Played to demo from the kickstarter.
I liked the dials and the puzzles
I'm afraid I really didn't enjoy the combat. I found it too hard to make the spells hit, and once I ran out of mana there was nothing to do but stand and die. Fire bomb was almost useless, due to almost never hitting, and even the basic fire attack missed almost as often as I hit, and if they got too close it wouldn't let me cast spells any more, (possibly getting interrupted?)
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough room to evade the goblins, so you could not avoid being surrounded. Circle of fire offered only a few seconds' grace, and chewed through mana very quickly.
I died about a dozen times before passing the test by sheer luck due to actually killing some goblins before they fled and scoring a potion of each type that they dropped.
When the goblins ran off instead of dying, I felt cheated, and that I hadn't really 'won'. (I tried to kill them as they fled, but my spells mostly missed.)
I left this section of the tutorial dreading further combat and uncertain if I wanted to continue playing.
Also, a repeatable crash to desktop, usually occuring if you cast the circle of fire spell two or three times in quick succession during the third wave:
Error: The character 'Pygmy Goblin' could not be displayed because there were no frames in loop 0 of view 351.
I liked the dials and the puzzles
I'm afraid I really didn't enjoy the combat. I found it too hard to make the spells hit, and once I ran out of mana there was nothing to do but stand and die. Fire bomb was almost useless, due to almost never hitting, and even the basic fire attack missed almost as often as I hit, and if they got too close it wouldn't let me cast spells any more, (possibly getting interrupted?)
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough room to evade the goblins, so you could not avoid being surrounded. Circle of fire offered only a few seconds' grace, and chewed through mana very quickly.
I died about a dozen times before passing the test by sheer luck due to actually killing some goblins before they fled and scoring a potion of each type that they dropped.
When the goblins ran off instead of dying, I felt cheated, and that I hadn't really 'won'. (I tried to kill them as they fled, but my spells mostly missed.)
I left this section of the tutorial dreading further combat and uncertain if I wanted to continue playing.
Also, a repeatable crash to desktop, usually occuring if you cast the circle of fire spell two or three times in quick succession during the third wave:
Error: The character 'Pygmy Goblin' could not be displayed because there were no frames in loop 0 of view 351.