An Amazing Wizard

It needs a lot more time in the oven. The game play feels very floaty, there is no weight to any of the attacks, the monsters just charge at you, there is no real mechanics to them. The crafting system feels okay. It feels like there is a dozen different ideas smashed together with no synergy to tie them together.

this game uses ai.

“Yer a Wizard..and destruction incarnate!” The game is a multifaceted marvel of a roguelite. There are a plethora builds to approach the game with: Want to be a necromancer with an army of undead fairies and otherworldly beings? You can. Want to surround yourself with an orbiting deadly whirlwind of electrical and icy chaos with a sword that creates gravity vortexes when you hit things with it, go for it! The spell crafting involves planning for chaos (though it can get overpowered mid-late game), with rules for triggering new spells on collision/destruction/initial cast and their respective mana costs. One of my favorite combinations is surrounding a boomerang with orbiting leaves that each cast explosions every time they hit something. Add to this a system of perks, artifacts, starter classes altars for blessing items, and enchanting melee weapons, and you have a lot to work with. I've unlocked most items in the game and counted 100s of relics & spells. You’ll need to cycle through them as your adversaries have strengths/weaknesses to the various elements. The game also features hundreds of fantasy creatures, along with a good variety of minibosses and bosses. At the time of writing, the game has at least 9 bosses, all of which evolve with each difficulty, with the final boss being a different character on each mode. Combat is fluid and emergent, though it can occasionally be tricky to see enemy attacks when you raise a lot of minions scattered across the stage. The foreground artwork could also be simplified further. Metaprogression can feel a bit grindy at the start, though you do progress quickly and can toggle things off at will. NPCs, challenges, gauntlets, and arenas add additional variety to the game. You can see from the updates that the developer has been super responsive to feedback and consistently improving the game.

It's a cluttered mess. An utter mess. It was hard to play very much at all. The visuals are a disaster. Your character does not stand out well from the background. You lack animations for actions beyond running/jumping. Your attacks happen in clutter around you. Shots come from behind you to make the situation worse. Enemies had symbols all over them. Ladders don't look like ladders and appear and disappear. Blobs that look like enemies are trampolines (and stand out better than anything important). There are three aiming modes and none of them are right. The game has a crosshair as though it was a mouse aim game, which is a pretty bad idea for a dual sick shooter. I want only the arrow on the character for aiming, or even better an arm with a wand on the character to aim like a gun. There are symbols everywhere. I stand on a place I can climb down and there's a character to talk to and a text prompt covering him, and then I'm covering that character, and then my own prompt is covering me, and then the crosshair is covering my prompt so I can't read it. Text is very "default font", and is not on a fully opaque background, if any background at all. Combat has a terrible feel where I fire a lot and don't do much damage, but also I fire slow, and also the enemies do very little to me. It makes the firing feel limp and slow. Jumping doesn't feel tight. Walking doesn't feel good. Dash doesn't feel good. A door tells me I need to kill all the enemies to unlock it, but then I can't get the treasure behind it. So why have it like this? There's a terrible flow in general. The sound in in the cut scenes was very odd; as though there was a song playing that shouldn't be there. There are at least 3 different art styles going on in this game and 2 of them are bad. I struggled to invest the time I did to give the game a chance. It is hard to look at. It feels bad to play. This game needs a complete graphical and control makeover.

不是 咱就说为啥连个最基础的替换和解构都不行 一旦走错一步就满盘皆输 非常不鼓励探索和创造 这个设定不但是便利性和体验问题 直接否定了这游戏的核心

я создал франкенштейна

There's good & bad here. The good first: - Beautiful pixel art - Engaging + fun game loop - Fun upgrade tree - Cute & unique character art - Spell combining system is GOOD The bad: - Other reviewers have pointed this out, but it's easy to lose your wizard amongst all the magic and enemies on the screen. Even just standing still, they can be lost in the bg. - Cringe dialogue. I just skipped past it. To be more specific, too many attempts at quipping and humour when 1) it's not hitting and 2) there's no reason for it. I believe this game has potential. I'll be keeping a close eye on it, and likely be playing more of it in the meantime. I hope to see it grow into itself :)

This game feels like they know what they want to make but they have no idea how to make it. I don't know if the term animation lag is a thing but that is what best describes my main gripe with the game. Like input lag but with animations (maple story had the same thing back in the day)... not that I would really call this animated, it's sprite based. The maps feel very over functional, just blocks linked together to make a platformer but it doesn't play like a platformer, there isn't really any momentum or smoothness to the motion, it's all so... binary. I am a huge noita fan so when this game said combing spells I was sold but unfortunately the bar is set pretty high and this does not deliver at all. Spell interactions feel either non existent or complimentary but uninspiring. The descriptions do not help you understand how the spells work and there is no real way to test spells to see if they can combine well so I can't intuit the mechanics and learn what works. To sum it up this would be a really impressive Newgrounds game but it is awful for a professional steam release.