{"id":7271,"date":"2022-10-23T00:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=7271"},"modified":"2022-10-23T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:34:51","slug":"wizardry-iv-going-back-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/7271","title":{"rendered":"Wizardry IV: Going Back Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m up to dungeon level 4\/Werdna level 7. That means I have access to every spell, including MALOR, the teleport spell. It’s not as useful as you might think. Every Wizardry<\/em> game so far has had places you can’t teleport to, and in Wizardry IV<\/em>, that includes most places. You definitely can’t teleport above the highest level you’ve reached, but I’ve had only occasional success going downward too. The “occasional” part is a little maddening; if teleportation never<\/em> worked, I wouldn’t be in the position of not understanding why it works sometimes. If I recall correctly, you eventually get a power-up that unlocks full teleportation everywhere, but not until basically the end.<\/p>\n

And that’s a bit of a shame, because a shortcut or two back would be handy right now. I haven’t found the stairs up on level 4, despite a pretty thorough search. It’s possible that I’ve just missed them — the level’s theme is Wandering Maze, and it’s a chaotic and difficult-to-navigate mass of one-way walls and rotating tiles1<\/sup><\/a>A new element that rotates its walls 90 degrees every time you step on it. Distinct from spinner tiles, which randomly reorient the player but don’t change the architecture.<\/span><\/span>