12/29/2023 0 Comments Grim grimoire oncemore![]() ![]() Runes come in four Schools of Magic: Glamour (Fairies and other Fey creatures), Necromancy (Undead), Sorcery (Devils), and Alchemy (Constructs). Mana lets you conjure and upgrade Runes, and Runes allow you to spend Mana to summon units. Just make sure to check that you’ve selected the unit you want to and not the Rune behind it, or you may find yourself with one extra Imp to take care of.Įach battle starts by giving the player a certain amount of Mana and/or Runes. Once again, it’s more of a minor annoyance than a full on deal breaker. Selecting units can be a bit finicky though, especially when multiple types of units are bunched together. These orders are selected from submenus for each selection of units. You then move your cursor to another location on the map and issue them orders like: “move here”, or: “attack this”. ![]() Battles all take place on large 2D maps, and you use the joysticks to move the cursor horizontally and vertically around the map while using buttons to select units one at a time, or all of any particular unit type on screen. Thankfully the first few in-game days are tutorials, and they got me up to speed on everything I needed to know for battle. Because of that I was worried about having to learn how to play a game in this genre, especially with the limited buttons afforded by a console controller. I’ve played maybe a few matches of Starcraft in the mid-2000s, and really enjoyed Swords & Soldiers on WiiWare, but never really tried anything else in the genre before this. I must admit that I've never really been one for RTS games before. I didn’t realize until I started playing that this was a real-time strategy game. In between the drama of the story, there’s also the main gameplay. It’s not a big thing, but it’s something I might have expected to be updated in the remaster. The camera movement is especially bizarre because it seemed to squish and stretch both the characters and the background, and it made me feel slightly uneasy. I wish that attention to detail carried over to animation in the cutscenes, but sadly it's mostly just characters standing around visual novel style, with mouths flapping and camera movement serving as the only animation in most of these scenes. Each character is distinct and dripping with the traditional Vanillaware style. Vanillaware’s beautiful artwork is once more on display here, and it's been updated for HD. Not a deal breaker for me, but it could be for others. ![]() ![]() The rest mostly faded into the background never standing out for reasons good or bad. I’m writing this less than a day after beating the game and I can barely remember any of it other than maybe a few music cues for in-game events. (I don’t know why but I feel like I need a drink.) The voice acting matches well with the characters’ personalities: Wendee Lee as Lillet is an energetic student trying to figure out what exactly is going on, and Yuri Lowenthall as Advocat takes every chance to ham up the devil’s scheming charm.Īs for the music of the game, there’s not a lot for me to say on it. Lillet is joined in this story by her fellow students at the Tower including Margarita, another young witch with a bullfrog familiar named Surely (I am serious and please don’t call me Shirley), and her professors like Advocat the devil and Chartreuse the werelion alchemy professor. ![]()
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