Remember Fat Princess, the cooperative strategy/action game coming to PSN that garnered a little bit of controversy from feminist groups for its namesake portly royalty? Sony had an early build at their CES booth that they were giving demonstrations of. Seeing as I quite like a little junk in the trunk, I could not wait to see more of this game, and a kindly Sony rep was more than happy to show it off.
In Fat Princess, your objective is to work together with other players (or the AI) to rescue your team's princess from your opponents, while preventing them from carrying their own away from your dungeon. There are several means of making it more difficult for enemies to breach your castle walls and spring the damsel from your prison, such as combat with the interlopers, building doors or just fattening her up with cake to make it difficult to carry her off.
I wish we'd had an opportunity to truly see all of the five character classes in action, but were only granted a glimpse of the worker (who acquires raw materials and builds objects), warrior and archer. While some of the other classes were certainly doing their thing under the control of the CPU during our session, the AI still needs a bit of work, as those characters often wandered off or became stuck.
What I like about this concept is the emphasis on teamwork. As evidenced by a moment where the Sony rep charged into the enemy fortress only to be slaughtered almost instantly, it's obvious that cooperation between players is by far the most important aspect to playing Fat Princess well. I will be keeping a close eye on future news about it, as this appears to be shaping up to be a really fun, quirky game.
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The controversy about this game annoys the hell out of me-- hey, everybody's an individual, you can be offended (or not) by whatever the hell you want. I hate the idea that just because something is offensive to someone, it shouldn't be allowed to exist.
The "If you don't like it, don't play it" maxim may be a little trite, but it certainly applies in this case.
I've been looking forward to this game since it premiered. If its anywhere near as much fun as Castle Crashers was, I'm in. The controversy only serves to make this game even more fun.
The game looks like so much fun that I'm actually glad I have a PS3 for it. Good to see that the PSN can have some more worthwhile downloadable exclusives.
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10:40 AM on 01.09.2009
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I love the way teamwork is done and how u have to build, defend, attack and rescue in a multi-player way.
Full of Win!
anyway, this will be great
The controversy about this game annoys the hell out of me-- hey, everybody's an individual, you can be offended (or not) by whatever the hell you want. I hate the idea that just because something is offensive to someone, it shouldn't be allowed to exist.
The "If you don't like it, don't play it" maxim may be a little trite, but it certainly applies in this case.
Wonder if it still that that "fat girl hate" following it.
Man, who doesn't.