The Thaumaturge

整体很值得玩的一款回合制战旗，战斗系统别具一格，本体加使魔，前面还是很有趣的，但是后面逐渐开始乏味，因为构筑的强度组合就几种，不过剧情的沉浸感弥补了这一缺点，整体不管是支线和主线都算是比较有趣的

Klasse!

I really love the ambition of this game, which it why it pains me to leave it with a non-recommendation due to its incredibly slow story that doesn't seem to go anywhere, and which doesn't have any hook. So there are some clear pacing issues. At the time of writing I'm close to 7 hours into the game and there hasn't been any inciting incident of the game; The game hasn't introduced any intrigue or mystery to keep me engaged, so I'm extremely bored and have just decided to call it quits. For context: The game takes place in an alternate eastern-europe where Thaumaturges exist, whose main ability is they can touch things which will then tell you secrets about a person that have interacted with an object. Thaumaturges can also cast spells that manipulate people. Everyone is just sort of cool with this. When you tell people you're a 'Thaumaturge' people have almost no reaction - you might aswell have told them you're an accountant. People don't even seem really seem to care that you're essentially reading their mind and using magic to manipulate them - on the contrary they're strangely open to this! This becomes extra strange when you encounter a "Murder-mystery" quest and the police don't have Thaumaturges on their payroll. Instead you kinda meander into their investigation and the cops don't even go "Oh ♥♥♥♥ a thaumaturge PLEASE help us solve this crime by touching some stuff!" Instead you have to cast a manipulation spell on the cop to make him go "Ok fine I'll allow you to solve this murder". My point is, that if you want to make Thaumaturges a normal-everyday thing of your world then atleast USE IT for something interesting like having Thaumaturge-detectives be a normal part of a police precint. Credit where it's due, meeting Rasputin was cool, but his reaction to your powers is still akin to "Hey neat can I hang out with you to see what Thaumaturges do?" I -wish- the game either explored a world where you being a Thaumaturge is a regular career people take or didn't make Thaumaturges out to be so utterly mundane to people. Maybe there's some themes later in the story that explores what would happen to our world if magic was boring to people, but I don't really want to spend so many more hours to find out. After 7 hours he game is still just about you meandering around touching random stuff and then going up to a person and going "Hey, I touched this plant that told me your secrets. Up for confessing your crime?" And then that person going "Damn I guess you're right here's your quest completion." Sometimes you need to do unavoidable combat in order to get permission to touch people's stuff, so that you can read their thoughts. I don't care for the combat - it's bad, but this is clearly a game you buy for the story. But at that point I just wish the game didn't even bother with the combat because man there is SO MUCH COMBAT and it is clearly a MAJOR part of the game! To be clear: I have no idea where the story is headed and quite frankly after 7 hours I've arrived to a conclusion I simply don't care. It is very possible there's some amazing "hook" happens at the 8 hour mark, but I've lost interest due to my above-mentioned points. According to other reviewers this is a game where your choices truly matter, but I simply cannot be bothered playing 30 more hours to find out if this is true. As a final addition - and to show I’ve engaged with the story - I think the plot-hook was supposed to be your father dying from a building falling on him. However, literally nobody (including the main character) cares and everyone is pretty sure to that it was foul play. No investigation is started, no questions are asked and everyone moves on. Your fathers grimorie is missing (Yes he was a Thaumaturge too - and yes nobody cares), but it seems your main character considers this to be a minor chore you start to find it, This is an extremely ineffective plot hook - if the characters don’t care, then why should I? The funeral is then immediately followed up by you and your sister going to a party where it’s considered a casual thing that you start searching for a demon snake - another example of your magic powers just kinda being treated as a boring quirk.