Wizard Pool

controls absolutely demolish your wrist and it's kinda infuriating to play

I dont understand all those people complaining about the controls. I have never played a normal pool game in my life so idk how they do it, but i think its important to be innovative in every part of game development, if certain controls and mechanics become completely standard to a genre then games can feel like they are just the same as the others but reskinned. In my experience the controls are pretty easy to get the hang of, you use m1 and m2 to rotate the cue, and hit the ball by moving the mouse, the speed of the mouse decides force. Its intended to be unusual, and it can be awkward at times, but its a puzzle game that happens to have a non-puzzle multiplayer mode, if it was easy to get the right amount of force and the correct angle it would be braindead. It just adds a challenge if you miss the ball or use the wrong amount of force, but that hasnt been much of an issue to me yet, trial and error always works wonders. I like how there's a line showing me where the cue is pointing, which is fairly long, it makes it much easier to predict where the ball will go. You have to predict the bouncing yourself, but the line shows what angle the ball will hit the wall, which makes i…

I do like the idea here. But, unfortunately, I can't recommend it. Besides the controls, which are horrible (I know that was the idea, but they're still horrible, anyway), there's a huge problem with whoever gets the stripes team. The pink ball is insanely hard to get rid of. If my friend and I had kept playing, I probably would have beaten him, even though he was already winning the game.

I hate the control scheme. I like the idea and visual style of the game, but awkwardly swinging my cursor around to hit the balls makes me immedaitely want to rage quit whenever I launch the game to give it another chance.

imagine if josh found out about the words used in this game

its fun :)