Fairytale Island was a slight letdown. Now before you berate me for being too critical, let me explain my thought process.
Fairytale Island is extremely similar to Wild Safari Island, format wise. Both islands have you go through 3 quick mini-games or “side-quests” before rewarding you the medallion. Fairytale is just Wild Safari, but with more original characters and more interesting world design.
Granted, I like the characters. They’re well designed and entertaining for the 5 or so minutes you get to see them. Rumplestiltskin is an intriguing villain, (although they don’t do much with him story-wise,) Cinderella had her own brief character arc in which she became an angry rockstar, (this part was very entertaining) and I found myself to be incredibly terrified of the lumberjack who tried to get an old grandmother almost killed.
The modern twists they put on the characters were clever and fun. I just wish we had more time with said characters.
The island is so underwhelmingly short and easy that it feels like it was designed for toddlers. I want the Poptropica Creators to know (if they’re even reading this, which I highly doubt) that we’re not children who need to be handheld. We’re more intelligent than you think. Just give us a challenge. A longer challenge is all we want.
Overall, I’ll give Fairytale a 4/10. It had potential, but that potential was floundered.
