Arcane Arts Academy

Gamehouse games are always good

Nice game!

Petit jeu habituel pour GameHouse. J'ai beaucoup aimé cet opus ! On a des sujets plus matures que d'habitude, ça change. Quelques soucis de frappe et d'orthographe à quelques endroits mais rien d'insoutenable.

Divertido, con una historia interesante. Los niveles están bien equilibrados: no son ni muy largos ni muy repetitivos.

[h1]Will you control the Chaos within you or embrace it to create a new future?[/h1] Our new heroine is Erika – a young lady who is suddenly swept into a world of magic when one day, after her grandma’s recent disappearance, she discovers a secret portal to an alternate world. By travelling through this portal, she ends up in the Arcane Arts Academy – a college where the students learn to use all kinds of magic. There she encounters her grandma who is part of the teacher staff and learns that the reason for her disappearance from the real world was due to an alarming situation inside the academy. After finding out that she has a witchy heritage and coming to the realization that she has the gift of chaos magic deemed to be very dangerous, Erika decides to enroll in the academy and learn how to control her powers. As she starts her new life as a student of magic, Erika makes new friends but also an enemy, finds love and attempts to help the teachers fight off the threat lingering upon the academy. The gameplay is pretty much the same as in any other GameHouse game. As Erika, you will help your other college students by fulfilling their requests, combining various ingredients into potions or handing over the items they need for the class, while also billing them at the checkout. As you progress throughout the game, the complexity of available items and combinations increases substantially and the number of students you need to handle simultaneously also grows, while the amount of items you can carry at once also expands. By following GameHouse’s level patterns, each of them is preceded and succeeded by an animated cutscene that unravels a new story snippet. The coins gathered from billing your fellow students exist only for the score. The stations cannot be upgraded or customized in any way, but there is one external scene – Erika’s room – that you can decorate with the diamonds earned from completing levels; though it is solely serve as a cosmetic value, it gives the player the motivation to retry the levels in order to get 3 stars and thus reaching the maximum diamonds. [i]Arcane Arts Academy[/i] is a lovely game with a heartwarming story and nice, casual gameplay. With its magical setting, it brings a refreshing change of scenery while keeping all the old mechanics in place.

GameHouse games are a comforting duplication with a new story each time. Always fun to play and then zone out for a bit. This one was a little more dramatic than I was expecting - but still fun.