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''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131124034243/http://www.magickagame.com/ Magicka]'' is a [[Hack and Slash]] game for the PC, at its roots in the [[Gauntlet (1985 video game)]] gameplay we all know and love, but with plenty of quirks of its own. One to four players each control a wizard and travel the monster-infested countrysides, guided by Vlad ([[Suspiciously Specific Denial|who is]] [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|totally not a vampire]]) and a variety of other [[Speaking Simlish|Simlish-speaking]] people. Yeah, it's that kind of game.
The main selling point of the gameplay lies within the magic system. Using eight basic elements (water, life, shield, cold, electricity, arcane, earth, fire) and two special elements (ice and steam, which are water + cold and water + fire, respectively), players craft and cast their spells at a moment's notice. For further customization, spells can be cast in a standard fashion, in a circle around the wizard, on the wizard's weapon, or on the wizard himself. There are also special spells called Magicks gained from books placed throughout the campaign that offer even more powerful abilities.
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Oh, and you don't have a [[Mana Meter]]. Cast what you want, as often as you want, provided that you can get the elements up fast enough.
Out now, the first expansion: '''Magicka''': ''[[The Vietnam War|Vietnam]]'', on the justification that [[Battlefield: Bad Company
A second expansion, ''The Stars are Left'', was released on November 29, 2011, with content based off of (and, of course, spoofing) the works of [[
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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Grimnir was initially interested in learning all Magic to create an era of peace, but his neverending lust for knowledge quickly twisted him into the monster he is today {{spoiler|and led him to be Assatur's host.}}
* [[Anti
* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: Most NPCs don't even seem to notice you're blasting them with spells.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]:
** While enemies will usually take all manner of approaches in trying to kill you, they will never, ever take notice of the Vortex spell, and will consistently march to their deaths in their attempts to get near you.
** When they have the choice between going around a rock wall cast by a wizard and trying to smash trough the rock wall, they will generally try to smash through it which takes much, much longer.
** Caster enemies occasionally seem to confuse their spells, hitting you with a healing spell and an ally with a fire ball. This is more prevalent with lower tier enemies such as goblin mages.
* [[Ascended Glitch]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0k3iYDfwDU&feature=related This. (Apparently the development team liked it so much that it's staying.)]
* [[Attack Reflector]]: Arcane beams are one of the more powerful and frequently used spells in the game. Too bad they can bounce completely off of shields while doing very little damage to the shield itself. Against some enemies later in the game that use shields and arcane beams, keeping this in mind is very important.
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** [[Deflector Shields|Shield]] is a basic element. By itself, it can create a dome, half-shield, or a personal force field. All three reflect beams and block a certain amount of damage, but personal shields reduce knockdown resistance. Shields were also adjusted in a later update to deteriorate a lot faster and no longer heal from healing mines (personal shields formerly absorbed all forms of healing), making maintaining a personal shield a lot more difficult.
** Fortunately, they also adjusted the shield + rock and shield + ice spells in this same update to allow the player to move, meaning you can form rock or ice armor that blocks physical damage, but won't stop fire or deflect arcane.
* [[Battle
* [[Beam-O-War]]: If beams are of opposite elements, they explode at the point of contact... [[Hilarity Ensues]]. The wizards (and enemies) can also combine their beams (think [[Star Wars|Death Star]]) [[For Massive Damage]]. Sometimes to themselves. The Rule of Opposites ''always'' applies.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The omnipresent [[Speaking Simlish|simlish]] is sprinkled with more-or-less genuine words. Frequently, these are (hilariously misplaced) Swedish. A shining example would be the time when a troll bursts through the encampment gate, and the captain screams in shock; "By [[Norse Mythology|Baldur's]] dong!"
* [[Black Comedy]]: Many examples, often caused "unintentionally" by the players as they randomly murder harmless NPCs and each other. Near the beginning, an NPC wizard blows up his tower and falls to his death; some time later {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|you travel back in time and crash into his tower, blowing it up and killing him]]}}. And at the end of the game, the players are plummeting to Earth on the remnants of the [[Big Bad]]'s formerly-floating lair, and Vlad tells them to use the [[Escape Rope|"Town Portal Magick"]] to get home. {{spoiler|The Town Portal Magick doesn't exist...}}
* [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers]]
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* [[Blown Across the Room]]: Explosive spells (and mines in general) tend to do this to anything standing nearby; it's possible to kill most enemies (with the exception of very huge ones) fairly easy via [[Ring Out]] just using mines. It also happens very easily to ''you'' if you happen to have a shield up.
