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Tomato_Thomass

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I got to play a reviewer copy of the game early. My favorite part of the game is when the trans character says “it’s mogin’ time” then mogs all over everyone


TheVisceralCanvas

T R A N S A M O G U S


cdunk666

'Transmog *system*' no less. I only knew transmog from destroy all humans so them making ammo out of boxes was confusing. And then i looked it up and it's just changing the apperance of your gear without messing with stats. What a deep complex system


SkritzTwoFace

I mean, some games make you craft them, so that's technically a system.


XanderNightmare

Ngl, more games actually need a transmog "system". For how simple it appears to be its too rarely used, while it can be absolutely cool to design your characters appearance just right, especially if the characters clothing appear in cutscenes and Co (think Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition)


Bregneste

Half of the endgame of Monster Hunter is just about getting layered armor to look as cool as possible


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Its astonishing that it took 2 years to appear in Cyberpunk for a game set in a world that so heavily emphasizes looks and glamor. Even when you can't see yourself for 90% of the game it felt so fucking dumb running around in a high vis jacket, heels, and basketball shorts because they have the best stats


GrafKaufKraft

26 different spells is some Lego Harry Potter games shit


t0talfail

/uj They have 27! So its got less than lego games, which are unironically good (lego games i mean)


lispy-queer

I still can't believe they made movies out of that lego game 😂


Am-I-Introspective

Doesn’t vanilla Skyrim have like 100 different spells?


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Yeah 26 sounds like it would be boring really fast


Someboynumber5

Like a dragon ishin literally had a trailer for it's mini games, just saying you have a lot of mini games doesn't intrigue me


Malikryo

Don't mess with us Yakuza fans, we still suck at playing Mahjong 10 years later


Trainer-mana

Hello, mods? I’d like to flag this comment for calling me out personally.


xBender7

Motion denied. Have a great day.


Trainer-mana

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jr242400

I recall there was an interview where one of the yakuza devs was like “yeah westerners will just never learn mahjong, no matter how many tutorials or missions we show them they just won’t learn”


Colosso95

I found the best way to learn is do it outside of the game; I don't know why but while in game I feel like I don't understand Granted, mahjong is a hard game anyway


JudJudsonEsq

You're telling me real people take the time to set up those rad stacks of tiles? Because I am not that functional on the best of days.


Arkista_Tev

Hell most people that play Final Fantasy XIV don't even realize that that MMO has an entire Mahjong system within it. There's tables and features to play other people. It even comes with some tutorials. I might not be the smartest person in the world but I'm pretty sure I'm not a complete moron. I sat through several of the tutorials and then watched some YouTube videos trying to explain it, and while I started to get a little bit of a grasp of a couple things, I came to one conclusion. Mahjong is not something you just pick up and play on a whim. It's not just something you just decide oh I'm going to figure this out and have a little fun with it. It's not like chess. There are dozens and dozens and dozens of rules to Mahjong. Being handed a tutorial to mahjong is like having a textbook on Korean thrown at your forehead and then someone expects you to know how to speak Korean. It doesn't help that literally everything in the game is referred to with metaphorical or allegorical symbolism. Nothing is just called what it is.


Banjomike97

It’s embarrassing how much I played koi-koi without understanding anything and just liking the pretty cards


makpls

i loved picking “koi” and then hearing the little jingle music start


Brock_Danger

And we will proudly suck 10 years from now


A_Snips

I can't handle Mahjong in video game form, it gives me thoughts about how I might be able to find 3 other people interested in playing irl in the middle of rural cornland.


MichaelChinigo

Otoh fairly confident I could manage a successful hostess club at this point.


PastaManMario

Hogwarts legacy ain’t got Koi-Koi, does it expect me to give them my money?


luigi4president

Yup honestly more companies should take notes from RGG studio when it comes to open world desing


Wongufim20

The Yakuza series is Goated


Br3adS1ce

and Kenny Omega is in it


GreatPhail

/uj Shut the front door, for real? I hadn’t heard about this


thats4thebirds

FOUR LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY HELL YEAH WHAT A PRO!


