Fairy Tail (video game)

Fairy Tail is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Infogrames and released for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, and Microsoft Windows compatible computers in 2000.

Description
The game ties in with several popular story arcs from the series, including the Tenrou Island, Grand Magic Games, Tartaros, and Avatar arcs. The developers worked alongside with Bear Bones Entertainment in order to ensure that the game stayed true to the Fairy Tail series.

Gameplay
Fairy Tail is an action-RPG game. The aim of the game is to restore your guild to its former glory. Initially you take control of Fairy Tail guild members as your playable characters that encompasses you to complete requests, strengthen friendships, and upgrade the guild’s facilities to increase the Guild Rank, as the guild's goal is to fight and prevail to become the number one guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.

This game is a turn-based combat system that uses four main commands (Magic, Attack, Defend and Item) that can be used in battle. Unlike its other game predecessors, it now features seven elements to the magic (Non-Elemental, Fire, Ice, Holy, Demon, Light and Dark) and are separated to different attributes so that one is weak, resistant, immune or can be drained to the other.

There is also the fairy gauge, that if it is filled completely, features a powerful option to unleash Magic Chain. This allows the player to cause a chain to continue by tagging the next character to attack consecutively right after another and can end it by a finisher, which stops the chain but ends it with a final, powerful attack without consuming much MP. If the chain has reach a specific number of chains, the finisher would become Extreme Magic, which is a more powerful version of the latter.

There are also other support functions on the battle such as the Rescues, which automatically activate when the player is in trouble, or exclusively during Grand Magic Games where certain characters will cheer for you and boosts your stat or heals your HP.

Lacrima are formed by through Levy's laboratory by synthesizing foraged items and monster drops. These items and drops can be foraged throughout the map locations and defeating monsters in the game. They are separated to three categories; ones that can boost character stats, ones that inflicts status ailments to enemies and rare lacrimas (formed from recipes) that are only be equipped to one character. They are also ranked up to total of four, on which the higher number it is, the better quality of bonuses you can receive. The player can also recycle five lacrima of the same rank, an option to obtain a single lacrima of the next rank, though what kind and category would be random.

Consumable items are present in game to restore HP's, MP's, and status ailments, and can be obtained through treasure chests that are scattered through maps, or buying them from Lisanna's item shop. It is also possible to get both lacrima and consumable items from the guild's material storeroom which can be unlocked by progressing the story.

There is also a limited number of the valuable item, candies. They can be found throughout the map as well, but are most of them are often hidden through barrels and boxes on the map that has to be hit or attacked and interacted with. This special item is solely to be collected in bulk and be given to the Celestial Spirit Nikora at Lucy's house in exchange for lacrima recipes not normally found anywhere else.

Development
Infogrames announced a video game adaptation based on the Fairy Tail series was in development at their Lyon studio and set for release in 2000.

Reception
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