Wizard 101: Is It Worth Your Time in 2025?

Dust off your spellbook—Wizard 101 just hit consoles, and we’re putting the nostalgia to the test. We talk through the thrill of slotting the right card, timing a big hit, and roaming Wizard City, then stack those warm memories against 2025 realities: paywalls, clunky controller menus, and servers that don’t always keep up. If you’ve wondered whether this classic can still charm beyond a PC screen, we’ve got a grounded, no-fluff take.

We dig into the game’s identity as a kid-friendly, turn-based MMO with collectible card mechanics, where schools like Fire, Ice, Death, and Balance still shape playstyles and personality. Customization has quirks—the name generator limits expression—but the combat loop remains clear and satisfying for quick sessions. On console, the translation shows its seams: UI navigation is slower, pathing can feel sticky, and early lag led to surprise pulls. Crossplay hopes hover in the air, while a potential Switch version raises serious questions about performance and fragmentation.

Beyond mechanics, the Spiral’s worldbuilding still shines. Real-world inspirations meet myth—Sherlock-dog capers, Egypt-flavored tombs, samurai realms, and villains like Rasputin—delivered with a playful, research-backed touch. Pop culture fingerprints linger too, from Nelson Everhart’s magical score to past celebrity tie-ins. But the elephant remains monetization: zone locks and crowns turn progress into a purchase plan, which is a tougher sell now that players expect transparent value. Our bottom line is balanced—there’s genuine charm and a safe on-ramp for younger players, yet the cost structure and console friction keep it from feeling truly modern.

If you grew up with Wizard 101, you’ll find familiar comfort here; if you’re new, weigh the magic against the model. Hit play, hear our full breakdown, and then tell us: would you stay for the Spiral or save your time for something new? Subscribe, share with a friend who played back in the day, and leave a review with your rating.

Chapters

• 0:01 Why Revisit Wizard 101 Now
• 1:00 Nostalgia And Early Game Design
• 2:00 Paywalls And The Cost To Play
• 4:33 Customization, Schools, And Names
• 6:50 Console Port Performance And UI
• 9:09 Regional Versions And Player Base
• 11:33 Switch Port What-Ifs And Crossplay
• 15:00 Pop Culture, Music, And HP Parallels
• 18:00 Villains, Lore, And Character Designs
• 21:42 Worldbuilding, History Nods, And NPC Sprawl
• 24:45 Final Verdicts And Sign Off

Transcript

SPEAKER_02: 0:01

What up, gang? I want to talk about Wizard 101. Now, the reason why we're reviewing this now is because recently it is now available to play on console. And I remember way back in the 2000s when it was brand new. How okay, here's this game where you can be a little wizard and you go on to fight these monsters. You have this turn-based gameplay where it's like sorry, I'm kind of stumbling a little bit where you have this turn-based gameplay that looks like you're summoning creatures or whatnot, and it comes in the form of a car, and there's like certain effects, but then it just summons this creature or whatnot. And you can also fight with your pets, like you can buy pets and they can fight with you. And essentially, there's like at least four major arcs in Wizard 101, which is crazy because I was kind of following it up until like the second arc with uh the evil lady Morgan, and after that just kind of fell off. Hearing that it's now available on console, I'm thinking like, okay, let's try it again. And uh let's just say nowadays in adulthood, if I'm not working or working on something else, I'm probably playing other games, so yeah. Anyways, Sebi, I do thank you for being on for this episode. Uh it is to my attention, like it came to my attention that you also played this game, and I just want to ask you, how are you feeling about Wood's 101?

SPEAKER_00: 1:59

So, when I was a kid, I used to play this and Pirates on one religiously. Like those are my back-to-back two games. I played it prior to like a huge paywall coming in. So, when all the paywalls began to happen and you had to start buying things just to even continue on with the game, of course, I lost interest because at the time I'm a kid, I'm not gonna go ask my parents for 50 bucks just to unlock a part of the neighborhood, you know what I mean? Like, I obviously everyone riding around, they're really cool brooms and cars, and they've got the rarest chill, like pets and all that junk, and I'm just like, no kid is gonna go ask their parents for like this amount of money, but I mean it's crazy because back in that time, um, the only game where I felt like, okay, it's fair that they gotta keep buying expansion packs and whatnot.