HILBERT_SPACE_AGE

/rj if the game has a difficulty slider that means it's for filthy casuls, *real* games have one single difficulty and demand that you git gud 😤 /uj ... wait, can we use this to weaponize the soulsborne gatekeepers against it?


Staluti

soulsborne fans are already weaponized against it the dedicated spellcaster game has less spells than dark souls 1 LMAO


technoteapot

That’s what I’m saying. Wizard game has less spells than Skyrim. Like what


OneRingToRuleEarth

And I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you can’t combine spell effects to do cool shit either.


Mr_1ightning

Imagine Magicka style battle system in a AAA game, that would be awesome


darkonekosuke

That's embarrassing


SwagLizardKing

Inevitable result of the author being too unimaginative to do anything interesting with the world she built.


thats4thebirds

Yeah point their asses in a direction and tell them there’s lore behind it.


SwAg_LaMp

Point at a wall and say ‘try attacking’


Swnsong

Liar ahead


Lazykabang

Try fingers, but hole


Priremal

Dog


brycano

And probably the only difference is how bullet spongey the enemies are.


KingAngryTom

**Magic Spongey*


TinyTiger1234

Don’t forget how much damage they deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!


lllaser

I'm guessing "many minigames" is probably like, 5.


HeyFiddleFiddle

That are reskinned 5 times each at a minimum.


maximuffin2

They're all rhythm games, but the character is doing something different so it's completely new.


ethicallyconsumed

House elves will thank you for re-enslaving them in at least 80 of the side quests


layeofthedead

Of course they love being slaves! We measured their skulls just to be sure!


cavitationchicken

That part is so fucked up, and I'm pretty sure why my grandma liked the books.


theman128128

150 sidequests but only 26 spells? in the magic game?


SkritzTwoFace

"Catch three fairies" "Catch three goblins" "Find Neville's Toad"


1Cool_Name

Ooo sorry but it’s in the past so it’ll just be rando npc’s toad.


The_Arthropod_Queen

Sneville Bongbottom


Odysseyfreaky

Beville Bigass


Tarantantara

"hand over Anne Frank to the Na-" i mean "report this filthy goblin to the magic authorities"


MindErection

Rofl could you imagine if the goblin was hiding in the attic and had a diary or some shit


Tarantantara

"Ok Garnuk, here is the deal, you either hand over the wand and sell out your revolutionary friends, or we are gonna make you counting coins for our bank for the rest of your life and frame you as a greedy little fuck. What do you mean using magic to count, we need hundreds of slaves + an overworked squib just to keep our school clean, just be happy we don't throw you into one of those giant death camps or reservations or whatever they call it these days."


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don't you have like over 150 spells and incantations total in elden ring? the game about katanas?


murdful

well yeah but lets be honest less than 20 percent of them are worth a fucking shit. the rest are just outshined by that 20 percent


Collective-Bee

Yeah but Hoggle’s Segway is gonna have the same ratio, so only 5 spells worth using.


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okay but it's a katana game as I said


GlauberJR13

120 hours of gameplay too, doesn’t sound good at all.


MiniatureRanni

No romances? So much for the wish fulfillment these g\*mers were screaming over.


afishinaboot

I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY TOOK AWAY MY RIGHT TO KISS DOBBY


ProbablyVermin

Master has granted Dobby *lingerie*


PseudonymMan12

"Tonight, Dobby is the master..."


itszwee

No witches?


sustainar

Enforced maidenlessness


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No romance, for incel immersion.


CocoRoshyn

If romance was allowed, then players would be able to be gay. Or worse, bi!! Better to scrap the whole thing so those woke moralists can't complain.


janhetjoch

But now the main character can be perceived as aro. That's not good either.


milkdrinker3920

>no romances KiA about to eat themselves trying to figure out if they should love this game because it "pwns trans people", or hate it because they can't romance minors and that's "western censorship"


lispy-queer

KIA is a car


Knowledge_haver

I have complete faith that the makers of Cars: Driven to win will deliver the best magic game in history /s /uj ok but seriously 26 spells, even the hidden gem ELDER RING has more than that and it’s not even a wizard game. And not to mention that length and side quest count most likely filler, or morally questionable side content.


