Anything goes

Magicka is a great game. Awesome humor and infinite possibilities.

The game is a typical kill monsters and the boss, then you advance to the next level rpg style game.

Forget mana and levelups. What makes this game special is the . . .

Spell casting system.

You basically know about 8 kinds of magic:

• Healing
• Shielding
• Water magic
• Ice magic
• Lightningmagic
• Arcane magic
• Fire magic
• Dirt magic

At any given time you can mix all of these magic elements into a magic-mixer which has five slots.

You can fill the slots up with one kind of magic, or mix suitable base magics together to create among other things, bombs and land mines.

There is nothing stopping you from creating every spell in the game the first time you walk out the castle door. But it would be kind of hard to figure all the special combinations of magic out yourself.

The game solves this by hiding recipes of powerful spells in books which you can find around the world. After a book has been picked up, the spell becomes available in the spell library. But this does not mean you can hotkey the spell, you must manually add the elements of the spell each time you want to cast it. You’ll get a cool overlay to help you remember the spells. Just choose a spell with mouse scrollwheel and it shows you what kind of magic should be applied in what order.

The eight kinds of magic are mapped to eight different buttons on the keyboard. After a bit of getting used to, this system works like a charm.

Each spell you create can be casted in one of three modes. You can cast at a target, an area around you, or on yourself. Shielding and healing spells is casted upon self. But all the other spells can be casted onto self as well.

E.g if you start to burn, you can cast water spell on yourself to put it out. If you walk into a river, you become wet. And lightning magic works a ton better against you. So you better dry yourself by casting a little fire magic onto yourself.

There is nothing stopping you from casting healing spells upon targets as well. The first time you unintentionally heals a boss right about to crumble is indeed a special moment of wtfs. Or when you cast a heal-block spell upon yourself, denying yourself to be healed. etc ;D

The spellcasting system is a joy to use. I have spent countless hours experimenting and trying to find  some really powerful spells, I have come across a particular spell which must be the death ray. I can basically one-shot every boss in the game. But it’s not good against crowds so I die a lot while trying to use it on hoards of enemies.

Burning with desire

Your ingame mentor, Vlad

He is totally not a vampire!

Why is this game so awesome

This game is so awesome because of the way they have managed to create a game of logic and puzzle-solving by using spells. There is basically a spell or mix of spells right for every situation, and you must careful choose which one or else you die. But you can always resort to brute-force. One of the best spells in the game consists of loading up with 5-parts of dirt-magic. Which basically hauls a large boulder at your enemy, smoldering them. If there are many enemies walking in a line, the boulder grinds them all to stew.

So I guess the humor and the countless possibilies of the spellcaster system are the two most important parts of this game. Something which is a bit of a drawback is the level system and saving. The game is checkpoint based. But if you reach a checkpoint, quit the game then and start playing again at a later time. The checkpoint save is disregarded and you start from the beginning of the level. So beware of this when you start to play 10 minutes before you are supposed to go to bed…. lesson learned.

But all it really did for me was extending the Magick experience that is Magicka. 9 /10

ps: Super spell = S-FQ-FQ-AA (Arcane-Steam-Steam-Lightning-Lightning)