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: "The Machine" boss. Complete with a Bond [[Shout
* [[Boss Banter]]: Vlad does this, and unsurprisingly uses the opportunity to drop [[Star Wars]] references.
* [[Boss Subtitles]]: Among them such names as "Fafnir, [[Homestar Runner|the Burninator]]".
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* [[Camera Screw]]: Excessive usage of skills with high knockback (read: mines) will lead to this, because the camera attempts to center itself in between the up to four players; a player being knocked far enough away (but not dying from falling damage or from a cliff) can actually cause the camera to be centered on nothing, with none of the players visible at all.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: The fairy following you provides cute but useless advice, such as "do something to complete the level!"
* [[Cartoon Bomb]]: Some goblins carry a big sack of these and throw them at you. [[Hoist
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** Yes, what exactly ''is'' the M60 doing in a fantasy game? It couldn't possibly be foreshadowing [[The Vietnam War|the expansion]], now could it?
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* [[Co-Op Multiplayer]]: Multiplayer mode can make the later levels quite a bit easier, since your offensive powers are multiplied and you can revive each other. However, since [[Friendly Fireproof]] is averted, you will end up dying much more often than in singleplayer. As [[Total Biscuit]] put it: "When the developers said this game had Co-Op, they were lying."
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]
* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Most of them seem to be this, and indeed can be defeated via brute force alone if you so choose or don't know better, but [[Subverted Trope|there's usually also a less obvious strategy or trick that will do the job with minimal effort]].
* [[Death From Above]]:
** Depending on how brave you are, and if you have a wizard in the party that has the [http://www.magickapedia.net/wiki/Wizard_Hat_DLC Wizard Hat DLC], have 1-4 of you queue up the [[Exactly What It Says
** The Thunderstorm spell is a non-DLC version of this, and equally if not more powerful. Thunderbolt (single) does this one at a time, with considerably more precision.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]:
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Fornskogur Forest's name roughly translates to "Ancient-Forest Forest".
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Your puny wizards manage to banish Assatur. PLUS, in The Stars Are Left DLC, you can kill the [[Trope Namer]] himself. Yes, the final boss is CTHULHU.}}
* [[Downloadable Content|DLC]]:
** Besides the Wizard's Hat and Vietnam, there's also the Marshlands Challenge. Thankfully, Paradox was nice enough to let everybody have the Caverns Challenge for free.
** The [[Player Versus Player|PvP]] update included several robe and map packs as well.
* [[Dummied Out]]: See [[Poisoned Weapons]]; Poison actually used to be a legitimate element on par with the other 10 elements, but was removed. You can still create Poison elementals by wielding [[Poisoned Weapons]], for example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZNqEGa6SU and some modders have even readded it]. Considering that Poison inflicted damage over time on enemies, slowed down their movements, and it could only be removed by healing, which only Elite Mooks and some bosses have, it may well have been an [[Averted Trope|averted]] [[Game Breaker]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The final boss, Assatur, is a trans-dimensional being, which alone should qualify him for this trope, but Assatur is also another name for Hastur, a monster in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]!
* [[Elemental Absorption]]: depending on the robes that your wizard (or an enemy wizard) is wearing, or the type of element that an enemy is, getting hit by that element will result in being healed instead of damaged.
* [[Elemental Powers]]
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* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: A core part of the gameplay, especially on co-op. Although in this case, it's just as much about avoiding damaging yourself as it is getting the right combo against the enemy.
* [[Epic Fail]]: [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/24/spell-check-5-mistakes-to-avoid-in-magicka/ Rock Paper Shotgun listed a few examples.] More will likely happen.
* [[Excalibur in
* [[Exploding Barrels]]:
** A variant, sometimes you will find boxes of dynamite lying around that you can blow up.
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* [[Final Boss Preview]]: The fight with Grimnir halfway through the game, which you cannot win. Also a [[Final Exam Boss]] due to his spells being either carbon copies of yours, or countered by a spell in your repitoire. {{spoiler|Including Nullify.}}
* [[Flaming Sword]]: The Blade of Surt, and really any fire element enchanted weapon.
