Parable Academy

Parable Academy is a 2.5D tag-team fighter set in a world swept by a Fabled curse, which transforms ordinary teens into characters from their favorite classic stories. A university called Parable Academy for Fabled Youths was established to protect them from their curses, but its students face constant attacks from literature’s greatest villains. You choose a team of three fighters and battle using simple movement controls and a single attack button.

Attacks and tagging

Press the attack button with a direction to perform a fighter’s special moves, or hold it to unleash a Supercharge attack. Attacking opponents builds your tag meter. You can spend it to tag at any time, including during a combo to chain attacks from multiple characters, or while under attack to bring in a teammate and punish your opponent. Tagging while a teammate is caught in an enemy’s moves can put multiple fighters in danger.

Playable fighters

At launch, the game has eight playable fighters from classic fiction, each with a distinct playstyle:

• Alice: Uses the Vorpal Sword, a flamingo croquet mallet and a barrage of mad teacups to build combos.
• The Creature: Uses lightning to stun opponents and powerful throws.
• Wendy: Has bonus air mobility, can grab opponents’ shadows to drag them across the screen, and can summon fairies to carry them away.
• Willie: Attacks from range with steam whistles, music notes and stretchy arms.
• Dorothy: Uses the Silver Shoes for precision teleportation and the Golden Cap to call limited-use favors from the Winged Monkeys.
• Gatsby: Pops corks to temporarily boost his mobility and change the properties of certain attacks.
• Scheherazade: Uses her storybook to summon thieves and legendary Rocs, control the field and support her team with a djinn Supercharge.
• Briar-Rose: Uses her curse of eternal sleep to dodge attacks and counter with a wall of thorns.

Single-player modes

Parable Academy has multiple single-player modes, including an Arcade Mode with a unique storybook-style intro and ending for each character. All playable fighters have full voice acting.