This is a hint and review file for "Legend of Fairies", an H anime 
Windows game in English and Italian from Milky House/Four Nine. It is 
sold by J-List and JAST USA, and other H anime game companies. I don't 
know what the Japanese version of this was called, but I believe it 
was by Excellents. I'll only be discussing the English version as 
played on a PC here, but it should also work on a Macintosh.

The Japanese version website is at:
http://www.excellents.co.jp/
but I found nothing for Four Nine except a single mention in text, 
and nothing about either game.
The English version website was at:
http://www.milkyhouse.com/ [site basically gone now]
which says the Japanese game is from Excellents Japan and Liberty 
Soft (a name not mentioned anywhere else).

Pete's mini-review:
Excellent "omake" (bonus/gift/photoshop)! Without playing the game at 
all, you can view all of the H images and play all of the music, plus 
view the "Smash 25" images as well! There are also images from other 
JAST USA products on the disc, in the "Extras" directory, and the 
JAST USA catalog too. There are scrolling images (as .AVI files) of 
girls/fairies in the hidden LEGEND directory too. A few translation 
problems were noticed, but the game is set up so you don't have to 
read the text anyway, so they aren't as important as in other games. 
This game is made so you can blitz through it by either viewing the H 
images right away, or skipping practically all of the story in "fast 
forward" mode.
There is no installation of this game on your hard drive. It plays 
completely from the CD. I didn't see any way to save progress, but 
you can jump to points in the middle of the story by guessing where 
you are on the "From the Middle" list.
The "Battle Mahjong" sounds interesting. Too bad it is glossed over 
so much. One question that I have though... If Jango Abe gets to see 
H pictures of girls that he defeats in Tobanjan, what about that guy 
in the dark sunglasses? Shouldn't there be some icky way to get energy 
from him? Or Yujiro?
The way the girls/fairies talk when defeated, it's as if they are 
actually playing multiple rounds of Battle Mahjong with Jango, and 
losing each time. But all you see is one animation of moving icons, 
and then the pictures. So I guess for the English/Italian version, the 
Battle Mahjong game was deleted, if it was ever there in the Japanese 
version. Too bad. It could have been interesting, even if the rules 
had to be explained to us.
Anyway, graphics rather good (and uncensored), music not too 
annoying (except for the slow CD and scrolling mentioned above), no 
noticeable sound effects. Extremely easy to play, images and music 
very accessible. No repeatability though. Only improvement I can 
think of would be to add the Battle Mahjong game, but then you'd need 
a save/load game functionality as well.
Note that the suggested retail price on the Milky House website is 
only $19.95. For the interesting story, good graphics, and excellent 
omake, it's certainly worth it!

Hints on play:
Just left-click anywhere except the bar full of control buttons to 
advance (like the "Play" button) when playing the game. You don't 
need to keep the mouse pointer on that little button. Unfortunately, 
I couldn't find keyboard equivalents for any of the buttons.
The "final" H images for each girl/fairy will scroll. During the game, 
these do so when you left-click on anything but the Exit button. In 
the photoshop area, sometimes clicking on one of the 3 unmarked 
buttons near the Exit button will jump to the other end. But usually 
you have to left-click and drag the mouse to scroll to the other end 
of the picture, and it won't stay there once you stop holding down the 
mouse button.
You can click on the "hostess" girl at the far right of the screen in 
"Smash 25" to see some images for her too.
Double-click when an image is "dissolving" in Smash 25 to end the 
dissolve effect quickly.
The relatively slow CD drive on my laptop made it obvious that the 
scrolling images shown with music when new girls or fairies appear are 
putting a heavy load on the CD mechanism. It took up to 10 seconds to 
scroll, sometimes with long pauses or annoying jumps, because the 
music files and image files are in different places on the disc. So, 
while there is no requirement on the box for how fast your CD-ROM 
drive is, I'd say 2x can be too slow for comfort. Then again, a video 
card that has trouble with .AVI files, or a computer that can't handle 
an AVI and music off the same CD simultaneously, can happen to 
anyone.

I know there's a sequel to this game already. Strange that they didn't 
wait until seeing how well the first one did before releasing the 
second.
One thing that I hope they address is how Jango is surviving on the 
pittance he got from Mika, and managing to feed himself and 5 
Shikigami - if he lets them eat.


If you have anything to add to this file, let me know.

Pete Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net
http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/