This is my favorite cooperative game.

Welcome to the Weekly Co-Op!

This week’s second cooperative game will be Magicka 2!

Players: 1-4

Price :$14.99

Platform: PC, PS4

image from http://store.steampowered.com/app/238370/Magicka_2/

Magicka 2 is everything I love about gaming in an awesome little package. It requires good memorization, quick thinking, and fast fingers to be good a this game, but it is just as fun to go through with someone who has no idea what’s going on. This is just a fun game. Playing by yourself is fun if you know what you’re doing, but playing with friends is fun no matter the situation.

While I love this game, there is a lot to learn about the game. The story is your regular hero story: nobody can save the world from some bad guy and now you have to. The majority of learning you are going to be doing is based on the spells you use. You are a wizard, so you use spells. A lot. There is a melee, but it is pretty boring on its’ own. Spells make this game something like I have never experience before.

There are too many spells to count, and they all start from 8 types (2 spell-types assigned to each face button with a trigger to switch between the two) that can combine or cancel each other out. For example, rock spells will be cancelled if you try to put lightning in the spell.

To cast spells, the player has a 6 slot queue to put spells types into and cast something from it. For example, you could put 2 death spells, a rock spell, and 2 more death spells in your queue and area cast them to create a huge spiked wall around you. There are four different ways to cast as well: self, weapon, area, and beam. Each are activated different ways and all do different things with the same combinations.

The spells and casting them are complex, but can be as simple as you want. Don’t feel like learning the spell to cast a swarm of damaging birds around you? No Problem! Shooting fire at someone works just as well! This is how this game is able to attract any audience. There is so much experimentation you could do, but you could also just learn the basics and be completely fine.

*PSA: Make sure the people you are playing with know the revive spell and you can pretty much never die. It’s really easy to cast.

Also, friendly fire is permanently on.

There is so much more I could write about this game, but I think its’ best if you experience it for yourself. If you like getting to experiment in games and enjoy top-down brawlers, this is your game. I couldn’t recommend it more.