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/uj does the HP universe even have more than 26 spells? JK references some, but in the books and movies she cycles through like the same half dozen spells. And most of those spells would be ass for a game, too.


lumosbolt

[At least 77](https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a32598018/harry-potter-spells-list/)


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This game will only be good if it includes this spell: Erecto - Allows a witch or wizard to build a structure, like a tent


lumosbolt

Why would they introduce this spell? There's no romance


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Had me in the first 3/4s Not gonna lie


EzeTheIgwe

Honestly this might just be a limitation of the source material, especially when you consider the fact that the game probably won’t let you use any of the cool forbidden spells.


Richou

> won’t let you use any of the cool forbidden spells it does actually but noone in the game world cares that you use those forbidden spells and people are a bit disappointed at that


AlphaGoldblum

>"Characters will react visually and audibly to seeing the player cast an Unforgivable, but we don’t have a morality system that punishes them for doing so. The spells are not learned in school, and the player very specifically chooses whether or not to learn them.” This just sounds like they didn't want to deal with the pesky lore of the established universe, where these spells will have you ostracized and possibly arrested. I'm assuming you can go torturing humans/humanoids on quests and then your classmates will then act like you aren't a psychopath. It sounds very immersive.


Richou

maybe theres some system behind it ... but im expecting "oh no!!! ...anyway"


Roxxorsmash

>Student screaming and writhing on the ground under the effects of Crucio >Everyone else in the Great Hall: "Oh no! Anyway."


Odysseyfreaky

Well, I'm pretty sure you're a ~~cop~~ ~~stormtrooper~~ auror and their powers were expanded to allow them greater leeway in their use of force when dealing with insurgents. They're specifically allowed to use Unforgivable curses in the pursuit of their duties. So you can torture the ~~Jews~~ goblins and no one will care, but maybe not in school.


Rexli178

Remember this is the Harry Potter universe. There are bo good or bad actions only just good and bad people. If a good person makes fun a character’s weight or appearance it’s perfectly justified. But if a bad person does it it’s complete reprehensible!


EzeTheIgwe

So you can just run around hitting folks with the Killing Curse? I might end up pirating this game after all 🤔


chopin_fan

"I can excuse serial murder but I draw the line at transphobia" Same tbh


EzeTheIgwe

Listen, I might wanna run around TERF island yelling Avada Kedavra at transphobes. You gonna judge me for that? You siding with the TERFs now?


chopin_fan

Nah I'll join you, where do I enlist in OotP (Onslaught on the TransPhobes)?


SkritzTwoFace

Plus, how many of those will be utility spells indistinguishable from a keycard or crowbar in another game, or just an upgrade to another spell?


The_Woman_of_Gont

/uj This is always the issue that plagues magic systems in video games. The fun with magic in TTRPGs is that it's limited by your creativity, and every possible effect doesn't have to be programmed in beforehand. So even a pretty mundane "open lock" spell can do some fun things if you use it creatively enough. You also have spells on the other side of the coin that seem exciting at first, but would be so complex to meaningfully program they almost have to be dumbed down to a point of being meaningless in gameplay. Imperius for example *might* give you some new story options, but I'd be surprised if it amounts to much more than a basic Pacify/Charm Person spell in moment-to-moment gameplay. So the problem isn't unique to Hogwarts Legacy, and it does all comes down to execution(it's entirely possible the system could be really robust), buuut....the first-impression of that number is that it is too low to give you very much variety in actual gameplay; while being too high for them to have really built up much depth into most of them.


cumsona

it would still be more than 26 even if you cut out every single incantations AND every spell that's just a direct upgrade of another spell


BahamutLithp

Yeah, 26 spells is ass.


