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A real-time strategy game made by Bits Studios and released for the UsefulNotes/GameboyColor in 2000, it is noticeably one of the only strategy games ever put out for the system. In the game, you can play as one of two distinct factions, the Humans led by [[TheHighQueen Queen Azarel]] or the Beasts led by [[EvilOverlord Chief Zog]] who each have their own separate campaigns... So in others words, it is {{VideoGame/Warcraft}} for the GBC.

The game went under most people's radars, but received mostly positive reviews. It was successful enough to have a sequel called ''Wizards'' in development for the UsefulNotes/GameboyAdvance, but this was sadly canceled due to a lack of publisher.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Inverted. Zog and Azarel are Wizards, so they aren't suited for direct combat. And their abilities aren't related to combat, instead they increase the speed of unit production.

* ExcusePlot: Why are the Humans and Beasts at war? Who cares.

* BalefulPolymorph: A very common type of spell amongst the Wizards is turning a unit, enemy or otherwise, into something.

* DamageIsFire: Do enough harm to any of the buildings and a small fire breaks out on top of them. [[UpToEleven Even the giant spiders.]]

** HealingHands: Sage and Mystic Wiz are both unusual examples of this: alongside the usual healing of allies, they can turn enemies into big hearts that your units can then collet to heal up with.

* GreenHillZone / TheLostWoods: The Woods levels, big grassy plains that have a large amount of trees. It counts as Human territory and it is where their tutorials take place.

* PalmtreePanic / ShiftingSandLand: The Tropics levels, spacious sand lands with lots of palm trees and huge spiders. Thanks to making an alliance with these giants spiders, the Beasts dominate this area.

** AnIcePerson: Ice Wiz
** BlowYouAway: Wind Wiz

** HavingABlast: Bomb Wiz

** PlayingWithFire: Fire Wiz

** ShockAndAwe: Storm Wiz

* VideoGameSettings:
** GreenHillZone / TheLostWoods: The Woods.
** LethalLavaLand: The Lava levels, also the home turf of the Beasts.
** PalmtreePanic / ShiftingSandLand: The Tropics.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Snow levels. Interestingly, in contrast to most benevolent fantasy kingdoms this is the home of the Humans instead of a greener area.
** UndergroundLevel: The Caves.

* BoringButPractical: Crow Wiz and by extensions his crows. He is able to turn any of your units into a crow, which has piddling attack power making it useless in battle even if it can only be hit by ranged attacks. However, the crow is by far the best scout in the game due to its incredible speed and the ability to fly over all obstacles. Thanks to Crow Wiz you can likely have the entire map revealed to you in just about a minute.

* ArtificialStupidity: Probably the game's biggest flaw is that the pathfinding for units is... Less than optimal. Be sure to keep an eye on any units you've commanded to go a far way, they may just end up constantly walking into a wall that is in-between them and their destination.

** To a lesser degree is Quake Wiz. His earthquake deals a ton of damage to all ground-based units, especially buildings making him really useful in laying siege to enemy bases. The impractical comes in with whom the spell targets: ''all ground-based units.'' This includes your own units, so you need to be sure to keep your units far away from where Quake Wiz is casting his magic. The other problem it will only hurt enemies on the ground, the good news is only two units in the whole game are aerial: ravens and dragons... The bad news is the latter unit happens to be the strongest unit in the game, making Quake Wiz useless against an enemy that usually best taken care of with magic.

* DamageIsFire: Do enough harm to any of the buildings and a small fire breaks out on top of them.

* FriendlyFireproof: Often played straight, but this is dangerously averted with attacks like Wind Wiz's Tornado and Quake Wiz's earthquake. The most nasty is probably Pox Wiz, who infects a unit which then explodes spreading the disease to other nearby units... As useful as this can be, it is WAY too easy to wipeout your own army with just one misplaced unit getting hit by a dying enemy and then spreading the pox to the rest of your units.

** HealingHands: Sage and Mystic Wiz are both unusual examples of this: they turn enemies into big hearts that your units can then collet to heal up with.

** Human: [[spoiler:Queen Azrael congratulates her followers for ridding the world of Zog and they return to her castle to celebrate]].
** Beast: [[spoiler:Zog congratulates his fighters for beating the human armies and tells them to lock Queen Azrael up in his tower... [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Until she agrees to marry him.]]]]

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Queen Azrael and Sage are the only female wizards in the game and are both on the Human side.

