Break up with basic browsers. Get Opera GX here: operagx.gg/TheStellarJay2 Originally I had a Blade and Sorcery review in here but I cut it because the full version came out and I obviously can't review that in just 3 days, follow up video coming soon for that 😎Other than that, tried to focus on more less known games, GL, send me your wizard games, love you bye.

my favorite wizard game moment has to be when I cast fireball (microwaved honey bun) on Voldemort (my bald ass neighbor) irl

The noita cycle: 1- "hmmm What do I play?" 2- "Been some time since I launched Noita" 3- get Noita'd 4- Ragequit 5- repeat

🛑 Fun Fact: original 2 devs of Wizard of Legend 1 sold rhe company to (Dead Mage) that's the company who made this horrible sequel, that's why it sucks

Noita forgets about fantastical wizarding and just says "Yeah you thought casting a 'Mega death cross' on top of yourself wouldn't instantly kill you? are you dumb?"

I hate wizard games. Just the other day, a wizard (my neighbor) casted a fireball (microwaved honey bun) on me irl

Some Earthbenders find the term 'wizard' an insult...

Niota is the type of game where after an hour of experimenting with early game spell combos, a slight tweak turns you from "focus on surviving" into "my frames dropped from how much damage I just did to that small gremlin". No joke, on one of my runs I was fiddling with a wand in the first holy mountain and somehow achieved 15k damage and forgot to take a screenshot of the combo. I tried to further optimize the wand and ended up undoing it and haven't been able to replicate it since. Now I call it the greek fire incident because for a second there I had done the equivalent of inventing napalm in ancient greece.

The Wizards of Legend 2 commentator was PROBABLY an attempt to do something like Darkest Dungeon, but that game has: 1. Excellent writing 2. A slower pace 3. An amazing VA

Noita: You couldn’t live with your own failures, look where that brought you……… back to me

You know its a wizard game when youre fighting using a wikipedia page just to know what the spell does

I can barely describe the experience of booting the Wizard of Legend 2 demo with the only expectation being 'more Wizard of Legend' and then all the bricks just slowly falling as i saw every strange choice they made.. I do wonder what Dead Mage is thinking here.

Missed "Waltz of the Wizard". A game where you can say "summon 100 frogs" and 100 frogs get summoned.

you saying “i could change Artemis” before lingering on naked Odysseus for slightly longer than was probably needed is a mood

can't wait to watch the state of wizard games 4 (GRAND finale)

Hurts my heart to see Spellbreak on this tier list. May it rest in piece, the only Battle Royale I’ve ever liked.

Fun fact: Noita means "Witch" in Finnish

Wizard games are like tacos, yummy, but messy when you get to the middle

Wizard of Legend has fallen, billions must become warriors.

Correction about Dragon's Dogma 2; it's not actually riddled, it just has an option to get a small amount of in-game currency via a dlc, which is exactly what DMC 5 did, but people review-bombed it for no reason. The dlc gives stuff you could find in game in an hour of play or less, for 5 bucks, and it's never EVER mentioned in game. It's not even a side-option menu, it's ONLY accessible through steam DLC. But people review bombed it out of pessimistic urges. Dragon's Dogma 2 is ABSOLUTELY worth the buy, but don't play a wizard in it, they suck, play a wizard in Dragon's Dogma 1 instead, it's awesome.

As a big Mages of Mistralia fan, unfortunate to hear that it wasn't for you. Personally I think that it is one of the best implementations of spell programming in a game that I've played. Just booted up my completed save to recall what-all I ended up making. For context, there are four 'classes' of spells in Mistralia: * Immedi - does something right away, these are generally "explosions" of the element chosen for the spell * Actus - creates a projectile (This is where the classic 'throw a fireball' spell would go) * Creo - creates something in the environment (i.e. ice element creo freezes water, fire element creo creates a pool of lava) * Ego - applies some effect to you (i.e. air element blast you forward, earth element makes a shield...or a clone) The interesting spells in my loadout at the end of the game were as follows: - Immedi Spells - 1) A point-blank lightning explosion with increased area, reduced cost, and which I could recast several times a second 2) A burst of lightning explosions randomly placed within the vicinity 3) A burst of giant fireballs randomly placed in the area - Actus Spells - 1) Five homing fireballs that bounce off of walls. And also instantly recast themselves. 2) Five long-range homing lightning charges that instantly recast themselves. 3) Five homing rocks that bounce off of walls. And also instantly recast themselves. 4) The initiator of my most complex and powerfull spell chain. Creates a single fireball, which homes in on enemies - and, on impact, casts a special Creo spell. This Creo spell creates a pit of lava - which then casts Immedi spell #3 every single tick, filling the area with explosions continuously (or at least until I am out of mana) 5) Instantly teleports a fireball inside of the target - Creo Spells - 1) Creates a localized hailstorm 2) Creates a long bridge of ice 3) Creates a long bridge of rock (for lava) - Ego Spells - 1) a shield 2) A dash 3) Creates a decoy clone of me