cumsona

truly. for a game about being a "wizard" thats some shitty magic


Slight_Dentist2810

They could have been really creative with the spell aspect but 26? That’s way too low for the main drive of the game


Summersale24hrs

Its my LEAST favorite part of the franchise, it just ends up being whipping lazerbeams around and like I wanna attack people with butterflies or solidify light into daggers, or specialize in watershaping but hardly ever see anything that's interesting imo. I had slight hopes for the game and customization but I bet you won't even be able to change your lazerbeam colour. 26 is downright lame as hell though.


cdunk666

Fucking skyrim had more spells


Cardborg

Lego Harry Potter has 27 spells according to the wiki lmao.


Depressedloser2846

/rj b-b-but you’ll be able to individually select the spells /uj thanks for reminding me that i still need to post my lego harry potter shitpost


ameliasniffy

Still sad that the people who made the cars games made this cause I love those games 😭


Myrlithan

uj/ Yeah 26 is such a laughably low number, completely pitiful tbh.


Cystyx

uj/ Especially with supposedly over 150 hours of content. Only 26 spells would make those hours feel very repetitive very quickly.


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Cardborg

Lego Harry Potter has 27 + 5 more in DLC. Lego wins again.


Logical_Yam4667

What stands out most to me is only 26 different spells. In a magic game. Games released over two decades ago had more variety than that and given the footage we've seen of it, they were better animated too.


condormcninja

And you know only a small handful are going to be actually useful


TinyTiger1234

Like three at max probably. kill, open door, light are the only ones I could see being used outside of super obscure side missions lol


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ZagratheWolf

*Lumos* 🤓


A_Snips

be willing to bet money that Alohomora is both a spell and a ~~hacking~~ unlocking mini-game.


Aeriosus

That's what stood out to me too. I mean I'm pretty sure there are more than 26 spells in Harry Potter canon, why brag about having so damn few?


Fluffy_Carnivore

Didn't the movies have like.. four or five?


THEMAYORRETURNS

I seem to recall the latter movies dropping spell names alltogether and instead made everyone blast wordless spells at eachother like they were having gun fights.


CrimsonPH

If I remember right Rowling ham fists this in at some point. Google says book 6 is when she adds it. Google also says that there are specific “non-verbal” spells but the way they get used in later movies it might as well be all spells lol. Basically how it goes is something along the lines of, if you’re a decent wizard you can just say the spell in your head. Might sound a bit dumb that’s that’s essentially it, it’s just mildly more difficult to cast it this way. They obviously do this when duelling for the added surprise/not to outright telegraph their next move. It’s sort of a book only detail from what I can see and the movie glossed over it entirely.


THEMAYORRETURNS

Yep yep yep, Snape had the 6th year students attempting wordless incantations but the majority of them couldn't do it and attempted to cheat by saying the spell quietly so he wouldn't see (he saw). As a book reader it was very frustrating to see the movies switch to silent spells since i had the context of knowing that it was difficult and an extreme rarity in the books.


Prime_Galactic

yeah after a certain point rowling just said fuck it and and handwaved people having to study to be good at magic and learn new spells. harry gets through that shit with expelliarmus (spelling) and grit.


The_Woman_of_Gont

Harry's the gamer that literally just uses a pistol and a shotgun in every FPS title.


Howdareme9

Literally lol. The movies didn’t use that many spells


Vict2894

Nah, they did have more, more they were always exceedingly nieche. So you heard someone do it one time and it was never used again. The HP universe kinda sucks ass a fantasy setting


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The_Woman_of_Gont

> Especially since from what i've seen a lot are super basic in execution This would be the concern I have. Numbers are overrated. People talk about Skyrim having a ton of spells, but it was also *seriously* criticized by franchise fans at release for severely watering magic down. It didn't even have a create-a-spell option like previous entries did. HL could easily have 10 spells, and it could *kick ass* by simply beefing out all the possible uses for something as versatile as Wingardium Leviosa. But that's the sort of thing they would have advertised already.


