I’m sure we tried that before.

Weird.

Article updated.

Select load game from the main menu and choose the save point you want to load. Once Player1 is in the game you have to press X on the second controller to add another player to your party. At that point you can choose any other saved character by clicking left or right on the d-pad. I think you can do this at any point during the game, even during a boss battle.

The only think to watch for is that you don’t accidentally load an earlier save of your character or you’ll end up down grading your stats and level! I did that at least once or twice.

I’ll give it a trying tonight to confirm.

I had a lot of laugh out loud moments playing it. And it also is a game that one can play while drinking beer.

I’m curious as to what you think of it Henning.

Not having any health or mana potions is somewhat unusual for an RPG. This game substitutes fairly rare fountains for the more traditional and common potion bottles. But I find that in this game, that design is easily made up for with a couple of weapon enhancements that let you collect both qualities from vanquished opponents. And there are lots of opponents to vanquish, so once you have your weapon appropriately tricked out, it’s quite easy to stay at full health and mana most of the time, making the health and mana fountains largely redundant.

(I think that like X-Men games, but unlike D&D-based games such as Champions, characters also do not recover health and mana over time, which can make up for a lack of potions or fountains in a pinch.)

The melee system is indeed fun. My wizard character has a wide variety of wizardly combat attacks I can use, which do not require mana expenditure, and are entertainingly visualized. Each one is a combination of X and Square buttons, and at each point during a combo, you can see what your further options are, making it easy to explore the combo space. This is by contrast to some other combo-move games where you either have to memorize all the combos you want to use ahead of time, or just press buttons randomly and hope for the best – which can be fun too, in its own way, but I find not as satisfying as being able to predict what’s going to happen from one moment to the next. Full marks on that.

I think my favourite spell for my wizard to use is Coerce, which forces opponents to fight for you rather than against you. The coerced opponents aren’t exactly part of your team, in that they will still attack other coerced opponents as well as non-coerced ones. But as long as they aren’t attacking you, it is much easier to defeat them!

Now I just need to level up some more to try out some of my other spells…