FAIRY TAIL

The first impression I had is that it was a very simple and braindead JRPG, aimed at teenagers. I'm glad I kept playing. Damn, even the epilogue is epic, with loads of post game content! To be honest, I expected a Musou game, but finding a JRPG was a nice surprise. I didn't read the manga or watched the anime previously, so I didn't know anything about the story. Man, what a ride, I had a very good time playing through it. The game has a lot of banter between characters, fanservice, and swimsuits, which makes ridiculous and a bad faith move that KOEI censored pantsu's in an after release patch. What the Hell are you doing KOEI? Do better! If you keep walking this path you are going to Ubisoft yourselves. The game is awesome.

Game is pretty nice, I really enjoyed it as a Fairy Tail fan, but it does have several issues with the story(or at least I have issues with the game): some cool characters moments have been replaced with weird things like Cana's scene with destroying lacrima at Grand Magic Games has been attributed to our squad despite the fact that she does have animation of doing it in a fight, a few characters are being dangled before us as only temporarily playable only for a few moments(like Minerva, Ultear and Flare) despite them having everything that would allow them to be permanently available. Everything else thought is very good, models are great, skills are flashy, character interactions are amusing, many missions have fun twists..... I recommend waiting for a sale.

It ain't the highest quality stuff but I enjoy if but that's mostly for me to be a Fairy Tail fan and just enjoy playing as the characters. So take it all with a pound of salt from me. The turn based system wasn't something I was too into at first and I initially wasn't gonna play it because of that but I gave it the chance because recent big sales and I'd say it's been pretty fun and it really works for Fairy Tail to be turn based. Would've been fun for it to be more brawler and hack and slash but it does what it has pretty well. In regards of problems I'd give it more if you have issues with the graphical quality as I'd say there's 100% higher graphic stuff; it truly feels older than it really is because of that. I don't really have issues with that but for an IP as big as Fairy Tail it does feel kind of cheap at times but the game is also only like 5gb so for me I don't really mind that sort of trade off. It's truly a to each there own type of situation, I can only hope it's not for cheapness sake because if it is that's just disappointing.

I haven't even finished the game yet, but honestly, I've played enough to feel pretty confident writing this. If you're a Fairy Tail fan, this game is basically a playable love letter to the series. Obviously, nothing is going to beat the manga/anime itself, and the game does skip quite a bit. You basically get dropped into the story around 120 episodes in, and even during the arcs it covers, some smaller stuff gets cut. But honestly? For what it is, they did a pretty damn good job adapting it. Combat is your classic turn based party JRPG stuff. It's fun, straightforward, and occasionally involves beating up the same poor monsters a million times because my characters need more friendship. There is some grinding, and there's a ton of missions to do, but its the charm of this type of games. If you're a Fairy Tail fan, you'll probably get a lot out of this. And if you're just into turn based JRPGs, it's worth checking out too. EDIT: Post Game is even better than the actual game <3

Would load past the opening FMV. after messing with it got it to work for about 16 minutes of game play. then the next FMV it froze again. Requested a refund

The game was made with a low budget in mind and it CLEARLY has a lot of love put into it! I enjoyed it greatly, the game does have things that are not completed like certain characters not having models. The author has had no involvement in the creation of the game yet GUST managed to get the feel of Fairy Tail down perfectly. If Gust didn't have strong passion behind the project it would not have been so accurate or have as much thought put into how each character plays. I have played over 800 games in my lifetime and the vast majority of them are RPG's and this game carved out an identity for what a Fairy Tail game should play like akin to the way old Budokai Tenkaichi games did for DBZ. I hope GUST continues to make more games around titles made by Hiro Mashima.