The Essence of Magic was a cinematic map by -Kobas- that based on the battle between Arcane Mage and Blood Mage. The terrain of the map was simply above average and pleasant to be view, but the environment created was simply lacking and abnormal.
What do I mean with being abnormal? The scenario of the fight took place in the wilderness and yet I do not seen a single living thing at all. Not even a single bird could be seen at all
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Next is camera and fog, the camera and fog setting was rather poor as some camera movement was either too choppy or the angle are not appropriately selected which makes some scene was rather an eyesores to be view at while some fog are not thick enough, rendering our view of the end of the world was flat.
Next comes the battle scene, I was expected some sort of awesome fight that would really capture my heart; but I was surely dissappointed after watching it. The battle scene is nothing more like fire cracker show during the new years because all you just seen was an bunch of special effect cast by both side.
To make it from bad to worst, the sfx usage was soo heavy that it cause a drastic fps drop. The sfx abuse are not the only thing that make it worst, the waiting syndrome in the battle scene and the poor usage of animation are part of the contribution to the downfall of the quality of this map as well.
The use of that music was really a bad idea because this is not the first battle cinematic that used it, it also not fit for a generic fight of a magic theme as well.
Typo errors for a cinematic that barely last for a minutes shows that the author of this map was rather rush in the development of this map, thus rendering lot's of flaws that kill the replayability values and the quality of this works. To be frankly honest, it almost cannot be consider as cinematic cause it was way too short.
Overall, this cinematic performances was rather poor and almost at the level of unacceptable (1/5) due to the rush and inproper planning by the author itself. The author should devoted more time to remove those flaws before it was distribute to us audiences to watch.
As I could summarize it, this map was very close to the edge of approval and yet it was very close to the edge of rejected at the same time. The authors of this map should reduces the lag of this map by reducing the sfx usage and fix the trigger leak(I do believe the author of this map does not fix memory leak since he assume it was just a cinematic) to ensure a much pleasant view for the audience itself.
My overall vote for this map 2/5 (Lacking) and I suggest this map to be at pending stage until the author improve it.
Approved
Gonna check it out nao 
I think that it can be at least half +
