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  • Summary: Battling against eternal darkness, you are Arran, a young wizard embarking on quest filled with explosive spell combat and adventure. Armed with your magical orb and immense spell collection, you age from a young wizard into an older powerful sorcerer. Defeat your enemies with a revolutionary control system: direct movement with one analog stick and aim with the other. Embrace your destiny; restore light to your homeland.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 27
  3. Negative: 5 out of 27
  1. Xbox Exclusive
    85
    If you are looking for a fun fantasy action game with an adventure twist, go out and grab Nightcaster. Be wary though, if you tire of the gameplay, there isn't a deep storyline to back it up.
  2. IGN
    73
    The end result is a game that could have been a "Gauntlet Legends" or "Diablo" type action title, but is more methodical and repetitive than it has any right to be.
  3. Official Xbox Magazine
    49
    Technically proficient with an interesting gameplay system, but with no polish or soul to back it up. [Mar 2002, p.76]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. ZakW.
    7
    Always good to have a game that is not like the others. This one definitely is unique in it's gameplay but yes, can get repetitive. The bosses are nice and I probably dumped 15-20 hours before beating it so it's not a supershort game like most of the hyped-up games recently.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. TimJ.
    4
    Excellent spell effects can't make up for poor gameplay, most especially due to really bad level design (after walking around a level with nothing to kill for 10 minutes I turned this game off for good).… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. ChuckF.
    2
    Good graphics, thats it. Buy it used.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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