SPEAKER_02: 3:05

It's well, aside from the films, I was gonna say World of Warcraft, where I'm like, okay, that kind of makes sense where it keeps happening, like expansion packs and whatnot. But it wasn't a whole lot of games where it felt like a whole investment to play this game unless it's like a gotcha game nowadays, you know, like uh Brave Frontier, but that's like somewhere in the 2010s. Uh, but nowadays we got games like Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, uh Honkai Star Rail. I don't know if Weather and Wave does that too. Maybe uh Hero can probably tell us because he I know he played that game. Uh but yeah, like it's crazy how Sun Game just feels like this big investment just to play the game, but I just didn't feel that for Wizard one of the times. Like it was like fun for that trial period, but after that, no thank you.

SPEAKER_00: 4:02

Yeah, I agree with you 100% on this. Um, I mean, I thought that like the whole, you know, you could create your own wizard, pick a cool hairstyle, do you want to be a part of life, death, fire, ice? Like the care the customization for the characters to me is in-depth at least. I mean, there could be more, but I mean this is an early 2000s game, and seeing it on console now. The graphics, though they've been updated, they haven't changed. I'm not gonna lie to you about that. It's still the same Wizards 101 that you grew up with. It's like if they put Neo Pets on console.

SPEAKER_02: 4:48

No, you know, you know what I was thinking? I was thinking for some reason nowadays, Wizard 101 looks like one of those games that you'll get like were you around when serial boxes would have like the discs, so you would play a game, and it feels like that to where you feel like this uh serial box game that's like look kind of fun for like a month or two, but then eventually you um either complete it or you just uh drop it. And it's like that game to where, like, well, hold on, there's like updates still.

SPEAKER_00: 5:25

Me with my Sims when I first got it. I got My Sims in a DVD from a Burger King Happy Meal like thing. That's that's the only reason why I got into My Sims so religiously is because of Burger King.

SPEAKER_02: 5:41

Well, actually, you know what's crazy? What got me into the Sims was the uh spin-off, the herbs, where it was on GameCube, and uh having the GameCube was real hype back at the at the time. So I was thinking, okay, I'll try the Sims um for a good while, see how it is. And then I I liked it, I did. And then eventually it got me thinking, okay, let's try the other Sims game. And well, there's my journey.

SPEAKER_00: 6:06

I'm not gonna say anything because we know how that is.

SPEAKER_02: 6:09

Um listen to our Sims review if you want to hear our two cents on that.

SPEAKER_00: 6:15

Um but yeah, Wizards 101 is again, it's one of those games that you kind of like you you either grew up with or you're now starting to get into it as someone who's new. But here's another thing though, a lot of the veteran players are douchebags. I dabbled in it back on when it came out onto the console when it was still in the pre-demo. Of course, um at the time, if you bought crowns for the demo, everything that you bought would basically be sold, and you'd get those crowns back at the end when the game officially came out. But a lot of those veterans players went on to the play the console.

SPEAKER_02: 7:07

Actually, it is kind of crazy how like I've tried to play on console and it just felt so laggy to me. But then again, I was thinking like, okay, it was like day one or two that it came out on console officially. So I was thinking, like, okay, maybe the servers are just congested and whatnot, but god damn, like it just felt so weird, like, especially when you're thinking like you're trying to walk along the sidewalk because you don't really feel like um doing all those fights. But then next thing you know, you get pulled into a fight that you didn't think it was gonna engage, and I I don't know, it's like I guess the lagginess kind of ruined the illusion of me getting immersed into the game like I used to.

SPEAKER_00: 7:59

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_02: 8:02

Uh another thing, um, when you mentioned the customization in the classes, like, okay, last time around, I was a balance mage, and I thought it was funny how the dog um Professor Arthur, like he's one of the only ones that didn't have uh class, so we had to uh have class outside, and I was like, man, damn. But uh the second time around on the console, I was just like, hey, you know what? Fuck it. Uh I wanna uh because last time I picked like the edgiest edgelord name for my character. I know it was like Blaze something, uh, and I end up being a balanced mage. But um this time around, I was like, okay, let me just um think of the most like a simple name, you know, like a believable name. And then I was like, fuck it, I'll try to go for fire mage since uh I'm just kind of in spirit mountain just wanna um see if it's as good as it remembered. Like honestly, it's one of those games where I'm like, I have to be pretty vague to entertain this game, but hey, you know what? I'm just gonna play it. Uh just because it's uh Saturday afternoon, I don't got shit to do, might as well play this game. Uh uh. But uh yeah, I want to say customizing your character, like the design. Yeah, there's only some bells and whistles there. But if you ask me, I wish we had the choice of just typing in our name instead of uh generating it, because I don't know, just not a whole lot um that grabbed my attention, where it's like either it's gonna be either kind of cutesy or edge lord, like Penelope Unicorn bow.

