Life of a Wizard

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. Howeve...

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] G...

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 is really fun! It's like a single player D&D game. I've only gotten a few of the achievments, but there are A LOT. Totally worth the buy. 10/10/

Bought it for 3 dollars or so. Decent game (around 2-3 hrs), had replayablility if you wanted to try out other builds and choices. However, it was quite simplistic and honestly i gave no shits about all the other character. Whomever they were (other than myself of course). If you want to waste a few hours, you could consider getting this game. Otherwise i think there is no real point to it. It's not bad, so i would not "not recommend" it, but its not great either.

There has never been a choice of game I didn't like until this one. I couldn't even finish it, it was so bland. There was barely any story, it was just a series of questions. All relationships felt dry and boring and the I found myself just spam clicking to see where it went. Overall: 4/10

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.

Its better then I expected

Pretty good, I enjoyed the story. Don't neglect any of the magics or the talents fyi.

this is a fun story, it actually had me reading and thinking what should i do, and just the slightest change can cause massive upsets. it is awesome to just go over and over, see if you can bring the kingdom into a golden age or slay the dragon, (which i have yet to do X0) being diffrent races and doing diffent things in each senario though the story progresses the same, there are like 6 branch off stories that require you to meet certin criteria inorder to do, I suggest aiming to do each one in diffrent stories, you should be able to do 3 i think doing all 6 is the challenge. you have to pick the right things to train and know. and it is worth the cost and i would buy the other stories as well