Every single level throws together some action sequences, some platforming, and some puzzle solving, but always in a friendly, low-risk kind of way. While the optional experience potions and secret powerup items strewn about the levels require the sort of creative, multi-protagonist strategies I described above, the general level design is simply nowhere near as imaginative as it should be. There’s just a hell of a lot that can be done once you start mixing and playing around with the protagonists’ different abilities. Upon colleting the powerup I’d worked so hard to get, I felt oddly empowered: I’d used the game mechanics in such a way that it almost felt like cheating (given how hard it was to make the goddamn cube stay up on that ledge, I’m almost certain that was not the intended solution), but was still perfectly fair within the game rules. After levitating the cube into the little nook where I wanted to go, I switched to the thief, hit it with my grappling hook, and climbed all the way up to the secret area. At one point, I was pleasantly surprised when, finding that bridges and blocks just weren’t allowing me access to a really lofty secret part of the map, I found a cube in the environment that was made of some material the thief could grapple onto. As the wizard, you can materialize a plank of metal to act as a bridge, or summon a large block and use it as a jumping platform. Let’s say that there’s a powerup you want across a chasm too wide to jump across.

Much of the game consists of physics puzzles that, while initially seeming clunky and imprecise, actually allow for a surprising amount of player freedom once you get the hang of the protagonists’ abilities.

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