-->--''The game making it's love of digitized speech clear as soon as you turn on the game''

A real-time strategy game made by Bits Studios and released for the UsefulNotes/GameboyColor in 2000, it is noticeably one of the only strategy games ever put out for the system. In the game you can play as one of two distinct factions, the Humans led by [[TheHighQueen Queen Azarel]] or the Beasts led by [[EvilOverlord Chief Zog]] who each have their own separate campaigns... So in others words it is {{VideoGame/Warcraft}} for the GBC.

** Human: [[spoiler: Queen Azrael congratulates her followers for ridding the world of Zog and they return to her castle to celebrate]].
** Beast: [[spoiler: Zog congratulates his fighters for beating the human armies and tells them to lock Queen Azrael up in his tower... [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Until she agrees to marry him.]]]]

* AffablyEvil: Chief Zog is a surprisingly benign ruler who treats his underlings quite well.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Alongside the usual "you can't have a certain amount of units without enough houses" rule, you can only have two wizards out on the map at a time.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Tele Wiz, his spell is teleporting a targeted unit to a random part of the map. It sure sounds cool, but it is nigh-on useless. You could use his power to send one of your units to scout, but there are many more practical ways to accomplish this and you might just send them in the middle of enemy territory. You could also use him to teleport away enemies, but not only does this do no damage but Tele Wiz can only target one unit at a time.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: Other than aesthetic, the Human and Beast army's units are perfectly alike: Grunts and Goblins both [[WorkerUnit gather resources]], Knights and Warriors are both tanky melee attackers, and both Elves and Skeletons are archers who fire arrows from a distance. They even both have some wizards who serve the exact same purposes: both the Sage and Mystic Wiz do the exact same healing spell, the former just serves the Humans the latter the Beasts.

* GiantSpider: There are truly colossal spiders who live in the desert areas. For the Humans they are a threat, but for the Beasts they are [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider actually close allies who act as your castles.]]

* SimpleYetAwesome: Some of the Wizards have very basic abilities that are still exceptionally handy. The best example is Sweat Wiz, who increases the speed units collect gold and wood just by being on the map. Flashy? Nope. Useful? Most definitely.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Queen Azrael and the Sage are the only female wizards in the game and are both on the Human side.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Though parts of her kingdom are very green, in contrast to most benevolent fantasy kingdoms Queen Azarel's capital is in a bitterly cold tundra.

* TheAlliance: The Humans to a tee. They have honorable knights, freedom fighting elves, and a benevolent [[TheHighQueen female ruler]].
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: What happens when you have Chicken Wiz or Pig Wiz turn someone into a chicken/pig but then set them aflame with Fire Wiz? You get roasted meat your units can eat!

* AffablyEvil: Chief Zog is a surprisingly benign ruler who treats his underlings quite well. His only real flaw is how much of a BloodKnight he is.

** PoisonousPerson: Toxic Wiz and Poison Wiz, interestingly the latter was the apprentice to the former. They also use poison in different ways: Toxic Wiz makes [[DeadlyGas a big cloud of pestilent smoke]] that devastates units but can't hurt buildings, and Poison Wiz raises the attack power of your archers by tipping their arrows in poison.

* InvoluntaryTransformation: A very common type of spell amongst the Wizards is turning a unit, enemy or otherwise, into something.

* SchizoTech: A few of the wizards seem to have made some distinct advances in technology, most notably Toxic Wiz is wearing a modern gasmask and waste disposal clothes.

A real-time strategy game made by Bits Studios and released for the UsefulNotes/GameboyColor in 2000, it is noticeably one of the only strategy games ever put out for the system. In the game you can play as one of two distinct factions, the Humans led by [[TheHighQueen Queen Azarel]] or the Beasts led by [[EvilOverlord Chief Zog]] who each have their own separate campaigns... So in others words it is essentially {{VideoGame/Warcraft}} for the GBC.