SPEAKER_00: 10:05

I don't know. I used to play this game in Italy, um, where I'm from. We used to play this game all the time because one, we barely had yeah, um Sicily. Okay, cool, okay, okay, okay. But we used to play this game because we had one computer in the house. Um and you'd come home. So I used to go over there all the time during the summer. My mom was really big on school, so I would come to America during the school year, like September to July, and then we would go to Sicily, and I would go to school from July until August or June to August. So we would come to my cousin's house who had a computer, and we used to play this game all the time at the time because it was in Italian. They got rid of the the Italian, Polish, and I think Greek versions of this game back in 2024. So when my cousins messaged me saying that Wizard 101 no longer exists, one of my cousins played that game still.

SPEAKER_02: 11:15

Yeah, I thought Wizard 101 was one of those games where I thought the servers were shut down while I mean great that it was still running this whole time, but I'm like, wow, like it's still going? People still play it?

SPEAKER_00: 11:28

Oh yeah, people still still play it, like it's crazy. Um, I know with let's say my brother-in-law still plays the game, and he's like, I can't wait to get to level, I think they just released level 170. They officially can become a maximum level, and I'm just like, okay. I'm just here. I I was a death wizard. Surprise, surprise, this Nemo kid with Penelope Unicorn something.

SPEAKER_02: 12:03

Okay, the whole Bro, I thought you just made that name up.

SPEAKER_00: 12:07

No, I can't remember what the latter part is, but I was Penelope Unicorn something. And I was a death wizard.

SPEAKER_02: 12:18

Uh okay, okay. But yeah, that is kind of ironic. Like, you were thinking, like, okay, like Penelope Unicorn. You she must be like one of those Hubble Pub type uh charity, right? No. Death Wizard.

SPEAKER_00: 12:32

Death Wizard. Boom. Take that, Master.

SPEAKER_02: 12:37

Subversion of expectations.

SPEAKER_00: 12:43

Majority of the people that you see playing Wizards 101 right now are all adults because, of course, they grew up with it. Um because the console version came out. I'm not 90. I'm not because I don't really chat in the game, so I'm 90% sure the chat is still like that whole text a great job or good better luck next time type stuff.

SPEAKER_02: 13:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 13:09

I know on PC you can text a chat 18 plus, but you also have to connect your uh your credit card to your chat just to verify the account if you're 18 or older, because apparently if you're 18 or older, you have a credit card.

SPEAKER_02: 13:31

Oh wow, okay, yeah. Like by the time you're 18, yeah, like you should be a responsible goal. Here's your credit card, go ahead and ruin your credit.

SPEAKER_00: 13:42

We have to run your credit, you need to have a 720 credit score, you need to be able to afford two times your rent, and you need a down payment of$1,400 just so that you can have unfiltered words in Wizards 101.

SPEAKER_02: 13:56

Wow. Jesus Christ, you gotta have the like it gotta be one of those things where maybe your dad might have started uh your credit card um or like while you were like a young teenager, and it's like, okay, well, it's in your name, but like, okay, you gotta use it responsibly. You know, this is gonna be your allowance money, so to speak. So be careful with it. Like, um, don't spend it all in one place.

SPEAKER_00: 14:26

I think the most interesting thing is I'm wondering, because I know that as of October 1st, we've got it released on Xbox One, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, and 5, but a Nintendo Switch version has been confirmed. How's that gonna work? Is it still gonna be like an online game, do you think?

SPEAKER_02: 14:45

Oh, I do not amaz like if I just don't think it'll be running well enough on Nintendo Switch. Like, there's just some things with Nintendo Switch where I'm like the online capabilities is just kind of limited. Like, if it's not a Nintendo product, for some reason, uh if not the lagginess, it's the graphics, where it's like it's just gonna feel very inferior uh compared to the PlayStation and Xbox. So uh I don't know about the Switch, but Xbox and PlayStation. Maybe once the um server is like level out, maybe I see a lot of consistent console players. But I just don't know because you know it was originally geared to be a PC game, so it kind of made sense in that aspect. But like now that it's on console, like whole bunch of functionalities and whatnot. See, that's another thing where I try to pull up the uh menus and the settings, and it felt like yeah, it reminded me easily how, yeah, I remember this was meant to be for PC.

