Magicka 2 fizzles with repetitive and frustrating gameplay

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Magicka 2, the follow-up to publisher Paradox Entertainment’s original, frenetic four-player action-adventure game (available now on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC, which I reviewed), started out with a bang, a bunch of laughs, and a pile of dead wizards. I gathered up a few friends who were new to the series, gave them a brief description of what to expect, and we all enthusiastically jumped right in. Within 10 minutes, we were all freezing, shocking, burning, and cursing each other — when we could stop laughing long enough, that is.

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