Oct 09 2008
Fat Princess, The Next Great Game?
Fat Princess looks like it could be the best downloadable arcadey game since Castle Crashers on Xbox Live Arcade. Well actually Fat Princess almost looks like Playstation Network’s answer to Castle Crashers, with one big plus, Fat Princess looks better.
The mere concept of a multiplayer deathmatch game, in which you can play as one of five different cutesy customizable character classes (Swordsman, Archer, Wizard, Priest, or Builder) and allow 32 people to brutally massacre each other. All in the name of rescuing your morbidly obese princess from the opposing castle. Sort of like capture the flag, only with fat princesses instead of flags. Brilliant.
So far the gameplay looks solid, with the mix of goofy/cutesy character designs, as well as the ability to customize your character to some degree, and well paced combat with enough variety between all 5 classes to keep you playing. Although I hate when games like these pretty much require you to have a healer, i.e. the Priest class, because who wants to run around healing your teammates, instead of beheading your opponents goofy cartoon avatars? To me your play time just never looks like it’s that much fun when you’re just running behind your tanks, keeping them alive long enough for your Wizard or Archer classes to take down enemies.
But who can turn down a relatively cheap game download, and hours of fun slaughtering cartoons, and rescuing fat princesses while you lay siege to a castle.
