Preview of an upcoming level in the Prince of Stories, Fairy Forestland!

This is the 7th level in the game. It’s the first level you unlock after unlocking all 6 characters and entering the main castle (the first 6 levels are outside the castle and have the game’s 6 unlockable characters). So there’s no character anymore in this level to unlock. This level (and the ones after it) will require you to use most or all characters and their special abilities in ever-increasing puzzle challenge difficulty and complexity.

This level is a huge, sprawling, mysterious enchanted forest, home to the beautiful but vain Fairies, led by their fair Fairy Queen. Wart sent his fairy minion here to trap all the fairies and make the forest his own. He’s also cursed the animals of the woods, making the wolves especially vicious, bloodthirsty and numerous. You must enter the story and save the fairies!

I plan on adding a unique game play element to this level. The forest will be procedurally generated and sprawl infinitely in all directions. Specific landmarks, such as fairy fountains, giant mushrooms, etc. will appear periodically, if you take a certain path. I plan for this path to be indicated by the rays of light. Certain colored beams need to be followed to find points of interest, or something like that. Think Lost Woods from Zelda, but with a more immersive environment (nonlinear tree/forest design), which I’ve always wanted in Zelda, but is probably difficult to implement due to hardware/graphics limitations.

This level is themed after enchanted forest / fairies. Here are the planned chapter missions/characters/design:

1. Find the Four Fairies: You must look for four fairies who are hiding in their forest home. Each one must be talked to by a different character, which you must return to the fairy queen. She gives you a quill.
   -Possibly up to 8 fairies, one for each char: fairy of courage (Al), fairy of joy (mr ginger), fairy of fairness (robin), fairy of love/mystery/beauty (Mermie), fairy of wisdom (Erin), fairy of healing (Jinn-Jinn), fairy of giving (Mr Snow), fairy of power (Draggard)

2. The very lonely caterpillar: You must feed the sad caterpillar, who has no friends because he’s ugly, and eats to resolve his unhappiness. You must collect leaves dropped by plant monsters for him (his favorite food). He then gets sleepy (tries to sleep his problems away) and turns into a cocoon (which must be guarded from waves of wolves) and a butterfly. When he emerges, all the fairies rush to him in admiration. Overjoyed, he rewards you with a quill.

3. Taming the Wolf Pack: You must find the wolf pack leader (a werewolf-like boss) in his den, after defeating waves of his wolves. Defeat the wolf pack leader to expel the evil curse in the wolves, which reduces them to timid small animals that quickly disperse.

4. Fairies in Fret: Defeat the evil zoad minion, who’s imprisoned the four fairies and the butterfly inside bottles (and thus caused the fairy queen to dissipate due to a lack of essense). Once you do so, the fairy queen rewards you with a quill.

Characters: 4 fairies (fairy of love, fairy of joy, fairy of wisdom, fairy of healing), fairy queen, hansel and gretel?, little-red?, fairy-dressed male zoad minion; caterpillar/butterfly?
Enemies: Sleep-inducing mushroom monsters, poisonous carnivorous plants, wolves, bears