7 Mages: Video Game Overview

Old-fashioned step-by-step RPG in the spirit Wizardry And Might & Magic about how the detachment of the brave heroes of different races and classes read out of the dungeons and other complete hazards of the location, remain surprisingly popular – remember at least the dilogy Legend of Grimrock And Might & Magic X: Lega. Indi-developers often produce such games, and the Japanese are without crazy from them. Recently, the PC came out Stranger of Sword City, where classical mechanics with moving through the cells are adjacent to the merciless anime-style and bragoglia boys and girls. 7 Mages – the game of the same genre, and she also has something to surprise.Charisma – at prices!
Seven shades of sad

Spring 7 Mages Released on mobile platforms, and at the end of June, the “early access” STEAM incubator left. The ratio of the majority to such alder is known – they say, another mobile work visited our fenats. Again, something “casual”, cropped, with bad control and outdated graphics. And at first creation Napoleon Games Related Associations.

Zaguka – Primitive nowhere. We start with one character, and then you need to find six more magicians, so that at the request of local peasants to protect a certain city from other magicians – wild. Primitive wants to name and dialogues (although irony and in them, and in descriptions still slipping), and the role-playing system. The character generation is limited by the selection of sex and the definition of starting parameters, which are only four – power, dexterity, magic and charisma. The latter, understandable, does not affect the probability of resolving any complex conflict peaceful way, and mainly on prices in stores.

No magical specializations and complex races, like sparking lizards or reasonable fungi, in 7 Mages No. Even the gnomes and the elves were not delivered – the man sounds proudly and lonely … But there are many different spells and combat techniques as much as for five types of weapons – shooting in different directions, crushing blow, attack in a circle and so on. But here is a simplification: it is enough to learn something out of this once, and then this reception or “Spell” will be available to all members of your magical detachment.

Finally, such games are always about survival in dark rooms. IN 7 Mages also need to be located for the night to restore health and mana, and hunger is quenched by edible supplies. But here to light torches and scatter with them in the game for some reason it is not necessary – the first dungeon is soaked and highlighted by torches as if it serves some medieval exemplary exemplary.The game has a very detailed magazine. And yes, it is translated into Russian.
Magni mysteries

But the farther into the forest (and in the dungeon), the more you are convinced that 7 Mages still much more diverse, interesting and more difficult than it seems at first.

There are a lot of puzzles in the spirit Legend of Grimrock. Riddles are not complicated, but sometimes very precipitated and what is called, with a highlight. Somewhere we simply activate the buttons found or set anything heavy on the pressure plates, and somewhere you need to understand how to arrange sarcophages in the same room so that the pit can be overcome and go further.

To exit some situations, we were allowed to share members of the detachment. Sometimes it is necessary to tritely raise one character of another on the elevator or stand on different plates, but there is a task and more interesting. For example, your heroes will throw in different cameras on a slave-owned vessel, and they will have to break their heads: how to open the camera first, and then reset the tombyays in the keys, eliminated from the hands of guards? This, you see, closer already to Pure Adventures.

IN 7 Mages sufficiently unusual situations. To find colleagues in the magical craft, we are not only chosen from the slave-owned captivity, but also climb the swamps, thinking, as if not bite, and go down on the bottom of the sea. And then climb under the most clouds where you have to fight with some flying creatures.Only these zombies will not give you no hassle.
Musical combat hardcore

Now – about “Oldcuality”. Teachers to learn a new spell or increase, for example, general magical skill, you need to look for yourself. Or pay those who know where to find them. On the map you have to manually make a note, so as not to forget where that (let’s say, shops that there is a huge amount) is.

And mentors and merchants ask a lot of money, and those constantly missing – you have to drag everything in my pocket. And inventory, unfortunately, limited. That is, you still need to buy special peasons to expand it. Even in order to open a world map, you must find a special woman and squeeze her a lot of gold (if, of course, your natural charisma and charm will not inspire her to a decent discount).

But most importantly – step-by-step battles. Even at the normal level of difficulty, they are really difficult – your unfair detachment from (at first) two-three magicians immediately exhibit versus giants, trolls and some frosty elements. And to overcome them, it is necessary not only to let into the course of spells and weapons, but also in every way to sick, lump, divide the characters, somehow tactically arrange them. And even use different musical instruments in battle, which here is just a huge amount – melodies and even their combinations impose different useful effects and equated to spells, and they also need to look for, learning and buying.

In the end, you get such a challenge that you forget about everything in the world and come to myself only in the middle of the night – with a feeling of sleep, hunger and deep satisfaction from the fact that your Music-combat gang “Seven Mages” still gave the heat to these cold giants!No, he is not a bang in you solemnly hands, but it’s hurt – and hurt!***
7 Mages slowly harnesses, but then it’s not jokingly, causing remembering the sleepless nights spent for Wizardry 8 And Migcht & Magic in. Of course, that and the other game is inferior, like Legend of Grimrock, – lacks the scale, saturation, full role system. But here there is the main thing – she challenges and rewards you for the efforts with a feeling of deep satisfaction and desire. Well, here to go a little more, getting time, kill these reptiles, accumulate to a new spell … And this is a big rarity today.