I got to see an early demo of Playlogic’s Fairytale Fights at E3, and what they had to show me so far was impressive. The basic premise is that the protagonist is a washed-up fairytale character (the only two they showed were Riding Hood and Snow White, but they promised two more playable characters by release, and potentially more through DLC) who must become a hero in fairytale land in order to regain her reputation.

The world is made of books and paper
This game is full of bright colors and dark humor. The world itself is made of books, and the old fairytales that we all know from childhood have been twisted and confused. One of the first missions involves hacking one’s way through a community of lumberjacks to take back what they stole from the friendly town. Every lumberjack must die to accomplish this mission, and they will die in very gruesome ways.
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