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It’s not surprising. RPG elements will take time to test out, especially because they have multiple magic schools with different kinds of spell specialization.

I do hope that the combat ends up being good, as none of the AGS made adventure/RPG hybrids have really excelled on that area. Not that Quest For Glory games were superb on that area either, but I’d hope someone would find the sweet spot.

The trailer on the main page today shows a lot advance. I guess we will see its release truly in the next 6 months or so, i kinda trust the quality of this game.

Awesome, Thanks Jack!

Yes Yes!!

I am just downloading GOG copy. They provided keys for both, for Steam and GOG, which was very nice of them.

Quick impression after 2 hours.

the puzzles thus far have not been anything special. Pretty standard adventure RPG fare, really. Quite logical and somewhat reminiscent of what you’d see in a Quest For Glory game. You need to use spells to solve some of the puzzles.

the graphics look very nice and the animation is pretty good. The lipsyncing is well done, but other than that the character portraits are motionless. The voice acting is a bit hit and miss, especially D’arcy, the main character is very uneven. There are some recording differences in the voices as well. Music is good.

The combat system is okay. It seems to work the best when played with keyboard(WASD movement, space casts a spell, number keys choose a spell). Basically, you have one monster targeted, which you can then hit with spells as long as it is dead while trying to manoeuvre around the screen avoiding being hit. During the battle, you can chuck healing and mana potions as needed. You don’t seem to get experience from combat, only stuff, like sellable goods, healing potions, money and so on.

The character has 4 main traits (strength, intelligence etc.) you can enhance on level up as well as with gems you can equip 2 at the time. The gems can either directly add to some trait or add on some and detract on others. So pretty basic and simple system all in all.

The game has 3 UI’s you can use, depending on what you like. There’s the classic Sierra drop down from the upper edge of the screen, a Lucas style verb coin and a context-sensitive right-click UI. So, again, very decent of them to offer options here. You can change the UI freely, so you aren’t stuck with one you don’t like.

Overall, I’d say Mages Initiation feels like a promising game.

tomimt - 30 January 2019 05:02 AM

You don’t seem to get experience from combat, only stuff, like sellable goods, healing potions, money and so on.

i guess that means ‘experience’ as at its own meter of experience, or it doesn’t really add even to the strength level!?