This Way Madness Lies adds more explosive turn-based magical girl action than you might be used to in your community theater productions.
Running the Stratford-Upon-Avon High Drama Society would be enough work for most people, but Imogen has to deal with far more than just cranky actors and unreliable stage props. She, along with a couple of friends, have to periodically head into alternate dimensions themed around various Shakespeare plays to deal with encroaching sinister forces. So, sometimes you’re working to put on plays, and in others you’re fighting snowy beasts and lethal living plants. The magical girl powers are definitely a big help no matter what you’re doing, though.
Being another title from Zeboyd Games, creators of Cthulhu Saves Christmas, you can expect high-speed combat that doesn’t waste your time but is still filled with satisfying systems. In this particular title, you can make use of the characters’ friendships to unite into special multi-person abilities. I don’t know what it is about making characters work together to do super attacks, but I never get tired of doing it (as seen by the total amount of time I’ve spent playing Chrono Trigger and Suikoden in my life). The best part about all of this is that the game’s combat is designed to keep things moving while still preserving that satisfying feeling of learning about a compelling new world. The developers have done some neat things with Shakespeare’s works that I wasn’t expecting.
This Way Madness Lies is another excellent title from the developer that crams a compelling world, great combat, and charming characters into a brief play time. They make perfect RPGs for people who don’t have forty to eighty hours to sink into a game, and all while creating a concept I never knew I needed. Who knew that magical girls and Shakespeare could work so well together?
This Way Madness Lies will be made available today on Steam.
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