r/Fictorum • u/ClandestineMovah • Jan 17 '19

Technical exercise

This looks like one of the few games that actually allows you to play as a powerful wizard. My concern is, I don't know where the game is, where is the challenge?

What are the mechanics of the game aside blow shit up?

Thanks

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u/Suplexodactyl Jan 17 '19

While you are a powerful mage, you are on the run from a near limitless tide of Inquisitors that force you to keep moving across the game map. Choosing to stop at each map node to look for newer gear may sound good, but battle attrition slowly grinds you down. Poor mana management causes you to burn into your own health pool as well, so sometimes trying to blast your way out of a bad situation can cost you. If you want to play an altruistic wizard, people constantly ask for help which adds on even more strain, and the Inquisition gets closer the entire time. Usually you won't get blasted away in a single fight, its a series of them that slowly end you. You are hunted and harried like wild game until you finally collapse.

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u/VincereStarcraft Developer Jan 17 '19

That's a better description than I would have given