Evil Wizard Review ([Dra'nakyuek] Spellmyname)
Edit: I will leave my original review down below so people aren´t confused.
I´ve changed my opinion on the game by almost 180°
Reasons are:
When i posted my original comment i kinda had a rly rough day so maybe i vented out on my post (sorry for that, you didn´t deserve what i wrpte)
The developers actually respond to every single comment / post / discussion etc. which i highly appreciate and isn´t usual nowadays, also they are talking with the team to see if they can adjust the game to the players feedbacks.
The jokes are not as bad as i made them seem, it´s just a personal thing that I didn´t enjoy every single joke but some of them were actually pretty funny.
The controlls are also not as unresponsive as i orignially stated, I think i was just tired and worn out from the day and my reaction time was very very slow.
The further you get in the game, the more spells (and combinations) you unlock which can drastically change your playstyle.
So the game actually encourages you to try out different spells and combinations instead of what i previously said about only nature and ice being usefull (still very good but there are other combinations for certain scenarios which i found very usefull if not better)
It is possible to farm blood tokens (the currency) via the coloseum, the 1k token reward is there everytime you kill its boss. I thought you had to kill random mobs so upgrading everything was almost a nogo for me.
The artstyle is absolutely gorgeous, the level detail is also really well done, effects are as well.
About the time spent to finish the game: Everyone takes their own time to play a game so I have no right to say "BUT I FINISHED IT IN 2HOURS SO THE DEVS LIED". I don´t think they lied anymore since there are loads of secrets going on that i didn´t find at first. Took me about 12 hours to 100% it so the 3 hours I originally said are wrong on my part.
Also in my personal opinion it can be a very cool speedrunning game, since it´s not (that) long and requires skill with little to non RNG.
I want to apologize for ripping this game apart for no reason at all but me being an idiot really and looking for a vent for my bad day.
I don´t know how hard it is to develop games so it was unfair and unjust to write what i wrote.
Sorry sorry sorry, your game is perfectly fine as it is and I was wrong!
Sincerly
Spellmyname
Original post (very very wrong from my side):
Absolute attrocious game.
Before I´ve bought this game I looked at the reviews and the discussion board where people were asking how long the game takes. Keep in mind it costs 20€.
The devs answered on 2 of these posts with: "the main game takes 10 hours, with an additional 15 hours extra content"
This is a straight up lie. On my current playthrough i am standing at 2.5 hours and am facing the final boss of the game and I was by no means speedrunning.
Gameplay:
The gameplay is an unresponsive, clusterfuck of a mess. Attacks and spells can´t be animation cancelled nor cancelled at all meaning once you are casting / attacking you are bound to finish it wich in most cases leads to a hit taken.
Bossfights:
Every boss fight in the game has way too much hp leading to them being bullet sponges. The problem isnt that they have a lot of hp but that the fights themselves are boring as fuck. On every fight, all you got to do is take the nature and frost spell, freeze the boss, attack them 3-6 times depending on how long they are frozen, use nature spell until the frost defense of the boss wears off, rinse and repeat. That´s it. Every other "strategy" is useless cos you are bound to get hit and die from the messed up hitboxes that most boss attacks have (either too small or too large for their respective model)
The jokes are mediocre at best and many are overused to the point that they get annoying (Igor, Vampire, etc)
The almost 10 hours of game time i got as of writing this review came from me being afk whilst ingame for almost 8 hours.
Imo don´t get this game, it´s not even worth 10€, maybe 5€ if you are really desperate.
Also it is NO and I repeat NO Metroidvenia. I don´t know who puts tags on games but this is just wrong.
Again people writing reviews with 0.5 hours of playtime should be perma banned from writing reviews, don´t listen to them they are either bots, bought reviews or just straight up retarded.