There are so many options, in fact, that it quickly becomes overwhelming. You can even play through a separate storyline as your familiar, if you want. Activities range from obvious choices, such as studying or exploring the school grounds, through to the use of specific items and spells to buff your skills or damage other students. Academagia presents these choices to you via a calendar on which each day has three slots – morning, afternoon and evening – which can be spent doing one activity of your choice. You have to balance in-game attributes carefully to avoid flunking, while also finding room to satisfy your own player's needs for adventure. It’s a brilliant choice of setting, allowing access to all the tropes of the fantasy genre, plus a number of deus ex machinas and the obvious basis for a skills system. Academagia puts a new spin on this by making your character a new inductee at a school for wizards – a Hogwarts simulator, basically. Those of you who are snickering at the title of that series have clearly never played the games they're more engrossing, interesting and innovative than most Western titles.Īnyway, for those not in the know, the formula of the genre is that you plan out the life of an in-game character in detail, influencing their life by deciding whether they will spend time studying, exercising, gossiping and so on. The setup for the game is your usual sort of child life sim – a niche genre if ever there was one, but made popular by the likes of the excellent Princess Maker series. On the other hand, though, it’s so goddamn slow and tedious that it effectively spoils itself before you can really get into it. I give it 6, as first its incomplete as it stands, they could have enhanced it with more visuals, and they could have put some kind of tutorial together to provide an understanding of the requirements of the students by the end of each semester.Academagia: The Making of Mages Review Publisher: Black Chicken StudiosĪcademagia is one of the most personally frustrating games I’ve ever played because, on the one hand, it’s exactly the type of game into which I’d love to sink months of my life. If you like reading and Harry Potter, get this when it goes on sale. I also think the game should be purchased at a lower price. I think if they added pictures/artwork to enhance the reading, it would be a bit more polished and hold more interest to a wider audience. The multi-adventures are casually interesting, keep in mind there is no action, this is all reading material with an accounting program to keep track of all your gains through your schooling. The school sequence is short of the full term, it looks like you will either need to buy an addon or wait for updates to finish the game. You will likely end up repeating the game to correct your mistakes. you will even feel like Harry Potter in his first film, feeling utterly clueless and overwhelmed, wondering if your classes are actually providing you with the correct skills you need to pass your grades. If you like those reading adventures and that Harry Potter atmosphere, this is a game for you. It is somewhat interesting, it does provide a random sequence, so the games play a little differently, but its still canned and bound to repeat. It is somewhat interesting, it This is one of those games that reminds me of the old Steve Jackson novels where you choose your own adventure. This is one of those games that reminds me of the old Steve Jackson novels where you choose your own adventure.
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