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* [[For Massive Damage]]: Simply put, there's lots of ways to do massive amounts of damage to enemies. And teammates.
** An arcane beam with steam and electricity will create one of the most devastating combos in the game.<ref>(water + electricity = enemy paralyzed and taking damage at an astounding rate, and the arcane both makes it an infinite-range, sustainable beam and causes an [[Area of Effect]] explosion upon enemy death; more specifically, 2x Steam + 2x Lightning + Arcane is the most damaging ranged attack). The sequence is QFQFSAA.</ref>
** Lightning bolt, whilst only working outdoors, does 5,000 damage a pop (10k if the enemy is wet) and sends nearby enemies flying. Oh, and both Lightning Bolt and a standard Steam Beam use the exact same formula, just cast different ways.
** Then there's the "lightsaber" or "deathblade" enchantment: take the lightning bolt formula, add a Steam to it, then charge it to your melee weapon. You will now deal around 2.8k damage to anything that stands in your way, more or less depending on resistances and if the target is wet. Anything that survives will be soaked, allowing you to follow up with double-damage lightning or frost to stop them in their tracks and give you time to follow up with something else. One massive exploitable for this enchantment is to freeze your target (soak, then frost), then unleash your melee for triple damage. It's possible to [[One-Hit Kill]] lots of enemies this way. Including bosses.
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* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Given how buggy the game is (even after multiple patches), there are multiple ways of causing the game to crash or become unplayable.
** For example, {{spoiler|trying to cast Corporealize on Assatur in Chapter 6}} can cause a crash.
** One bug that has stuck around, though it is more of a design flaw: You are unable to pass the first tutorial while wearing the Tron robes. Why? Well, the first thing you have to do is cast Life on yourself, but the Tron robes are immune to the Life element... fortunately you can skip the tutorial, but if this is your first time playing, you might not have wanted to.
* [[Glass Cannon]]:
** ''You''. So very much, unless you're wearing Tank Robes (and to a lesser extent Space and Zombie robes). Most of your spells would be an instant kill on yourself. [[Hilarity Ensues|And there's Co-Op...]]
** In the Vietnam DLC, there's also the RPG Goblins. They're easy to dispatch, but since you won't have a personal shield up (see [[Magicka
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: The Detective Robe from The Stars Are Left DLC features a set of Brass Knuckles.
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: Dying from falling damage nets you the "Gravity, thou art a heartless bitch" achievement.
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* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]\[[Sociopathic Hero]]: The main characters can be played either way, considering that they can kill anyone (including each other).
* [[Heroic Mime]]: The player characters. Vlad lampshades this after [[Poor Communication Kills|three boss fights in a row caused by the players just beating people up instead of talking to them like Vlad told them to do]].
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* [[Hoist
** Special mention goes to Summon Death, which summons [[The Grim Reaper]] to the battlefield to instantly kill the unit with the lowest percentage health. Be careful with using this against bosses since some of them don't count as units which means that he will target ''you''!
** Crash to Desktop, which summons a blue screen of death to instant kill a random creature on screen that has less than 10000 maximum HP. More often than not, this is you. Especially annoying in multiplayer since a wizard who dies from this takes all his items with him.
* [[Hold the Line]]: Towards the end of Chapter 4 you come across a locked door that allied NPCs are attempting to blow open with boxes of dynamite. You ''can'' fight off waves of enemies while waiting for the unnecessarily long fuse to burn, but it's a lot quicker to just [[Subverted Trope|set the dynamite off directly with a fire spell]].
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: In-universe. A wizard in the starting area will give you the useful advice to not "dabble withe electricity" when wet. Then, he continues with this little gem:
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* [[Infernal Retaliation]]: Most of the time, enemies will continue to attack you even when on fire, unless their panic trigger is hit (meaning they take a certain amount of damage per tick from fire damage), until they either succumb to the flames or put themselves out.
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: The achievement names, some of which give away the names of bosses.