SPEAKER_00: 16:17

I'm wondering if the Nintendo Switch is gonna have, you know, when you'd get like the 3DS and it would have like the Sims, but it was like one town, and you can only pick the newbie family. I wonder if it's gonna be kind of like that. Like it's just uh like Sims Castaway something.

SPEAKER_02: 16:38

Uh oh, that's crazy too because I remember castaways. Like I it's actually funny where it felt linear and obviously sandboxed, but with castaways, I thought it was kind of funny how like by the end of the game, you finally escape the island, you go home and whatnot, it's all everything all good and dandy, but then you realize you got built.

SPEAKER_00: 17:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_02: 17:07

But oh man, I don't know. I think it might make it a little worse. Like it's bad enough that people are kind of complaining about Pokemon Legend ZA, where they were thinking that, oh, it's gonna be in this one singular area, like you don't get to travel to the other regions. But to be fair, it was the same thing with Arceus, so y'all didn't complain then. Why I mean, I guess the complaints weren't that loud when Arceus dropped, but they were thinking with ZA that, oh, I thought we were gonna travel to all these different places. Or I don't know, like it might be in the world of DLC, maybe, but yeah, like uh I don't know if people might go for a limited, like because you know the whole lore with the spiral, like they're thinking, like, oh well, we don't get to experience the rest of the spiral because we're on handheld. Yeah, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 18:12

I don't know, sir. There's a lot of what ifs in the air right now. What if, uh what's it gonna look like in a year from now? Or what's the Nintendo Switch version gonna look like? I think that kind of really gets me going, is like one, they're trying to make cross-platform for both the Xbox One, like the main console versions, between PC and console. The Nintendo Switch is known for not being cross-platform, first of all. Great example is Civilization. You can play console between console to PC, but you can't play it via Nintendo Switch to anything else. It's kind of just a dead game there. It's kind of the things that make you think like, what kind of like why are we making games that doesn't make sense? Just give me Nintendo Dogs back, please.

SPEAKER_02: 19:14

Like, see, and that's another crazy thing to where I've been saying for a while that uh while people are having these console wars about Xbox exclusive and PlayStation exclusives, but nobody really checks Nintendo because like they're like the king of exclusives. Like I mean, unless you're playing on PC, I don't think there's ever a Nintendo product that was ever cross-platform with any other thing. Like, you'll never catch a Mario game being played on a PlayStation or as Buzzword or Legend of Zelda game or something like that. It's like if you want to play shit like Kirby Air Rider, the new one coming out, well, or if it's already out, I don't know yet, but I think it's like somewhere around by now. But if you want to play that, oh well, yeah, I'll play it on Switch or Switch 2.

SPEAKER_00: 20:16

No, no, no. Hits Wizard Wizard 101 is that type of like I said, is that turn-based combat collectible card game type of MMORPG? There's again, I'm going to reference it to um Neopets again. Like this is it. Um I also thought it was kind of cool. I don't know if you ever seen this. There's uh Adventure Time, the Distant Lands animated series. Wizard City is you actually get to see a little bit of Wizard City in that. They kind of referenced it off of that fourth episode.

SPEAKER_01: 21:12

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00: 21:14

So you've got cool pop culture references for like Wizard 101. I mean, you had Nick Jonas writing some of the music, you had Selena Gomez in the scene. Ugh, round and round. That album, A Year Without Rain, is like one of my favorites.

SPEAKER_02: 21:29

Yeah, I know that's like I remember when that song was really popping off, and actually I'm glad that you mentioned that because like it's crazy how they had Selena Gomez as a singer with the little guys in the background and whatnot, and that's great on them, but it's like a missed opportunity to have her casting magic when she was also the star of Wizards of Windows Place at the same time that that was going on.

