Fable: The Lost Chapters

aka: Fable: TLC, Fable: Zapomniane Opowieści, Shen'gui Yuyan: Shiluo de Zhangjie
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Fable: The Lost Chapters is a version of Lionhead's Xbox-exclusive Fable, featuring enhancements to storyline and gameplay.

The game expands the main plot of the original release, continuing it beyond the final confrontation as well as adding nine new areas and sixteen quests. A few characters from the earlier version participate in the storyline more actively and have their own quests. Additional content includes new buildings, monsters, weapons, spells, items, and armor. The protagonist also has more expressions and ways of communicating with people at his disposal. In the computer versions players have the ability to create their own tattoo designs and import them into the game.

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  • 神鬼寓言:失落的章节 - Chinese spelling (simplified)

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Average score: 83% (based on 77 ratings)

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Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 112 ratings with 7 reviews)

Not really a RPG to begin with

The Good
The best part about this game was sadly the presentation. If you can stand the art direction (oversized gloves and charicatures), you'll enjoy the graphical quality of the game. Also, the sound is very pleasant. If the game had been more balanced, the character creation would have been a blast to play with too.

The Bad
Fable is a completely linear game that plays out the same way every time you play it. No matter what you accomplish in the game, it will still stay the same. No matter how you choose to create your character, the main story will stay exactly the same. The only thing you are able to affect are the amount of challenges (a really dumb idea) and sidequests you want to participate in.

Character creation starts out good, as it seemingly lets you create exactly the character you play, ie. you get experience points for the skills you use. Unfortunately, the game is extremely badly balanced, and once you get a specific 'skill' (won't mention it here as I feel it is a spoiler) you will never find any difficulty again.

The last thing I didn't like about this game are the confined maps. The maps are all very small, corridor-like and uninspired. This is hardly noticeable at first, because the graphics dazzles you, but after a while you'll notice that you practically never get lost. "Just follow the corridor in the forest, young padawan!".

The Bottom Line
Fable isn't really a true RPG. There are no dialogue options for starters, instead you communicate with body language. The exploration parts are there, but they are extremely weak as you're bound to go basically everywhere eventually anyhow because you have to (main quest). It plays out more like an action adventure (all combat is real time, twitch based) with RPG elements than anything I would refer to as a RPG.

Windows · by Mattias Kreku (413) · 2005

A little bit better than the original game

The Good
The new content, more quests, more areas to go and just more than the original game

The dragon quest was amazing, with great graphics and fluid movements. It was challenging and felt better of an ending boss than the original games ending boss.

Avo's Tear was really cool because i was always good and really wanted the Sword of Aeons in the original game but i had to throw it away.

The money glitch is really cool in TLC and is (probably) better than the glitch in the original. When you get level 7 guile, sell all gems to any trader and than buy them back and you get 100+ gold for each.

Also, during the souls quest, if you go through the demon door in Darkwood Bordello, look around for a digging spot and when you dig there, you will find an exp. augmentation.

The Bad
You couldn't do the glitches as in the first game such as the dig glitch.

It is really hard to get the 30 key chest since one of the keys you need to get requires you to marry lady grey but that isn't the end of the quest since there is more to lady grey ( i wont spoil what she did but if you tell the guard about it you get good points and become the mayor of Bowerstone but if you marry lady grey you have to (i believe) accept to cover up the incident and get evil points for it).

ONE VERY BAD THING: They brought down the damage of every weapon in the game so the Sword of Aeons in the original game (550) was brought down significantly in the new game (230) and now the weapon with the most damage is the Solus great sword (315)

The Bottom Line
A game that should be in all gamers libraries and is defiantly worth the money (xbox version is 30$ less than the original's price on release).

Xbox · by Todd Bello (28) · 2006

Lost Chapters can stay lost as far as I'm concerned

The Good
The music is beautiful and lovely to listen to. A soundtrack might be a good seller. Graphics, for the most part, are good.

The Bad
There's nothing really "bad", per se, about Lost Chapters, but I just couldn't get "into" it. I'm an adventure and RPG fan, and this game doesn't fit neatly into either of those genres.

I installed it and played for about 8 hours. Then left it there waiting, telling myself that there must be something to like there. There are so many "rave" professional reviews after all. But, the "big-head" kid who doesn't talk to anyone (really he has absolutely no dialog!) turned me off. The story (the little I saw of it) didn't keep me going either. The icon remained on my desktop for about a month but I always found something else to do. In the long run, I realized that I had no interest in continuing and uninstalled it.

I didn't "hate" it, though, so I guess that's saying something.

The Bottom Line
It's really difficult to write a lengthy review about a game you don't like. Sometimes it's just a feeling one gets or an irritating interface that stops the "fun" factor in its tracks. A buggy game, naturally, can be the culprit. For others, it's the lack of story or interesting characters that the player can relate to. Fable: The Lost Chapters fits into the latter category.

This is definitely NOT an adventure game .. and NOT a role-playing game either. At least in the traditional sense of those words. What IS it then? It is an action/adventure with the emphasis on action.

I should have known better. I didn't even look at the screenshots of the original Xbox Fable before buying Lost Chapters. I just took for granted that if other adventure gamers liked it, that I would too. I think I've learned a valuable lesson - don't buy anything that originally started out as a console game. And, of course, do a little more research before plunking down my hard-earned dollar.

Windows · by Jeanne (75959) · 2006

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Fable: The Lost Chapters on Mac coolfrost (24) Apr 9, 2008

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References

In the Lychfield graveyard, there is a tombstone that reads: "Yaggath Sonnog-Sleeper in the Dark, wake and rise." This is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu mythos. Yog-Sothoth, is the most powerful and most mysterious of the elder gods. This is little surprise as Lionhead is based in the UK. Where Lovecraft has a huge following.

Title translation

A verbatim translation of the Chinese title is:

shen = god

gui = devil

yuyan = fable

shiluo de = lost

zhang = chapter

jie = segment

It's interesting to note that the title broaches the game's main issue, it being a "Fable of a God or a Demon" according to players' decisions.

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Game added by Jeanne.

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Game added September 21, 2005. Last modified March 7, 2024.