighty north, theres a random spawn in a stone circle which usually has like 100 gold. Amiga version was beautiful.
@@peterlamont647 that chest just out of town is a random chest and it will always be something different.
On the mega drive you could a glitch where you could save/reload and the chest could be looted again. Rinse and repeat for a few mins and you would have a full inventory and heaps of money.
Yeah Ultima 7 or even 8 would be a much better game to play now than this.
I'm eagerly awaiting for a review of one of the Tomb Raider games.
I have the same kind of feeling. I remember this puzzle game with small mind-controlled apes. It was 2D (probably sprites) and you could gather a little crew of them. I really don't remember much but you used the mind control stuff and other things to solve puzzles... There was also something with doors... PLEASE HELP ME, OH GOD... I NEED TO FIND THE NAMEEEEE... THE NAME LGR, WHAT DOES THE NAM-- WHAT IS THE NAME?!
+VictorsMod
Congo:Descent to Zinj?
+Joni Heinonen
Thanks for the suggestion, but that's sadly not it.
It's a 2D puzzle platformer. I remember doors that acted like portals and levers and stuff like that...
VictorsMod sounds like 'Creatures' from 1996
Sounds like an Oddworld game. Although those were some sort of alien, not apes. But you could mind control stuff, even farts.
i remember a game i belive was a reader rabbit game it had 2 rabbits an older brother and his lil sis the little girl bunny need your help to repair the carasol horse. i remember a kitchen part of the game i never got past couse i just replay the first scene of the game over and over another was this hello kitty game it had one part that hwas basicly a stickerbook and another where you surved icecream
Looks like the red knight mentioned at the beginning was a...red herald!
Aren't there, like, mods to spruce it up a bit?
I had a solid 20 year run of exactly this sensation for the nes game Solar Jetman. I played(and loved it) at some kids house, who happened to be something like a friend of a friend of my cousin. Needless to say I never saw the kid again, and the vague memory of the game stuck with me, driving me insane until randomly coming across a youtube vid of its game play... then water was turned to wine, dogs and cats slept together, and SNL was funny again. It was wonderful.
I thought love was only true in faery tales
This game looks like a Joel Haver fantasy skit
i have an "Hazy Memory of certain Game" . its a GDR where u are some dude with your starship. that was a beautifull game back in the windows XP. no idea how was called. *cry*
7:50 - You gotta wait for the game to tell you you're suffering.
The Game: "You suffer, but why?"
I played this one on the Amiga 500. Looked a bit better, especially at night, but the main attraction was the music. Beautiful tunes for battle, night and especially day made the boring slog more bearable. In the end though it's still the same game, my brothers and I managed to beat it through sheer force of will (that desert crypt with the incredibly long hallway anyone?) and determination.
This is where ultima 7 sets the bar on open world rpgs. Large map and alot to look at, also a great story.
Mr. LGR, thanks for sharing a game from your childhood. It's always entertaining hearing you talk about all these older games. Shame I was too small a child to get to appreciate these things :"(
I remember a racing game from the '90s which had vehicles surrounded by spherical force fields racing on a dystopian future setting. Looking for it ever since.
this game look 10x better on the amiga and also the music was quite nice. Thanks for sharing (miss my old amiga 2000) Playing bards tale the old version by interplay just sounds like crap on a ibm/pc and the graphics suck just as bad. they where quite nice on the amiga's though. Sadly when it came to bards tale 2 and 3 they got lazy and they where not as good looking as the original. Heck if I rember right bards tale was one of the first stunning games that came out on the amigias
Played the hell out of this game and later had it for my sega megadrive 16bit,
how about reviewing maniac mansion or day of the tentacle?
How about Day of the Tentacle? I loved it when I was a kid!
6:27 Until TES: Arena and the Daggerfall came in.
The thing you describe at the beginning perfectly describes a memory I have with one of these "play computers" - A sort of Notebook/laptop thing in orange and blue with several games of which I remember almost none. It was monochrome black n white and generally way behind its time but I remember it fondly.
Then there is this HUGE game collection. There was a Battleship game for the Gameboy on there which had cool animations so it caught my interest. I also got to play solomon's key which I only found out about 1 year ago because of a video. Has such awesome music!
awesome! I totally know how you feel on that, even tho i was born in the late 80s most of my early childhood was games like these and earlier xD rather than what was new back then. x3 the big floppies i totally remember those.
I really like the sequel of this game, Halls of the Dead.
So how did the disks taste?
