It’s cast a spell on me
First, though, Leximan must deal with an even peskier toilet goblin, who’s causing havoc in his adjoining commode (and acts as a handy tutorial to teach you how its spell battles work). When these kick off, you enter a kind of turn-based battle screen, with Leximan on the left and your foe on the right. But instead of simply issuing commands a la Pokémon orUndertale, say, you must select and drag tiny pieces of word fragments to cast a particular spell.
In addition to casting spells in these specific battle scenes, you can also learn specific spells to cast in the overworld, too. These were mostly contained in little secret offshoots in this particular demo, and after commanding the school’s golem caretaker to SQUASH the breakfasting fire elemental, I spent probably another ten to fifteen minutes rooting them all out. My favourite was ENLARGE, which let me enter the locked gym (as my diminutive form wasn’t big or buff enough to enter without it).InsideI could take on the residing gym leader, like some kind of strange, demented Pokemon game, and using STRENGTH on them made them cower at Leximan’s rippling pectorals (and tiny swim trunks) and surrender their gym badge without further comment.
I’m not really doing the whole scene justice to be honest, but trust me when I say it was really very funny in the moment, and I did a proper chuckle at the whole thing on the demo booth. Alas, Leximan isn’t currently part of the Steam Next Fest, so you can’t go away and try it out for yourself at the moment, but I’d urge you to go and watch itsannouncement trailerinstead to get more of a flavour of what it’s about. If Leximan can keep up its sense of humour across an entire game, this could really be something special when it comes out in full.
