History VideoGame / Magicka2

A sequel to ''{{VideoGame/Magicka}}'' released for PC and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 on May 26th, 2015, Magicka 2 is another top-down spellcasting-based hack-and-slash-like game, allowing you to control a Wizard and cast various spells in various ways in order to kill enemies while simultaneously avoiding (or not) killing your friends. The spell system was reworked, allowing players to move in various directions while casting simpler spells, while eliminating some [[GameBreaker game-breaking options]]. The story runs on self-referential, pythonic humor as seen in previous game.

** If you fall for the ShmuckBait it's still possible for you to pick up your weapon.
** Basic weapon enchantments now last far longer than just one hit. Compared to the first game, where melee was next to useless, this means the constant zerg rushes you're faced with are a bit more manageable with strong melee.

* ShmuckBait: "Note to self: This is a bad ending. ~Stanley."

** Steam and Ice are no longer considered "combined elements"; before casting them, wizards keep both Water and Fire/Cold conjured. This means that you can't have three or more of these elements within a spell, and also that you can't mix them with Lightning.
** Lightning is has more priority than the beams, blocking you from creating electric mines and beams.

** Most elemental shields don't protect you from associated status until you add them to spell at least twice.

*** A later patch fixed/changed the first three points, so steam/ice only takes up one slot on the conjure bar and arcane beams take precedence over lightning. These two changes allowed the fan-favourite "Super Steam Beam" (one of the strongest spells in the previous installment) to be cast again. A new element, poison, has also been "added" (as in it can now be cast; before, it was only available if you had certain gear and enemies) and the cooldown for Magicks has been reduced to only a few seconds.

** Magic Quickslots allow you to cast magicks without remembering their element combinations, or risking mistyping them, or accidentally killing yourself because you were trying to cast lightning when wet. You have to deal with longer cooldown though.
*** A minor bit is that casting Magicks with combinations results in a cooldown only a few seconds, allowing skilled players to throw them out frequently.

** A minor one, but basic weapon enchantments now last far longer than just one hit. Compared to the first game, where melee was next to useless, this means the constant zerg rushes you're faced with are a bit more manageable with strong melee.

* GratuiousJapanese: It's never explained why two of the characters encountered speak Japanese. Also see BilingualBonus above.

A sequel to ''{{VideoGame/Magicka}}'' released for PC and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 on May 26th, 2015, Magicka 2 is another hack-and-slash-like "third person spellcaster" game, allowing you to control a Wizard and cast various spells in various ways in order to kill enemies while simultaneously avoiding (or not) killing your friends. The spell system was reworked, allowing players to move in various directions while casting simpler spells, while eliminating some [[GameBreaker game-breaking options]]. The story runs on self-referential, pythonic humor as seen in previous game.

* {{Nerf}}: Multiple Magicks are simply missing, but barring that:

*** A later patch fixed that, allowing combined elements to be one element on the conjure bar.

*** The patch mentioned above also changed that, allowing the fan-favourite "Super Steam Beam" (one of the strongest spells in the previous installment) to be cast again.

*** Its been reduced to only a few seconds between any Magick that is used with the spell formula after patch.

* GrayAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler: Lok]] seems to just naively think her race lording over other people is for the best and even liked the wizards, she only acts antagonistic when you kill everyone in the castle as she realized the stories about wizards recless and destructive behavior were well founded.

* MultiplayerDifficultySpike: Inverted. The game was clearly designed to be played with friends who can quickly revive you in-case either of you go down. Playing solo has you dealing with massive swarms of enemies that can easily gang up and kill you with your only way of reviving being a familiar. Two bosses are ''unbeatable'' on higher than Normal difficulty because they regenerate too much health for your spells to take off while knocking you all over the place or killing you.

** Magic Quickslots allow you to cast magicks without remembering their element combinations, or risking mistyping them. You have to deal with longer cooldown though. On top of thatyou can't die from using lightning in the magicka if you're wet.

* FakeDifficulty: The game was clearly designed to be played with friends who can quickly revive you in-case either of you go down. Playing solo has you dealing with massive swarms of enemies that can easily gang up and kill you with your only way of reviving being a familiar. Two bosses are ''unbeatable'' on higher than Normal difficulty because they regenerate too much health for your spells to take off while knocking you all over the place or killing you.

** Magic Quickslots allow you to cast magicks without remembering their element combinations, or risking mistyping them. You have to deal with longer cooldown though.

* FakeDifficulty: The game was clearly designed to be played with friends who can quickly revive you in-case either of you go down. Playing solo has you dealing with massive swarms of enemies that can easily gang up and kill you with your only way of reviving being a familiar. Two bosses are ''unbeatable'' on higher than Normal diffuculty because they regenerate too much health for your spells to take off while knocking you all over the place or killing you.

* PlotTwist: After the Wizards save the child of prophecy from the goblin'n'ork army, [[spoiler: she traps them together with Metaxas, the goblin shaman, who explains that now she'll get too powerful for the world's good.]]

* ZergRush: Your enemies' favorite strategy.

A sequel to [[{{VideoGame/Magicka}} Magicka]] released for PC and {{PlayStation 4}} on May 26th, 2015, Magicka 2 is another hack-and-slash-like "third person spellcaster" game, allowing you to control a Wizard and cast various spells in various ways in order to kill enemies while simultaneously avoiding (or not) killing your friends. The spell system was reworked, allowing players to move in various directions while casting simpler spells, while eliminating some [[GameBreaker game-breaking options]]. The story runs on self-referential, pythonic humor as seen in previous game.

* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Cheese is omnipresent in this game, and there's a goblin carrying a cheese slicer called Cheese King sitting atop a pile of cheese before it engages you. You can use that as a melee weapon after dealing with him.

** Sent home? given the quotation marks and highlighted text, and the fact that [[spoiler: the spell she is being sucked into is clearly the Vortex Magick(which murders things sucked into it) from the first game. Vlad was straight up killing her. For her new castle apparently.]]

** Sent home? given the quotation marks and highlighted text, and the fact that [[spoiler: that spell she is being sucked into is clearly the Vortex Magick(which murders things sucked into it) from the first game. Vlad was straight up killing her. For her new castle apparently.]]

** Sent home? given the quotation marks and highlighted text, and the fact that [[spoiler that spell she is being sucked into is clearly the Vortex Magick(which murders things sucked into it) from the first game. Vlad was straight up killing her. For her new castle apparently.]]