When I was playing the WoL2 demo, the whole time I was asking myself, "did the new devs even play the original WoL???"

Wizard of Legend 2 seems to be made by a different team based off the developer listed on steam. It hurts to have the Wizard of Legend series worn like a skin suit to sell a completely different style of game.

Dragons Dogma 2’s micro transactions are only shortcuts (music and limited skins for camps) for people who have the money and don’t want to wait (or experience the game as it is). The director himself said he didn’t want to add any but found a middle ground with the the financial team.

WAIT YOU HAVENT EVEN TOUCHED THE SURFACE OF NOITA great video series, we love casting spells

Book of Hours has been described as a wizard game in the traditional sense of wizards - the kind that stay cooped up in their towers reading books, learning the workings of the world, attempting greater and greater spells until they have the necessary knowledge to change the nature of reality itself. recommended if you're into cosy games with a lot of mystery and great writing. 10/10.

"Death has travelled light years to take you" goes unfathomably hard.

DD2 is now less than $50 on greenman gaming, got a major performance patch last week, and is a great game if you play it in a bubble - a definite must try

I need more magic wizards and sorcery, such a niche category and so glad you’ve done a part 3 of this series.

noita is one of the few games that lets you get 10 hours deep into a god run and then end it in 3 seconds

"An actual human being wrote this dialog" Those were almost definitely written by AI

love that you perfectly combined great realistic jay movement with meme expressionism. that, + the feather quill. & the style of editing/writing/voicing. great video. EDIT: omg the audio is perfection too

I still want you to do annual 'state of wizard game genre' videos, like the head wizard president of wizard games

We need you to revive pirate games now

Glad you finally delved deep enough into Noita to get the True Wizard Experience (building a wand that destroys everything, going mad with power, destroying yourself in your own hubris)

Noita. High damage explosives: I sleep Shitty starter spells with 12 modifiers slapped on: REAL SHIT

glad you finally gave noita the attention it deserved. I recently got an idea for a noita inspired magic game, where you have to create the spells while casting them. I am not sure whether development will ever begin, but if I do, I'll tell you about it.

Bro, reading the message from the Galvanic team almost made me tear up, and I haven't even played a game of theirs, it was just so sad😭

I've seen REAL high level Ultrakill combos. They, my friend, are doing wizardry. Coins are the philosiphers stone on a 4s cooldown and you can't convince me otherwise

My entire night was made when you flashed Wizard of Legend 2 because I didn't know it was happening. My night was then immediately ruined upon learning that it is currently a Hades clone minus everything that made both it and the first Wizard of Legend good :(

Magicraft has been a joy to play. Their spell crafting is very fun to dive into and the progression system doesn’t feel too too awful even though it’s a roguelite.

jay how could you make me wait 5mins to watch this while i have hot food i just made infront of me

Rumble is the absolute best of vr gaming.

Can I just say that I love that you're using that song from Sonny Boy in the background? It's been stuck in my head since watching that anime.

I think I played against The Stellar Jay in rumble and showed some things to him. I’m glad he’s showing the game off to more people because it has a relatively small player base

Noita goes from pain to fun and then right back to pain (depending if you want to pursue THAT route of challenge, if you know you know) but it definitely peaks with exploring the optional stuff

I feel so bad for the Galvanic team, Wizard with a Gun has some of my favourite styling and genre-blending I've seen involve magic and wizards in a long time. The art direction and soundtrack reminded me of a lot of things but it scratched an itch in my brain so perfectly

Artemis dont hate men, just marriage and love

Maybe the best wizard games were the friends we made along the way... and Wizard of Legend