SPEAKER_00: 21:59

It's it's like when they got composer Nelson Everhart to write the music for 101 because they initially asked him to like write a whole Harry Potter soundtrack, and he did that. Like it sounded so much like Harry Potter. They were like, Okay, I mean, you got the job, but you kind of need to tone it down because we're venturing into copyright territory, and then they're just like, screw it, we're just gonna give it to Everhart instead for the I mean, we're gonna give it to you for the rest of the time. I mean, he composes the music still, but they he they eventually had to tell him he needed to tone it down because of how Harry Potter it became, and I'm like, Wizards 101 is the Harry Potter game for kids that could not afford Harry Potter.

unknown: 22:45

Wow.

SPEAKER_02: 22:50

That's a way to put it.

SPEAKER_00: 22:53

I mean, I'm not to be fair, I'm not really wrong in that case. I mean we're now com we're now getting Harry Potter games. Like, we've got the one that's on the phone that you can create your own Harry Potter wizard and choose your um what house you're gonna be a part of. Wizards 101 was the base of that game. I'm 90% sure. They're like, yeah, we have Wizard City. There we go. We have Hogwarts, like to me, there's a lot of similarities now. I'm not I don't play Harry Potter because I'm not a Harry Potter fan. It's gonna make some of y'all weird it out, but I'm not that big a fan. I just watched all the movies this summer. Like I just watched all the movies, I've never seen them before until now.

SPEAKER_02: 23:44

Okay, well, that's okay. Like, I don't think, like, okay, at least you watch the movies, that's good. That's how I feel about a lot of things, where like, hmm, uh, that's like me saying I never got around to actually watching shit like Star Trek or Supernatural. Well, hold on, I I did watch like a season or two of Supernatural, though, don't get me wrong, but I just didn't finish. And I kind of want to finish because you know, the boys season five is coming around next year. So what I'm gonna do is once that's um finished and whatnot, I'm like thinking, okay, since they want to have a supernatural reunion during the boys, might as well review Supernatural somewhere in October. But uh, Dr. Who and some other IPs where you think, like, wait, you haven't seen it yet? Like, what? I mean, hell, I didn't even I didn't care for Star Wars until like what Force Awakens was announced, and now I'm like, okay, mine as well, since they're making more movies.

SPEAKER_00: 24:55

I'm I'm I'm gonna be flat out with you with Supernatural. I've only seen the scenes that I want to see, and that requires me to go on YouTube and just click on the best edits of Supernatural. So when they find the fan fiction, yes, beautiful. When Paris Hilton is in it, yes, beautiful.

SPEAKER_01: 25:12

Like, yeah, like I just want to watch the scenes I want to watch.

SPEAKER_02: 25:20

I was gonna like, is that really the guy heard it in it? Okay, sure. I mean, she was like talking off at the time, so I'm like, okay, sure. I guess. My god, they were trying to put Paris Hilton like damn near everything while back in there.

SPEAKER_00: 25:36

Paris Hilton is bomb. I love her. Go, Queen.

SPEAKER_02: 25:41

I wonder what she's doing nowadays.

SPEAKER_00: 25:43

She actually runs a non-profit for kids that are like like kids that are in acting so that they can get their money, because a lot of parents are abusive a-holes in the acting world, not saying all of them, but she helps kids try to win their money back. Same thing with uh McCaulay Colkin. He is in the same boat as well, but I also know that he has a she has a mental health program.

SPEAKER_02: 26:12

Oh no, hold on. I like how you said all that when all this uh drama we're hearing about Disney kids and Nickelodeon kids, you know, like quiet on setting or whatnot, like geese, yeast, yeast.

SPEAKER_00: 26:27

I watched that show and that I know we're going off on a tinge here, but I watched that show and went, holy moly, I didn't expect a lot of that to happen. I know with Paris Hilton during the showing of the girls next door, that was the that's five seasons of three of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends at the time. Paris Hilton was like 17 to 19 years old. She was going to Hugh Hefner's parties practically naked. And so she's got a program that helps try to like fight things like that. Like I think she's really admirable, but she definitely turned her life around like Lindsay Lohan did.

