RoM....m'eh?
Am I the only one who feels a little m'eh with Realm of Magic? I've been playing for a few hours and I just don't get the same excitement as I did with vampires or even Spa Day!
Glimmerbrook looks pretty but is seriously let down by the lots which feel put together last minute. The build/buy stuff is very pretty but there doesn't seem all that much, same with CAS.
Going into the Magic Realm....again I just feel m'eh, all very pretty but there's not much to do there. You pick a Sage (again no difference to which one) do the same pick 7 motes and boom there's your spell book. I get that they wanted to make it easy but if you can already create spellcasters in CAS would it have killed to make a small quest/challenge to it? Aside from the shops and garden there's no real reason to visit again. It's got a great back story about how the Realm is falling apart but that feels like a hollow plastic shell once you explore it.
There's not really any kind of consequence to being a Spell Caster like there is with vampires (overcharging excepted). You get to cast the spells which are variations to something in the game already (repair, bringing ghosts back from the dead). With the celebrity/vampires talent board you got to shape what kind of celebrity/vampire you could...for Spellcasters you get certain advantages to how quickly you learn things. I get that they wanted to give you free reign but it would have been good to be able to have some sort of affiliation with Mischief/Practical/Untamed or even get to learn about the Sages like you could with Mimsy in Windernburg.
Familiars and brooms are fun for a few seconds but it's just a case of buying something at the shop, assigning it to your Sim and not much more....except the odd perk from a familiar.
I'm sorry for sounding a total downer. I usually love Game Packs and get so much out of them. But in this instance the Game Pack I anticipated the most has made me feel m'eh!
By all means please challenge me on this. Maybe I'm missing something or maybe I need some creativity, that's kinda why I'm reaching out on here!
Glimmerbrook looks pretty but is seriously let down by the lots which feel put together last minute. The build/buy stuff is very pretty but there doesn't seem all that much, same with CAS.
Going into the Magic Realm....again I just feel m'eh, all very pretty but there's not much to do there. You pick a Sage (again no difference to which one) do the same pick 7 motes and boom there's your spell book. I get that they wanted to make it easy but if you can already create spellcasters in CAS would it have killed to make a small quest/challenge to it? Aside from the shops and garden there's no real reason to visit again. It's got a great back story about how the Realm is falling apart but that feels like a hollow plastic shell once you explore it.
There's not really any kind of consequence to being a Spell Caster like there is with vampires (overcharging excepted). You get to cast the spells which are variations to something in the game already (repair, bringing ghosts back from the dead). With the celebrity/vampires talent board you got to shape what kind of celebrity/vampire you could...for Spellcasters you get certain advantages to how quickly you learn things. I get that they wanted to give you free reign but it would have been good to be able to have some sort of affiliation with Mischief/Practical/Untamed or even get to learn about the Sages like you could with Mimsy in Windernburg.
Familiars and brooms are fun for a few seconds but it's just a case of buying something at the shop, assigning it to your Sim and not much more....except the odd perk from a familiar.
I'm sorry for sounding a total downer. I usually love Game Packs and get so much out of them. But in this instance the Game Pack I anticipated the most has made me feel m'eh!
By all means please challenge me on this. Maybe I'm missing something or maybe I need some creativity, that's kinda why I'm reaching out on here!
