I had not one but TWO gaming friends over as a bit of a surprise last night, and since they're my friends who both like playing Magicka 2, we tried out Magicka 1 at the insistence of my friend I attempted to play it with last time. This review is going to act like more of an addendum to my other Magicka review, because the game still has all the mechanical and crashing problems that it's always had.
The thing I thought most worth mentioning about this DLC was that when I tried it before solo, it was basically impossible. However with two other people (only one of which really knew what she was doing, mind you), absolutely PLOWED through this thing in less than an hour before the game could even crash on us once. We only ever got one game over even! I don't know why I didn't see it before, but Magicka 1 is very much a game with the Borderlands 2 problem. The game is really REALLY heavily designed around the assumption that you will always be playing co-op. As a result, there are some bosses that are effectively impossible to beat solo because they assume that the player will have another player to kite their attention while another player smashes them in the face. Otherwise the boss has virtually no downtime and is a far, FAR more difficult fight to get through. Granted, Magicka is still a buggy mess, so the more players you have online make it that many more times likely to crash in the middle of the stage while you're playing it because the netcode also sucks. Verdict: (still) Hesitantly Recommended.
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