#TAILS OF IRON REVIEW IGN SERIES#

You can try making sense of what happened given using eight easily-missed summaries tucked behind various menus, but who actually reads menus?

#TAILS OF IRON REVIEW IGN SERIES#

This occurs around 118 episodes into the series (Chapter 245, if youвЂ™re reading the manga). When Fairy Tail begins, youвЂ™re immediately thrust into the closing act of the seriesвЂ™ Tenrou Island arc with no context. Fairy Tail lets down die-hards by omitting important arcs in the series, but it makes little attempt to endear these characters to newcomers. Most anime adaptations struggle to condense 200+ episode experiences down to a 30-hour game, opting to instead showcase iconic battles in chronological order. The adaptation of the high fantasy series bucks the trend of anime brawlers with a turn-based RPG by vaunted developer Gust. Surprisingly, the massively popular Fairy Tail hadnвЂ™t been adapted into a console game, until now. You can see this with Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, and Dragon Ball Z, to name a few. If youвЂ™re watching a popular anime, odds are thereвЂ™s an accompanying arena fighter out there. This might've been a better game if Gust didnвЂ™t have to deal with the Fairy Tail brand.

It leaves out too many key moments from the original series and leaves the showвЂ™s essence on the cutting room floor.ДЇairy Tail feels like it wants to focus on the seriesвЂ™ RPG compatible elements and take characters in an original direction, but itвЂ™s stymied by a scattershot adaptation of the source material that won't satisfy longtime fans or newcomers. This is to be expected of the team behind the Atelier series, but Fairy Tail is hindered by its source material. You can see glimmers of something amazing in the gameвЂ™s combat and quest systems.

Fairy Tail has the potential to be a fantastic RPG.

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