Played with three other friends for a full party. Key: Amount of pluses on Pros are how nice they are, and amount of minuses on cons state how big of a negative impact the con had. Pros: ++++Wonderfully pretty game, top notch visuals. +++The co-op action is very fun, for the first half of the first run. The glitches can be funny when they’re not game breaking. ++The overall animations and small details are quite nice. ++Great voice acting for sure, everyone sounds fantastic… what little voice acting there is. +During the very few times you could combine spells, it’s a lot of fun. +The variety of staffs, and what they do is nice. There’s lots of variants of the base staffs too. ++Controller support is nice as well as mouse + keyboard. (Can switch from controller to M+KB mid game but not from M+KB to controller) +(-)Character design is very nice, too bad you have to slog through the game to enjoy it. ++The character quips are fun, and you can change them on the fly! You can make your character act different and say different things with a button press. Cons: --------PAY ATTENTION, CRITICAL FAIL-------- DO NOT play this game single player. It is extremely slow as is without friends, and with them the game becomes barely tolerable. If you do not have three friends to join you on your journey I’d be surprised if you make it past the mid-way point before getting so board you quit. This game is not designed for single player at all. --------PAY ATTENTION, CRITICAL FAIL-------- -----Game has so many glitches and literally took three days of bug testing ON THE USERS PART just to get this thing to run. The hassle of this alone almost made us refund. Issues involvel constant crashing, network issues, game breaking bugs. --Game flow is garbage: this is how the game plays, walk around the edges of the map looking for collectables, random encounter, repeat until end. No puzzles, just fighting and collecting. ---SERIOUSLY?---This is a four player co-op game that has 8 characters, 4 variants of each character, and yet you can only use the first two basic version of the human male and female characters. Think about how bad of a design choice this is; four people playing, there are not enough characters at the start to have everyone be a different character. --Enemy variety is awful, there are about 12 different enemies that get old fast in this game that get different elements (fire enemy can’t be hurt by fire etc). ------The enemy mechanics are unfun. We played this game on normal because we quickly realized anything more would be a chore. Every fight is a slog due to the overuse of shield enemies that reflect everything you do, can only be hurt from the back, and spin around like a CS:GO spinbot. ---Unlocking characters does not feel rewarding, and is spaced out so bizarrely it’s almost disturbing. Here is how you unlock a character; first you get lucky and RNG unlock their staff (some of the ways staffs are unlocked are killing an enemy holding one in a very particular way that the game does not tell you how to do). Then you must complete their personal quest. Two unlock in the middle of the game, and the other six at the very last six levels of the game?????? -Cannot change characters mid game. Simple as that, although considering nearly all the characters are locked at the end, so who needs this feature amirite? -Starting the game up again makes no sense in co-op. Okay so get this, you have to have the host of the game and press the “resume” button at the top, if you do not you will reset your progress! --Bad net code. Nothing more to say about this, enjoy lag, character stutter, poor connections, etc. --There is no such thing as private games, even using the resume button it's a public game. --Piss poor story and ending was limper than your Granddad’s dick. Summary: Somehow the creators of this game managed to make an extremely pretty Magicka, but only half understood what made that game fantastic. This game is begging to be replayed over and over but is so slow, boring, and full of unfun mechanics why would you ever? It is such a beautiful game but it’s only skin deep.
