{"id":3574,"date":"2005-02-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/fairytale\/"},"modified":"2005-02-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T11:00:00","slug":"fairytale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/fairytale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy\nTale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fairy
\nTale<\/a><\/h2>\n

reviewed by Moritz Eggert<\/i><\/p>\n

After we had lots of fun with last year’s mysterious card game
\n“Masquerade” by the same company (part of the fun was trying to understand the
\nweird English translations), we were eager to test this new, simpler offering by the same
\ncompany.<\/p>\n

“Masquerade” turned out to be a pretty complex fantasy card game that packed
\na lot of story and flair into a deck of cards. “Fairy Tale” uses similar
\nmanga-like graphics for the cards, but plays much simpler, more like a collective
\npatience game, and is certainly more of a family game than “Masquerade”.<\/p>\n

Each player tries to build a VP rich row of 12 cards. Cards come in various forms,
\nsome of them are valuable cards, some of them are only valuable if they come in great
\nnumbers, some of the cards have “friends” (this is how the rules call it – very
\ndroll) and multiply their value if their friends are present. Some cards are evil, and
\nturn over cards bearing certain symbols, also of other players.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n

The game uses an interesting “round-robin” principle of card distribution.
\nThere are four “drafts” in the game, and each draft consists of collecting five
\ncards by passing one’s hand continuously to the right or to the left each time you
\nselect a card. This means that you not only have a certain freedom in selecting the cards
\nyou want but also that you learn a lot about the collections of other players. It is also
\npossible to take away cards from them without hurting your own collection (because one
\nonly plays 3 of the selected 5 cards). Therefore, if you see the player who gets your
\ncard next collecting dragons for example, it might make sense to keep them for
\nyourself.<\/p>\n

The symbols on the cards are very confusing at first (although they make perfect
\nsense) and use tiny drawings of manga dragons and nymphs, which are barely discernible to
\nthe unaccustomed eye and some of us were completely baffled by their exact meaning. In
\naddition, although the rules are translated much better this time, there are still
\nconfusions. For example the rules say that “close all (symbol)” means that all
\ncards bearing a certain symbol are turned over, but the cards also bear the number
\n“1” on the symbol, which would only make sense if each player only
\n“closes” one card of this type (which is already bad enough). We couldn’t
\nfathom which was correct.<\/p>\n

Regardless of these aspects, “Fairytale” is still an enjoyable strange
\nlittle game, perhaps not as involved as “Masquerade”, but with a certain
\nJapanese charm.<\/p>\n

Explanation time: 5 minutes (and 30 minutes trying to understand the symbols)<\/p>\n

Game time: 20-40 minutes<\/p>\n

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Fairy Tale reviewed by Moritz Eggert After we had lots of fun with last year’s mysterious card game “Masquerade” by the same company (part of the fun was trying to understand the weird English translations), we were eager to test this new, simpler offering by the same company. “Masquerade” turned out to be a pretty … Fairy
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