Some of the conversations and comments do inspire laughter, and the delivery is top notch. The writing is undoubtedly one of the strongest parts of The Magic Circle. Even so, there was a lot of back and forth here that broke a little of the game’s pacing. Even if they die, you can refill them with life to bring them back, though the bigger the creature, the more life it will takes. You can’t fight but your creatures can be set to attack enemies of your choosing.
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There’s a lack of hints at what to do in one of the main hubs where there are different places to explore, and it is down to you on how to tackle some of the problems, using the tools and creatures at hand. Taking that into account, The Magic Circle does look good in what it is portraying, with the world containing distinguishing landmarks.
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There are some environments that are in full colour that do provide a big tonal and thematic shift to the main world, but there’s a rudimentary feel to these areas to serve the plot.
Since The Magic Circle depicts an incomplete game, much of the environment is in black and white, with animals and certain items contrasting against this monochrome background with splashes of colour. This lets you discover more powers, but also gives you access to more of the creator’s own history and voice recordings about the game’s development woes. While the powers and abilities are fun for messing around with, some of them are required to get past a few environmental puzzles. You can make creatures fly or float instead of walk, give them ridiculous powers like the ability to blast fire, and plenty more. My personal favourite was giving a mushroom a melee attack, making it fireproof, letting it move around, and changing its list of enemies to include other mushrooms, but this is just one possibility. Alongside you is the game’s AI who is sick of project not getting finished and wants revenge against the team for trapping it for so long. You’re caught in the middle of this infighting, but a glitch gives you more power over the game than any of the others could hope to have. Ish, the game’s main creator keeps changing what he does and doesn’t want in the game, while Maze is trying her best to get fired from the project and a third character, named Coda, is trying to help complete the game for her own reasons as well. This game casts you as a playtester of a game that has been in development for years. We rarely come into direct contact with that side of the games industry, so we might not always be able to relate to these trials, but Question tries to show the game development process through a comedic lens in The Magic Circle: Gold Edition. Sometimes a game never makes it to release or is delayed countless times due to various reasons including teams falling apart, plot changes, or technical issues that are just too complicated to work out in a short amount of time. Game development is a difficult process which can take years to go from concept to release, with major changes and setbacks along the way.
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