I can honestly say that this game looks good. But to be honest i really hate tobuscus when it comes to making video vlogs and gameplays. But his channel in general is pretty good(literal trailers, animations, etc),i seem to find this game well, as toby said about this game there can be a steam version coming out sooner or later but i bet he has to go with the steam greenlight and hope they dont release lazy ports like other companies do
...aaaaaaaand what a huge load of poop this is. Yes the humour is pretty good but the gameplay IMO is completely crap. The main mechanic is touching an enemy then drawing a spell using fairly unresponsive gestures, tapping on gold or mana then double tapping on other stuff. Yawn. Then you die and get asked if you want to respawn for 4 gems. I expected so much from this, maybe too much, and received nothing that satisfied in a gaming sense whatsoever. I guess the 7 gazillion 5 star reviews are from early teens who just love Tobuscus from YouTube. My first regretful purchase in a long time, glad there's so many other proper games that will remove this one from my memory ASAP. This is only my thoughts on the game and I'm sure others will gush over it but I'd rather play 'Snake' on my old Nokia than load this up again
I am really enjoying this game. As far as iap. I don't feel they are bad. You can basically buy a coin double and some other things. Nothing game breaking. I do have a few issues however. Which is keeping this from 5 stars. The gestures are not very responsive. Sometimes they don't work and yes I have mana. The tornado is about impossible to trigger. I usually get the ice storm. I tried every which way of making a circle and nada. The idea behind the wind wizard that removes your spells is just annoying. It even says he is there to be annoying... So i keep having to go in my spell book and redo my spells.... The humor is great and the wizard VoiceOver is well done. If the gestures were fixed and that annoying wind wizard done in, this really would be one of my favorite games. Heck, even just make an option to click a button for a spell. I know, not as cool, but it would work! Oh and as someone else said, the screen panning is clunky. Give me a zoom option instead.
Yeah this game is way too buggy. When you do get the tornado to work, sometimes it will not even show up. Or it does for 2 seconds then it is gone. I believe level 9(last level before the final one on first map) you can't use the tornado because it drops right through the screen. I also bought the coin/gem doubler. Does not seem worth it. Definitely not finding more gems.... Some times I can't get the two finger swipe down, the map gets locked or something. As good as this game could be, I cannot recommend it. It pisses me off more than anything. Wait till they fix it, if they ever do. Btw iPad mini retina is what I play on. Edit- my son installed this on his ipad non retina and it constantly crashes.
remember if you are in Euro land you can get a refund with no reason necessary within 14 days (even if you have played it) reportaproblem.apple.com
Bought the game based on the humor. Got a refund a couple hours later based on the actual game. Too many bugs, and even on an iPad it's too hard to see what's going on half the time.
I agree on most parts - As far as the iAPs go though I don't think they have a place in a (with over 600k) crowdfunded game. Little slap in the face of the backers. I don't think 5 bucks for a good (iOS) game is expensive but today's mobile market unfortunately doesn't feel the same way: Most ppl want everything for "free" or 99c max (and cleverly end up paying multiple times the price of a premium game through expensive iAPs). All in all - aside from being crowdfunded - with this price tag which's rather on the higher end of the App Store's price scala iAPs once again shouldn't have any place here. But well, you're right that they're not too bad (not necessary and they're mostly for impatient gamers) and by far the biggest problems of this game is that some gestures are madly unresponsive. Especially the tornado spell (just a circle, shouldn't be so hard to get recognized on such a responsive touchscreen device like the iPad) is nearly useless due to only working in about 1 out of 20 cases. You're totally doomed when trying to use this spell - Zombies coming from all directions and you're stuck with a single group drawing circle after circle without any result. And while you're at it, your castle starts getting pounded on from all four cardinal directions. Hope there's an update coming to solve this issue. Atm it's very hard to fully complete certain levels thanks to this. P. S.: And heck yeah, the wind wizard's ability is extremely enervating : )
Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel It looks like he's at least going to upload all the cutscenes. No need to play trough the boring game then.
Anyone know if the update has improved he controls, maybe get the tornado working? Otherwisewell I'm just not sure it's worth downloading again....