My hazy memory is of a game which I actually haven't played, but my dad. It was a dungeon crawler on a floppy disc, I specifically remember telling him to give his character two swords instead of a sword and shield. He died seconds later. I felt so bad I told him to do that so thats why I recall that so good I guess, I was around... 5 or 6 years old maybe? But I still remember the visuals so cleary, it's been bothering me for a while now that I STILL don't know the name of the game.. I also remember it being on a 3 and a half inch disc. Just thought I'd throw that out here :)
Yeh, one of games I reunited with was Oni (PC version), played demoversion multiple times, then boom (Happened week ago), I finnaly heard that name, checked Wikipedia, now after I played it and... well, yep it differs how it felt and how it realy looked like
I still have this game sitting on my shelf. I could never get into it. I would always quit around the first combat experience as it was just terrible. Kudos to you for sticking with it. I highly enjoyed watching this.
Wow, I still have the 3.5" disks of this game. I never made it very far, and it's been forever since I've played it! Good video! Have you ever played Veil of Darkness? I used to love that back in the day, and for some reason watching this made me want to play it again!
Hey LGR, I just wanted to say thank you for making these great videos. Especially the Endless Space one you made quite some time ago, which actually led me to buy the game. But seriously, your videos are great, informative, and they're nice to watch after a long day. So, yeah, keep up the good work!
@ 5:33 that is not true, you can look for the remains of the dead brother and take what he left behind. Well, on the Amiga that is.
And of course, the Amiga version is better than this one.
I remember searching for a couple of NES games that I loved to play as a kid, but I forgot the names.
Luckily, when I would finally find them, I would relive only the good memories. Last game that I was searching for a really long time was Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja. What a awesome platformer.
congrats... you just killed my "Hazy memory of a childhood game" with this P.C. puke version...
LGR, do you know of an old DOS racing game by chance? I've been looking for years, but was never able to track it down. All I remember is CGA pink and black goodness, probably late 80s or early 90s, skulls..., checkpoints that you had to go through, fast gameplay, some kind of HUD.. that's pretty much it. Terrible I know!
Why, thank you.
What's the intro music from? Catchy stuff!
this looks awesome
I have just one of those games... and it's not a proud memory. It was some RPG my parents rented for me and I wanted to enjoy it, as it seemed like a lot of fun, but I was too young and stupid to figure it out.
I uh... ended up stabbing the shit out of the game cart with a kitchen knife. >__> whoops... Don't remember it's name, just hazy images and 'how I felt'. XD
This IP is ready for a revamp. Three brothers vs a necromancer. Animal companions. The Red Knight. The forest maze. The Astral plane. There's so much that can be taken, fleshed out, and expanded.
When the earlier brother dies it creates a pile of bones which the next brother can track down and pick up which contains all the inventory the earlier brother had.
I have this game on Amiga and it's in my opinion one of the best games in the genre ever created, mostly due, of course to it being among the first... in the genre. And boring?! Are you crazy! There's always something to do, there's always things to find. You can travel on water by turtle, you can travel in air on a golden goose. There are mountains, lakes, thick forests, swamps, deserts, snowy plains, islands, castles, dungeons, dragons, kings and princesses. This game is absolutely phenomenal.
Seeing this game I am reminded of Ultima 6 which came out 1990. But yeah, looks are not everything. Origin understood they must make an interesting world before making a beautiful one.
Is it just me, or does the music at the very end of this video sound remarkably like the PC speaker rendition of "Erana's Peace" from the original EGA version of the first Quest For Glory game?
Every time I see box art for games like this, it reminds me of what Conan Obrien said about Atari game art: "...promises far more than the game could possibly deliver"
Yet another example of bigger not always equating to better. Not every game needs to be epic in scope. Some of the best open world games have very small maps that are densely packed with meaningful content (Gothic 1 and 2 especially).
My game I can't remember is not a game, but a kid's book, that while reading prompted the reader to enter code into DOS to experience certain action sequences. The code I wrote out was supposed to emulate landing a helicopter. I didn't get it to work, but still fell in love with coding.
I bought this game for the Sega Genesis when it first came out and actually played it all the way to beat it, music was much better as it wasn't PC beeper sound, but I agree, there is zero reason to go back to this game nowadays, so now it just sits on my shelf....alone....unwanted. Oh well, great review yet again !
HEY! I had this game for my Sega Genesis. I didn't know it was an old PC port. The music and controls is much on the Genesis.
i remember i had a catalog with some games (it was in a game box around 1990 maybe from populous). There was a game which screenshots looked kinda whitish and fairy tale like, it looked as if it was made for children, the graphics were hand drawn and it looked like an adventure game. On the screenshot there was a wizard on a field or a farm, i always imagined that you play the wizard. I always wanted this game but i never got it and forgot the name.
