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From: liebm@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mark Lieb <Oz>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: RE: Faery Tale Adventure
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Date: 22 Sep 90 19:12:12 GMT
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I remember when FTA first came out.  I was pretty hyped.  The summer had
just begun, and the game looked most excellent.

I finished the game, and had a few questions myself, so I called the 800#
to ask the company about several things.  One of these regarded...

1:  The grove of strange structures to the South-West were originally
    going to be part of the game, but were taken out.  The plot no longer
    needed them, but they remained in the world.

The rose is used to make your character invulnerable to heat.  Thus, you
are able to pass through the lava barring entrance to the door of the
evil castle.  

The shard...well, I can't recall what that was for.  I think it was so
that you could pass through the force-field.

I recall that there really were an aweful lot of red herrings in this
game.  MicroIllusions confirmed this themselves.  I found the swan before
I had the lasso.  I found that if I stood pretty much on top of it, but
a little to the left, by striking it, it would be pushed to the right.  I
being on top of it, would be carried.  I ended up hacking and slashing it
all the way to the ol' home town.

The game was, overall, pretty decent.  I like that there were red herrings,
because that is the way an adventure should be.  Not everything should have
a purpose or sequence etched in stone.  

My original copy had some flaws, so I am not surprised that your copy had
some too.

Hmm, I may even go back and get my map and original and play it through 
again.

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