Just finished playing Warlock Saga. (I want to preface this "review" by saying that i really liked Succubus Covenant)
The world and lore is really fucking cool as always.
Love the characters and the writing. Especially that the orginization we are a part of is morally very grey.
Where the game falls flat for me is in gameplay and for the following reasons:
Repetition, you do the same thing over and over and over with a few story scenes sprinkled in between.
All the enemies fight essentially the same.
The difficulty in the beginning is way too hard, i cheated in 35000 gold to buy tier 3 ugprades and spells and felt that the challenge then was somewhat appropriate, albeit every fight was still the same.
It took me 7.5 hours to beat the game with very few sex scenes.
Yea sure you could view the same sex scene after every fight against humans but after watching it for 1 or 2 times you prolly just skip it always.
Higher level spells arent worth it cause they cost so much more mana. (The mana/damage ratio makes it un-viable)
Youd basically need to constantly spam mana potions too use the better spells.
Poising the oasis was the most boring part of the game. 3 Areas that are all essentially the same and youre forced to fight every enemy in the hideout.
Enemies not giving any exp and just dropping some loot that you can sell for very little gold didnt feel like i am very incentivized to fight enemies.
The upgrades you buy cost a shit ton and bring very little for how much they cost.
Combat is braindead simple, i always just spam the same moves and when health gets low use a potion.
Having way fewer combat encounters and instead having to actually come up with a tactic to beat them would be much prefferable to just rinsing and repeating every fight.
Using fancy moves costs too much mana that then needs to be replenished.
Some additional thoughts:
Artwork, the portraits and character designs in general are very nice. But most of the sex scenes are weird. Anatomy issues. A pussy shouldnt be this high up.
Also always using a male blue ghost as the character in the sex scenes is kind of lame. Having special scenes for the MC would be cool. Enemies can all have the blue ghost for efficiencies sake.
All in all, every fight takes too long, is brain dead simple, and is re-used everywhere.
If the time fighting in Warlock Saga would be reduced to 10% of what it is now it would prolly be pretty cool.
I feel like increasing the playtime just for the sake of increasing the playtime isnt that good.
Anyways, I am sure that with tweaking the game balance and adding more stuff this game will eventually be as cool as Succubus Covenant is. (Though i have similar issues with the grind in Succubus Covenant but isnt nearly as bad is it was in this game)