* [[Jump Physics]]: The Beastmen. As the [[Word of God|developers]] say:
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"Not ''nearly'' as broken [[Death From Above|as they have been]].
* [[Kill It
** By itself, fire isn't all that powerful, since the damage taken from afterburn is rather negligible. However, if combined with the Grease and/or Conflagration Magicks, it's possible to inflict damage in the hundreds or ''thousands'' per tick by keeping enemies sitting in the flames for long enough.
** The Napalm Magick from the Vietnam expansion has a similar effect as these spell combos: wizards unfortunate enough to be caught in the friendly fire die within ''seconds''.
* [[Kill It
* [[Kill It
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Subverted hard in Chapter 4, where every door that you try to go through (save the ones that are already open) is locked. When you do try to open it, the game will give varying messages about how the door is locked.
* [[Land Mine Goes Click]]: You can create fields of elementally-charged mines (even ones that heal you!). And yes, they do click when stepped on.
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* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: The Samurai Robe. Their initial sword, the [[Katanas Are Just Better|Yawarakai-te]], is much faster and stronger than other starting weapons. That rope in the tutorial that takes normally 3 hits to cut? Try one.
* [[Loading Screen]]: Tip: Did you know that tips are displayed on the loading screen?
* [[Luck
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Arcane beams tend to make a mess out of what they're pointed at quickly. And, yes, enemies exploding into meaty chunks do cause splash damage.
* [[Magic A Is Magic A|Magic A is]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Magicka]]: The Rule of Opposites means that if you cast the wrong ([[Comedic Sociopathy|or right]]) spell, you're likely to cause a massive explosion that will kill you and whatever you were targeting. Although for some reason it's actually possible to combine water and lightning together when you're casting, likely a developer oversight.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Grimnir behind Khan, Assatur behind Grimnir.}}
* [[Man On Fire]]: Yes, you can set yourself on fire by keying up a Fire spell and self-casting. Most of the time this has no practical applications besides drying yourself off (for the ''first'' cast only), and in some cases you'll lose control of your wizard as he runs amok in random circles while on fire. It does have the useful effect of keeping enemies like Yetis from picking you up. [[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
* [[The Many Deaths of You|The]] ''[[The Many Deaths of You|MANY]]'' [[The Many Deaths of You|Deaths of You]]
* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: Wizards have this immediately upon revival.
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** The Tank Robe from the Party Robes DLC. The player's movement speed is decreased significantly because of their armor (casting Haste on yourself barely allows you to move at running speed for normal Robes). Melee attacks with the initial weapon are slow and weak (it takes 6 hits to cut a rope in the tutorial, where the normal Robes take 3). However, the Tank can knock down foes by ''walking near them'' and has a [[Power Glows|glowing resistance aura]] to all forms of damage.
** The Zombie Robe gives the Wizard a ''lot'' of extra health at the cost of moving about as fast as a tortoise lugging a lead weight.
* [[More Dakka]]: The M60, a [[Disk One Nuke]] earned very early in the story by {{spoiler|saving the villagers who [[Too Dumb to Live|are taking shelter in gunpowder storage buildings]]}}. Very nearly a [[Game Breaker]] in the later parts of the game, too. It fires several times a second, staggers enemies, tears apart [[
* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain]]: "I am Vlad. I am not a vampire."
* [[Nerf]]:
** Originally, the Arcane+Steam+Lightning spell combo produced a [[Department of Redundancy Department|super-deadly spell of death]] which so effortlessly wiped out enemies that many players, especially [[Speed Run|speedrunners]], rarely used anything else. It is still this, more or less, but some enemies (like armored goblins) were changed to resist most of its damage, forcing you to use different spells on them.
** Personal shields have also been nerfed; they now drain out after a few seconds, making them much less protective.
* [[New Game
* [[The Not
* [[Obvious Beta]]: As much fun as it is, its hard not to admit that it's ''definitely'' pretty rough around the edges, though its slowly getting better via patches. Hell, after the first set of major fixes, the devs released the [[Meaningful Name|Mea Culpa]] DLC for ''free'' as an official apology for the game's buggy release. It included a [[Sight Gag|staff that summoned a swarm of bugs]].
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Many.
