Earlier this year, Contingent99 and Humble Bundle released Wizard of Legend on multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch. The co-op rogue-like dungeon crawler was positively received and has now surpassed 500,000 sales in total.
To celebrate the milestone, the developer and publisher behind the release have temporarily discounted the game by ten percent. There's also a new update titled Nocturne, which includes multiple quality-of-life improvements, better frame rates and load times, additional language support, and a modification to the Arcana system.
The new content also adds a new NPC to the Lanova Plaza - allowing you to randomise Chaos Trial runs. Contingent99 will continue to support the game after this update, with two additional DLC packs - featuring new themed dungeons and bosses - scheduled to arrive in the coming months.
Have you played Wizard of Legend? Are you planning on picking it up now that it has been discounted? Tell us below!
[source dualshockers.com]
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oh good though I do wonder if the upcoming dlc is free or paid.
It's interesting to me how we've now gotten to the point with Switch that it needs the "View All" button at the bottom of the "Great Deals" page. With so many games and so many publishers caught onto the fact that a sale is a good way to get the game more attention we often have over 40 games on sale at once. It's a bit of a catch 22 though cause now there are so many sales I often don't even bother looking through them all.
@JHDK It's annoying the Switch only displays so many games on sale then you have to click a button to see the rest. Ive gotten to the point I know what I'm looking for but it's still ridiculous how quickly this has become a problem. It just seems like yesterday I said right here on NL that if you want to get noticed put your game on sale. Even only at 10%.
@Spoony_Tech The Switch eshop really needs a better design with some kind of recommendation engine. It was fine when it first launched, but now it's an absolute mess. I hope they roll a new eshop out with their online services.
Nintendo needs to get on it and update their UI! We need folders for all the games we have! We need better organization of all the games on the eshop! It has been over a year. Get with it!
A 10% discount!!
Let me manufacture some enthusiasm
Sorry, I just bought Enter the Gungeon at 50% off. I can’t hear your super low offer! ;P
As much as I do like the simplicity of the Switch UI and eshop it definitely needs updated at this point themes, folders, user reviews on games etc., something would be great.
@Whalehome you should give Wizard of Legend a try I found it to be much better than Enter the Gungeon. Its a personal preference they are both great but I like Wizard of Legend more, its great if you have someone to play with the multiplayer is really fun you can easily lose a few hours playing.
10% off hmm? Well, that makes the game basially a no-brainer bargain. I kinda hate how it seems to be the new normal for shuffle ware games on the system (not saying this one is shuffleware) to add these small discounts to appear the Great Deals tab for more exposure - and often stay there for what seems to be weeks and weeks. Nintendo has a serious curation problem with all those Steam ports flooding in and it's only getting worse by the week.
And oh yeah, the sales culture as such is still super disappointing compared with the PSN, Steam or even XBL, so basically anything else. But then again, it's always been this way, and Nintendo has me kinda convinced that this is just the price of doing business on their system, so to speak. It's a premium one has to pay, I guess, it's just sad that it even extends to all kinds of games that are actually widely available. Granted, many of these games are also in part cheaper on other platforms because they've been released there for a long while, but still ... it makes double-dipping just that much more annoying ^^
Forgot to ask, is this game equally worthwhile for single-player? Or is it really something that shines true only in Co-op?
The Eshop desperately needs a UI built to handle the volume of all of these indies they're expecting.
@Ralek85 Equally worthwhile I'd say. It's really fun and actually not as repetitive as one would think. The spell system is simply genius, and it completely changes the way you play when you swap your loadout.
Now, of course, it's a ton of fun in co-op, but I felt it made it a bit too easy to "cheese" if you will. I do not know if the new update fixed this issue (I assume so, though, it wasn't "meant" to be cheesable in co-op), but other than that it's a nice challenge and great fun with a lot of replayability. With or without co-op.
EDIT: Cheese strat was a double lightning build that trivialized the entire game. I'm assuming they fixed it, lightning stagger wasn't supposed to stack.
@Blizzia Okay thanks for the feedback. Btw, did you have any issues with frame drops? The Dtoid review goes on about dying due to such technical issues, and I think - if recurring - is a legtimate issue, that would bother me as well.
@Ralek85 hmm not that I recall, only frame drops I can think off was one just after beating one of the bosses, but other than that nothing.
@Blizzia kk
@edgedino I believe it'll be free if I remember correctly.
@Ralek85
The framedrops occured when there was heavy use of fire traps or a particular spell that one of the bosses had. I found it was linked to the screen shake, which could be disabled.
Apart from that there was a case of micro stuttering due to a memory leak which was easily remedied by closing the game and restarting it after a couple of hours.
Since the patch has just dropped it could have fixed up a bunch of those issues, I haven't tested it out since the patch dropped but it's still a ripping good game.
@JHDK I hear ya there; I often view all and sort by price or use my watch list; better than nothing!
Love the game, I've already put more than 20hrs in it and still have tons of arcana to unlock and things to do. Great dollar-per-hour value. Nice to hear it will get DLC soon!
@frogopus @JHDK The dream would be the Steam option to get emails when games on your wishlist go on sale. Sadly I can't ever see that happening.
Could be worse though, could be the complete mess of a store the Xbox has. That has all the problems of the eShop plus no wishlist functionality!
I like the game, but I wish Indie Developers would ease up on the RogueLike games already. I would prefer a more traditional single player game in some of these games.
Maybe just add a RogueLike difficulty option instead? I don’t know, that’s why I don’t make games.
Great game (this coming from another person who's tired of rogue-lites); it's constantly near the top of the best selling list so the news isn't a surprise.
Far more fun than Gungeon to me.
@BionicDodo just a little blue dot next to the title on the wishlist would do for me.
I may have to finally pick this up.
Good for them I guess?
I didn't like this game a bit, especially after Gungeon. Co-op just feels crowded. I felt fooled by the trailers. Just not very fun
I will be so happy if they fixed the frame stuttering issues.
@MisterMan I think they fixed it, I replayed through the game yesterday and didn't see anymore stuttering unless I had massive amount of minions out
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