Tactical Breach Wizards review: Defenestration simulation

Whatever your expectations are after hearing “turn-based tactics game featuring wizards” as a content description, Tactical Breach Wizards will shatter them within the first seconds and then throw them out of a window as if they were Russian oligarchs who displeased the regime.  The game’s opening mission, which doubles as a tutorial, perfectly sets the scene for what’s to follow: A gray-bearded wizard and his young protegé prepare to face druids who’ve taken a hostage but there’s a twist: they both wear modern special forces outfits and are preparing to storm a container ship captured by this notorious druid mafia. The graybeard stuffed his wand into the shell of an assault rifle, while his apprentice has added a tactical laser to her own wand, which is uselessly facing upwards to make it look like one of the glowsticks you get at k-pop concerts. This is a modern setting in which magic is commonplace, which in itself isn’t an uncommon trope, but the execution of it all here is very light-hearted and tongue-