Line #17 VideoGame/TheFaeryTaleAdventure


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2	''The Faery Tale Adventure'' is a classic RolePlayingGame released in 1987 by [=MicroIllusions=].
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4	The story is simple: An evil {{necromancer}} stole a [[MacGuffin magical talisman]] from the village of Tambry, and [[SiblingTeam three brothers]], Julian, Phillip, and Kevin, set out to retrieve it. Along the way, they SaveThePrincess, help a giant sea turtle, and kill a WickedWitch, before finally confronting the necromancer in his lair. In a unique twist, you only ever control one brother at a time, but should he perish, the next oldest sibling [[TakeUpMySword takes up his sword]] to complete TheQuest.
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6	The game was ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis by Creator/NewWorldComputing a few years later, and ultimately received a sequel, ''Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II'', by The Dreamers Guild in 1997.
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8	!!The game contains examples of following tropes:
9	* ActionHero: Julian starts out with the highest Bravery stat, and thus, the most HitPoints.
10	* ActionRPG: The game was one of the earliest top-down WesternRPG to feature real time combat.
11	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Julian has dark hair, Phillip's is reddish-brown, and Kevin's is silvery blond.
12	* GuileHero: Phillip relies on his smarts and high LuckStat to complete TheQuest.
13	* KarmaMeter: The Kindness stat can be raised by performing selfless acts and becomes important at several points in the story. Kevin starts out with a large boost to it.
14	* MacGuffin: The magical talisman stolen by the necromancer.
15	* {{Necromancer}}: One serves as the BigBad of the game.
16	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three brothers: Julian is a [[ActionHero fighter]], Phillip is the [[GuileHero clever one]], and Kevin is the [[TheHeart kind one]].
17	* PlotCoupons: In addition to other objectives, several artifacts are required to access the necromancer's home plane.
18	* SaveThePrincess: Saving the king's daughter is one of the "optional" objectives.
19	* SiblingTeam: Technically, the three brothers are this. Except they never actually team up in gameplay, instead going off on adventures one by one (as in the classic fairy tale scenario).
20	* SideQuest: Subverted. Several seemingly optional objectives turn out to be essential to reach the BigBad.
21	* StatGrinding: You raise your Bravery by slaying enemies, letting you slay even more and tougher enemies.
22	* TakeUpMySword: Should Julian perish, Phillip carries on with his quest. If Phillip dies, too, Kevin picks up the fight.
23	* VideoGameLives: The LuckStat functions as this: Each time a PC dies, they are brought BackFromTheDead but their Luck is decreased by one. If it runs out, it's either the next brother's turn (itself an example of VideoGameLives) or GameOver.
24	* WickedWitch: Defeating her is one of the requirements to get to the FinalBoss.
25	* WideOpenSandbox: The country of Holm, where Tambry is located, spans over 17,000 screens, with no loading ones in-between.
26	* YoungestChildWins: Depending on how well you play (i.e. whether it's Kevin who completes the quest), this can be either subverted (if Julian or Phillip succeed or [[TheBadGuyWins Kevin dies, too]]) or played straight.

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