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Game is too hard, game design feels like a hit-or-miss, the tutorial and guide can be presented in a better way. I'm not very patient waiting for all the text messages to show and perhaps showing some video scenes can be more intuitive and easier to follow.
Could have been more fun for single players but the developer chose to make it this hard.
Casting spells can often be hard because:
(1) There are too many combinations of spells to memorize.
(2) There are many ways to cast, mouse wheel, spacebar, shift + mouse wheel, shift + right click, and you also have shift + right click to use your second weapon, which is quite confusing and makes it even harder.
(3) Some ways of casting may harm myself. Friendly fire cannot be disabled, why?
(4) The order of the spells sometimes matters.
(5) If you have added a wrong spell, you cannot cancel the it and you are forced to cast all of them.
(6) There are many combinations of spells but many of them actually give quite similar results. Do we really need 5 slots?
(7) The number shortcut keys don't allow assigning custom spell combinations. It's not fun, period.
The character is quite weak and casting spells is too time-consuming, it is also a battle against time because the map is so tiny and the monsters walk so fast, you always need to act fast.
Right now it isn't quite suitable for casual gamers like me but I think this is supposed to be a casual game.
Don't get me wrong, I like the overall idea of the game but I hope that the developer can make the game easier to play in Magicka 3.
Perhaps it is supposed to be played in co-op mode with some friends, at least in the final boss battle I guess, as the final boss is quite souls-like, you only have 2 lives, it's a really long battle, and if you are not good at football or pool games you are also screwed.
Love the overall graphics and character design though.
To conclude, I don't think I'd recommend this game for single-player casual gamers and average gamers as it can be quite challenging to play. However, it should be okay if you have fast fingers and good at memorizing spells or you play this game with friends.
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Edit:
Turns out there is a skill called Revive that can essentially give infinite lives in the single-player mode, so I could gradually make progress during my battle with the final boss and defeating it was just a matter of time. However, I'm not really a fan of repeatedly dying and resurrecting, and this also defeats the purpose of health points and life spells. I don't like this final boss fight in which the golem boss is actually easy to kill and the hardest part is to kick the balls.