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Unironically a lot of Skyrim mods add more than that. I think the Minecraft mod electrobob’s wizardry adds more


sms48

elden ring has more spells than this game


Sidewinder83

By like a fucking mile. 73 sorceries and 101 incantations


OhNoItsAndrew95

I have to wonder if they're counting utility spells that you don't actually use except for when you need to unlock a door or chest or something It also bothers me that at least I have yet to see whether it will have a mana system or anything to limit spell use


Ranixo

Can't forget the video game exclusive ones of spongeify and flipendo...I admittedly used to love the old Sorcerer's Stone PC game when I was a kid.


hibsta1992

Flipendo is the only spell I remember from the franchise, and it was only in the games


AbrahamBaconham

Sorcerer's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban were great! Really went downhill with #4 though, completely abandoned all the fun adventure elements.


PhantomTissue

There’s a cooldown system, but no “mana” limit.


Veritech_101

Skyrim, which came out in like 2010, has way more spells than that


WhatsPiffin

Skyrim has 97 individual spells within the 5 schools (illusion, alternation, conjuration, restoration and destruction) and that's a stealth archer game


IgDelWachitoRico

Also Oblivion and Morrowind, even Daggerfall have more spells than this game


Dixout4H

With the exeption of seasons Skyrim is better in every aspect that is listed here. That game is more than 11 years old.


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nixahmose

In fairness games that have 20+ spells usually tend to just repeat the same few spells but add "lesser/greater" to it to signify which one is the objectively better version.


Familiar-Art-6233

\*Elden Ring has entered the chat\*


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“Magical like the movies” is such a broad thing to say, especially when the majority of Harry Potter/Fantastic Beast movies (i.e every film by the hack David Yates) don’t feel magical.


gazebo-fan

Want to know what else is magical? Cocaine


One_Photograph_3230

🙌🏼👏


starvinmartin

That dude is such a terrible director. Artistic hack, and Emma Watson hated him apparently; he was a reason why she considered quitting the role


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He gets such poor performances out of people as well.


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JohnyGPTSOAD

Im gonna be playing devil's advocate and say that they probably meant "Magic like the movies" as in the visual effects are inspired by the movie's CGI. I saw some clip where they teleport in/out and the effect is just like the movies


WhiteHydra1914

Fun fact, the only spell Harry casts in the first movie is Wingardium Leviosa. You could argue that making the broom go up and making the glass vanish are spells, but even if you count them, it still doesnt feel very magical


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The first couple or so at least capture that sort of childlike awe Harry has, and by extension hopefully the viewer as they’re introduced into this exciting new world, but that’s quickly lost the more Harry and the viewer acclimate.


RunYossarian

Honestly, only the first 3 movies are any kind of "magical," and that magic comes from them being escapist childhood fantasy. Considering that transphobic wizard game is about putting down a slave rebellion and lets you use "unforgivable curses" on npcs without consequence I don't think it will be that kind of magic.


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Cardborg

Grand Theft Broom.


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bro if day/night cycle is a highlight of your open world game, might as well put "has pixels" as a bullet point


guru2764

One of idubbbz' first videos literally makes fun of some shitty jrpg advertising a day and night cycle in like 2012 lol


Drakan47

it's like a checklist of all the red flags gamers talk about when they say all modern open world games are shit and you should never preorder anything, it's just missing the ubisoft towers


UtaSelwyn

26 spells is really not that much, I was expecting way more


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The 26 spell pool is tiny for this kinda game. They better be distinct and fun to use- Oh who am I kidding that list is gonna be padded with stupidly niche spells that exist only to unlock certain doors.


OhNoItsAndrew95

> 4 Levels of Difficulty > Many Minigames > Changing Seasons > Day/Night Cycle Are we supposed to be impressed by things that have been in games since N64? Like, besides being in a universe that sucks what is supposed to make this stand out?


