PC game: Fairy Godmother Tycoon
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(DB HQ)
Quick verdict
Game:
Fairy Godmother Tycoon
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GameHouse (FULL FREE version when you open a trial Fun Tickets account!)
Footprint rating:
4.5/5
Fairy Godmother Tycoon is one of the best, cutest games I've played in years. It's a hilarious and challenging game which will not disappoint fans of Tycoon-style games.
What's it about?
You're a fairy godmother who wants to make a dime. What's the best way? Why, open a potion shop of course!
Play begins in a nursery rhyme-themed town. The residents are about to have a bad day of some sort.
Luckily for them, you're around with potions to cure anything that fate can throw at 'em. Ailments range from a broken heart, through giant headedness, catching fire and having a song stuck in their heads (those from just the first three levels!).
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Your potions will mend their heart, shrink their head or douse their flames. The key point is how much profit to charge on top of the cost of your ingredients. Money you make from sales can be spent on stock, staff and shop improvements, researching new potions and learning spells to cast on townsfolk, influencing their behaviour.
Every aspect of this game has a clever theme. The daily news is based on nursery rhymes and other mythical characters. Potion ingredients are classic "eye of newt", "itsy bitsy spiders" and others. Every new town has themed graphics, such as "Old lady who lived in a shoeville".
You can hire local goons and other characters to help your business or hurt your competitors'. Many are truly ingenious, such as the welcome mat that you place outside the enemy's store which whisks HIS potential clients across town to deliver them to YOUR shop!
Electronic Arts has a massive reputation for great quality games (they put out the original Theme Park and Theme Hospital, for example) and this game does not stray from their own high benchmark.
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Pros and cons
+ Great tutorial flattens an already shallow learning curve; yet the game has enough depth to keep most Tycoon fans very happy.
+ Loads of gameplay here; lots of levels, an increasingly difficult challenge and free play mode.
+ Tremendous graphics, always themed and very funny, yet nothing that's going to push an average PC over the limit.
+ Wonderful writing, pulling in references from virtually every nursery rhyme and Mother Goose story you've ever heard.
+ Very addictive; has that "just one more go" quality that's so dangerous to people who have something to get up in the morning for!
- Anybody who doesn't like Tycoon games is not going to get past first base.
- Still won't be "serious" or complex enough for hard-core Tycoon heads.
The verdict
What a PC game! Fairy Godmother Tycoon is an instant classic. All the happier for being totally unexpected: I had zero expectations and was very pleasantly surprised by it. As will you. Give it a try now!
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