Comments on: Fairy Well (Mix256)

By: Aquin

Aquin — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:22:28 +0000

I played all 4 levels; it actually introduces new enemies and some tougher layouts (and some more music). I can’t say it was worth it though :S

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:17:03 +0000

Yeah, that’s pretty fair. I played a little more than you did, getting to the final stage, but I found it got quite repetitive, even as it added new enemy types.

Still, it’s pretty impressive for a 16Kb C64 game

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:35:50 +0000

Had this come out in the 80s I probably would have played it for months on end. (Unfortunately, I’m not sure I have the patience these days for its brand of procedurally generated maps. I’m fairly skeptical of procedural generation in general — though Spelunky sure avoided its pitfalls — but this ends up feeling a bit like screen after screen of random-ish sameness in a way that makes me wish there were more of an authorial hand. I should mention that I stopped after finding two of the large crystals and hadn’t yet seen any boss fights.)

Note for others: Once you’ve acquired a map, you can access it by holding down the ‘fire’ button for a couple seconds. (I’m pretty sure the only controls are eight joystick directions and the single ‘fire’ button.)