Noita has all of what's in the video, but thats only the first layer of the game, once you find out about the things that are not the standard dungeon run you delve into a DEEP Rabbit hole. One of the craziest worlds I've seen in games

Let me ask you a question, what truly is a wizard? Is it the spectacle of your magic, concocting a typhoon of spells to rain down upon your foes? Not quite. To be a wizard is to toil day and night hunting for and studying the deep unknown, searching for strange and elusive secrets of the universe and harnessing its power. A wizard goes through the most unfathomable darkness, stare into the heart of the abyss, and demand a spell that make cool purple explosion This is what Noita is. It ain't just a wizard game, it's a game that turns you into a wizard. As you step in, you'll find yourself finding more secrets, more things to uncover, until you are overtaken by madness in search of power. All you got to do is wander off the beaten path, and try a few things you'd at first call madness. Reach the tower... Reach the bottom of the lake... Find the moon... Both moons... Drill through the very ends of the world, don't let the curse stop you... Eat as many of the funny mushrooms as you possibly can...

Thank you SO much for mentioning rumble, I've been waiting for someone big give it a spotlight! The closest there was is habie from a couple years ago.

super hyped that you included Rumble in this, i never would have thought of it as a wizard game!

you gotta check out tactical breach wizards!!

Magequit is a very fun wizard game you should try. Multiple elements that you combine into different combos with no mana

One of the best "Wizard games" I've ever played was a Minecraft mod called Ars Nouveau, and it's super fun! You craft your own personal Spellbook that you fill with Glyphs that all have a ton of different effects. To create a spell, you create a chain of up to 10 Glyphs, and then save it to one of your Spellbooks pages, and if you get creative with your Glyph sequences you can make some ridiculous spells. You can also create various types of magical robes, armors, and tools, which you can then imbue with a specific spell effect that triggers in certain conditions. On top of that, there are a bunch of magical creatures you can effectively use as familiars, to help manage, and defend your home. But it's all a Minecraft mod. If that shit was just its own game, not saddled with the limitations placed on it by virtue of being a mod, it could probably be it's own incredible game.

notia: You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.

12:28 FINALLY YOU TALKA BOUT RUMBLE, THIS GAME JUST HAD A GOLDEN AGE AND PEOPLE ARE DISCOVERING SO MANY TECHNIQUES.

I think the reason why Wizards of Legend 2 is different is that... It's not the same team. Don't know if Contingent99 disolved, sold out, or got bought out by Dead Mage (creators of Children of Morta), but here you go.

2 things: -there was a game called Lichdom Battlemage that I played once... but it was a bit boring so I stopped very early on. Idk if you've already played it but it did have decently advanced looking spell crafting mechanics from the little I played of it. Might be worth a look to you. -Not a wizard game (but it might as well be), but there's a game (roguelike lol) called Nova Drift and it has very satisfying progression, with interesting and unique builds. I think you would enjoy it from what I've seen you review.

That roblox game was "Arcane Odyssey" and it's more of a sandbox-y adventure mmorpg, but magic based and on the sea. I can understand why some may not like it and it does somewhat lack content and doesn't have a fast start but it's imo the best roblox can offer. It's even 100% non-p2w which is very rare on roblox.

FINALLY HE PLAYS ASTRAL ASCENT. So glad it crossed your radar before this series ended

I was so heartbroken to try Wizard of Legend 2 only to see they abandoned all sense of style, personality, and gameplay that made the first game so good…

the thing about WoL 2 is: its not the same devs, pretty sure they sold the ip or something

Just discovered your channel like less than 2 hours ago and you happen to drop 😭thts crazy

Dragons dogma was OBVIOUSLY gonna contain microtransactions since capcom's been doing it for 5 years, the microtransactions are entirely unintrusive though

In wizard games and MMORPG’s, what I look for and love is complex combat systems and spell trees that take hours to learn, because once you do, the feeling of satisfaction is unlike any other.

