Even if you meet the minimum requirements you might experience considerable lag and audio looping. Its lofty requirements can be taxing on some of the lower end systems.
As a direct comparison, it overshadows the magic systems of many RPGs and might even make it harder for you to enjoy its contemporaries in the genre which still holds you to such time-based constraints.īarring few spikes in difficulty, at no point does the game feel particularly unbalanced due to the removal of two key constraints which have become the go-to staples for role-playing genre for almost two decades. In Lichdom you largely rely on your own reflexes and quick thinking to win most of the challenging battles and boss fights and relatively less on the numbers behind the damage you can do. It allows skill to take precedence over mere numbers, a complaint that can be directed at many role-playing games, particularly the Elder Scrolls series. In doing so, Lichdom provides more than simply a satisfying experience of playing as a mage. Lichdom instead relies on the basic elements of action involving a mix of reaction and strategizing and leaves it up to the player to utilize their unbarred magical power within that system. The game first strips down the magic system down to its very fundamentals, then analyses what works and then builds on its core strength-which is allowing the player to freely mix and match their strategy according to their spells with no artificial cooldown timer serving as the barrier for keeping the system “fair”. Xaviant Studios have created a classic case of constructive deconstructionism. The revamped system that Lichdom puts in its place as a substitute ensures you will have one of the more satisfying combat experiences in a RPG in recent memory. That means the concepts of mana bars and cooldowns get chucked out of the window. It paves a path that breaks a rigid convention that the role-playing genre has stuck to for far too long.įrom the very outset, Lichdom has one primary objective-to focus exclusively on the mage character and revitalize the power of wielding magic, while shunning traditions that have become a staple in the role-playing genre. Sometimes those conventions may be buried under so many traditions that it’s hard to deconstruct the clichés and get to the core on which the convention was built.ĭeconstructing is what Lichdom: Battlemage does best. Artists often talk about breaking convention.
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