Unfairy Tales

Game Guide

Contents of this guide:

• Game modes

• How to play

  • Movement

  • Interaction

  • In-game menu (save/load)

• The battle

  • Battle actions

• Attack natures and character status

• Inventory

You may also want to consult:

• The Bestiary

• The Spell Book

• The Secret Maps

Game Modes

Unfairy Tales features 3 game modes:

• World Map mode: you can move Alan and his companions in different locations around Dreamland

• Explore mode: once you reach an explorable location in World Map, the game mode will switch automatically to Explore mode. You will be able to explore the locations, interact with the inhabitants, look around for hidden objects or buy and sell items.

• Battle mode: every time you meet an enemy on your way, the game mode will automatically switch to Battle mode. Here you will be able to fight using the characters actually in your party. (see Battle)

How to play

Unfairy Tales can be played only by mouse.

Movement

To move Alan in World Map and Explore mode, keep pressed the left button of your mouse and move the pointer on the screen: Alan will follow it and will stop as soon as you release the button.

Alan will automatically pass from one location to the another as soon as he reaches a passage point.

Interaction

During movements in Explore mode you can interact with some objects and characters. When Alan is near an interactive element, a colored symbol will appear on this object. There are 3 types of interaction:

	objects that can be opened the icon over the object is blue. Left click over the icon to open the object. The items inside the object will be added automatically to your inventory.
	merchants the icon over the character is violet. Left click to access the buy/sell menu.
	inhabitants the icon over the character is orange. Left click to speak with the character.

In-game Menu

Moving the mouse pointer over the arrow at the bottom right of the screen will open a menu with 3 clickable icons.

Moving the mouse outside the in-game menu, this will shut down.

This menu cannot be accessed in Battle mode.

The icon with the chest will open your inventory. Here you will be able to access your items, weapons, spells, and arrange your party members. (→ Inventory)

The icon with the question mark will give you hints about your current quest.

The icon with the gears opens the game menu, where you can save the game, access the options menu, or leave the game.

When you click to save a game, you will have at your disposal two game slots. The third slots is reserved to automatic saves, stored when you reach important points in your journey through the Land of Dreams.

To load a previously saved game, press "load menu" in the main menu and select the desired save slot.

The saved game shows information about your character's level, the date, and the total play time.

The Battle

During a fight you can see your party on the left and the opposing enemies on the right.

	Keep pressed to try to escape from the battle. If the icon is gray, it means you cannot escape from tis battle.
	Pauses the battle and opens the option menu.
	Shows the ingame battle tutorial.

For every character in your party, on top of the screen, you can see a file displaying the following information:

• A picture of the character

• Current health points (HP, red bar). Once it drops to 0 the character is incapacitated (KO).

• Current dream points (DP, blue bar). Necessary to cast spells.

• The action bar (ACTION, yellow bar). The character will be able to perform an action once this bar is charged.

  When this bar is charged, the character who is ready to perform an action will start to blink.

  The action bar increases as the time passes, accordingly to the speed of your character. You can influence the characters' speed with items and spells.

• The special bar (SPECIAL, green bar). Once it is charged, the character will be able to perform a special attack as an action. This bar increases when your character performs successful attacks or defenses.

Battle Actions

Once a character is ready for action, left click over it to open the action menu. Here you can decide which action assign to the character. When this menu is open the action bars are paused.

Base attack		left click on the icon, then on the enemy target
Defend		left click on the icon to defend until the character is ready for another action
Spells		left click to access the spell list. Select a spell from the list, then left click on the desired target (depending on the spell, the target can be either an enemy or a friend. Be careful!). You can close the spell list clicking on the small "x" in its upper right corner.
Items		left click on the icon to access the item list. Select an item from the list, then left click on the desired target. You can close the item list clicking on the small "x" in its upper right corner.
Special		if the character is ready to use its special attack, left click on the icon and then on an enemy to attack it. The special bar wil be re-set.
Exit		left click on this icon to close the menu and do nothing. The character will still be ready for action.

Attack Nature and character Status

Attacks can be of ten different types, called "Natures":

• Normal

• Fire

• Ice

• Thunder

• Earth

• Poison

• Holy

• Dark

• Explosion

• Mind

Each character has an amount of "protection" from each nature, that represents how high is its chance to resist an attack of the given nature.

You will face enemies that are strong against certain natures, but extremely weak against others.

For information about enemies and hints about their natures, see the → Bestiary.

A "Status" is a state that a character can enter. This can happen as a result from an attack, from the use of an item or from a spell.

Many status are negative and inflict some kind of malus to the character, but others are positive and can help the character.

• Asleep : the character sleeps and cannot perform actions

• Stone: the character is made of stone and cannot perform actions or be attacked. A character in Stone is considered in KO.

• Dark: the character is blinded and suffers a malus to its ability to perform attacks.

• Poison: the character is poisoned and periodically loses HP

• Slow: the character's action bar is slowed down

• Fury: the character can perform only physical attacks with a damage bonus from 30% to 60%. All received damage gets a +20%

• Chaos: the character can't be controlled and will act randomly

• Frozen: the character can't be used and is more vulnerable to enemies' attacks and could break into pieces when hit.

• Burn: the character is on fire and periodically loses HP

• Empty Mind: the character cannot cast spells

• Adrenalyn: the character's action bars increases in a faster way

• Regeneration: the character periodically gains HP

• Shield: the damage suffered from a physical attack is halved

• Mirror: reflects all the spells directed to the target

• Invincible: the character is immune to damage and statuses

The slot on the lower left corner near the character's picture will show the statuses active on the party member. The active statuses are also visible over the character's head and some statuses cause the character to change appearance. Once the battle is over, the character statuses will be reset.

Inventory

Clicking on the chest in the ingame menu will open a window with 5 tabs.

Common objects: in the middle of the screen you can see all the objects that the characters can use. The number written near the object is the amount of objects of that type that you own. Move the mouse over an object to display the tooltip that explains its effect.

Drag and drop the icon of the item you want to use over the desired target character.

Special Objects: here are listed the special items in your inventory. You receive these items from various characters during the game and they cannot be used like common objects.

Spells: Here you can see all the dream bubbles in your inventory. Click on the picture of a character to see its equipped Dream Bubbles and spells.

The bubbles can be equipped in the free slots on your weapons and armors. Every bubble can provide the character bonuses to its characteristics or enable the use of a particular spell. Bubbles have different effects if they are equipped on a weapon or on an armor.

On the right you can see the spells provided to the character by the equipped bubbles. Move the mouse over a bubble or a spell to display the tooltip that explains their effects.

To use a spell drag and drop its icon over the target character.

The icon of a spell that cannot be used outside battle will be disabled.

(for further information about bubbles and spells, consult the → Spell Book)

Stats/Equip: here you can see the characteristics of the members of your party, as well as the currently equipped weapon and armor. On the left there's a list of the weapons and armors in your inventory: drag and drop one of them on the desired character to equip it.

Weapons and armors will be disabled if the currently selected character cannot equip them. Click on the picture of a character to see its characteristics and manage its equipment.

Party: here you can decide which characters will fight at Alan's side. To move a character into the party, drag and drop its icon in a slot near Alan's picture. If the selected slot is occupied, the characters will be swapped.

To remove a character from the party drag and drop it in one of the slots in the lower part of the screen.

Alan can never be removed by the party.

	Click to open the ingame tutorial about the selected inventory tab
	Click to close the inventory