Fat Princess

With its cheeky charm and stylised gameplay, it isn’t hard to imagine this hilarious title came out in 2009 at the height of tongue-in-cheek brutality that swept the gaming industry around that time. Team up with friends or strangers and put on your hat as you make a young woman with a clear eating disorder outrageously fat while you kill all her employees in Fat Princess by Titan Studios.

Gameplay

So this game is pretty interesting and the objective is a piece of cake. It provides an entertaining twist on the well worn ‘Capture the Flag’ gameplay that we all know and love. Your objective is to rescue your princess from the enemy teams clutches all while providing their princess who is in your possession with cakes to make her as fat as possible. The fatter she is the heavier and more difficult she is to carry back to the enemy base but bear in mind, the enemy is doing the same thing.

There is a unique class system within the game that allows you to switch out your class by switching out the hat you’re wearing. Wear a wizard hat to be a mage and fling spells at the enemy, wear a worker hat to provide wood and build catapults for other players to manoeuvre the map with greater ease or wear a helmet and take on that glorious hack and slash combat we all thirst for and much, much more. Everyone has their part to play and when the team works together efficiently, retrieving your princess is a breeze.

There is a multitude of different game styles available. The styles are story mode, quickplay, team deathmatch, invasion, snatch and grab, queen’s rule and gladiate are all pleasantly different in the content but equally genius in the execution.

Style

This game may look cute and cuddly but on the inside; it’s so much more. It has a hilariously brutal element where it brazenly admits it’s a fight to the death. Swords, axes and explosions provide a great deal of blood and dismemberment and this along with the adorable Cell Shaded art style, the game is provided with an incredible amount of personality and charm all the way down to the ending credits being the player taking control of the Grim Reaper and hacking up the developers to Sir Mixalots hit song Baby Got Back.

I couldn’t help but draw a conscious comparison between this game and Fairytale Fights, a game that offers the same sort of brutality under the cute façade, with nearly identical animation style and kill physics.

Multiplayer

The strong suit of this game, and what provides most of its challenge, is the multiplayer aspect. You dive into the gore with games that host up to 32 players. Working as an effective team is what separates you from the enemy and will better ensure your success as everyone has to contribute to the team’s task in their own unique way.

Pros

• Brilliant art style
• Lots of content
• Fun to play

Cons

• Can be difficult to follow the action
• Teammates can ruin the game for you.