There are many other factors at play that I simply don’t have time to get into, but suffice it to say that the in-game guide has all the info you need for a successful school year. By visiting the merchants’ camp, you can buy random classroom cards to incorporate other fields of study into your curriculum. This is where your sixth asset, gold, becomes very valuable. The downside to this is that you can easily get pigeonholed into producing only one or two types of mana. Spending mana in a certain school of magic allows you to draw more cards in that same area of study for example, you can spend nature mana to attain more nature-based cards. Naturally, students working in a high-level classroom generate mana faster than they would in a bare-bones one. Each room starts at level zero, but playing identical room cards on top of one another allows you to level up, which increases the room’s effectiveness. The rate at which your school accrues certain types of mana is based on the kinds of classrooms you have and how efficient they are. Students can study five different types of magic: light, dark, nature, arcana, and potions. Improving necessities like dorms and cafeterias or adding creature comforts like lounges and gazebos will lessen the impact those needs have on your student body and faculty. Additionally, everyone in your school has needs, so mediating boredom, hunger, tiredness, and sanity levels is imperative. Choosing the right teacher and/or artifacts for each room will influence how effectively the students working in that room will learn. Not only can you choose your school’s crest, houses, and focus of study, but you can also decorate your castle with magical artifacts and relics to add bonuses. This construction and management sim is so cram-packed with features that it has its own in-game reference guide! Breaking it down to basics, there are three main facets of gameplay: building and managing your school, forging relationships with the local factions, and adventuring into dungeons for loot.Ĭustomization is one of this game’s many highlights. Spellcaster University is a card game at its core, but calling it that doesn’t do it justice in the slightest. GAMEPLAY 9.5/10 Choose your map, build your school, and train your students to face off against the King of Evil! The audio peaks occasionally during the overly-loud voiceover for the intro and when the music is set to maximum, but other than these minor audio issues, the myriad sound effects and genre-appropriate music enrich the overall experience. Guinea pigs- Spellcaster University’s adorable equivalent of messenger pigeons-are especially cute as they make their way up to the catapult for launch, squeaking and grunting all the way. Whether they’re eating, sleeping, crafting, or summoning demons from the underworld, each character adds his or her own layer to a continually growing wall of sound.
Curious observers who want a closer look, however, are in for an audio treat: every student or staff member is accompanied by sounds that reflect their current engagement.
Personally, I prefer to watch my school from a distance so I can keep an eye on every sprawling corner of it. SOUND QUALITY 7/10 Dive into a soundscape of magical effects, medieval music, and…guinea pigs?ĭue to the sheer scope of managing an entire magical school, there are lots of things to continually oversee: renovations, administrative dungeon quests, patching holes in the fabric of space-time.you know, the yooj.
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