Faery: Legends of Avalon simultaneously demonstrates everything great and wrong about producing an RPG in a downloadable format.
Starting with the good, then - Faery is clearly a labour of love. The team at Spiders have taken Grimm's fairy tales and turned them into a vibrant and varied world of fantasy adventure.
You take the role of a fairy, who has been charged with going out, making friends and then solving a variety of problems in some very disparate locations via magic mirror travel.
According to Microsoft’s Major Nelson latest tweet, the latest round of backwards compatible games are here. If you own any of the following titles (or purchase them), you will be able to download them now:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution — Director’s Cut
Final Fight: Double Impact
Faery: Legends of Avalon
Frogger 2
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Backwards compatibility is starting to blow up. I bet publishers are seeing increased sales from older titles.
lame..no Black Ops 1
Deus Ex HR was always on there this is just the Directors Cut.
Anyone underwhelmed about BC titles lately have to understand that MS is probably waiting for BC blowout during their E3 press conference. Black Ops, Bioshock and other big titles have already been confirmed for BC at some point. Read Dead and other long rumored. I'll be very surprised if we don't see many of the most requested BC games announced at E3.
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Despite the game’s attractive look, its utter lack of originality is soon wholly apparent. Pass on this particular fairy tale and you’ll exponentially improve your odds of living happily ever after.
I just downloaded the demo 2 hours ago. Finished it 20 minutes after download, but just now woke up because of how boring it was.
I barely made it after the character selection.
I actually played through the whole thing, I admit it looked pretty crappy but it did make me want to play a good turn based RPG