Life of a Wizard Reviews

Life of a Wizard, You should pick this one up. 3 bucks is cheap and the story within while a little short is a classic RPG adventure. What skills you choose to invest in matter and each playthough will be diffrent depending on what you pick and the choises you make also effect your skills and personality. How will your life as a wizard turn out? The choice is yours.

I won't say this story is bad. It's not bad, but it is lacking. The choices don't feel important, the story doesn't really branch a lot. It's a story I'd read through once, but would not feel inclined to go through multiple times. It's not too expensive, so if you want to give it a try go for it, but don't have your expectations too high.

they should call this game life in mediocrity. having tried many titles from hosted games, i hated them all this one included. the ambtionless pansy writers IRL seem to not personally want to succeed or be anyone important since it is obviously reflected in their writing. they HATE power fantasy or ANY role where the protagonist leads the plots or winds up on top and ends up feeling little more than a tool. not to mention a lot of offensive woke and feminist role/plot dynamics and dialogues dominating most of the overall side content found in them as well. many, you are expected to either be female or gay to get much, if anything out of the love interest arcs. whatever the guys do get is almost always pretty bad. here, the weird story is told in 3rd person, you never speak a single word to anyone.It narrates it's story in short bullet points, and, like others i will mention later, your mc will ALWAYS be a pawn of an npc. stuck in support mode. never a leader, king, boss, ect. you just stupidly get used by an assigned master and be forced to push them up in the world instead while acting like it was in your best interest. this one's no different. as usual, no power fantasy allowed. writer pretends to let you have 'freedoms' to change things. examples. lets you be evil. but you do nothing with it. gain support of people, but you can do nothing with it. makes you gain mastery of magic power, but you can do nothing with it. can pointlessly screw a princess, but can't marry her? CANT BE KING IN ANY WAY, WHY?! just put stupid kid on throne? else, discarded at games end as nobody with nothing to show for it, or forced to 'conquer' and empower stupid king variant instead of yourself. or 'golden age' conquer's non evil same thing. other games, same flow 4 worst games-- 1.honor bound 2.versus 3.lost heir 4.hero or villain 2 honor bound-- the writer of this + creme de la creme (also horrible) is a sickening, outrageous trans/feminist pandering dev from uk and gets more woke with every new game. notorious for: making 90% npc's black, gay/trans stuff isn't made optional and shoved in your face forcefully and referenced in the plot heavily, presented constantly as 'normal' every day things not respecting potential offenses of other perspective orientations. this game in particular intentionally features UGLY FEMALE love interests WHO ALL HAVE BULGING MUSCLES, grey hair + crew cuts, and most are 40+ years old for 20+ YO MC. forced to interact with gay/trans + LI's you don't like (just like creme de la creme) leaving you with only the option of picking dialogues to make them hate you to prevent gross things from progressing. pointless. lost heir series comes CLOSE to the worst, but loses to hero or villain series. bulletpoints; genesis-- 1.choices matter, 2.PLAYER is not insignificant, 3. LI's have 2 pathetic events, then just disappear,4. guy features ton of murder/killing but no sex? 5.ending is linear. setting the stage for linear slave BS of the ch2-3. royale, is FULL of feminist and trans garbage. LI's are muscular, ugly, agressive, mc is passive/submissive and entirely insignificant compared to genesis, game is full of story events that shamelessly obvious in their hosing of men describing weak scrawny males who always lose to muscular females (this was done by dev to pander cuz gay people and fems were complaining of lack of LI's) everything is stockholms stupid "i'm brainlessly happy to serve and to be a slave" npc appeaser player dialogue which makes NO sense and makes me sick. Player is COMPLETELY servile to his genderless + cat creature mistress as well as a streak of humiliating content ranging from npcs constanly saying you smell, to female cast getting overpraised while MC is constantly made to seem mediocre in comparison. Example- announcer; "another amazing win from our powerful amazing female npc!" (for player)-announcer; "oh...here's....some guy." you have NO choices at all, genesis has you a leader of your story, royale and armageddon make you a slave doing someone else's bidding. tale of 2 cranes, Fate of Storm gods, choice of magic, blood money, i the forgotten one, Crown of Sorcery + steel, turncoat chronicles=no agency. servile/gimmick/plot device mc heroes of myth--unimportant queen slave, game focus's only on npc's love interests. don't think you even get one. lost heir--LI's don't really care about MC. your forced to do all the legwork with barely any motivation from them, or they just throw themselves at others with greater expression and unforced desire in comparison to the player's version. writer would rather pair them off meaningfully with better arcs with each other, in the story in their head than remember they were supposed to be making the game for US. Wayhaven. -- dommy mommy LI. don't want her? game kills you then. rather, she does. seriously. Life of Space Captain,---simp half the game, 2 LI's 1 gross alien, other is a condescending joke fling, get outshined by genderless character, given cap title too late, piss ending. Lies under Ice ---you are dismissed after 2nd term, die a nobody while everyone else is surrounded by family, someone else rules enjoying what you built. VERSUS: The Deathscapes---tons of matriarchal feminist sh++. Vamp Masquerade games ----always a fledgling pawn slave who can't play for power. Stars Arisen---girlboss feminist female power dynamic bs love interest alert. Choice of Viking--- wanted to like this but only 1 LI is gross old lady to your 18 YO guy, but YOU are still in charge in game, even tho SHE thinks she is. A Study In Steampunk--yeah..ok. i guess i should just play a girl then, right? plain jane LI, yup how they describe her, tosses you later. unavoidable. forever alone. but LI for gay/female is a MAIN character and doesn't. TONS of bad ends for your empty, lonely, pathetic character if you don't simp to a faction. Choice of Rebel---you ARE a leader, but LI's are terrible and seem to prefer hooking up with other LI's over you. Pendragon Rising---THIS IS NOT ANYTHING LIKE KING ARTHUR. everyone hates you , mc is spineless, cover art shows a girl arthur, story paints you as a peasant slaving for no benefit while others snatch everything up around you easy, and any ending seems you die no matter what you do. can't enjoy this. Life of a Mobster.-- MIGHT be the only one to sorta get it right but they make it so hard for best ending and make you simp for others for support so it may not be worth it. there are more, but by now you get the idea. consider this more an overall review that saves you time/money. so if you are like me, and actually CARE about an unobscured, important protagonists, with good player control and MC relevance to the plot, expecting to have been given a good, interesting role and story options for your inevitable end, you will be disappointed. TLDR- hosted games/COG is plagued with woke, god awful love interests with minimal content, unspectacular plots with useless throwaway protagonists with no willpower, or personal drive. And players are left with only illusions of choice with npc's forcing things ahead without having any true power of choice (ironically) at all, topped off with terrible, uninspired, limited possibility endings for you character.

