An Amazing Wizard

dead spells

Having a grand old time so far in this game. Pros +Get truly busted builds. It can take a while to master the 'merge spell' mechanic, but once you do you'll melt enemies +Pretty solid meta progression, not for grind, but to slowly ease new spells and mechanics onto you without overwhelming +Very nice pixel art. +New challenges and unlocks add variety to runs +Familiar bosses and enemies will change tactics between levels and difficulty options, not just become bullet sponges +Game respects your time. Save and quit anywhere. Levels are large, but contain warp portals all over +Beat an enemy up too much and they'll run away like a coward. Made me laugh +Charm and summons spells are a lot of fun. Sit back and relax as you watch enemies destroy each other Cons -I kind of wish the merge spell and the inventory system was a bit easier to use. Feels a little clunky with controller -As others have mentioned, the text dialogue does feel a little off. Ideally a rethink in the way lore is portrayed and full voice-over, but that might be a bit much for this small indie team -So I love to use controller, but there's a melee attack, basic attack and 3 extra spells you can assign. I've only got 4 trigger buttons and technically need 5 with this game. Having the extra spell as 'X' feels clunky in conjunction with the right analogue stick. I tend to assign 'summon' spells to this button -Got a nice intro, but no outro on game completion (normal anyway). Maybe work in progress? (This is an EA review) -Whilst the game randomly generates levels, there are only a few types. I would love a bit more variety and possibly branching paths (as per Dead Cells), but can understand this is a mammoth task Looking forward to seeing what's next with this title. A very skilled dev team and wish them success Other similar(ish) recommendations: Dead Cells A Robot Named Fight Noita Neon Abyss 1&2 Revita Trinity Fusion

this game uses ai.

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.

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

“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.

A genuinely fun game, which is clearly inspired by Dead Cells and reminds me of Noita in some aspects. The pixel art and music are beautiful, and the spell-crafting system is awesome! The game is still rough around the edges, but that's to be expected in early access. Other reviewers have already commented on the writing, and apart from that, I have only two gripes so far: 1) Platforming sections feel too difficult to do cleanly, and not very satisfying overall. 2) I wish each biome had a stronger identity from the level-design perspective. Unlike Dead Cells (which had excellent level generation algorithms, blending randomness and distinct, unique elements that made each location stand out), the elemental biomes in this game felt kind of the same to me, differing mostly in the color palette and enemy roster. Even with these in mind though, the game is worth the price, and I know I'll have many hours of fun playing it!

Cool, different, interesting.