Tries to clone Magic Survival but the mechanical changes end up making it significantly worse.
XP dropping on the ground combined with circular horde spawns incentivizes you to constantly play on the same screen, because any step too far in one direction takes you away from the pile of XP that the mobs on the opposite side dropped.
Limited spell and item slots mean that choosing anything even slightly subpar is damaging.
Items are now a levelup reward and chests just give you a random +1 instead of interesting items that actually do cool things? ??
The spells are so overly flashy that the game quickly becomes impossible to parse, despite generally being uglier.
The enemies all being uniform and also spawning so uniformly means that the only way the game can challenge you is by spawning blobs with larger and larger health pools until it's large enough to make it through your pile of spells.
Both of them are ultimately just Make Time Disappear games but even those have standards.
XP dropping on the ground combined with circular horde spawns incentivizes you to constantly play on the same screen, because any step too far in one direction takes you away from the pile of XP that the mobs on the opposite side dropped.
Limited spell and item slots mean that choosing anything even slightly subpar is damaging.
Items are now a levelup reward and chests just give you a random +1 instead of interesting items that actually do cool things? ??
The spells are so overly flashy that the game quickly becomes impossible to parse, despite generally being uglier.
The enemies all being uniform and also spawning so uniformly means that the only way the game can challenge you is by spawning blobs with larger and larger health pools until it's large enough to make it through your pile of spells.
Both of them are ultimately just Make Time Disappear games but even those have standards.