Wizabeasts

Short Version: If you like creature collector games with fun worldbuilding and novel creature designs you can build into a team and grow to overcome all enemies, you'll enjoy this. Varied original designs with characters that you can tell were crafted with care. If you're looking for pokemon fire emblem, you will likely be disappointed by the "tactics" part of this. Wizabeasts sets out to be a creature-collector/tactics hybrid, and while it succeeds pretty strongly at the former, it leaves something to be desired in the latter. As far as being a creature collector is concerned, you have a pretty strong variety of creatures (I wanna say it's at least 50, with 3 stages each + like 10 legendaries?), with no real generic throwaways (e.g. this is a bird, this is a rat, this is a slightly different bird). Pretty early on I saw creatures I wanted on my team, and there aren't any that seem just useless. Unfortunately a lot of the balance is due to movesets being very "samey". It's basically 3 tiers of physical and special attacks of each type. You can mix and match them on the creatures (you get a default set of 4 different elemental attacks each evolution also) but in the end it's pretty…

The game has potential, but it really needs a lot of quality of life improvements. For example, the beasts are too small for the window, and their designs are too compact, to be able to easily tell what each one is. I've only played a small amount so far, but from what I've seen the combat maps leave a lot to be desired. The one map I've played on is just a flat plane. Later combat maps might have actual terrain and elevation, but I kind of doubt it. In combat, you can see what type any beast is when you target it, but you don't see how the types interact. The game displays different information about each move, but it's opaque and unhelpful. What is EFF? I dunno! The dialog is kind of stilted and awkward and really needs a good proofreader. Overall, the game isn't exactly bad. I'm just kinda bored.