

Wizards and skeletons spawn into the level from nowhere, and you fling icicles at them or soften them up with a hive of buzzing parasites that floats above your head. The only cooldowns you need consider are the intrinsic casting times of the spells themselves, not additional timers that dole out casting permission at specified intervals. There is no mana bar obstructing your access to deadly magic. Lichdom: Battlemage is built around the most satisfying spellcasting this side of Kingdoms of Amalur, and it’s this one system that drives the adventure from beginning to end.

Let’s return, however, to those initial hours. Elemental powers aren’t the only ones you command in this magic-driven action game, but they are the two that define the initial hours of Lichdom’s overlong campaign, which hobbles to a close long after it milks the joy out of its excellent but single-minded combat. A chorus chants from within, urging you to chill your personal demons with the ray of frost you blast from your fingertips, and to burn them with showers of brimstone.

Lichdom: Battlemage finally brings the glory to the magic user that it has long deserved.The song you hear calling from the center of Lichdom: Battlemage is one of ice and fire. The art is amazing, supported by captivating music which makes the whole journey which is scary yet fantastic. The spells are powerfully wicked and the blasts feel very satisfying somehow.

You are dropped into a beautiful world and then set free to destroy bizzare enemies including everything in sight.īe prepared because some of the content is a little extreme, and it gets even more intense as the characters develop. Overall, Lichdom Battlemage is a heavy, fast, and mean game. Living up to that title ambiguously, Lichdom: Battlemage delivers a remarkably robust spell crafting system making it a sharp-looking take on sorcery and spectacularly entertaining combat letting you feel like a kick-ass magic incarnate. Described as a “first-person caster,” the player will be put in the shoes of a central character named the Dragon whose gender would depend on the player. Lichdom: Battlemage is an action role-playing video game that was developed by independent game developer Xaviant.
