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It's the Little Things: Fairytale Fights

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Continuing our series where we focus on smaller features that we find pretty cool in upcoming games, today, we examine Fairytale Fights' Dynamic Bone Crushing and Dynamic Slicing.

In this cartoony-yet-ultra-violent hack-and-slasher, you can build up a meter to unleash one of these two attacks, depending on whether you have a blunt or bladed weapon. A side window pops up (you can turn down the frequency of these) to show up-close and in Matrix slow motion your character busting up an enemy's skeletal structure or slicing apart his body in real time, based on where you're actually hitting him.

In other words, if you disintegrate a rib cage or slice a body in half right down the middle, it's because you aimed to do that -- no canned animations here.

 

Internally, the development team calls Dynamic Slicing "salami violence" because of the butcher-shop meat chunks you can manually create. And that term in itself almost deserves its own "It's the Little Things" article.

And...that's pretty much it. We're easy, simple people to please, aren't we?

Fairytale Fights is due out October 27 for the PS3, 360, and PC.

 
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Comments (7)
Default_picture
August 21, 2009
Thanks for putting this up there.
Default_picture
August 21, 2009
I can't wait for this game!
Lance_darnell
August 21, 2009
Until I read this my idea of "salami violence" had something to do with Married Gay Men getting in fights.....
Greg_ford
August 22, 2009
Wow, I have to say, until I started hearing people talk about this game and saw some screens, I had no interest in it. Fairytale Fights? Sounds like some tweeny-game heaven. But now, this game looks rad!
August 23, 2009
Meh...was watching Giant Bomb's developer Quick Look recently, and the whole thing looks like a gimmick to me. With something like Fat Princess, the gore made sense and was funny. Here, it seems like the [i]main[/i] thing, and well, the humor is lost -- on me at least.
Default_picture
August 23, 2009
I wish the shirt had more blood and dismemberment on it like the screens do!
Brett_new_profile
August 24, 2009
Whoa, this game looks positively demented. Do you know if it's going to be a full-price retail game?

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