Fairlight is an adventure, released 31 December 1985 on Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
What Fairlight is
Fairlight was released in 1985. It was published by The Edge. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player controls an adventurer named Isvar that can be moved in a castle which is not only three-dimensional isometric view, but realistic in terms of the way objects behave. Each object has its own physical properties and resultant characteristics in terms of how much else can be carried alongside it. Certain objects have special uses (e.g. keys open certain doors), and there is a puzzle element to the game to discover how some of these objects relate to the world in order to help the player solve the game. In addition to carrying objects, they could also be stacked on top of each other to enable Isvar to climb up to rooms above him or to reach important objects perched high above on…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Fairlight holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Fairlight launched on 31 December 1985, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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