Kiya, you can have 77 Fairies. Die Number 78 is a Legend from Sacred. And you could level up each Fairie to Level 60 (with lots of carrots <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />), which added some Roleplayingspirit to it. And comparing it to pokemon explains only the rough idea 'cause i never liked Pokemon but got immediately hooked by zanzarah.
Being a graphic artist with rather high graphic standards myself I was really surprised to find such a marvelous piece of art made with a rather simple engine. Even after finishing Zanzarah I spend quite some time just with running around and watching all the details because the graphics are done with such an incredible love that a lot of newer 3D-Games have a hard time catching up with that atmosphere.
I only wished they would have putten more hard to find secrets in it which you can discouver only very late...