To the game's credit, it was able to get a genre that is usually best played on computers to not only be enjoyable to play but actually control quite well on a system with a tiny screen and only four buttons. It is also has a unique addition in the form of Wizards, [[GottaCatchThemAll various magicians whom you will find in various missions]]. Each Wizard has very specific powers: some like Fire Wiz are offensive and will set enemies aflame killing them instantly, others give you buffs while they are out like Brick Wiz who strengthens your guard towers, and some have unusual powers like Raven Wiz who will turn one of your units in a small raven that is weak in combat but perfect for scouting. Some wizards you are guaranteed to get in certain missions, but most you get randomly and you can't get them all in one game so you will have to trade with someone else in order to get all the game's wizards.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: Other than aesthetic, the Human and Beast army's units are perfectly alike: Grunts and Goblins both [[WorkerUnit gather resources]], Knights and Warriors are both tanky melee attackers, and both Elves and Skeletons are archers who fire arrows from a distance. They even both have some wizards who serve the exact same purposes: both the Shaman and Mystic Wiz do the exact same healing spell, the former just serves the Humans the latter the Beasts.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Tele Wiz, his spell is teleporting a targeted unit to a random part of the map. It sure sounds cool, but it is nigh-on useless. You could use his power to send one of your units to scout, but there are many more practical ways to accomplish this. You could also use him to teleport away enemies, but not only does this do no damage but Tele Wiz can only target one unit at a time.

** BlowYouAway: Wind Wiz

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: There are two resources in the game: Gold which you get from mines and is used to recruit units, and Fuel which you get from trees or rocks (depending on the map) and is used to build buildings and recruit archers alongside gold.

A 2000 real-time strategy game made by Bits Studios and released for the UsefulNotes/GameboyColor, it is noticeably one of the only strategy games ever put out for the system. In the game you can play as one of two distinct factions, the Humans led by [[TheHighQueen Queen Azarel]] or the Beasts led by [[EvilOverlord Chief Zog]] who have their own separate campaigns... So in others words it is essentially {{VideoGame/Warcraft}} for the GBC.

To the game's credit, it was able to get a genre that is best played on computers to not only be enjoyable to play but actually control quite well. It is also has a unique addition in the form of Wizards, [[GottaCatchThemAll various magicians whom you will find in various missions]]. Each Wizard has very specific powers: some like Fire Wiz are offensive and will set enemies aflame killing them instantly, others give you buffs while they are out like Brick Wiz who strengthens your guard towers, and some have unusual powers like Raven Wiz who will turn one of your units in a small raven that is weak in combat but perfect for scouting. Some wizards you are guaranteed to get in certain missions, but most you get randomly and you can't get them all in one game so you will have to trade with someone else in order to get all the game's wizards.

* AffablyEvil: Chief Zog is a surprisingly benign ruler who treats his underlings quite well. His real flaw is how much of a BloodKnight he is.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: Other than aesthetic, the Human and Beast army's units are perfectly alike: Grunts and Goblins both gather resources, Knights and Warriors both tanky melee attackers, and both Elves and Skeletons are archers who fire arrows from a distance. They even both have some wizards who serve the exact same purposes: both the Shaman and Mystic Wiz do the exact same healing spell, the former just serves the Humans the latter the Beasts.

* SimpleYetAwesome: Some of the Wizards have very basic abilities that are exceptionally handy. The best example is Sweat Wiz, who increases the speed units collect gold and wood just by being on the map. Flashy? Nope. Useful? Most definitely.

-->-- '''What you first hear when you start the game'''

To the game's credit, it was able to get a genre that is best played on computers to not only be enjoyable to play but actually control quite well. It is also has a unique addition in the form of Wizards, [[GottaCatchThemAll various magicians whom you will find in various missions]] and can summon to help out. Each Wizard has a specific spell they can cast which will determine how you use them: some like Fire Wiz are offensive and will set enemies aflame killing them instantly, others give you buffs while they are out like Brick Wiz who strengthens your guard towers, and some have unusual powers like Raven Wiz who will turn one of your units in a small raven that is weak in combat but perfect for scouting. Some wizards you are guaranteed to get in certain missions, but most you get randomly and you can't get them all in one game so you will have to trade with someone else in order to get all the game's wizards.

The game went under most people's radars, but still received mostly positive reviews. It was successful enough to have a sequel called ''Wizards'' in development for the UsefulNotes/GameboyAdvance, but this was sadly canceled due to a lack of publisher.

* AffablyEvil: Chief Zog is actually a mostly benign ruler who treats his underlings quite well.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: Other than aesthetic, the Human and Beast army's units are perfectly alike: Grunts and Goblins both gather resources, Knights and Warriors both tanks melee attackers, and both Elves and Skeletons are archers who fire arrows from a distance. They even both have some wizards who serve the exact same purposes: both the Shaman and Mystic Wiz do the exact same healing spell, the former just serves the Humans the latter the Beasts.

** Beast: [[spoiler: Zog congratulates his fighters for beating the human armies and tells them to lock Queen Azrael up in his tower... [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Until she agrees to marry him.]]