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Reviews for "Arcade Wizard"

Great little 2D shooter for its reasonable challenge and satisfying character progression elements, but controls are annoying.

It's basically a twin stick shooter, except it's missing one of the sticks, leading to a complicated system of repositioning yourself every time you have to aim a different direction. Also, sometimes my character would just stop moving and I'd have to jerk the mouse around quickly to get him to respond, often not in time for the enemies or their attack spells to pass over me, leading to dozen or so undeserved deaths. I'm not certain this is the game's fault, but I haven't noticed this problem in the three or four years I've been using this computer or the several months I've been using this mouse.

The thing I found most satisfying here was the integration of core gameplay and character progression. I'd like to see a full on RPG like this where you play a wizard with a grand total of one spell, but that spell can be cast infinitely and customized to a ridiculous extent. But obviously, without the square-wheel variation of TSS controls.

My cursor disappears and movement freezes randomly at stage 4 and I cannot survive to progress any further.

Refreshed browser, and it would happen again if I failed too many times. I guess it has something to do with memory after too many objects have been spawned.

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Main problem is the aiming, it does not work if you get backed into a corner, just like what STM1993 said, I see the same problems, also better info of orbs, like attack type, Cone, Line, Melee, etc. also orb of the assassin is almost pointless.

In my opinion, its pretty good. Im i touchpad user and can still play just as good as i would with a mouse, nice game.

good game, only problem is loading issues

the issues are only at the beginning. when it does load, it works perfectly fine.

gamemakertim responds:

Is it only the initial loading or also other moments?