![]() If you're a veteran of the first game, you'll find all of the humorous, light-hearted atmosphere intact here. ![]() In the midst of your spell casting concoctions, you're liable to harm fiends and portly peasants alike, with nary a worry of the moral repercussions. Pop culture invades much of the dialogue, referencing everything from Harry Potter to The Fast and the Furious, with a satiric script that lampoons all manner of social and political issues. Even the prologue I paraphrased above is delivered in a less than ominous tone by the vampiric narrator and mentor named Vlad, who expends a great deal of effort to conceal his undeath from public scrutiny. Magicka 2, like its predecessor, takes its calamity ridden story with a grain of salt and a pinch of sugar. butterflies and cheese wedges? Okay, scratch all that serious overtone. As an all-powerful Wizard commanding the elements, you must stare death in the face, charge into the seething mass of hate, tackle the dark, sinister. All manner of foul creatures are pouring into civilized lands, corrupting all they touch. The short-lived peace in the world of MidgÄrd is now threatened by an encroaching evil intent on extinguishing the prophet child imbued with stray magical energies from the recent Wizard Wars.
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