Wizard of Legend

Great game. Wish there was a sequel.

Still haven't beat the final boss, but am close. Lots of fun with friends or alone. Love the bright visuals and the many spell options.

This one took a while to click but I'm glad I stuck with it. The difficulty put me off at first but once you get some good synergies going and understand boss patters, it's a very enjoyable roguelite. Vast amount of spells to play with, many builds, many passives. Bosses are randomised to an extent, they get stronger if you encounter them later in the game. So the runs feels fresh for quite a long time. The levels however feel a kinda same layout wise but with everthing else the game offers, it can be easily overlooked. The spells actually feel different and are fun to use, makes you feel powerful. Like you're an avatar character. Definitely a cut above the regular rogulites, you actaully need to get good to progress rather than rely on metaprogression.

There were better action roguelikes when this came out and there are better action roguelites right now.

Customisation options are varied and feel unique however the game is really bad at explaining and planing itself. It defies common action roguelike traits. You don't have dash i frames. Each level is randomly generated. Enemies can easily overwhelm you because of that you need to play extra safe this in return make things boring. For some reason amount of relics you can equip is capped so some of your resources go waste. Since there aren't any shop rerolls you could easily end up with sub optimal or counter intuitive builds. The only thing you get good at overtime is playing safer. Encounters are designed in a way that force you to play safer and it feels like waste of time. Average build don't cut it. You either need to have tons of damage or huge amounts of sustain and resistance. This game needs lots of quality of life changes. I didn't check it out but modding seems like the only plausible option.

This is a solid rogue lite, I haven't played a ton of games in the genre (mainly hollow knight and children of morta) but for me this is just like those games in that it's snappy, well crafted, full of enough variation to keep me interested while not overwhelming me, it's got a great look, good music, and lots of fun tidbits that just feel like icing on a well made cake. I haven't poured tons of hours in yet, but so far I can't find any fault with the game, it does what it sets out to do.

Could not get used to the controls, and the game didn't have the key rebinding functionality I needed to setup the controls more closely to Hades or other similar games.