Magicka DLC Lets You Be a “Mega” Villain
Hear about this one? A game on Steam called Magicka, where you play as a robed mage fighting against an evil sorcerer, added some new DLC this week that’s, let’s just say… a bit “Megafied.” If you’re anyone who considers themselves a Mega Man fan, you can probably recognize the references these special mages draw inspiration from.
Of course, this is no Mega Man game, but I did ask a friend of mine about Magicka. He said the best way to imagine it is a fantasy take on the game Smash TV. While it may look like an RPG of the same cloth as Diablo or Torchlight, it’s actually more or less a flat out action game. There is no emphasis on leveling or loot, but instead building up your arsenal of magic spells and using the elements effectively. I’m also told the game has a pretty fun sense of humor – of course, Robot Master themed characters are evident of that, and in fact the game has a number of mage types that pay homage to other properties.
Although I don’t think I’d pick up this game myself just for some Mega Man inspired goodies, it does still sound pretty fun. If anyone out there has given this a try, you ought to let us know what you think about it. But as you can see, it’s not just us shmucks who love Mega Man. Game developers love him too!
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Have it. Played through about the first two levels and haven’t touched it much since. Mostly because I was terrible at reacting in time and picking the right combinations for spells (QAWSEDRF keys are bound to various elements, mouse is used for movement and anything else). I’d imagine it’s rather fun when getting together with some friends. You’re given healing and even revival spells among other things such as “Crash to Desktop”, so it’d make for a rather crazy time I’m sure. Alone though, I felt I was in over my head often times.
Yeah, bought these a few days ago, pretty fun stuff, although it seems like of the three Fire Man’s is the best.
One of the strongest spells “Phoenix” calls down a phoenix on your head that instant kills anything around you, revives the whole team, and kills you do to heavy fire damage. All three are healed by their elements.
Cue the player having a full screen nuke with no cooldown.
Iceman’s is nice, but healing is unwieldy at best.
And Elecman’s has good range for the Lightning spell, but the best way to heal is simply to soak him so casting Lightning automaticly self-casts onto yourself. Course, that deprives you of your main element, but hey, it’s a thought
It’s ridiculously fun to play with friends. Just a blast.
That’s really neat! Hmm…The idea of wizard versions of robot masters is certainly interesting…
Well, now I’ma have to buy this game. These guys are officially awesome.
Went and bought the DLC before I even finished reading this article.
Oh hey, I have the game and saw that dlc and didn’t realize the mega man reference.
Magicka is pretty fun. It’s pretty unique, there’s no mana/MP/SP, no levels, no skill system and no equipment other than a weapon and a staff (which fall over whenever you die). You can do any spell you want anytime you want. You have 8 elements and you push a certain button for each element, so you get one cold for an icy spray, or one arcane for a magical beam, etc..
The thing is that you have 5 slots to stack up elements before casting the spell, so you can do fire+arcane for a fire beam, or ground+arcane+water for a boulder, that explodes in a magical blast, that showers enemies, so you can then cast your chain lighting for extra damage.
You can use almost any one combination you want, which was what made people so crazy about it when it came out. There’s a limited amount of vague kinds of spells there actually is in the game (beam, spray, boulder, shards, mines, barrier, etc) but every element has its own twist to that kind of spell (sets on fire, puts ice spikes on it, heals, etc). And every usable spell can also be set to your weapon so it’ll release it when you do a normal attack.
One fun thing is that you can cast any spell on yourself, regardless if it is a magical shield, heal, or just 5 fires.
In multiplayer there’s full friendly fire, which makes it easier to kill an ally than killing an enemy, and it has no anti-griefing measures, so I wouldn’t play online if it weren’t just friends. You can play solo if you want, though.
You can see a little of the game from the very start in youtube if you search for wtf is magicka.
Steam has a free demo of it, too. Steam itself is also free, of course.
@Cactus
Cactus describe this game very well.
But the game isn’t really good in single player.
In multiplayers it’s just a MASSIVE blast of insanity as you BURN/FREEZE/EXPLODE everything in creative way.
I strongly advice you to play on a teamSpeak with people you know.
This DLC is worthless as it add no more than robe for mage.