There is truly no feeling like getting 10 hours in a run in noita, being nigh immortal having a wand that kills everything in one hit and then you open the game to find your save corrupted, legit made me sat in front of the game screen for like 10 minutes contemplating life

Love to see you playing my favorite game ever! Rumble! If you ever want to become a pro at this game, feel free to ask me or anyone else in the community to teach you. Learning the game is really complex, because even after I played for 243 hours, I am still learning new skills all the time. But if you have another player helping you out it's way faster to learn and more fun to learn when you hangout with a fellow player. And Rumble has the best community ever, we all love to learn from each other to become the best earthbenders ever. Some response to your complaints: About mixing skilled players with beginners, the playerbase is too small and the unlock system too quick to match beginners with each other without extremely long waiting times. But most high skilled players are really nice and hold back against beginners or even teach them the ways whenever they meet them. At least you can always use voicechat to ask them to and most are more then willing to help It's made by a small indie studio and is still in early access, so bugs and crashes are sadly still expected, but with every content update they also bring a lot of bugfixes. And because the game is hosted p2p you will have 50% of perfect connection as you are the host and 50% where you have all the delay, something that is not going to change because of cost and other balancing reasons. Luckily a connections as terrible you show as an example is something very rare to happen. And once you get used to the delay you can even fight someone from the other side of the world and still have an amazing fight. If you have a fight with bad ping, then you are the client, if you rematch that player host/client roles reverse giving you 0 ping, so an even amount of matches will result in a fair game for both players.

did I just see a "Wizard 101" background in the intro? You are the GOAT.

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this, But I laughed when I noticed that you had your mouse pad of shy Lily XD

You should play Tactical Breach Wizards. I had a blast playing it but it isn’t like many other wizard games. It is more a strategy game with wizard elements but I think it can still be classified as a wizard game

rumble hurts my arms

nothing's ever gonna top two player wizard tycoon on roblox

the wizard101 background caught me off guard... 😭

I'm fucking mad about the Dragon's Dogma 2 microtransactions lies that have been told about the game, so let's go through every microtransaction that has been complained about for so long. I'll tell you why you don't need to buy any of these. So go play the game, it's actually really fucking good, yes the performance in cities is pretty bad, but you'll survive. 1. Explorer's Camping Kit - You'll find a fucking camping kit in the first 15 minutes after you clear the tutorial, and that's when you'll actually need a camping kit 2. Dragon's Dogma Music & Sound Collection - This is entirely optional and actually has a very positive rating on Steam, so if you want to change the music and sounds to those of the original game, go for it. 3. Harpysnare Smoke Beacons - I have never in my 99 hours of playing DD2 had to lure harpies in, they're so abundant you'll kinda become annoyed by them 4. Portcrystal - These are used as portable fast travel destinations, I found that if you actually do what the game wants you to do, and explore outside of the actual paths that have been set down, you will actually find enough portcrystals to not have to backtrack every time you need to get somewhere, I was able to have 2 portcrystals in my inventory at a time without purchasing the extra one for 3 USD, and I always had at least one stashed away. 5. Art of metamorphosis - This allows you to change the appearance of you or your pawn (NPC companion). You can buy this in the game with in-game currency which is not rare. I also hope you're actually going to spend time in character creation to make the character you're happy with, and aren't going to complain that you can't change the look of your character every 5 minutes. 6. Heartfelt Pendant - This increases the affection of an NPC to the player to max instantly. You won't need this, it is so easy to max out the affection of random NPCs, that this is useless to purchase. 7. Ambivalent rift incense - This will change you pawn's inclination to a random one. WHY would you buy this? You can set your pawn's inclination to whatever you like when you create them, and you can purchase multiple types in-game exclusively, which will tell you exactly what type of inclination your pawn will receive. 8. Wakestone - This either allow you to respawn, as long as it's in your inventory, or it allows you to resurrect an NPC. One wakestone will not change the way you play your game, it won't even be useful I had wakestones coming out the wazoo by the end of my playthrough. You can find wakestone shards all around the world and 3 shards create a full wakestone. These can also be bought by multiple vendors in game (If I remember correctly). 9. Makeshift gaol key - This is a one-time use key you can use to open jail doors, you can find these all around the place and also buy them from vendors in the game for a pittance. 10. Rift crystals - These are used to buy special items which You can buy a total of 6000 rift crystals, these are received in-game most commonly when you find riftstones that have broken down around the place. You can also receive these by using the online aspect (which you should) when your pawn is summoned into another player's world, they'll return with some rift crystals when you sleep at an inn, or a player owned house. Every single one of these is completely optional, and you're frankly wasting money if you buy any of these. (Except the rift crystals if you really want those half-frame glasses for 9999 crystals, they're only cosmetic you do not have to buy them) Now please stop this fucking Dragon's Dogma 2 slander and go play the fucking game. If you don't like it before you've played 2 hours, refund it. Steam is good like that.

