Review: Fat Princess

Personal Rating: 8/10
Price: $14.99 USD
ESRB: T for Teen
Genre: Action
Availability: Downloadable from the PlayStation store

Fat Princess. This small game packs large surprises. A couple months ago I played the demo for Fat Princess and I was pretty impressed, but was impressed enough. I Miss-understood the demo completely leading me to think a couple features were missing or not placed in the game well enough. For the sake of your understanding I will not tell you the flaws I thought the game contained. Anyways, after realizing that you get a few different game modes, maps, customization, and online play; I knew my $15 would be worth it.

First Impressions/Story Mode: I downloaded the game and started playing right away. Like I usually do I skipped over online play to play the story; most people go straight to the online gameplay. I was surprised the game actually had a storyline. The story mode is called, "Legend of the Fat Princess". There is a narrator that reads chapters of a story to you before every fight, and you are playing/fighting out what the chapters describe.

Gameplay/More Story Mode: I came to realize only one thing changes during you r trek through the story, and that is the mode changes. There are classic modes like Team Deathmatch in which you must kill the enemies soldiers 250 times. There are other modes like Rescue the Princess that is similar to capture the flag, except the princesses are the flags and you can make them fatter and heavier to carry by feeding them cake. These modes are also featured in online "Play with others" mode. Next to the variety of modes and levels which have obstacles as well, there are several unique classes. Most of the classes remind of ones in RPG games. The classes are: Mage, Priest, Warrior, Worker, and Ranger. Each has a different fighting style and secondary attack style as well. Mage starts out with a ranged fire attack and when upgraded gets an ice attack. The Priest starts out with ranged healing magic and when upgraded gets health sucking dark magic. The Warrior starts out with a sword and shield and when upgraded gets a spear with a sprint attack. The Worker starts out with an axe which can be used to cut trees and get resources for these very upgrades, and he is upgraded to throwing bombs. Last but not least the ranger, he starts with a bow and arrow and when upgraded he gets a rifle. The story mode is challenging and I had a lot of fun going through it.

Other Modes: There are two other modes. There is "Mess About" and online modes. Mess about is basically offline gameplay for practicing. Online is very similar to story mode gameplay just without the narrator telling the story in between. I recently purchased this game and I must say I am sad to realize not too many play this game online anymore.

This video can give you a look at the story, and menus along with some of the creators giving you information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhHnc5gNs9A

Trophies: I was a little disappointed with the trophies, and if you are a trophy whore then you will be disappointed as well. There are only 21 trophies, but that's not complainable because almost all PlayStation Store games have a small amount of trophies. But some are pretty hard to get and they are all bronze, and that is my complaint. For example when you are spawned you are a Villager until you pick up a hat for a class, and a villager has 2 hearts which is very small health bar, compared to classes that have 4-5. Anyways, there is a trophy, "Slap 20 objects out of enemy’s hands in online games" and it is quite hard to do without dieing.

I really enjoy this game, and it was worth the small amount of money compared to a $60 game. If the price ever drops then it's a must buy.