Genuinely amazing. I've played for about 70 hours and there are still options I haven't chosen / unlocked. Can't remember how much this game cost, but it was worth every penny.

While I commend the author for trying a different approach - namely writing in a style of someone writing their memoirs rather than an "as it happens" account - this effort really fell on its face for me, as it also didn't really engender fondness for any characters in particular. TL;DR - you go through 80 years of "your" life in less than an hour, and the pacing reflects it.

This game felt rushed. While not terrible, the story is told from the perspective of an older you, and each recollection happens very quickly. You never have time to care all that much about anyone, and each event is over so fast it barely feels like it had time to get started. For example, you fight a dragon and get back home in just a few minutes worth of reading. And yet, the game has many exciting skills and plenty of choices that use these skills to great effect, so while I don’t think the game is all that great, it doesn’t deserve a negative review. It’s fun for a playthrough or two. (5/10)

Interactive Fiction should still be quality fiction--you can't throw some stats and choices in there and expect people to overlook terrible prose.

Extremely bland and boring. There is no character development, and the "characters" are all extremely shallow with next to no interactions being available. It is no exaggeration to say that the "characters" are only mannequins with names, that's it. It is also in no way, shape, or form an RPG because it forces you to focus on things that wouldn't fit the "wizard" you're going for. For example, want to feel like an evil necromancer? Too bad, as being evil has no real consequences and the game doesn't ever branch off into slightly different paths to make it feel like your choices meant anything. Honestly, it's probably one of the worst text-based games I've played.

Alright, after playing it for several replays I can finally write this review. First of all, the pacing of this game/story is so damn fast. Like, all the characters you met, even all the love interest you can have, feel so damn flat. You'll have almost no love to anyone one of them, and if they die you wont feel any sadness at all. Character interactions is limited, with the game focusing more on the 'Events' of the whole thing, and not in the good way. Character development is limited, barely one at all. You can become evil and good with almost no consequences whatsoever, though I need to look this up more for more assurance. It has the same 'Make your MC friends yourself' type of setting. It can be interesting, but the fact that all the characters you made have no sense of a human being at all. Or, more specifically, the story did not focus on interaction and choose on quick, large event spot light. And it's not interesting at all. All in all, it's a barely passable story. However, I won't give it a recommendation. It needs works, and too damn short for my taste. As someone who had played a lot of games like this I can tell that this game is not good. Edited: You know what? Since some guys still don't get it that numerical score can be personal score, I'll just delet it and tell you that this game is not good. Not worth the money.

This game is a little different from other CYOA games because on "show vs tell" this goes all the way into "tell", and it's not a bad thing. It's very easy to get into and pretty short. Yes, you can expect to live 80 years of your life within an hour or two, which often amounts to each decision moving you one year further in life. Yes, you won't find captivating characters, unique story or catchy prose here, but the game accomplishes several important things which makes me recommend it: [list] [*]You have a lot of choice, and it always matters. Most of your decisions will be carried for the whole duration of the game, while some early choices unlocking branches in endgame storyline; [*]It's short, engaging, and you won't ever be bored reading long passages with nothing happening; [*]Most importantly, you really get to feel as a badass wizard. Each storylet has options that makes you feel awesome and powerful (if you trained the necessary skills or have the relevant items). [/list] Get this game if you:[list] [*]Get bored with other CYOA books and prefer short-and-to-the-point prose; [*]Enjoy choice and consequence above all else; [*]Prefer games with huge amount of character customization and creating a hero that you can really feel as your own; [*]Want to feel what it's like to be amazing and powerful wizard. [/list]