Fearless Fantasy

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Fearless Fantasy
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Developer(s) Enter Skies
Publisher(s) tinyBuild
Platform(s)
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
  • May 15, 2014 [1]
  • iOS
  • May 14, 2015 [2]
  • Android
  • June 4, 2015 [3]
Genre(s) Role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Fearless Fantasy is a 2014 parody role-playing video game developed by Enter Skies and published by tinyBuild for Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android. The game follows Leon, a bounty hunter, that gets a task to rescue a person from the king's guard.

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Gameplay

The game puts the players in a charge of leading a party of three: a knight, a hammer wielder, and a healer. [4] The trio work their way through a series of battles, interrupted by animated cutscenes and places to purchase certain equipment. [5] There are no exploration elements throughout the story. [6] While Fearless Fantasy is a turn-based role-playing video game, its combat is based on the gestures. [7] In each turn, the players are able to choose a type of attack and have to properly create a successful combination of prompts to launch it. [8] All party members and enemies have an "Active Time Battle" meter alongside their hit points and energy bars which will determine the order of their turns. [9] Imagined as a parody, it often inserts jokes during the gameplay (swords are doubled up as laser rifles, matryoshka monsters, a troll move that attracts attention of the enemies by dancing, and others). [10]

Reception

Upon its release, Fearless Fantasy was met with "generally favourable" reviews from critics for the iOS version, with an aggregate score of 84%. [11]

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References

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