On their journey, the companions meet Sir Gavvendyl, the teacher of X. An always new details of his past he can not remember, but this is not always easy to classify him. Amon, however, will soon be dealing with an entirely different test, more out of spite than out of real conviction, he logs on to a magical tournament and has to do it right in the first round with a fiery opponent ...
Some years it has become quiet around the last heroes of Holysoft, but after the long wait several new episodes of the fantasy series were equal submitted. The tournament of the magician - Episode 8 of the current series will start equal bluntly in the plot. Those who in the meantime, the previous episodes did not lead to heart again, so it should perhaps refresh his memory again in order to arrive more quickly to the enclosed booklet provides here a detailed text about the recent events. At first the story will not really take up speed, but then she finds a pleasant narrative pace, in which neither rushed nor told slows. And this is worthwhile, because the individual elements can quite convincing. So the emerging memories of X are a successful hanger, but its heart is the eponymous Magic tournament, which were imaginative and lively staged. But next to the entertainment value of these scenes also serve an important purpose in the series, the development of the characters and some crass expressions that will influence the future course of the series, which may be mentioned here by way of example. After the big showdown at the tournament the tension falls again somewhat, but is still very convincing with casual and humorous mood of the series.
Fits again the choice of speakers, was giving priority placed on prominent speakers. Kim Hasper like it as Amon amends, he uses his voice a very variable so reveals a wide range of different emotions. Axel Lutter can be heard as a hot-blooded Dragoon, with ever-present evil in his voice he can implement the deceitful character matching. As Berg is heard Nicolas King, the one takes the age-old creature with his own feelings completely. Other speakers include Jürgen Kluckert, Wolfgang Bahro and Nico Sablik.
The production team led by David Holy could again create a suitable acoustic design for the story, which was implemented with a variety of different sounds. So the noise is varied so that each scene gets its own sound, in which the processes can act better. The music is catchy and adapts well to the prevailing atmosphere.
Kudos has to be done in terms of design, especially the thickness and informative cover can score. In addition to drawings and brief information about the important characters occurring, there is a detailed summary of the recent events and numerous other artworks. The cover shows the speaking mountain in classic and detailed drawing style a scene from the radio play.
Conclusion: Episode 8 is immediately adjacent to the last events of X, Amon and Eye, but needs something to really get going. Then an entertaining and quite exciting history is on offer that advances the development of the series and the characters and is still independent. Especially the scenes with the speaking and the mountain Zabererturnier been implemented skillfully.