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Unending laughter and cursing.
Love it.

Hilarious good fun when you play with friends, just don't kill them too many times otherwise you may suddenly have fewer friends than you'd like. Fun game, recommended especially when its on sale which it is often. Better with a game controller.

Quick Summary: Basically the same game as Magicka 1, but with improved graphics, new magicks, and a new story. I found the game to be more difficult to complete than the first as well, particularly since the enemies have more varied weaknesses/resistances this time around. I liked the first game, so I enjoyed the second one as well.

You play a nameless wizard on a quest to save a “chosen” child with a grand destiny, under the supervision of Vlad the not-vampire from the first game. Along the way you’ll encounter a huge variety of pop culture references and humor, just like the first game, as well as some powerful new enemies. In the first game, you could get through almost the whole campaign relying on arcane mines and steam+lightning beams, but this time around, you’ll need to switch up your spell casting or you’ll get stomped by enemies resisting/absorbing your spells. Of course, multi-player co-op is again available and you can (should) play through the campaign with your friends.

For people who’ve played Magicka 1, here are the main differences:
Magicks can now be quick-cast by pressing preset cast buttons (1-4). You no longer need to memorize long elemental combos to case awesome magicks. However, magicks now have a cooldown time. The cooldown is lower if you type in the elemental combo rather than use the quick cast, but you still can’t flood the screen with the good stuff.
A lot of the basic spell combos have been changed. (No more EARS mines, now it’s a steam wall). The Healing mines from the first game (EW) detonate much slower and are less powerful so don’t rely on them to save you. You also can’t use arcane mines to blast people off cliffs as easily.
You now “unlock” gear such as robes (with bonuses and negatives), weapons, and staves by completing campaign levels and finding secrets. I suppose unlocking items is better than needing to buy DLC.
No more ‘checkpoints’ for resurrection. Your familiar sacrifices itself to resurrect you when you die, and you can immediately cast Revive to bring it back to life. This means you can die as much as you want, as long as you cast revive fast enough.

For people who haven’t played Magicka 1:
You control your wizard with the mouse in isometric view (like Diablo or Torchlight) and cast spells by combining elements with the QWER and ASDF keys. Each key is an element (for example Q is water) and by creating elemental combinations you cast spells (SFA = death+fire+lightning = fiery lightning beam). The order of elements doesn’t matter as long as certain “opposites” aren’t in there. For example lightning will cancel water. You can also cast “magicks” which are powerful spells with unique effects using preset elemental combinations (also use the space bar to cast instead of mouse buttons). For example life+lightning casts Revive, which can resurrect your dead ally (or familiar). Some of the magicks from the first game have been nerfed (lightning bolt), but some of the new magicks are great for single player (lightning birds!).

Pros:
+Has the good parts of the first game. Fun story, nice graphics, co-op gameplay, and a lot of humor
+More people are playing this online than Magicka 1, so you can pretty easily find someone to play with, at least on normal difficulty.
+So far, you don’t miss out on anything by not owning a ton of DLC. The first game had like a dozen different DLC to purchase.
+A lot of the things you unlock during the campaign are “artifacts” which are basically just small modifications to game difficulty. For example enemy damage +10% or speed -10%. This allows you to create some unusual difficulty customizations.

Cons:
-The game’s achievements have a lot of “grinds.” For example, kill 10,000 enemies or die 1000 times. It would take 100 years to get some of those unless you ‘boost.’ There are also a number of very difficult “challenges” or “trials” with achievements. If you generally only play a game until you finish the campaign, resign yourself to having about 30% achievement completion for Magicka 2.
-Despite not looking that much prettier than the first game, Magicka 2 has noticeably higher system requirements. I also encountered this weird bug where the game will reset the resolution every time I start it. It only takes a minute to set the resolution again, but it’s annoying.

Overall, Magicka 2 is a great game that is better with friends. If you take it slow, you can probably beat the highest difficulty by yourself, but what’s the fun in that.

Deep level of playability , hilarious.

I finished this game in 8 hours.

This game is dull. My friend and I got it to play together because it sounded like it could be fun; but we were very wrong.

The game, at first, seems alright. The graphics are fine. Nothing really stands out as being bad. You go through a tutorial learning how the mechanics work. Friendly fire is always a fun way to troll your friend (and boy do I like to troll my friend.) And the game is fun for the first couple of chapters. But then it starts getting repetitive. It's just you dealing with changing waves of monsters. Over and over again. You don't level up. Your magic doesn't improve. You don't find better loot. (I mean, you do find new weapons/robes/staffs but they're not necesarilly stronger; they just may fit your play style better.) So My friend and I played one night together. It was fun. We played the next night together and it was still fun at first but by the end of that play session, we were bored of the game. Only a few hours into the game.

The gameplay just isn't unique enough to be fun as is. It's essentially "spray magic elements" at waves of enemies. You can get more advanced with your attacks. You can put shields on yourself. You can apply magic to you sword. There are different combinations of magic you can cast and it can but fun to mess around with. But it's all temporary. It gets very tiring of having to recast the same magic over and over again. There is a hot bar for quick access to some spells, but there should really be a customizable hotbar for your personal combos you like to make.

And to be fair, the lousy gameplay would be fine if it at least had a good story. But it's not a good story. It tries to be funny but fails. It's filled with small references to everything but in a way that's just not funny. More just random than anything. By the end of our 2nd play session, we were just skipping the dialogue because it was absolutely pointless and a waste of time.

So. Boring gameplay. Dull story. Terrible jokes. (and not even the good kind that are still kinda funny like Dad jokes. just really bad jokes.) Would not reccomend.

It's not exactly like the first game. Seems shorter and the humor can seem a little obnoxious sometimes. That said, it's quite fun.

Magicka will be a good game if you play it with your friends. XD

Fantastic game. Great to play solo or Local Co-op with up to 4 friends. Easy to play hard to master. I think this game is highly unrated. Deffinitally one of my all time fav games. The controller suppourt works like a dream and you can tell the creators really loved making this game. HIGHLY RECCOMEND

This game is made cool. But when playing alone it is "drochevo ebanoye".