Magicka 2, Episode 2: Attack of the Spell Balance Beta.

Yes, I am alive, I'm just A) Lazy, and B) Pinned under mountains of A-level work, hence the lack of reviews,  but onwards to 5 minutes of your life your never getting back...


For any of this gobshite to make sense you need  , in fact need is abit strong, I recommended that you read this : http://lvlupreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/magicka-2-i-learned-to-spell-again-very.html

So as those of you who are unfortunate enough to read my reviews, y’all may know that I have a slight distaste for Magicka 2, slight being a massive understatement, as left me with a massive sense of disappointment and a feeling of resentment towards pre-ordering, only recently cured by XCOM 2.
But all my bitching and whining is now irrelevant, well not irrelevant, but less justified. As far as the base game which was delivered unto my arms like a ugly new-born goes, it still dislike it. But now the baby has had extensive cosmetic surgery and is now looking and feeling a lot better.


They fixed the issue where elements wouldn't combine to make one element (e.g Fire/Water to steam) and also apologised  by adding a new combo element, Poison (Death and Water). This has made me a very very happy person indeed. As a result they scaled the enemies, but I don't care, as now I feel like that Overpowered red robed psychopath from the first game. Weapon enchantments actually do something and actually can hit your enemies and do quite significant damage, unlike the first game where you might as well have tried to batter them with a sachet of Ketchup for what it was worth.


After giving it some time the moving while casting has actually grown on me, and combinations from the first game that cheese'd enemies now cheese them slightly less. The Steam and lightning combo has been balanced, which means its useful against crowds, but useless against single targets.


The devs listened to the annoyed people, and instead of silencing their criticisms, they responded, and have as a result fixed their , not broken, but damaged game. They have returned it to what made the first game great and then made this game good. It will by no means ever be better than the first iteration of hotdog wielding robed lunatics kill each other with magic, but god damn it ALOT better, to the point where I will 100% it, because its fun now, and I am an achievement whore.


REVISED LEVEL: 8-9/10
Commendations for the Devs.
Game link : http://store.steampowered.com/app/238370/


Dan.