A Buyers Guide to Whether or Not You Should Pickup Lichdom: Battlemage

Reasons To Buy:
-Steam Cards: it has em, we love em
-It could be on sale: Any game can be an appealing buy at a 70% off or higher, and discount prices are all anyone should be expected to pay for this
-Need a way to blow a few hours and remind you how good the other games you play are: I have never appreciated the quality of other games i play more than I have after this trial.

Reasons Not to Buy: *Deep Breath*
-If you believed the store page's claims: The selling point "the first game where the mage is truely badass" should come with a huge pulsating asterisk next to it. Lichdom's protagonist would be a a badass mage, in any other fantasy game, you know, ones where you have teammates. The game gives you a nice arsenal of defensive abilites, but again, they would all be better in a game where you acted as part fo a group, as a way of fending off a lone foe the tank has yet to take control of, as it stands, if more than one enemy tries to attack you and their swings arn't exactly synced up, wave bye bye to that chunk of health, because most spells don't stun enemies out fo thier attacks and are just sad when defending against anything other than one attacker.
-If you have an attention span: Dear god this game is repetative. You cast every spell with the same animations and even the more appealing looking spells get reduced to so manyy boreing lgihts once you have cast it for the 7,000th time. All the enimes are interchangeable, and all the levels are just hallways which are about as interesting to explore as the inside of a toilet paper tube.
-If you like playing a mage in fantasy games: For a game world that was designed with the sole intention of being played by a mage, i am baffled by just how poorly optomised it is for that. Every single boss fight leaves me longing for a tank to take the aggro and most of the enemies spread out so far that the AOE spells are useless. You are about as squishy as the mage in any other games, expect unlike other, games like skyrim, you can't aquire any followers to compensate for the feeling that the game hates you for picking the mage class. Against other projectile users it basically becomes any other cover based fps, if you gun had crappy fire rate and no headsot potential.
-If you like stories: people just talk at you every so often, it feels like every bit of interesting story is taking place without you, to the point i occasionally wonder why i am even still pressing forward. Even the inital cutscene that introduces the main chracter's motivation was so rushed and blut as to seem comical so don't expect much in the way of imersion.


Bottom Line: If you see this on sale consider picking it up for steam cards, if you are interested in that sort of thing, but if not just wait until one of the Elder scrolls games goes on sale instead and just download a bunch of magic combat mods. It will be about the same but with more content and a higher concentration of fun.

A Buyers Guide to Whether or Not You Should Pickup Lichdom: Battlemage Reasons To Buy: -Steam Cards: it has em, we love em -It could be on sale: Any game can be an appealing buy at a 70% off or higher, and discount prices are all anyone should be expected to pay for this -Need a way to blow a few hours and remind you how good the other games you play are: I have never appreciated the quality of other games i play more than I have after this trial. Reasons Not to Buy: *Deep Breath* -If you believed the store page's claims: The selling point "the first game where the mage is truely badass" should come with a huge pulsating asterisk next to it. Lichdom's protagonist would be a a badass mage, in any other fantasy game, you know, ones where you have teammates. The game gives you a nice arsenal of defensive abilites, but again, they would all be better in a game where you acted as part fo a group, as a way of fending off a lone foe the tank has yet to take control of, as it stands, if more than one enemy tries to attack you and their swings arn't exactly synced up, wave bye bye to that chunk of health, because most spells don't stun enemies out fo thier attacks and are just sad when defending against anything other than one attacker. -If you have an attention span: Dear god this game is repetative. You cast every spell with the same animations and even the more appealing looking spells get reduced to so manyy boreing lgihts once you have cast it for the 7,000th time. All the enimes are interchangeable, and all the levels are just hallways which are about as interesting to explore as the inside of a toilet paper tube. -If you like playing a mage in fantasy games: For a game world that was designed with the sole intention of being played by a mage, i am baffled by just how poorly optomised it is for that. Every single boss fight leaves me longing for a tank to take the aggro and most of the enemies spread out so far that the AOE spells are useless. You are about as squishy as the mage in any other games, expect unlike other, games like skyrim, you can't aquire any followers to compensate for the feeling that the game hates you for picking the mage class. Against other projectile users it basically becomes any other cover based fps, if you gun had crappy fire rate and no headsot potential. -If you like stories: people just talk at you every so often, it feels like every bit of interesting story is taking place without you, to the point i occasionally wonder why i am even still pressing forward. Even the inital cutscene that introduces the main chracter's motivation was so rushed and blut as to seem comical so don't expect much in the way of imersion. Bottom Line: If you see this on sale consider picking it up for steam cards, if you are interested in that sort of thing, but if not just wait until one of the Elder scrolls games goes on sale instead and just download a bunch of magic combat mods. It will be about the same but with more content and a higher concentration of fun.