It's been awhile since we had a good launch game. Graphics and music are great, I would say my only complaint is I'm little confused how the spells work. I know Force is the one you start with and how it works. Just the others I'm not sure if you have to activate them or they show up in the field of play.
Edit: Never mind, I figured it out. Didn't see the spellbook on the bottom left corner.
Cute graphics and animations, the game felt a bit slow until getting the Quick Mastery spell, then again I encountered a bug:
- As herbieG pointed out, the chicken sometimes falls through the ground, possibly when falling too fast as it only seems to happen with higher level spells. Seems I have to avoid using Quick Mastery + Electric but this also happened sometimes with other spell combinations: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/draw/a0f76294c4d04c689a36c1de7e8b8aa7
BTW, is it intentional that we can endlessly combine Quick Mastery spells? Being able to suddenly jump from lvl10 to lvl60 spell seems a bit too much. And Quick Mastery + Spell Wrap (last spell unlocked at lvl19?) can make things even crazier! These can break the game but it becomes fun to try find a functioning combination)
Also I wish I could see the in game medals somewhere, like the "power overwhelming" medal (not a NG medal).
Good game but i fell through the map
WHO WOULD WIN:
- a magician of the highest caliber, able to cast Level 50+ spells; or...
- one floaty rocky boi?
Really, the only thing I think there is to hate about this game is the sheer number of obstacles in your way. Playing just by sound alone, it's almost impossible to tell whether you've hit a butterfly for experience, or a boulder for a quick end to a potentially amazing run. It's honestly interesting, though, to see what kind of spell combinations work the best (or by the end of the game, what spell boosted to its absolute maximum can provide the best run). So far, the only thing I've actually seen that really gets a super-long run (like, damn near 50,000 meters) is max-boosted Mine Field. And I'm still only at Wizard Level 9. If Level 10 has anything better awaiting me, I cannot wait to see it.
FUN FACT: If you cast multiple copies of Level 251 Force, you will actually go BACKWARDS on every even casting (2nd, 4th, 6th, etc...)
EDIT: So good news and bad news...
...the good news? I think I've gotten the maximum record possible for distance within the most reasonable amount of time, i.e.: less than five minutes.
...the bad news? The game doesn't really seem to like it when I go 10,000+ meters per second, and the graphics really glitch out. And by "glitch out", I mean the screen trembles like it's in an earthquake, and all the icons and alphanumerics start to stretch and distort. I had one instance where it looked like the screen was still scrolling, but my height and distance meters had completely erased themselves from existence, so I had no way of knowing if I'd fallen through the ground or if, by some miracle, my chicken was still going.
I love how the background music is just epic !
Great game !