This trilogy is pretty good, 9/10 forgot about the best wizard game: Mario kart

Have you heard of Nurose? It's a PVP wizard game where you "program" your own spells in a flow chart format. There isn't that much going on for now, but each update adds new variables and makes the possibilities ever increase.

Legendary tales has pretty satisfying. Calling down lightning by moving your hand down. Summoning a fire ball and actually throwing it at someone. VR is such a great medium for casting magic we just need a full game dedicated to starting from a lil Babi boi to a master wizard

i love wizards and live in france does this make me insane?

Play Waltz of the Wizard man

Have you ever tried morrowind before, its basicaly oblivion magic but the artificial restraints and limits are nonexistant and you can make whatever monstrosity of a spell you want

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that hated Wizard of Legend 2. After coming from Hades 2 the game felt so bad. No story. No character I cared about. Abilities that felt bad. I’d say there is potential but everything needs to change

God I love Noita, my favourite time was when I shot chaos larpa on a giga blackhole with chaotic path and extend lifetime. Needless to say I didn’t survive that one.

TACTICAL. BREACH. WIZARDS.

A little game called Helldivers made me realize something about magic in videogames; that we've been thinking about spells all wrong. All this time, we've been treating spells like they're guns or swords or grenades. But spells aren't small arms; spells are combined arms. Spells are shouting random words into a box and, somehow, by means unseen and beyond the ken of the uninformed, the hill two miles to your right explodes in a pillar of flame. Magic is combined arms, except your fire support is the fabric of the universe.

I have no idea if I knew you before this video but after seeing you use headmaster ambrose's office as your greenscreen place made me subscribe by instinct.

これからも頑張ってください！あなたのビデオが大好きです。

im love when the live chat decided to spam balls and fixtf2 it was so a balls time

I'd recomend giving dragons dogma 2 a shot sooner rather then later. The micro transactions are the biggest "the boss said we had to put them in so I guess we have to" thing I have ever seen

Rumble is such a high teir skill level, watching people start learning full aerial combat was such an amazing moment of rumble history imo

For the Dragon's Dogma 2 bit, anyone who has done even an ounce of research knows that the microtransactions mean nothing. Its like buying red orbs in DMC5, yes you can buy currency but there is absolutely no part of the game that is designed to get you to buy stuff. It was clearly a quick addition to the game forced by Capcom. While I think the game is lacking in many other aspects I dont think the tought of 'microtransactions bad reee' works for this game as I forgot about them 1 day after release. Is it scummy? Yeah, but I also have no doubt the devs never wanted this in the first place and as a result the micros do not matter if you ask me. If you like what you see its a super fun game, some of the best exploration ive seen in a while, what with traveling the land with your personal party. Its definitely rushed and has more glaring faults than the first game but I think it was well worth my 65 euros. That said for most people definitely wait for a sale or something, I mean they havent even made a performance patch yet which is simply ludicrous

Regarding your tier list at the end: Magicka 2 is simply one of the greatest games I've ever played. It's one of the only times I remember how fun it was to be a kid and just fuck with everything.

This still isn't enough. My desire for the perfect wizard game still hasn't been fulfilled. There could still be more (Back to the daily search through every game tagged with "magic" on the entire internet).

Hey, loved your video. And I noticed that Lichdoom Battlemage wasn't in your tier list. It is a magic game that doesn't use; mana.

Man finally learned to stop worrying and love Noita

PLAY DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 The microtransactions are SO fucking overexaggerated. It is a _single_ option in _the main menu._ You can't even buy shit without exiting the game. It is literally the least intrusive possible use of MTX in any game, ever. It is so obvious that it's a last minute addition, and the game thrives because of it!

I recommend you try Magicraft. It's a bit simpler version of Noita wand mechanics + Hades meta progression. It's not very deep, does not have much content and can get repetitive once you figure out how to build a good wand, but until that point you will have a lot of fun

I also recommend the game Sorcery! The video game adaptation of Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy book series of the same name. It's not solely about being a mage, but you learn spells slowly throughout the adventure and it's rather fun in that regard.

I put in your live channel comments to play Baldur's Gate 3 and when watching this video I was sad cuz it wasn’t on there. My worries were calmed when I saw it had was at A tier