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Review

The Fairy Tree is a role-playing audio drama with a choose-your-own-path narrative. Unlike Michael did in his last review, I’ve decided to be bold and jump down Alice’s rabbit hole into a wacky, yet charming adventure.

For starters, the production of The Fairy Tree is incredibly admirable. The voice actors are marvellous and completely transform one-dimensional side kicks and villains into full-fledged adventurers. The background noises fall nothing short of amazing.

However, it has a lot more beauty than substance for most of it. One may not feel immersed into the world much due to the very short episodes which can be from 3 to 8 minutes long and it breaks all tension and pacing. Perhaps if the episodes were a little longer, this would not be an issue. Also, a listener will not feel like they are important to the overall story because (the HERO) doesn’t do anything besides choose between only two options. I would recommend that there were more directions that one could choose.

As Michael has also stated, there are really no consequences for the “decisions” one makes. I felt like I was heavily detached from what was happening. There are no witty dialogue options for you to choose, nor the actual consequences of your actions as the narrator just tells you what you have done. In the end, it felt like a nice little getaway to a new world, but now I have to go back to work at the fish-canning factory.

3/5 Stars