Magicka 2
The world’s most irreverent co-op action adventure returns! In the next chapter of Magicka, players ascend from the ruins of Aldrheim to experience a Midgård almost wiped free of Wizards after the Wizard Wars, with the few that do remain having either gone mad or extremely hostile toward all others. To rid the world of evil, again, up to four Wizards, and their guide Vlad, will traverse Midgård armed with the next iteration of the famous Magicka dynamic spellcasting system, as players reprise their roles as the most overpowered, unpredictably funny Wizards ever known to fantasy! Learn to Spell Again… Again! Ye olde hybrid elements Steam and Ice from Magicka 1 are back, joined by the brand new Poison! This means tons of new spells to cast at friends and foes – complete with larger explosions and greatly improved graphics!
Game Discussion
Steam User 8
Pros
- fun to play with friends, new story, the dialogue is funny and interesting.
- new interactions with making spells like arcane (now called death) + water = poison, cold+death shooting at someone using fire+death make a secondary explosion which is pretty neat to experiment with the different spells interacting with friends!
Cons
- Achievement hunting is needlessly tedious with grindy achievements like elimate your friends 1000 times, perish 1000 times... Would've been much better if it was maybe 200 at max.
- The challenge set of achievements on bananas difficulty is a slog to get through but that's really the only TRUE challenging bit of content in the game.
Steam User 5
This is a fun game to play, however you do need to concentrate or you will kill yourself and your teammates a lot!!
Steam User 7
Difficulty levels in this game are fundamentally broken and it makes this game MUCH LESS FUN than it could be.
On normal difficulty all enemies have a fair amount of HP, move fast, and deal normal damage. The entire game can be completed by using a single combination of electric+arcane+fire laser, because it is a spell that deals an insane amount of damage and has a lot of different elements in it so it ignores most resistances. The game is extremely easy and provides no challenge on normal difficulty.
On hard difficulty, however, all enemies receive a FLAT 50 HP regen per second. This breaks almost all balance in the game, because now your only chance to kill an enemy is to use a devastating burst spell, like boulder or icicle barrage. All Damage Over Time and slowing spells become essentially useless, since the enemy often regenerates half of the DPS you do to them. This is a very lazy game design choice and it massively hinders the game's ability to give the player some healthy and challenging gameplay.
Anyway, the game is not being updated anymore, so leaving a negative review about balance is not going to change anything.
The game is good and has some great and interesting magic casting mechanics: There are over 1000 possible combinations of elements which all lead to different spellcasts. The gameplay is quite deep and unique, the only thing I don't like is when the game swarms you by tons of strong enemies from all sides, forcing you to run around and avoid enemy attacks without any chance to strike back.
But if you don't demand a lot of challenge and just want to cast some interesting spells at random goblins and bugs - this game is perfect, and even better if you have a couple of friends.
Steam User 5
Played with a friend, great fun. It is more of a PVP than a PVE game since your friend is your biggest enemy.
Steam User 6
Magicka 2 is a sequel to the popular game Magicka, the game has you casting a variety of spells made up of various elements to progress through the world and defeat dangerous foes, this game is a great game with lots of humour and references to pop culture and can be quite challenging at times, it can be played solo or co-op with up to 3 other people, i recommend this over the first game simply because the first game is broken and is basically unplayable, the graphics are better in this game and the spell effects look nicer, I feel there are way too many enemies on the lowest difficulty though and it gets overwhelming. Overall its really fun though!
Steam User 4
Bought it because I enjoyed the game mechanics and humor of the first game so much. Only played it single-player and had a fine experience, everything runs extremely well on my mid-range PC. Minor gameplay improvements since the first game that were much appreciated and the humor in the dialogue is still top notch albeit predictable. Only experienced a couple bugs where the game didn't know it was supposed to progress the story so I had to redo those sections.
Steam User 3
Magicka 2 - The game that teaches you to spell...literally.
This game took what the first game had, massive potential and a great sense of humour and multiplied that by 2 (the game's number) and it's a super fun game to jam with a couple of friends!
One thing that I would like to mention is this game adds movement while priming and even casting spells which is completely different from the movement mechanics of the first game. Still, after getting used to it, it handles a lot better and looks a ton better than the first game.
Highly recommend if you liked the first game! The spells are even the same if you have some "pro" strats from that game. One thing that absolutely destroys in this game - The black hole (life + death colliding)!