I had trouble with level two as well, with the bomb lobbing goblins. Then I realized the game suggests using your "push" ability and this same push also pushes away bombs... and gets them goblins killing each other. It helps, but it doesn't finish them up, so you'll still have to kill them the old fashioned way. Also, I realized that once I died, I could speed up using haste through the previous goblins (the ones located before you reach the town) but it bugged me that I couldn't cancel the "cutscene" from the store guy screaming about the goblins ("rackafrack!?")

This checkpoint system actually works against the game's humor. It might make it longer in a cheap way, but how many times can a line be funny if you keep seeing it over and over again? That's my one big gripe about the game. The rest is quite enjoyable and a fun experience with friends.

Spacebar - skips cutscenes.

A e R - slows multiple objects. Very helpful. (Electro + freeze)

Magicka is hardcore, it's like back in good old times.

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I've been playing the early few stages the past week and I'm pretty slow to get past them mainly because I'm not too used to the magic system as yet.

I've been playing this week as well but it's the Chinese New Year week, so I've only got time to play after I come back from visiting. However, I'm at the later stages, and already have discovered my favourite spells to use and since you use them so much, you'll remember the exact keys to hit and you can hit them real fast. A typical player using Thunderbolt should be able to hit they keys required within a split second. So practically you'll be casting the Thunderbolt every single second, which clears bosses and enemies real fast.
It gets much easier and faster once you remember the spells. I used to cast Shield to protect myself from archers and then hit and run and kill them one by one. Now I simply just cast Conflagration on them and they die by the hordes. I'd say you can clear a level by 20-30 mins provided you know what you're doing. Some Chapters like 6 and 11 are alot more brutal, so you'll probably need more time trying.

Some of my favourite spell combos:
A+S+A = Lightning Arcane Beam
A+S+R = Lighting, Freeze Beam
F+Q+A+S+A = Steam Lightning Beam (the most OP beam)
F+Q+A+S+A+Space = Lightning Bolt as well
R+E+D = Stone Barrier with Frost, enemy gets distracted and hits the barrier, touching them freezes and slows them
R+E+S = Frost Landmines, enemy who touches them flies away and gets frosted.
FQ+F+FQ+F+FQ = Conflag, perfect spell for hordes of enemies or Archers.

Once you complete the game, u restart from Chapter 1 with ALL the spells and weapons you have gathered. So you can pawn everything from the start with all the seriously OP spells.
Surprisingly for a game that supposed to be light on the seriousness and heavy on the humour side, the bosses of the last 2 stages are somewhat hardcore in their appearances and abilities like they're from a real D&D RPG or a JPRG.

I'll look you up and add you on Steam. Not to sure how the game will run in an online environment but we can give it a shot.

The game is a very good idea and the spell system is the best I've seen in a video game. The dialogue is also very funny.

But man is this game frustrating and throwing in the glitches makes it unecessarily hard.

I've now completed the game successfully.
It was absolutely fun.
Once you get known with the button wizardry you're set.
I actually get the M60 till the end.
Great for getting those archers without blowing yourself up.