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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 5.7 hrs on record
Posted: 30 Jan, 2023 @ 9:33pm

Not for $15, and not if you're expecting an engaging online pvp experience. Pick up on 50% off, or if you need a 4+ player couch mode game for your PC (purely out of limited selection for this type of thing). This game should indicate that a controller is required, because playing with mouse/keyboard is essentially impossible.

My feedback to the dev:
I think you should either lean into the game being either more competitive, or more casual.
- More competitive by adding proper mouse aim (like with a cursor or telegraphed spell hitbox outlines) and enhancing outplay potential by allowing cancel casting & free aim while channeling, also speeding things up a bit, adding a UI with cooldown indicators. Ranked matchmaking could be added, remove some of the environmental interactions that have brutal RNG elements like getting one-shotted by the fish, the puck, or the volcano. Also- make it wins by round, rather than by KO's.

- More casual by adding even more environmental interaction maps like "THE SPORTS" or the one where the island disappears, how about a windy map with a tornado that throws people around but if you reach the edges you're flung back to the middle? Maybe allowing some respawns and adding control-point type objectives or platforming, CTF, dodgeball mode, really lean into the crazy momentum/physics aspects with players and objects bouncing around, etc.


As-is, the new-player online matchmaking experience is just kinda "bleh" after a few games and I think it's because the game isn't enjoyed fully competitively or casually and just lies too far in the middle for my taste. The spell drafting is pretty cool for sure, but the actual gameplay just isn't going to attract players to the point where we figure out all the cool combos on our own. The spells are just too slow and clunky. Like do you want me to practice 40 different 3-spell combos orrrrr do you want me to just dive in and have a good time derping around and getting one shotted by a fish named Jeff?
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