Last night time, Memoirs Of Magic launched, a free, cute and bouncy old-school FPS by Strawberry Octopus Productions that I’ve been following on and off for years. Inspired by Doom and early 32-bit JRPGs, it’s a big, semi-non-linear FPS and RPG hybrid, like an cute, squishy model of Hexen. There’s seven characters to play as solo or co-op, a lot of monsters to zap, punch, clobber and loot, and a particular chunky, pre-rendered aesthetic backed up with some equally old-school polygon bosses and summons. Check out the launch trailer beneath, and grab the game here on Itch.
It’s value noting that, for higher or worse, Memoirs Of Magic leans closely on its early RPG inspirations. You’re fragile early on, under-equipped, and it’s straightforward to get misplaced. Still, I’m having loads of enjoyable taking part in as a kung-fu wolfman with combos that degree up over time. The developer extremely recommends speaking (repeatedly) to the NPCs round city at first. Some steering may be discovered within the library, too. Once you’re out of city and on the forest path, maintain to the best if you happen to’re after the forest graveyard. Cute little piggies may be zapped to show them into helpful free therapeutic objects, too.
Death fortuitously isn’t an enormous deal. You respawn again at the start of your present space and drop half your carried gold. You can save your money on the financial institution on the town, and apparently there’s some reward for banking loads of money. Melee assaults are longer vary than you’d assume them to be, so you’ll be able to safely depend on them for many early enemies to preserve ammo and magic, however be careful for the tentacled Ropers. They prefer to fade out, teleport to you and get in a sneaky hit. If you see one disappear, begin backpedalling till it’s seen, then you’ll be able to safely punch it once more.
A pair little technical notes, too – you’ll most likely wish to reconfigure the game’s controls, particularly those for utilizing objects in your stock. By default, the game runs at GZDoom’s default 35fps (the demo was featured in my Doom derivatives mod roundup, too) for that authentically retro look, however you’ll be able to have it run as easily as your PC will permit by turning on Rendering Interpolation in Display Settings. There’s additionally no purpose to not set the game to a flowery fashionable widescreen decision, both. As for taking part in multiplayer, a information textual content file is included for setting it up.
Memoirs Of Magic is free and here on Itch. The developer is presently tuning early-game issue based mostly on suggestions, with one hot-fix launched already.
