A very engaging, cool game! I playing quite a lot, compared to other newgrounds games. It's fun, but also frustrating when the rng just doesn't give you the tools to survive. Good tactics are needed to win, but ultimately, if and when I win is a matter of endurance and luck, not my skill, which takes a bit of the fun out if it for the kind of player I am. It does deserve its awards!

Oh, those are the hands! At first I thought the character had a cape.
All in all, a charming little game with potential.

I think everything this game set out to do, it did well. Good controls (the floaty feeling requires getting used to), cute artwork, fitting music.
Though I gess it's kind of an inside knowledge thing about why there's 'mage' in the title?