Neopets: The Darkest Faerie
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| Developer(s) | Idol Minds Digital Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | PS2 |
| Release date | NA 2005-11-15 |
| Genre(s) | Action, adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone 10+ |
| Media | DVD |
| Input methods | DualShock |
Neopets: The Darkest Faerie, released on November 15, 2005, is a single-player PlayStation 2 action/adventure game based on the popular Neopets universe.
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[edit] Gameplay
Gameplay is rather simple and confusing in some ways. You are required to do certain quests to continue. There are three types of quests, each represented by a medal: main quests (a gold medal), side quests (a silver medal), and finally buried treasure (bronze medal). While you must complete all main quests, you can choose to do secondary and buried treasure.
[edit] Magic
In the game, only Roberta can use magic attacks, but each of them has the power to use specials, or motes. There are 2 versions of motes and 7 elements (fire water, air, earth, light and darkness and nova (all elements) and when used in a powerup attack, they unveil specials effects ranging from poisoning the enemies to creating a beam of light.
[edit] Petpets
You can feed a petpet so that he can follow you. When you feed him, he will follow you for a certain time depending on food type that you fed and its inherent species. It will give you a range of special effects: seeing the invisible/health restore/etc. After feeding the petpet the same kind of food for too long, it will not accept it.
[edit] Setting
Neopets: The Darkest Faerie is set in "Neopia", the land of the Neopets universe, which is inhabited by anthropomorphic versions of various Neopets species. Long ago, a dark faerie was imprisoned at the bottom of the Maraquan sea as punishment for attempting to take over the realm, her name having been erased from history and the faerie remembered only as 'the Darkest Faerie' or in the website itself 'The Sleeper'. However, after a thousand years, the spell imprisoning the Darkest Faerie has become weak and breaks, and the faerie escapes, returning to the surface intent on taking over the realm of Neopia and exacting revenge upon the Faerie queen Fyora who imprisoned her.
The story begins with Tormund Ellis (nicknamed "Tor"), a young Lupe who has long dreamed of being a knight in the city of Meridell. After being accepted into the ranks and training under the discipline of the castle's master-at-arms,Torak, Tormund is knighted after saving the village of Cogham from Raiders. But when answering a plea to defend the nearby forest glade of Illusen, the earth faerie, from an invading tribe of Werelupes, the mission fails, and Tormund returns to Meridell to discover both it and its inhabitants under a cloud of dark magic and the control of the Darkest Faerie. Though unaffected himself, he is driven out of the castle and city by the faerie's minions.
The neighboring kingdom of Brightvale notices the dark clouds, and sends a diplomatic envoy to the city of Faerieland, home to the Faerie queen Fyora, to investigate. A young Acara, Roberta, the niece of Brightvale king Hagan, is among the diplomats. The Darkest Faerie attacks Faerieland that night, capturing and binding the Faerie queen and covering the castle in a dark aura. Roberta is able to escape the castle but is pursued and falls to the countryside of Neopia below.
Roberta and Tormund meet each other and then proceed to warn the king of Brightvale about the Faerie. It is revealed that both were given amulets to protect against the Darkest Faerie's power, and upon research discover that the Darkest Faerie was once sealed away by the power of Fyora's magical rod, now lying deep underneath the city of Meridell. After freeing the neighboring regions from control of dark magic, they are able to infiltrate the castle of Meridell and find a way deep underground, recovering Fyora's ancient rod. With its power they are able to drive the darkness out of the city, and then return to Faerieland to stop the Darkest Faerie. It is a trap, however, as the Darkest Faerie seizes the rod and a fight between the two Faeries ensues. Fyora is able to teleport Tormund and Roberta to safety before being captured and imprisoned again.
It is learned that Tormund and Roberta have been transported out of time itself into a legendary city called "Altador", allegedly destroyed by the Darkest Faerie a millennium ago. There they set out to free the city's four greatest founders, each of which is revealed to have helped them in some way earlier, before freeing a Aisha known as Jerdana, who fashions them a magical amulet capable of sealing away the Darkest Faerie. Tormund and Roberta together are teleported back to Faerieland, and do battle against the Darkest Faerie, who has used Fyora's Rod to cause Faerieland to fall towards the surface of Neopia right above Meridell. They ultimately seal her with Jerdana's amulet, turning the Faerie to stone once again, and freeing the Faerie queen Fyora in the process. Fyora uses her powers and manages to stop Faerieland from crashing into Meridell at the last second. They are given thanks by the faerie queen and founders of Altador, and the Darkest Faerie's frozen form is kept in the kingdom of Faerieland where it can be monitored.
[edit] Trivia
- Neopets: The Darkest Faerie was originally in development for the PlayStation, however it was rescheduled and reworked to become a PlayStation 2 release.
- Similar to games such as Jak and Daxter, Neopets: The Darkest Faerie loads game data in the background during play, to allow the player to travel between adjacent realms without the need for a separate Loading screen between areas.
- A tombstone in the game reads "Neoschools", referring to a scrapped feature that was to appear on the main site.
- Many of the kingdoms and other groups like the werelupes are based on certain cultures.
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[edit] Voice actors
- Wally Wingert - Tormund, Draik Guards
- Annie Mumolo - Roberta, Lucy
- Debbie Maewest - Patricia
- Charlie Schlotter - Heermedjet, Meerouladen, Techo Messenger
- Simon Templeton - Gelert Assassin
- Anne Wilde - Fyora
- Jennifer Hale - Illusen, Vanity
- Adrienne Wilkinson - Malice
- Gwendolyn Yo - Spite
- James Horan - Seradar
- Bob Joles - Werelupe King
- Dwight Schultz - King Hagan
- Fred Tatasciore - King Skarl, Hubert, Torakar (Master Torak)
- James Taylor - King Altador (Old Lupe Knight)
- Olivia D'Abo - Jerdana (Old Aisha Peseant)
- Claudia Black - Fauna (Servant Faun)
- Steve Blum - Kelland (Kell The Beggar)
- Keith Ferguson - Gordos (Gord The Wandering Merchant)
- Piera Coppola - The Darkest Faerie
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