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[unseeingeye]

Has anybody here on the forums discussed this open source remake of the original Wizardry?
I haven't been here in a few weeks and haven't looked so I didn't want to start a thread about in case someone already had, but I only just found out about this earlier in the week.



Apparently they are going to remake the second, third and fifth games (no mention of the fourth) as well once it is finished.
I own the remake on Steam and I think its neat, but this looks about a trillion times better, retaining the Super Nintendo / Famicom art style with a much better looking interface.

I don't know why I am still surprised to find free shit made with passion regularly surpassing by far licensed products made to sell anymore, but this is a beaut to behold:



Sorcery: Shadows under Llylgamyn



https://github.com/davemoore22/sorcery

 

[Baron Dupek]

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Having animated monsters is cool but eventually you get bored with the combats and want to fast forward through the turns.

It also feels janky how it tells you the result of the attack before the animation plays. "Fighter kills Kobold" and then 2 seconds later it shows the attack animation. 'Mobile tier' is right.

Ultimately Wizardry is a classic but still primitive game, I have no interest in retreading those waters. Give me new worlds, new classes, new combat systems, etc.

 

[octavius]

Westerners keep remaking Wiz 1, while the Japanese keep making games inspired by Wiz 1. I want to say the Japs are smarter, but then I remember the puke inducing anime in most of the Wizardry clones.

 

[Butter]

Westerners keep remaking Wiz 1, while the Japanese keep making games inspired by Wiz 1. I want to say the Japs are smarter, but then I remember the puke inducing anime in most of the Wizardry clones.

Neither is smart enough to build on Wizardry 7 and usher in true incline.

 

[Old Hans]

Westerners keep remaking Wiz 1, while the Japanese keep making games inspired by Wiz 1. I want to say the Japs are smarter, but then I remember the puke inducing anime in most of the Wizardry clones.

Wizardry 1 is the perfect distillation of original D&D.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Has anybody here on the forums discussed this open source remake of the original Wizardry?
I haven't been here in a few weeks and haven't looked so I didn't want to start a thread about in case someone already had, but I only just found out about this earlier in the week.



Apparently they are going to remake the second, third and fifth games (no mention of the fourth) as well once it is finished.
I own the remake on Steam and I think its neat, but this looks about a trillion times better, retaining the Super Nintendo / Famicom art style with a much better looking interface.

I don't know why I am still surprised to find free shit made with passion regularly surpassing by far licensed products made to sell anymore, but this is a beaut to behold:



Sorcery: Shadows under Llylgamyn



https://github.com/davemoore22/sorcery

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DAMN! I need to try this.

 

[sser]

Very curious how it plays on the Switch. Being able to play a game like The Dark Spire while traveling was awesome. $40 for this is pretty steep but I dunno if I'd mind for on-the-road playing.

edit: Found some Japanese (surprise surprise) gameplay of it; looks like it runs perfectly fine:

 

[mondblut]

Has anybody here on the forums discussed this open source remake of the original Wizardry?

What's the point of this remake? The originals already got white wireframe on black covered.

 

[mondblut]

Getting with the times, I see. W E R D N A (They/them).

 

[mondblut]

Westerners keep remaking Wiz 1, while the Japanese keep making games inspired by Wiz 1.

They are the same picture.

 

[grimer]

wizardry 1 is holding blobbers back imo

 

[luj1]

Neither is smart enough to build on Wizardry 7 and usher in true incline.

Grimoire came out in 2012

 

[Butter]

Neither is smart enough to build on Wizardry 7 and usher in true incline.

Grimoire came out in 2012

Neanderthals are neither Eastern nor Western.

 

[Infinitron]

Most of this game's reviews are on the Nintendo Switch:

Hardcore Gamer 3.5/5
Nintendo Life 8/10
NintendoWorldReport 8/10
Shacknews 8/10

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Anyone here play Sorcerer 1-6 or Wandroid 1-8

 

[DemonKing]

Played around a bit on the weekend, got my crew up to level 3 and decided to go to level 2. Was immediately attacked by a group of 6 ethereal entities who promptly put my entire team to sleep and/or paralysed them for a TPK...it's definitely still the original code!

I tried to control alt tab out and quit the game when I saw the inevitability of my demise, the modern equivalent of ripping the disk out of the drive before it saved your "progress", but the game was too smart for that - when I rebooted it informed me of the TPK...

 

[sser]

Played around a bit on the weekend, got my crew up to level 3 and decided to go to level 2. Was immediately attacked by a group of 6 ethereal entities who promptly put my entire team to sleep and/or paralysed them for a TPK...it's definitely still the original code!

I tried to control alt tab out and quit the game when I saw the inevitability of my demise, the modern equivalent of ripping the disk out of the drive before it saved your "progress", but the game was too smart for that - when I rebooted it informed me of the TPK...

I made an A-team/B-team setup (good/evil). My B-team wandered down to Level 4 and got almost instantly killed. Lvl 6-7 was nowhere near enough, it seems.

I think you're supposed to do a lot of grinding.

 

[cvv]

- Play the Japanese PC remake from 1995, best sprites and interface, free.

Do you have a link?

Search results are infested with this newest remake.

 

[Volourn]

Lazy remake. It's reasonably fun and playable because it's Wizardru. But, this is a definition of a cash grab..no real improvement of actual upgrades of the actual game.

Wizardry = 6.5/10 as a game.

As a Remake = 4.5/10.