At launch of the expansion on July 6th, the game is being renamed Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic and is increasing in price from $10 to $20 for new owners. If you already own Waltz of the Wizard: Extended Edition, you’ll get Natural Magic for free. Natural Magic is an excellent add-on, and will have you spending hours of time beating baddies with magical panache. In the end, Waltz of the Wizard was always worth playing, if only for its fun and mysterious gadgets and moments of exploration it presents. Particle effects, lighting, physics-based enemies, smooth locomotion in addition to its standard teleporting scheme-all of them are compute intensive tasks that Waltz of the Wizard seems to handle with astonishing ease. It also shouldn’t be underestimated how good the game looks and plays, even on Quest 2 where it legitimately feels like it’s actually running with the power of a PC by how smooth everything works. It’s just too scrappy and cheesy not to love. Just like back at the Tower, voice acting reminds me of the hopelessly corny ’80s sword and sorcery flicks, and also a bit of the famed British kid’s show Knightmarefor good measure. 'Rocket League' Inspired VR Sport 'Ultimechs' is Going Free-to-Play, Beta Starts Today on SteamĪlthough I wish there were more stand-out levels, and more of the sort of clever gadgets to play with back in the ‘Tower’ section of the game, you have to hand it to Aldin for spinning a truly compelling world into existence and constantly growing it. The whole Natural Magic part of the game is 40 levels-long, which isn’t something to sneeze at, but I think it could have been much better served by cutting that number in half and doing away with some of the levels that felt like playing constant repeats. It’s a free expansion for owners of the Extended Edition (see explanation below), and without looking a gift horse in the mouth too closely, it’s important to note that the new dungeon area in Natural Magic currently doesn’t include puzzles to solve, chests to loot, upgrades to find, shops to visit, or currency to spend-only magic-casting, bad guys, and the expectation to reach the exit room to gather a piece of a mosaic before heading into the next level. If you’re quick enough, you can even run past almost everything on your way to the exit room if you want, and I found myself doing that more than a few times after turning the corner to find the umpteenth gang of ground enemies. There is a bit more variety in the game than that, notably a difficult magic-using enemy, but the bulk are always doled out in predictable ways that sometimes feel like a chore worth avoiding than something earnestly engaging. You fight past mostly all of the same baddies, which includes basic grunts, flying drones, and tank enemies. Around the 15th level, which took me around two hours to reach, you start to see a lot of the same level architecture reshuffled. The expansion’s magic system and absolutely gobsmacking level of polish on everything is a bit underserved by the overall slowness of its pace though. 'Broken Edge' is a 1v1 Sword Dueling Game for Quest 2 & SteamVR, Coming This Year
Toss them out slowly, and the particles gently leave your hands and spread apart for a wider area of effect. If you toss them out with a quick motion, they’re powerful and compact. You can blast out the particles from both hands to get the most destructive shot-simply pull your palms towards you while grabbing to ‘gather’ magical particles and then release to shoot them out. Particles swirl around your hands executing a perfect cast and using the full extent of your abilities to tackle different enemies feels absolutely electrifying. The star of the show really is the spell itself, and how it makes you feel when you use it correctly. Your only way to defend yourself from the enemies that lurk within is essentially a singular spell, which is more like a Swiss army knife than it appears at first blush. In Natural Magic, you’re tasked with going deep into the stronghold created by the strange interdimensional beings that have invaded your world.
It’s an amazing game in its own right, and now it’s getting a big update which essentially brings a substantial new mode to its mostly non-linear sandbox-style gameplay. Waltz of the Wizard has been in continuous development by Iceland-based studio Aldin Dynamics since it was launched on Steam back in 2016. It brings to the game a new magic-based combat system and a massive dungeon where you can finetune how to use your singular, albeit surprisingly flexible spell. Owners of Waltz of the Wizard: Extended Edition, the spell-casting VR experience for SteamVR and Quest, are getting a major free expansion today called ‘Natural Magic’.
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