Spellcaster University Review (Bad Wolf Rose)
I just finished my second campaign, and this game is worth the sale price! That being said, there are a few issues.
The good:
- Building universities and seeing the careers that come from certain things.
- The repeatability of play. There are so many unique levels and challenges. You can easily play through them and have a different game.
- The building system is a fun twist with the cards and room variations, love the details as you upgrade them.
I defiantly recommend the game. I bought it on sale 60% off and it is well worth that price. I will say with the amount of games I own, especially colony sims or base building games; I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this.
The bad -
- The tutorial was very quick, its difficult to understand what is really going on, how to do anything, fight back, overall objective, or how to get your students to level up to complete the level star missions. I should probably watch a few YouTube videos, but I do wish it would give us more than it did.
- You can't move rooms. I started over 2 times because I hated how my layout was because I didn't understand the room design requirements (such as where doors are.
- The ending is abrupt and underwhelming. Nothing happens except you get a pop up message saying the lord of Evil has come to the university, you graduate your remaining students and move onto the next world.
- Similar to the tutorial there is no direction on what to do in the levels, I feel progression is hard. You cant fight the Troll because the Orcs gang up on you. Its difficult to get the requirements for the Lake Monster as well. You don't learn the requirements to get an arch mage, houses aren't really explained for the benefits of them, and its easy to lose track of the buffs you have.
I would prefer a game tell me more things than having to do the work myself and search for it on YouTube, however, I still think its worth it.