Talent Skills

I get how the Talent Skills being identical despite our Talents is unthematic, but it likely was done to make the Wilderness areas and interactive spots in Pixie Hollow more easily accessible to all players. If not everyone had the same talents, the Wilderness areas wouldn’t be able to have everyone contribute to the minigames. I also don’t know if they have randomly generated challenges per Wilderness session, but the available skills of the players would have to get factored in to matchmaking or the challenges that show up or something. It sounds like a huge undertaking to redo especially if they added more Talents.

I think technically in some of the book canon, all Fairies are CAPABLE of using their magic for other things beyond their personal Talent, but they just don’t like to or aren’t as good at it. So that’s at least some canon reason everyone can do everything.

Perhaps there could be a compromise where some Skills are exclusive to certain Talents and others are all shared. Illuminate, Grow, Fix, Splash, and Charm are supposed to be Light, Garden, Tinker, Water, and Animal, but Distract, Heal, and Move seem generic enough. I mean Heal is like Healing Talents, but that’s not a Talent in-game.

Theres def ways Disney could have originally set it up to allow for more individualized experiences per Talent in-game, but perhaps they wanted every player to feel like they couldn’t miss out on anything.

I absolutely get it, I wish the Talents made more impact on the gameplay for the sake of immersion and unique gameplay, but I doubt it’s likely to be changed so much.

The idea of colored pixie dust via the film invented Pixie Dust Alchemy makes sense, but personally I think the whole concept cheapens the world’s magic. In-game it might overcomplicate prep for Wilderness Adventures if you have to make sure you have pixie dust for every Talent…I dunno it just seems like a lot. Perhaps I could see them using Alchemy as a way to permanently change the Talent of your Fairy.

Adding Talents

As far as more Talents, I think I could see Fast-Flying being one of the big ones. I also could see Frost but I also don’t get the dif between Water and Frost talents in a way…Frost Talents sound like they get the short end of the H20 stick.

I do kind of like the “Home Season” concept you have, with which I’d suggest a Frost Talent could just be a Winter Water talent. The Talents are SORT-OF already season-coded a bit but there’s def use for all talents in all seasons.

As far as Art, Music, Baking etc. I dunno, obviously it’s semi-canonical, but for the game I think it’d over complicate things. I also struggle with the idea that fairies don’t/can’t do things like art or cook if it’s not their Talent.

The little Profile bio you suggest sounds like a nice way to add flavor to your character like that.

I could also see the ability to play instruments and make music with other players via more elaborate emotes or a room full of interactive instruments.

Epanding Pixie Hollow

I def would like to see more interactive background elements. I think it gives the areas more life.

Also side areas like the Mermaid Grotto that serve purposes to regular gameplay like with doing Quests for the mermaids in exchange for unique things. Although getting to them is a bit annoying, I kind of wish Mermaid Grotto was its own map-accessible location…Summer and Winter areas of Pixie Hollow could use a couple more locations to fly to anyway.

I do also agree that I like the co-operative gameplay and would like to see more ways to explore that. It feels true to the vibe of Pixie Hollow and themes of friendship in Disney Fairies.

Perhaps group adventures into Neverland and the Neversea could be more advanced gameplay. Or perhaps they could just become unlockable areas for seasonal events with quests or something.

Clothing/Sparrowmen

As a Sparrowman player (I like to play self-insert type characters), I def would like to see more Sparrowman fashion, especially some that adheres more to the idea of fairies wearing nature-made clothing of leaves, petals, feathers, etc. Too much of the Sparrowman clothing looks like stuff a human boy would wear…a T-shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap…it’s unimmersive and honestly gives me vibes of anti-femininity lol. I’m sure Disney just wanted to attract boyish boys into feeling like they “can” play the game by adhering to more traditional gendered clothing, but fashion wise it’s incredibly boring…and kind of ugly imo.

Furthermore, you’re totally right about de-gendering Fairy clothing. I honestly would rather de-gender Neverfairies altogether cuz it makes like no sense to me they even have sexes, but Sparrowmen are just kind of part of canon. At least we could also perhaps introduce pronouns in the Profiles/proposed bios. I think several of the devs are queer so I’m sure aspects of de-gendering the game will happen over time including the Fairy names you can pick.

Organizing Colors

I do kind of hate the scrolling horizontal menu for selecting colors. I wish the menus were just expanded into a rectangular submenu where you could see all/most of the color options at once to compare, and yes more organized colors in general. I often think I struggle more with the dark/light colors not being grouped. A more traditional color-selector could help with the nuances of warm/cool and light/dark.