DARK FABLE

A budget air hockey like game with some hentai content. It is also the first title from the Towndarktales on Steam. Worth getting? What we have here is a somewhat unique, quasi-air hockey game. Your goal is to land a ball in the opponent's 'court', i.e. strike it through an opening in the wall/fence protected by the opponent, while protecting your own. You and your enemy can both move anywhere up to the halfway of the field on your side to strike a ball. You have three stages, of which last is a siege, on each of 5 islands so total 15 stages to complete. Conquering an island yields a short waifu conquering h-scene . You also get points to improve one of 4 skills after each battle. To even the field your opponents also use skills. You can also collect chibi characters that appear on your opponent's side when you 'score a goal' while they're there. It's not a bad air hokey adaptation but there are some issues. Controls are a bit clunky and lack precision which can lead to frustration as even the easy difficulty pose a challenge at times. Also, sometimes there are collision detection problems as ball can pass through your character rather than deflect it. Still, for a budget product it is not bad. The anime character art definitely matches the budget level of this title. Seen worse but this quality is still below average in my books. The characters and conquering scenes have some crude, budget animations, but just like with the art, I have seen worse. Overall design has fantasy/fable style. Quality of it is fine at this price point so no complaints here. Music is pretty average. It matches the fantasy theme well but nothing stands out. It stays in the background, never to be remembered or heard again. There is also some voice acting. Narration is fine (but the weird font of subtitles isn't) but the goblin voice acting is at best so-so and can get annoying after some time, if not from the start. I believe that the last (5th) island is bugged as instead of three stages I had only the siege stage to battle and it was 3/3 after winning once. Also, often I would lose hp when 'scoring a goal' as if the ball landed behind my gate. Lastly, the 'don't lose trolls in Tir-na-Nog battle' achievement did not work for me after trying to get it twice. To summarise, a fairly good budget air hockey-like game with some budget anime art, budget music and budget controls. The quality sure matches the price but it can still be fun: 5/10