Fairune

After craving some sort of adventure game I stumbled upon this little game, Fairune. Everyone said it was akin to Ys, and as I've already stated I liked Ys. Began playing and I see why you could make that comparision... although I find that comparison very loose. Anyway, your this princess that search the land for three artifacts to open the door to the dark evil that plagues the land. To do this you must go out fighting the enemies of the earth to grow stronger and solve puzzles from the pits of the earth to the sky above and some other dimension in between. Fighting mostly consist of running into monster, like Ys, but it's hardly the same. There is no strategy whatsoever, attack from the front, they die and you receive one damage (if your levels high enough), attack from the side same result, the back the same. Really, battle is just grind till right level by fighting equal or just below your level enemies till they don't hurt you and you just squash them. In Ys you at least had to attack from different directions to not get to much hurt. Other compares it more to a game called Hydlide and I can see that, three items to enter the final dungeon, same level up system and such. I can't say more since I've never played the game.

So is it fun? Well, yeah, I had some fun most of the time. Figuring out some of the puzzle was fun, like stumbling upon a picture and realizing how to open a portal to another dimension. Then again, sometimes it had me stuck and felt rather annoying. Really, you can't cut down an old tree with a hatchet? You really need the ax? Also, the final boss is rather fun and challangeing, you can't even cheat. It turns to a shoot'em'up and that is kinda fun, but it should probably been shown before since it was no explanation for the controls so for someone playing that kinda game for the first time you will probably struggle to get it. Especially jarring since it's the first time in the game that you actually have an attack that register.

Small time fun, and apparently are getting a sequel so that could be fun. I think I got it in a sale so then it was worth it, but for others maybe not.