Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements

This is a surprisingly fun game. It's an Adventure point 'n' click/RPG hybrid, like Quest For Glory back in the day. It's one of those games that doesn't really hold your hand, so you have to turn your brain on. Once you realize "it's one of those types of games", it becomes immersive. Great for a coffee buzz (+Bailey's Irish Cream!)

I didn't like the story much and the game mechanics were clunky. I am very glad I got this on sale.

Really fun and relaxing adventure game. Enjoyed it a great deal.

I like it! if you enjoyed the Quest for Glory games then I think you're going to have a good time with this.

Nice art, awkward writing. Still fun. Really impressed at all the background art and details put into this game. Unfortunately that sometimes breaks the immersion and make puzzles awkward. Like, why I can't I take (useful thing that's right there)? Instead I have to take just that one specific thing, with lots of pixel hunting, because (convoluted adventure game logic). They did a nice job having both the tower and town feel alive, with tons of different people. Unfortunately that means it's often difficult to distinguish or care about different characters. EG, none of the main mage masters show up as normal people you can talk to. It's hard to care about the "main" plotline because we never get the chance to talk to most of those characters until the very end. Combat was kind of a pain. Luckily they give the option to turn it off. I wish the devs let us use combat spells in puzzles. Instead almost all puzzles were solved with just 1 spell (whatever the starting spell for your class is). It's neat they give us that replayability though. The ending was... bizarre. The whole game builds up the local lord as this selfish, idiotic jerk. Suddenly we're supposed to help him? The people attacking him are townspeople that we've been talking to the entire game, and they have legitimate complaints. I think it's supposed to be nuanced, but it really just feels like the main character and all the mages are jerks, allying with the nobles to oppress the commoners for no reason. Some puzzles were clever. Some just felt annoyingly obtuse. If you feel stuck on something, just look it up, that's the way to have fun in this game I think. Overall flawed, but I still had fun. Especially with the art and the general premise. I wish they'd make a sequel, or even just a revised version of this same game. I wish there had been more content inside of the mage tower, and less wandering around random dungeons.

Very fun, exciting game that brings back memories of the old Quest for Glory and King's Quest Sierra games. It's amazingly creative in the way it presents and solves problems. It will save your character at the end of the game so I'm hoping very much for the next one.

Un bon point'n'click dans un univers fantastique cohérent. Les cinématiques en dessins animés sont horribles et font grandement penser à celles de Link: Faces of Evil, ce qui, en un certain sens, les rend comiques. Le choix de son élément ne change presque rien au gameplay et ajoute une quête unique, à l'instar du choix de sa maison dans Hogwarts Legacy. Le jeu se termine sur la promesse d'une suite via l'invitation à enregistrer son personnage pour l'exporter ensuite dans le prochain opus. J'ai bien hâte de voir ce que cette suite aura à proposer.

A little too tedious for me -- movement between screens in this game is pretty slow, so walking back and forth looking for the item you're missing to finish a particular task gets really aggravating fast. Realized I wasn't having much fun after about an hour of this.