Battlemage: Magic by Mail

I haven't finished yet but already I can see places I will want to go back and make a different decision. This is a good, hearty adventure for those who like these Choice Of games, and not a bad one to start with if you remember old tabletop D&D fondly, or any related gaming types.

I liked this game a lot, i like how magic could be developed by your feelings, not always having to cast spells. I will agree with the other review tho. It does seem really fast and rushed toward the end. I played a few times, and plan on playing again later, but i feel like after chapter 8, the rest of the game goes to fast, so i wish it was longer at that point. However i like the game, and characters and i would be more than willing to play this again. This is one i liked enough, to replay right after beating it, not something i do for all of them.

It's not bad, per say, but it's also not exactly great. Other characters don't really feel like they have substance, and it's less about building up your abilities, and more picking what abilities are going to win you that interaction, and future interactions. What that means is your strong fighter is absolutely going to fail to navigate crown politics and vice versa. You've got to have an idea of what sort of build you want before even beginning the game, or fail to achieve much of anything. The pacing of the game is also so-so. You go from being a squire in the country to meeting the queen personally in the space of two minutes with zero build up or context. It's different to a lot of the other Choice/Hosted Games, but not in a good way. It's just ok. Get it if you've managed to play the entire catalogue of games already and have nothing else.

The story is good but it was rush. Any scene or action are rush. Look at the number of word in the story before by.

Я б хотел чтобы был нейтральный рейтинг. Эта игра меня просто не зацепила: сюжет скачет галопом по европам, ничего толком не раскрывается, мир - полная бурда и солянка из всего что попалось под руку, персонажи никакущие, некоторые линии можно выкинуть к хренам и ничего не изменится. Я думаю было бы в разы лучше, будь это дилогия, чуть более медленная по темпу. Написано нормально.

Played through once. made bad choices, got people killed. 10/10 would ♥♥♥♥ up again.

Bad story. The plot is simple and very predictable. All characters are 1 dimensionall and lack depth. The word presented is in such simplistic way that it leaves no room for growth, also the more you think about it the more it does not make sense. The story is so short that it does not give time for anything to develop besides the main plot as well as its railroaded for the entirety of it and also it's quite short going over raw facts possessing barely any substance. [u]All in all this is a bland, simple, predictable, short story with uninteresting characters where you have little to no influence over your character and the plot. The only things that this has going for it is that it exists and is cohesive.[/u]

truth be told, this is the worst CoG i've ever played. u choices simply dont matter. the storyline is fine at start but became totally rushed. the ending is suck a joke that ruined my day, thx to remind me that even i became a powerful mage, im still a loser in life and magic is no help. so to whoever reads it: spend ur money elsewhere, this piece is a watse of time. ps. i played it on phone and replayed it so many fking times and still cant get a decent ending, the achievement is broke too. what a sour day i wish i never played this carp.