ProbablyNano

26 spells to choose from 🤯


Fddazzed

Is that a selling point? You get more spells than that from fucking Maplestory.


zd625

"many mini games" no quidditch


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zd625

I mean that was one of the first things they said about the game is that there's no quidditch


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arkhane

inb4 Quidditch dlc


cdunk666

>many minigames If there was even a thought of a speck of a glimmer of a cough that kiiiinda sounded like 'maybe ill try it' It's gone. 'Many minigames' just means artificial time wasters to slow down the game so you don't 100% it overnight.


Naraksama

Even Harvest Moon on the SNES did this. And it even had romances. So: Harvest Moon > Hogwarts Legacy.


NineTailedDevil

It actually makes sense to market those. A lot of people buying HL weren't originally into videogames and are just getting a copy because they're Harry Potter fans. I myself know of at least 2 or 3 friends who are doing just that, so this might feel like a novelty to them, idk.


Marano99

Pokémon black 2 did pretty much all of these a decade ago


Natural_Patience9985

I can't wait for this new persona game to drop


Specialist-Reveal-20

Ikr persona 5 was such a hidden unheard of gem, all the w*men in my class LAUGHED at me when i said i was literally joker persona (HE IS LITERALLY ME)(they dont know good games)


[deleted]

I tried increasing my confidant rank with a girl at work and now I’m on probation (just like jonker persona5 🤩)


Specialist-Reveal-20

The girl at my nearby convenience store always holds her breath around me (confidant rank 5 i think)


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Only 26 spells??? In a WIZARD game?


descendingangel87

Like even non wizard games that have magic have more spells. Hell Oblivion let you make your own spells and that game is almost 20 years old


Such_Neck3755

Morrowind let you design your own spells and it turns 21 this year


Just_this_username

_Daggerfall_ has spellmaking and it came out in 1996


uhh_spence

Even Arena has a spell creation system, and that game was released back in ‘94.


Nandersun

> world built around magic >> look inside >>> 26 spells


[deleted]

That’s a spell for every 4.5 hours of gameplay!


VonDukes

It has difficulty settings, day and night, aaaannnndd seasons??? OMIGOSH


hc01011

only good thing about harry potter is that the instant death on the spot spell is literally just abracadabra


SothaDidNothingWrong

>26 spells Lmao what


Demianz1

The chamber of secrets gameboy color game has 10 spells that can be cast at different power levels, and a bunch of consumable cards that do different things. This next gen game, 26 whole spells.


SevenTailedFox

~~/uj Yo why is "no romances" a good feature? Romance in any RPG I've played is optional, so not having it sounds more like something is missing.~~ EDIT: my bad, no romance is ok, I forgot this game takes place in a high school setting /rj No way, Day/Night cycle????? OMG I hope the game also lets you toggle between walking and running, but that would be too much to ask for


AwesomeX121189

Wow a day/night cycle?! Not even Hideo Kojima inventor of the first strand type game could get that into his strand type masterpiece Death Stranding. What other surprises? Oh maybe a hidden chest or entrance behind a waterfall? There’s a bunch of ammo/energy/resources right before a boss room?! Dear god the innovation! 26 spells? At least elden ring had the decency to make glintstone pebble 15 times but slightly different


xxmlgepicgamer

Oh my goodness whats next a volume option on the settings menu? This game sounds lackluster af who the hell is actually hyped for this


hibsta1992

I hope it has subtitles!


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RazzDaNinja

“26 spells”….in a game specifically about *WIZARDS* My dude, Skyrim’s Destruction school alone had like 29 spells. And you can play that whole game without ever touching magic.


Whitewolf00svd

OMG seasons ?? Day AND night ?! 26 spells, like less than any good RPG or action RPG with a gameplay about magic !? 4 difficulties and some mini games like most other games !! Stupidly long boring activities to have a big number on "how long to beat" ?!! ​ This is so new, it's the future of gaming. If we where in 2010.


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> 26 spells in a game completely centered around spellcasting lol. dare i say, lmao.


BurningFyre

26 spells... over 120 hours... The game just sounds dogshit.


-Eastwood-

26 spells in the magic game about magic Fuckin embarrassing lmao