Fairy Tales Remixed is another release from Psimage,
author of the unfinished To Be King. FT first popped
up as a very short, and more or less unplayable
"trailer", over a year ago on most of the AIF sites.
The game has certainly grown. But into what?

The Good -
Psimage's physical descriptions of his characters are one of his stronger points.
The descriptions of Witch Hazel, the White Rabbit, Grandma, and Red Riding Hood
are all very well done, nice erotic translations from the classical fairy tales.
And the location descriptions weren't bad, either. There was a definite
sense of atmosphere to the game.

The Bad-
The consistancy of spelling and grammar are rather loose in this game.
For instance, a hedge is referred in the game as a "shubbery"
but only recognized as a "shrubbery" in the command.
Also, important terms are in bold, yet not all things in bold seem to have any
purpose nor are they recognized. Very often you get
the message "you have already done that" for sex
commands. There are supposed to be 3 - fuck pussy,
fuck ass, fuck mouth (or mouthfuck). Yet quite often
doing one counts as all for the NPC. Fine if the
character can or will only do certain acts, but at
least include a disavow. Not doing that is lazy
programming. When you bring Muffett to the Spiderlady
and try to play with the spiderlady more, she tells
you that she wants you to bring her Muffett - who is
there. It's one thing to have a character be
capricious and change her mind. Fine. But this just
means that the tasks weren't programmed or programmed correctly.

The Ugly-
There is a disclaimer that warns of violence, rape,
and beastiality. Okay, fine. But what alarmed me
wasn't the reaction but the casual nature that the
character inflicted these acts with. In Sam Shooter 2,
Sam tortures a Dryad sexually. In the end he relents,
but when he's torturing her, even he's shocked by what
he's doing. This PC has no qualms about killing,
raping, abusing, or taking advantage anyone he comes
across. There isn't any real reason given for this,
either. He's just basically a sadistic horny Son of a
Bitch. Also, the Humpty Dumpty Red Herring puzzle.
Even if you didn't want the player to be able to have
her, there would have been many other ways to handle
the situation with humor - the egg rolls down the hill
leaving the NPC too dizzy to be aroused, feeling like
"Scrambled eggs" so to speak. Instead, if you attempt
to free this character, you kill her. This is supposed
to be funny. I guess it's lost on me. To unlock Wendy,
you kill peter pan right in front of her. She turns to
you for sympathy, then asks you to fuck her up the
ass. That all makes no sense at all. And the
tinkerbell scene - you include a vial of magic growth
potion, and yet the most obvious use for it you
ignore, instead opting to poison the little pixie and
then use her as a fuckrag? I think that's possibly the
strangest way of handling the situation I could imagine.

The truth is, there aren't many scenes in this game
where the sex isn't forced. Grandma you fool into
thinking you're a wolf. Muffett gives you a blowjob in
exchange for ice cream. Rapunsel, while a little
coerced, is willing. Jill gives you a free one. The
spiderlady gives you a little play. Wendy's willing,
once you murder her best friend.... but the rabbit,
witch hazel, red riding hood, the amazon, tinkerbell,
they are all raped. Again, it's just strange that the
PC is so unbothered by being so violent. We never get
to know the character well enough to understand why.

Overall-
This game has a lot of ups and downs. One of the
problems is that it is so inconsistent in attitude and
behavior, and the puzzles quite often so illogical or
counterintuitive. Numerous bugs or programming flaws
further mar what could be a very good game. If the
author ever gets around to fixing his earlier works,
they might be very good examples of AIF. As it is
right now, though, Fairy Tales Remixed is an example
of a great concept with an overall poor execution.

-LyingBastard-