Mittelborg: City of Mages
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Mittelborg: City of Mages is a simplistic game with dull mechanics and no high stakes within the lackluster story.
The design concept behind Mittelborg: City Of Mages seemed to have a lot of potential. One can forgive the non-engaging gameplay but any enjoyment is quickly hampered by frustrating control and a no-brains, overt advisory information approach. The game becomes less about skill and more about random chance.
The game has an intriguing premise and I want to believe the developers had some intelligent ideas behind what they're doing, but between the painfully shallow strategy, the laboured (via translation) writing, the mundane, uninspired presentation and the shonky interface and UX, there was nowhere left for me to go to find something I admired about this game.
Mittelborg: City of Mages has a pretty interesting premise, it’s a real pity that that is all it is. It plays like a straight port from pc or mobile. What art there is in the game looks well, I just wish there was more of it instead of a static image of the city. The translation of the text needs work to help the game story along and help to make it more interesting for the player. There are bigger and better simulation, strategy games to choose from on the eShop sadly this isn’t one of them.
Games coming over from the mobile space and intended to be played on tablets with a touchscreen are often a bit hard to evaluate...
Mittleborg: City of Mages is a strategy game where our mission will be to protect the tree of order so as not to succumb to the end of everything known. The most unfavorable point of this game is the language since you have to have a good level of english to understand what the game offers us.
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Mittelborg, City of Mages offers a board-game inspired, roguelike-infused gameplay design, which completely falls flat in execution.
