Mages of Mystralia

Где TUNIC и Death's Door учились там Mages of Mystralia преподавала.

Lovely game, the spellcrafting system and the world complement each other very well

absolute cinema the puzzle elements were so much fun to figure out and spellcrafting was so fun. if there was more post game content and the spellcrafting tree was expanded this would be the best game ever

It's a wizard game, so I have to give it SOME props. Obviously it's going to be fun for me specifically, which is why I'll probably play more of it even though I'm not reccomending it. I have a TL;DR at the bottom if you don't care that much, which is fair. The reason why I'm giving it a thumbs down is because it is a SLOG to get through. The game prides itself on its spellcrafting, but you get about one thing to adjust your spells every hour. I can't adjust or work on my spells in the beginning of the game, and most of the early adjustions are basically just upgrades. Based on the progress bar which you can see in the save menu and how slow the progression is, I could assume it'd take around 40 hours to complete the game (i'm not gonna look this up bc honestly I don't care THAT much), and most of that is going to be talking to people and fighting. Oh, and walking from point A to point B. That takes a lot of time. This would be fine and I would be okay with it IF the combat was quick, snappy, and challenging in very fun ways. It isn't really. You can't play offensively becuase you'll run out of mana and you can't play defensively because you simply cannot escape the melee enemies. The enemies also block you, so if you're cornered, you're boned. You'll get stunlocked and pelted with javelins before you can run away. Sucks. In adition, the visuals are just hard to follow. Each level has about one color that it goes by and the game loves particle effects. On their own, those two are awesome! But both of those together, combined with the high camera angle, makes it HARD to SEE. The thing that sort of saves the combat in my opinion is the afformentioned spellcrafting. It is VERY fun to make and name your own spells with different effects for different scenarios, and I'm willing to bet combat becomes EXTREMLY fun near the end. HOWEVER, the end is however many hours away and for the first real-life day worth of gameplay, you will have basically 5 spells, all of which feel ineffective because the enemies have so much HP and bodyblock you constantly. That's not to mention the bosses. THE BOSSES. They are gimmicky, which is fine, and they're easy to figure out how to counter, which is fine and dandy, and which I would be 100% okay with if not for how DANG TANKY THEY ARE. They take FOREVER to go down, and some of them are activily difficult to deal damage do--- And they're SITILL tanky DESPITE THAT. Again, this could be okay. The combat can be set to be easy. You don't HAVE to play in archmage mode, you can just enjoy the story! But the story is also not that great. this is subjective so it's not that important but the story is basically "One mage was real bad and now everyone hates mages." It's a little undermined by the fact that there's a wizard sanctuary where the mage all live peacefuly and not under the fear of prosecution, all of your old friends still like you even though you turned into a wizard after exploding a building and killing multiple people, and the people that are terrified of wizards can be swayed by about 3 dialog boxes each. That doesn't stop this seemingly cozy, bright game from being extremly mean to you. The mentor in the beginning was such an ass that I almost stopped playing from how much I hated him (not really, he's fine, but nobody likes him and his family deserves to be disintigrated). Every location you go to is bright and bubbly and ocasionally a little spooky, but all the dialog and information surrounding it is so sad that it just feels like the part of this game that wants to be cozy and bubbly and fun keeps clashing with the other section that wants to introduce some sort of brutal realism to this extremely cartoonish setting. TL;DR: the game is incohesive, the combat is frustrating, and progression is incredibly slow. I'd be shocked if this game was playtested by more than 3 people. i'm still going to play it because i CARVE for games about wizards CONSTANTLY and the few things that are done right are very nice, but i can't see many others having enough fun to play through the whole thing.

this is a wonderful game! my only critique is that some puzzles are unsolvable without google. its a very small number, but still. also runes. you have to try a lot of combos to make a spell work how u want it to with the runes. its a little frustrating but fun. personally, i like it. but its def not for everyone.

Love this game, charming and wonderful gameplay. The magic craft system is fantastic, and the puzzle feel very unique and LoZ reminiscent.

👍👍👍

nice game

You can really feel yourself becoming a mage - at the start of the game you can barely do a thing and by the end you annihilate everything on screen at the press of one button! [spoiler] Not really - you lack mana to do so, but almost [/spoiler]