Atlantis Academy Reviews

The writing is good but it's hard to enjoy when things keep breaking immersion because they make no sense for the setting, which is sorely underutilized. It's an enormous waste of a good premise. [list] [*]You are given a dorm room... which just looks like an ordinary room with an underwater skin. Why ? It's underwater, you don't need to be limited to a room with only the floor for circulation, it could have been ANYTHING else. It could have taken any shape and be usable in all three dimensions. But no, it's just a regular dorm room with some seaweeds for decoration. Even though it used to be a building on land, there are absolutely no adaptations made now that it's underwater ? [*]You sleep in a bed and your dragon in a basket. UNDERWATER. Why ? How ??? [*]You have a desk. UNDERWATER. Apparently things on it don't just float away when you create currents by moving near it. [*]There's a library. How do you have a library underwater, you might ask ? Does it use some alternative writing supports that works underwater like stone tablets ? Does it use something original and creative like books with pages made from large creature scales ? Nope, it's the most boring solution instead : just a regular library with a magic air bubble around it... [/list] Everything is like this. It's like it's was written with a regular magic academy setting in mind, with the underwater theme just slapped-on haphazardly without much thought about its implications, the result being immersion breaks almost every paragraph. I gave up on this game after the cucumber left on the desk when I realized that since my character arrived at the academy, I'd spent more time being distracted by things that made no sense and disappointed by the lack of originality in the setting than I spent time actually reading.