Fairlight (Game)

Fairlight

GAME » on 1985

Amstrad CPC (Platform)Commodore 64 (Platform)ZX Spectrum (Platform)

Fairlight is an isometric action adventure game.

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Overview

Fairlight casts the player in the role of Isvar (Character) who has to explore a cursed castle at the behest of the castle sorcerer in order to find the book of light and remove the curse from the castle.

The isometric viewpoint used in Fairlight had some enhancements over similar games of the time to bring a more complex puzzle solving element to the game. All objects in the game have realistic movements involving their weight, size and shape. They can be stacked, dropped, thrown and slid along the floor which gave the game its uniqueness over its peers. This also led to the game being quite hard in places since small objects were very hard to manipulate and fighting enemies demanded perfection due to the exactness of the pixel collision detection.

The game actually had no sound at all, just a piece of music at the title screen. However the graphics with their black on color background were very detailed.

Reviews

Magazine	Issue	Page	System	Rating	%	Reviewer	Language
Sinclair User	12/1985	125,128	ZX Spectrum	5 out of 5	100 \|\|-\|\|English
Sinclair User	10/1986	73	ZX Spectrum	5 out of 5	100 \|\|John Gilbert\|\|English
Popular Computing Weekly	10/1985	15	ZX Spectrum	5 out of 5	100 \|\|John Minson\|\|English
Crash	11/1985	26,27	ZX Spectrum	95 out of 100	95 \|\|-\|\|English
Commodore Force	06/1993	17	C64	95 out of 100	95 \|\|-\|\|English
Micro Hobby	12/1985	12,13	ZX Spectrum	9.2 out of 10	92 \|\|-\|\|Spanish
Commodore Force	08/1993	56	C64	90 out of 100	90 \|\|-\|\|English
Computer Gamer	11/1985	69	ZX Spectrum	4.5 out of 5	90 \|\|-\|\|English
Computer Gamer	05/1986	40	Amstrad CPC, C64	4.5 out of 5	90 \|\|-\|\|English
Zzap!	06/1986	116,117	C64	90 out of 100	90 \|\|Gary Penn, Julian Rignall, Gary Liddon\|\|English
Your Sinclair	10/1986	21	ZX Spectrum	9 out of 10	90 \|\|-\|\|English
Computer + Video Games	06/1986	18, 19	C64	8.3 out of 10	83 \|\|-\|\|English
Computer + Video Games	06/1986	18, 19	Amstrad CPC	8 out of 10	80 \|\|-\|\|English
Your Computer	12/1985	35	ZX Spectrum	4 out of 5	80 \|\|-\|\|English
Commodore User	05/1986	18,19	C64	4 out of 5	80 \|\|Daniel Gilbert\|\|English
Tilt	07+08/1986	22	Amstrad CPC	4 out of 5	80 \|\|-\|\|French
Happy Computer	08/1986	151	Amstrad CPC	72 out of 100	72 \|\|Heinrich Lehnhardt\|\|German
Computer + Video Games	12/1985	17	ZX Spectrum	6.8 out of 10	68 \|\|-\|\|English
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	04/1986	34	ZX Spectrum	8 out of 12	67	-	German
Popular Computing Weekly	09/1985	36,37	ZX Spectrum	-	- \|\|-\|\|English
Sinclair User	09/1985	17	ZX Spectrum	-	- \|\|Chris Bourne\|\|English

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