Recent reviews by Samsara

Twas good. Enjoyable game. I recommend it if you like storyline games and find SEA/Malaysian culture charming.

Very cool !!

We back once again !!

Yikes !! What is this cringe?

Why are all the male characters Effeminate and the female characters Mary sue ? Why is the inventory compare system so bad when they had a good thing going in BL2? What is this absolute garbage gun and melee mechanics. Why are all the spells just #damage with nothing interesting happening? This is straight up garbage and a theft of money.
No strong characters at all... I remember every single character from BL2, some from BL3 and *NONE* from this game.
This game legit feels like some interns got together and scrounged it up.

Not worth the price.

It is a 15 minute game that is stretched to an hour because of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanics. They intentionally made this game slow so that people wouldn't insta refund once they realised how bad this game really is. It takes way too long for your character to move across the screen. Frustratingly slow. You don't have any logs so if you ever spam click, you basically skip through an entire important conversation that you cannot see again.
Story is a mid and a you're encourged to have multiple playthroughs to make sense of it. But who wants to watch a character basically move around the screen just for some different mediocore conversation lines?
It just doesn't make sense. I got really bored playing this game and it really wasn't worth the price I paid for it.

PC: This review is anecdotal. I review it for how I felt playing it and not objectively for what it is.

Art, Voice acting, Storyline, spellcrafting, advancing mechanics: 3/10

The budgets and the company behind this game are huge. Surely, they could have done a better job with it. Yes there are worse games out there, but this company has much higher expectations.

ART: The art style just feels to basic. Like I understand minimalism is in but they are just so many reused assets and stock frames that it just feels you're playing the same 4 dungeons throughout the entire game. There are no vistas and most the of the animation budget seems to have gone into spells.

Voice acting: The only voice actress is Morgana and I don't know if it is the same actress as the LoL version (which is amazing), the one in Mageseeker is *TERRIBLE*. This has to be the most carboard box plastic fake "i am reading from a paper" voice acting I have ever heard. Like the actress is trying way too hard to put in emotion in the lines because someone behind the scenes just wants to get more value out of them.

Storyline: makes no sense. I don't understand who the storyline is aimed towards. It can't be kids with all the gratuitous death and calling people swines. It can't be adults or teens because it is far too cringe with its kumbaya bs and making it more of a Aesop fable where you find a moral of the story mixed in with some random fairy tale. There is no direction here. It feels like too many people tried to give an input into the storyline and made an absolute mess of it. Also why is J4 in full armour all the time and referred to as prince? His father's dead. He can be called king. But why does he seem so randomly beta out of the blue? Both J4 and Garen act like the most clueless shy boys who are scared of speaking out of turn.

I really wish I could just make a compilation of the most random cringe dialogues in this game that are inserted for no reason at all but heh..heh.. guys, no transformation lasts forever ☠️ (yes I know it makes no sense).

Spellcrafting: Completely unbalanced. You always want to take the higher range spells which are luckily given to you at the start. The problem is that certain spells take a full 3 mana slots which takes a lot of time to generate and the enemies can decide to become untargetable/teleport away. The best spells are the mana cost 1 spells and progression and speccing out your skill tree does not seem satisfying.

There is an interesting mechanic in dungeons where you get a random spell with a passive which was amazing and I wish they developed that a lot more.

Currently combat is stuck with you picking a spell of the first enemy you come by knowing the next enemy will probably be the countered by it and kill him with your spell caster given combos.

Refugee mechanic: I really wish they just let you assign the refugees to the specific spellcaster instead of having them auto assign. I don't understand the point of sending the spellcasters on mission. Is it just gambling for extra gold? Like I hoped there would be some text that I could refer to inside the refugee side missions that'd let me make an intelligent decision but like the rest of this game, it is pretty mindless.

Levelling mechanics: Zzzz just buy stats which are split between 4 shopkeepers but have overlapping synergies. This was really boring.

Gameplay: 6/10: Somewhere between the mediocre artwork and horrible storyline, there's a good game. The mechanics of using the chains to move between opponents, the pressure of having to Pokémon battle elements vs each other and having the ability to dash without cooldown in a bullet hell zone makes for a fun game. It is fast paced and very decently challenging. Some of the mechanics just don't make sense like in order to use a projectile ability the combo is Directionless Dash + L + R which while is doable is balanced around feeling unsatisfying?
I understand that having projectiles in this game like the mystic caster would make it Extremely OP as you can literally kite everything. But to gate it by making it locked behind a slow clunky combo is really really bad. If you're using it as a projectile, it ends up being a very low quality spell with an insanely long cast time which in a game with untargetability and teleportation makes it very crude to use. Also the fact that combos like Ice are locked if you initiate with chains to get closer to your opponent. You can't do a spell caster combo if you use your gap closer. You have to walk up or use lightning blink or invis to reach striking distance to use the spell which again, make it really unsatisfying as flying around the screen with chains is really fun. I don’t think it would be OP as you’re only gated to 2 spell casters at a time but who knows.

Conclusion: I don't regret playing the game, but I feel unsatisfied at the quality of the game. Like I expected a bit more out of it. If it ever goes on any discount it would be worth the price but it is the kind of game you have to switch off your brain and play. Forget connecting any lore from this game to League.

This game can make some improvements with hot key, unit management and resource tabs. But for city building and resource sim, it has to be one of the best games out there. It has the most potential out of any other game I have played in this genre. This is the one that will be gold if the devs get the small things right. I am very happy to play this game.

Very nice game design. Very thoughtful, very fun !!

Best turn based game I have played

This is a really really good game. It isn't perfect. But man I had so much fun playing it.