It makes you feel dead inside.

User Rating: 5 | Neopets: The Darkest Faerie PS2
First off, the only reason I played this game is this. During the summer, I was EXTREMELY bored and I would take anything to do and my friend lent me this, as he had no other games I hadn't played. NOW you can read the review.


When I first booted up this game, I hated it for about 10 minutes. About an hour in, I thought it might end up being good. It didn't. You have about 3 attacks with the dog and the same for the cat person. For around 12 hours I sat here and ran around. You'll do quests, fight stuff, and plunder treasure literally. X marks the spot, literally. There are 3 terrible problems about this game BESIDES the fact that it's way too simple and kiddish. 1. This game is pretty huge for a kids game. It's probably a little smaller than Morrowind. Problem is, there isn't nearly as much in it as there is land. 2. You can go ridiculous amounts of time without doing anything. This happens because the world is so massive and sometimes directions can be easily misunderstood. Even in open wildlands most of the time there will be nothing to do. 3. At the end of the 2nd act and during the 3rd act, the whole world is tinted pink. Even the most dedicated tot won't be able to handle this for long. Trouble is, at this point there in no way tell what you need to do. In a huge world it's going to be hard to find your destination at random, ESPECIALLY in a pink one. Very easy to get lost on a pink planet.

Now the gameplay and story and sound and all that. The gameplay is pretty shoddy. You get 2 character in the end. A dog with a sword and a strange cat looking person with magic. Neither of these characters can easily hit the later enemies and the earlier ones die pretty quick. You'll get quests, buy weapons and armor, run around, run around and hit things, and hit things. Run around and hit things are usually seperate at the beginning as they are so far apart. Later on, you find another batch of flying things and one ground enemy. The ground person you can kill. The Flyers you cannot. They will constantly fly back and forth too fast for you to hit without an AK-47.
You only get about 3 moves for both charactes. A combo, a whirl, and a charge attack. None of them are worth using the other over except the charge attack very rarely. You get motes which you can attach to your weapons for elemental damage to make them stronger. You can also use these same motes on your armor to block against certain elements. None of the motes are permenant. You use them and they ware off. You can get treaure maps that will lead you to buried treaure. You will never get anything valueble from this. Every now and then you'll find a spot where you actually need to do something, but very rarely due to the "think pink" strategy of a pink world with way too many multicolored enemies. Enemies are a chore and there is no reason to fight them besides maybe them dropping something. You can acquire items that heal you differently. Actually, you'll get so many that you will never die again. In act 1, you play as a dog with a sword. You will run around and hit things, complete medieval style quests, and buy armor and weapons for your dog person. Once chaos ensues at the castle, act 2 begins. Now you are a cat/thing/person with a magic wand that shoots stuff. Now you get to run back and forth in a massive library place which just happens to be almost completelely doing amazingly stupid and boring tasks until you watch the faeire chick get attacked. Now you must fight your way through way too many enemies until you reach where ever it was you had to go. Now act 3 starts. The dog and the cat/person/thing wash up on a shore after the chaos, fight some people, and run off. Now go and run around on the pink planet until you figure out what you need to do. Really , there isn't much else to say. You run around in an unbelievably cartoony world medieval style to follow a boring story and gameplay style.

The sound isn't anything special. It's just... kind of there. That's it. The story is pretty basic. Evil faeire has been revived. Kill her. This game doesn't have a single redeeming factor, but only a decent batch of problems. So, it hit's below average as a 5 out of 10. Get your kid something else. Mario or Final Fantasy or something. This game just doesn't make the grade. If you kid still believes a fairy came in the window and took a tooth they sat under a pillow is real, than add a point to this game. Otherwise, screw it.