Little Folk of Faery
Posted by Ruff on December 30th, 2009
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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Before 2009 ends (and after a long absence from Casualicious), I hope to squeeze in a casual game review that I even promised to do a long while back. Little Folk of Faery, a game made by Kylotonn and Orange Entertainment, is a simulation game much like Virtual Villagers but with better graphics and a new twist to the genre. And what is this new twist? Well, it’s simple really, but I’ll leave out the explaining to the rest of the review.
The story of the game starts as the heroine of the game (that’s you) inherited a curiosity shop from her grandparents. Of course, she’ll begin to see the shop in shambles with a matching great tree growing at the shop’s center, but that’s where she comes in and cleans the shop up. Well, before all that though, you’ll have to help the fairy creatures that appeared near the tree rebuild their home too, prompting the game tutorial to run afterwards.
The gameplay of Little Folk of Faery is really much like Virtual Villagers. You grab little fairy folks around key points in the area and watch as they complete the quests you make them do. Max their stats through training on 4 different kinds of skills – harvesting, knowledge, discovery and music in order to make them work faster and more efficient. Of course, a couple of them should be gathering food, or else, you’ll be failing the main idea to keep the population happy and growing.
Complete all the quests and you get to finish the game, it’s just that simple. But even though there are just 9 main quests and 11 secondary ones, it will still take days to complete the game as each quest branches out into separate tasks to fulfill. If you’re able to, having more than 1 fairy folk doing a quest will greatly help in finishing faster, and random events may also help or hinder your progress. Just watch out for wistful spirits when doing quests, since a fairy’s morale will drop fast if the spirit is not distracted by an able musician.
Completing quests will get you more enchantment points than just the daily routine of the fairies. Points are spent at the Tree of Knowledge section of the Tome of Lore (the book that tracks all your achievements in Little Folk of Faery). More knowledge will mean better fairy performance on tasks. Knowledge will also unlock quests, serving as prerequisites for your fairies to access them.
The Tome of Lore also tracks the characters you come across during your adventure through its Bestiary section. In here, you learn more about each fairy folk type as well as other creatures that inhabit your realm. Aside from this, the tome also keeps track of collectibles – little sparkling things that appear randomly throughout the whole map, giving you additional knowledge when you collect all of them. Just be sure not to pick up a fairy holding some collectible or else the item will be dropped and lost.
All the gameplay of Little Folk of Faery certainly feels like playing Virtual Villagers or any other similar game; however, there is still a little bit of twist as what was said earlier on the review. Completing quests in the fairy realm not only develops the realm’s state but the outside world too, which is the curiosity shop the heroine inherited. The main character will have flashes of memory as she recovers items in the real world. I noticed how the ambience of the shop also gets better as you progress through the game.
I know it’s not nice to compare one game from another since I’ve been doing it very much during the course of this review, but in the case of this game, comparison will fare it well. Little Folk of Faery has great graphics, an expanding and engaging storyline, and of course, the little twist that distinguishes it from the rest of the pack. Of course, it still plays much like any other simulation game – that is it will take you a very long time in order to finish the game and watch the story ending. Well, you can always just leave the fairies doing their share of tasks and turn the game off, come back tomorrow and I bet the tasks are all finished already.
All in all, Little Folk of Faery is definitely a game worth buying and I count myself very lucky to get to play it for free. It’s simple to play and engaging enough to keep you for hours until you give up and have a crack at it early the day after.
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