SPEAKER_02: 27:16

Right. Like, oh god, like okay, that verdict it was gonna be an abdural especially with all the uh darkness being revealed in recent times about things that happened in the past where I'm thinking, like, damn, like I mean, I was just a kid at the time, I did not know all that was going on. But uh, yeah, but uh was it one-on-one? Um whatever so called that uh oh uh can we talk about malice there a little bit? Like, okay, like this guy, his main thing was he just wanted to uh resurrect his dead wife because you know shit happens. And he also has this brother Cyrus who was part of the myth school and whatnot. And my whole point being is that um despite all this, like you're thinking like, okay, that's all he wants really. So like there's a reason why he's uh a bad guy and you fight him, and you're thinking, like, okay, you killed him, and he's gonna uh reunite with his wife. Nope. His uh spirit might have, I think, yeah, his spirit might have, but his body didn't. And I'm guessing that uh Morgan's using his body to essentially try to get revenge on you for killing him. So it's almost like, yeah, you know, I finally got to reunite with my wife, but uh, I can't let that one kid slide by defeating me. So I need uh I got some unfinished business to take care of.

SPEAKER_00: 29:04

Can I just say that Sylvia Drake 2011 is such an upgrade from 2000? Um, sorry, Sylvia Drake from 2019, she is beautiful. 2011, when Arc Wizard put her in, she was a blob. She is so gorgeous now. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02: 29:30

Like she's um that reminds me uh when you go to that other wizard school and there was like this lady that uh people were like practicing before. Like, what was her name again? Like, it was like this one professor, I think it was like Cassandra or something. Cassandra Chris, I think it was. Yeah. I thought her design was pretty decent. Like, even nowadays, when I'm like, okay, her I can kind of understand why. Uh so it is back in the 2000s. They might have their little awakening, and next thing you know, they're Donna.

SPEAKER_00: 30:13

I agree. Her name is Belladonna. I think that's where you do it. Yeah, Belladonna Crisp. My goodness. The glasses, the everything. Oh my gosh. It's crazy. She had to be awakening for some people. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02: 30:32

Yeah, it's like the um the sexy professor with the uh dressed shirt and the glasses, whatnot.

SPEAKER_00: 30:41

That's a side profile though.

SPEAKER_02: 30:44

Yeah. Like especially in um during the uh, you know how Wizard 101 had those loading screens, and then there was this one that was like uh where they're like more detailed, and with her, it was like, oh damn, like it's like for the first time, it's like I don't mind the loading screens.

SPEAKER_00: 31:12

Yeah, I can see it.

SPEAKER_02: 31:14

Yeah, but aside from that, those like a whole lot of adventuring that they had to do with the uh with their like side quests and whatnot. Like, um, there was one YouTuber, I think it was Umpa, I think it was like something like that. I know I shared the video of kids that he did that he spent four hours talking about this. I'm like, uh, I commend you, sir. I probably not gonna even give my review one hour. But uh hey, like I said, you know, I'm just kind of doing it for the member berries. Like, I just remember that Wizard 101 was a thing only because it was announced that it's gonna be on console now. So I've been like, hey, yo, y'all remember Wizard 101? But um, Silly, you got anything that you want to talk about with Wizard 101? Because honestly, I'm kind of tapped out.

SPEAKER_00: 32:16

Uh I think one, there's too many damn NPCs, and that's all I'm gonna say. There should not be 2200 NPCs at all. But I understand because of how many different cities there are and different little neighborhoods. But you know, I'm I'm pretty much done too.

SPEAKER_02: 32:38

Oh, also, I did like how a lot of these worlds in the spiral was based on places on earth like Egypt and whatnot. I like how they had one for Africa and one for Egypt, but like, hey, y'all do know that Egypt is a part of Africa, right?

SPEAKER_00: 32:59

Wasn't it like was it Africa or was it like a safari themed like a type of thing?

SPEAKER_02: 33:06

Yeah, it was literally called safari.

SPEAKER_00: 33:09

Wow. No, we gotta get that Egypt in, you know.

SPEAKER_02: 33:15

I mean, kind of makes it, you know, you gotta have like the Egypt place. Uh you have the Aztec place. Uh I'm thinking they have they definitely have one based off uh Beudal Japan, obligatory. Uh one based off England, of course. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 33:36

True, that one with the England one, that that's my favorite. Like, that's that's my favorite. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02: 33:42

No, I understand the boy, you know, with dogs and whatnot. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, that was the crazy thing. It's like uh all these dogs, all like they were like the outstanding citizens, and every time you came across a cat, it's like, oh well, you know that cat's up to no good. It was like that one movie, dogs and cats all over again. Every time the cat shows up, there it's up to no good.

