I liked the demo enough when I played it months back to get this now that Episode 1 is done in EA. Overall Wizordum is a solid enough fantasy boomer shooter currently, though its going to need some more sauce to rival fellow Heretic/Hexen inspired indie shooters such as AMID EVIL and Hedon. The weapons are good and I used mostly all of them but they're not really exciting so far, mainly just variations of standard boomer shooter arsenals, i.e. the ice wand is essentially a machine gun that freezes, the blunderbuss is essentially your shotgun. The level design is solid; levels are rather big but your next objective is always indicated on your map so you won't get lost and the secrets are mostly pretty fair if you're paying attention to breakable walls and you only need to hit your face against more conspicuous objects on the walls. It mostly starts off as essentially fantasy Wolfenstein in level design though it seems like the later levels in Episode 1 start shaking that up. There's a good variation in the levels so far too, ranging from a fantasy town, sewers and dungeons, a graveyard, docks, and moving around the wreckage of the part of town on fire. The soundtrack is actually nice too, embracing the heroic fantasy atmosphere in contrast to its dark fantasy shooter predecessors and contemporaries. Hoping this game keeps improving, but even if it just maintains this current level of quality I'd be cool with it.

Reviewed on Mar 17, 2024


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