I used to play that game very intense on the good ol' Amiga 500 and i loved it! The graphics were a bit better than on PC and i loved the music. Yes, the world was huge, indeed, but i was too curious exploring every corner. There were two things i really hated: wandering in the forests (because they slowed you down and those damn wraiths got me almost every time and the steering when the character starved. And a tip: to quickly get stronger, travel to the graveyard southeast and fight enemies with the fence between you and the monsters. As long there are no wraiths... ;)
I had this on the amiga as well. Took a good long time to beat and the last area is pretty weird, but it kept my brothers out of trouble. I never got tired of that music either, especially the battle and night themes.
Beat this on Sega Genesis way back may moons ago, one of those EA titles that came with a cluebook, thankfully. 25yrs later I'm not mad at it.
So it's a game where 3 brothers leave their house at great risk to their own safety, and this results in their untimely deaths, wherein, the moral of the story is to "stay at home"... Where these game devs time travelers by any chance? That whole scenario sounds awfully familiar in 2020
Overall it's just a bad execution.. Would've been better off with a bit of loading time in exchange for a world full of things to do~ x3
wait, why am I getting an ad for League of Legends? Its already huge. plus the ad speaks in a baby-kiddy voice...
This game is ass. The combat sounds beyond frustrating and that would put me off within the first 10 minutes, never to return.
Making a game world 'huge' just for the sake of it being huge is a big mistake some developers fall into, in my opinion. Both Two Worlds games are good examples.
Old times, the best.
Piece of old dried turd. Not everything was good back then. Nostalgia is strange feeling. The second part was the way better and even now it is playable.
The game's music sounds like the Super Mario Bros level ending jingle slowed down by a million times.
Wasn't the game world huge because it was fractally generated for high compression onto the floppies?
Hey, LGR. Have you played the Sega Genesis version. And if so, what did you think of it?
When i was little i had one of those demos that are realy a bunch of demos and there was this one game I cant remember the name of on it i think it may have been a final fantasy game but it had this whit ehaired dude with a rifle and this chick with two revolvers and a pink dress and this native american dude that had something and a dude with green hair who i think also had a rifle All I remember is playing it alot.
I had a hazy memory game... It was one of the Baldur's Gate games... It was only a demo on some weird Forgotten Realms compilation disc.
I remember my ex had a hazy memory game too. She claims it was Kingdom Hearts, but when I asked her if it had Disney characters in it, she couldn't remember... yeah.. it wasn't Kingdom Hearts then....
My friends and I used to play this on the Amiga. Man, I had no idea how bad the music was on the PC version. Come to think of it, I didn't know there was a PC version. I did know that there was a sequel game (I don't remember the name) made for Windows many years later. You had all 3 brothers at once.
What you've described in the title happened to me with german and the falling rocks. And you coincidentially have made a review from that game, and for that sir, i thank you.
I tried to track it down since i was a little child. Is a shame that the game actually sucks hahahahaha.
Hello People. can you tell me the name of the game where you are a boy who kill robots and other creatures with his hammer and you are in a whole world with schools and locked doors cinemas primiads and stuff please replay. IN my mind it's name was like hammer boy or something. please do tell
hey awesome review. i love the dos/old school pc reviews you do. ever play a so-so game called shadows of cairn? terrible yet comedic voice acting, lots of running and awkward fighting too. i think you'd make a funny review of it. i oddly enjoyed playing this game back in the 90s.
My dad had this for the Sega Megadrive. It got pretty boring after about 20 minutes. I went right back to playing Phantasy Star IV!
00:07 yes, I am still trying to find out the name of this one nes or genisus game where you played as mutants on skateboards. it has a battle side-scrolling thing as another half of the gameplay.
If anyone knows this game please tell me
I had this on my Amiga 1000, lo those many years ago... While the graphics and sound are easier on the eyes and ears, the gameplay has all the flaws and shortcomings you mentioned. Still, nothing wrong with having a little 'nostalge', now and then.
Sorry, but you'd entirely outdone yourself with the jokes in this one.. LOVED it.
Great Video. I have the Same Problem with gauntlet. It was Fun, but for today the controls suck.
I used to play raid on bungeling bay on NES as a kid, and forgot the name of it. Fifteen years after we sold all our games I refound it by chance on youtube. Now I can raid the crap out of bungeling bay all freakin day!