SPEAKER_00: 34:07

No, because okay, so when they get there, uh when they get there, they're like Sherlock Bones, you know, Sherlock Holmes, and then you have Meowdery, which is Professor Morality, which is the criminal mastermind of Sir Arthur Ken Doyle, or detective Sherlock Holmes, and then Newgate Prison is just an actual prison off Newgate Street in Old Bailey in 12th century England, so they did their research. It's historical, I mean.

SPEAKER_02: 34:48

But it kind of went overboard where there's like there's like three to five clock towers every time you go around a block. I'm like, come on, though. Like just because Big Ben is in England, like literally every building gotta be a clock tower, really.

SPEAKER_00: 35:09

Imagine them all going off at once.

SPEAKER_02: 35:12

Oh, good lord. That's I'm gonna I'm gonna hate every time it strikes midnight and noon to where I'm like, good god. Literally, I'm gonna be annoyed on the hour. Like, every hour on the hour, I'm gonna be immediately annoyed. Like, I'm gonna have my uh fucking uh Azvil on standby so I can hear this headache where we're like ding ding ding. You know, like you wonder, like, how do y'all deal with this? And like, yeah, you know, you just learned to have earplugs on. Like, um I I don't know how you would live in a place where there's like clock tower just going off every hour, and it's like this loud echo all over the city. You was like, just letting you know it's been an hour.

SPEAKER_00: 36:12

No, but I do kind of have to commend them that they they really did their research, especially with arc one and arc two, because you see a lot of that old like mythological um when they defeat the um the Oni of Mushu and then second arc when they're in um Celestia and Z Balba, you know. They they did their research and they they based a lot of the characters off of real people. I mean in arc three you have Rasputin and Xerxes. So they they they did the research, laps off to them. So okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 37:07

Alright, and was that all you had?

SPEAKER_00: 37:09

Yeah, that's that's that's all I had.

SPEAKER_02: 37:12

Alright, fair enough. Alright, well, yeah, um, would I rate Wizard one-on-one? I guess I give it at least three stars. I mean, commendable that it ran for as long as it did. And uh, I guess it's one of those games where you might want to introduce it to your youngling. Like, if you have a little child, like, hey, like Daisy's birds magic game. Um, I guess, like something to play with, like something uh long term that they can play. And like it's they say it's free to play, but you know, lies. Yeah, it's it's lies, it's it is lies because uh I was thinking like that's why I didn't go back to play on console because I'm thinking like, wait a minute, wasn't it? Like this whole payroll thing, yeah. Like you know what Sandy, you're right. I I can't understand how only adults will play this game in this bunch because ain't no way a child is going to drop$50 a month just to keep this subscription going. Like, honestly, I kind of feel some type of way about paying like what$13,$14 for Final Fantasy 14? Like, I mean, come on, like really, we uh we're doing this, but yeah, I I'm not doing$50 a month. Just do like, I mean, I I'm sometimes I like to get a little hesitant paying like$10 to$20 for these battle passes and small rifles. So you gotta you got me kind of fucked up when you're gonna think I'm gonna drop$50 for all this when like there's so many games that's coming out. I'm like, you mean to tell me that? Oh, well, instead of buying games like uh Grand Theft Auto 6 or whatnot coming out. Yeah, like oh no, no, no, you know what? Just reap your subscripts to um Wizard 101. You'll be alright. You don't really need that game.

SPEAKER_00: 39:26

I'll just stick to buying Sims back until oh wait, no, I can't. Crap. Oh, I can't do that right now. Ah I can't buy Sims right now. I'm on a strike.

SPEAKER_02: 39:40

I gotcha. All right, well, uh oh, it's a three for me.

SPEAKER_00: 39:47

Sorry, uh my rate's a three as well because I don't want to have to pay every time I want to use a stupid card. I don't want to have to pay every time I want to go to a different town neighborhood.

SPEAKER_02: 40:01

It was fun while it lasted the prerun.

SPEAKER_00: 40:06

It was fun when I was 10. Yeah, no longer 10. I don't want to play it.

SPEAKER_02: 40:15

On that note, go ahead and close this out. Seb, thank you for being on. Uh to listener, I do thank you for listening to us to the end. I'm serious about you listening to our Sims review because we had a bunch to say about that. And we're gonna go ahead and zone up out of here. Go ahead and have yourself a good morning, good evening, good afternoon, good night, whatever time it is in your area that you're listening to this. Uh, remember to stay nerdy and that great things are coming. Uh, until the next review.