THE WIZARDS LIZARD TV
Thus, it displeases me to have to turn the soundtrack down to hear the TV instead. I know many players often replace game music with their own soundtracks, but I’m still a relic who likes to take in the whole experience as intended. In order to save my sanity, I had to mute the music at some point and this is one of the few games for which I've done that. One element that is never random, yet easily tiring, is the music. I suppose one could contend that some predictability is necessary to learn and strategize, but given how often you’ll perish, it can be easy to tire of the same old variables. There are also alternate levels that one can visit to change things up, such as a forest behind a secret door… that is always located on the first cemetery level map. I don’t care to ruin the strategy, but I can tell you which enemies, shops, blueprints, and traps to expect on each level. Given that this is a game where you’re expected to die repeatedly, eventually the “random” elements feel significantly less so. Back at the village, you can only remind yourself what an item was by going to the nearby museum, which is a waste of time versus offering some kind of preview to guide your purchasing decisions. If you swap with an equipped item you liked better, you can always pick that back up again, but if there was nothing in that slot, you’re stuck until you find something else. Passing over an item purchases it, so there’s no way to know the name or effects of it in advance.
When you do, those initial levels get easier and easier to blow through.Īn annoying element to all this is that shops don’t let you look before you buy. It takes a while to get really worthwhile stock in there along with enough gold to purchase it. To temper this, blueprints unlock weapons in the shop back at the village. These can be quite helpful, but they come at a high cost. The shops allow you to buy enhancements, such as weapons and armor, to assist your ongoing playthrough. Out in the maps exist shops and blueprints Raga can purchase with gold. Each rescued donates 500 gold to your cause which you can pick up before you set off on your mission again and again. This is tempered by finding lost villagers in each world. The challenge can be prohibitive and death (the real one) can come much sooner than you’d appreciate. Your ghost form has the ability to traverse areas your regular body cannot and vice-versa, but you’ll also have to fight extra ghosts and spirits in many of the rooms you’ll visit. Across the three worlds you’ll visit-the cemetery, the sewer, and the crypt-one level in each will feature a pentagram you can use to revive your corporeal form again, though often with less than half your original health. So technically you have two life bars to maintain, but there’s more to it than that.
When you die, you become a ghost version of Raga, who can carry on like the living Raga did in much the same way. But every time you die, you lose all your items and begin back at your initially unpopulated village. The gameplay here resembles the popular Binding of Isaac in that you go through randomized rooms of enemies on randomized maps, picking up special items as you go.
For whatever reason, this is your projectile weapon for the game until you find more melee weapons to chuck at enemies. Right after your owner is taken from Raga, he quickly picks up a sword and learns to throw it.
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