![]() ![]() I have torn through countless legions of demons in Diabloand shot dragons out of the sky in Skyrim, and I have never cast a spell as satisfying as that first fireball in Lichdom: Battlemage. You become the Dragon, the bearer of the bracers, while the character you did not choose to play as becomes your Gryphon and guides you through the game.Īlright, so Lichdom won't be winning a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shax, the man you are pursuing, is somehow involved with it. You are quickly granted that chance as a wizard named Roth saves you and gives you a pair of bracers that he says will grant you “infinite power.” He explains that there is a curse on the land, draining its people's vitality and bringing the dead to life. The opening cutscene sets the stage as two cliché villain types kill your character's wife (or sister, if you select the female character) and you go to seek revenge. Everything from the backgrounds, to the magic, to the character designs -granted, some of those are rather fanservice-y-is rendered in loving detail. The first thing a new player will notice is that this game is absolutely beautiful. It was obviously something that had been made to be fun, and something created to let you lay waste to thousands of foes. Wyatt wrote an in-depth review of our experience, and it took a game I had heard nothing about and transformed it into a must buy. My first experience with Lichdom: Battlemage was at PAX East 2014 where, along with Wyatt and some of our other friends, we were given an excellent presentation and allowed to play a polished, fully-functional demo of the game. Xaviant promised to let you play as a mage who is, to use their own words, a badass. By making a game your only option is a magic-user, all of the reasons why you don't automatically pick a magic-user in every game ever suddenly go out the window. The game's developer, Xaviant, explained that they were doing this by eliminating what they believe to be artificial restrictions on magic-users, including things like limited mana pools, spell recharge times, and low durability. Lichdom: Battlemage is a game created with a single goal in mind: making a mage who is as powerful as a mage should be. ![]()
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