** [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] can kill anything in one hit. Including Bosses.
** Yetis will kill players instantly if they manage to stuff one in their mouth, a [[Shout
** Lightning bolts are almost always instant death - there's an achievement for getting hit by one and ''not'' dying from it.
** The Crash to Desktop spell. It only targets enemies below 10,000 HP, but it will blue-screen anything that it can target, literally. [[Hoist
** The sword, Gram, has an ability called "Dragon Slayer". It's obtained fairly early in the game as a secret, and seems a pretty crappy weapon with no other abilities... Until you realize that {{spoiler|In Chapter 11, the boss is Fafnir, a ''dragon''.}} Killing {{spoiler|Fafnir}} with Gram is a [[Steam]]
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]:
** A pair of weapons of this description show up in the form of the Cursed Blade and [[The Lord of the Rings|Morgul Blade]], as well as a "staff", the Scythe of Malevolence. It's easy to assume it's just a special effect tacked onto a plain weapon, but it turns out, it's actually a legit element type. Try summoning hordes of elementals and hitting them with your poisoned sword! It's fun!
** The Party Robes DLC adds the Rogue Robe's crossbow, which rapidly fires poisoned arrows.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: The entire reason why you fight pretty much all the bosses in the second half of the game.
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* [[Pop Goes the Human]]: The arcane death ray causes enemies to get a serious case of [[Balloon Belly]]. And then explode.
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* [[Preorder Bonus]]: Not a strict case since the game was released on January 25, but people who bought the game before January 31 got a special hatted wizard model, start the first chapter with slightly better equipment, and Meteor Shower, a special Magick that [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: Vortex. You get it by beating the final boss so you can only use it in Challenge or [[New Game
* [[Ray Gun]]: The Frontier Robe's weapon, the Type 2 Phaser.
* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: Similar to how ''[[Dungeons
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Most wizards look like this. Also one of the game's [[Shout
* [[Rule of Funny]]: The only reason why there's an M60 machine gun, not to mention a fridge in an otherwise medieval fantasy game. [[Word of God]] says this is the reason for other things such as ''wooden horses and cardboard-cutout sheep'', aside from animator lazyness.
* [[Schizo
** See the Rule of Funny entry above; there are also some electrical generators in the Academy and in the Járn Mines, which you can jump-start by casting lightning at them.
** Also, the first expansion, Magicka: ''Vietnam'', gives you all manner of ''guns'' for your wizard to use.
* [[Self Deprecating Humor]]: The release of the game was notoriously buggy, but was made up for by the dev team releasing new patches daily for nearly two weeks. This is lampshaded in one of the first (free) content patches, which added the "Crash to Desktop" Magicka and the "Mea Culpa" robe set to the game: the robe looks like a patchwork quilt, and the default items for that wizard were a bug staff that has the Active ability "[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Sequence Breaking]]:
** See [[Ascended Glitch]]. This is actually [[Dummied Out]] as well, because the developers had originally ''intended'' to allow players to get Teleport that early; the game has no [[Game Breaking Bug|"breakable"]] areas where the ability to teleport early causes problems!
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_NvtapnbU&feature=player_detailpage#t=477s The developers themselves] show off some [[Sequence Breaking]] in Chapter 9.
* [[Shout
* [[Shows Damage]]: Your wizard's robe becomes increasingly tattered depending on how much damage you've taken.
* [[Sidequest]]: Exactly one. Completing it rewards an achievement.
* [[Spam Attack]]: No mana bar. No cooldowns. You can cast many spells as quickly as you can key them in. It's a perfectly viable strategy to repeatedly mash in the recipe for a weak attack spell, producing a line, cone, or circle of rapid death.
* [[Speaking Simlish]]: Doubles as a bilingual bonus for those who know Swedish, even though the language used is not proper Swedish but rather some kind of Swedish-English-faux-Old-Norse linguistic abomination, sort of like [[The Muppet Show|Swedish Chef]] Swedish. Enough words are similar for it to be hilarious, though.
* [[Spell Blade]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]]: you can bind entire ''spells'' to your sword, though some combinations of elements are much less useful than others, especially when just casting the spell has more or less the same result. A good way to make [[Healing Shiv
* [[Squishy Wizard]]:
** Unsurprisingly, the wizards are quite fragile. As noted in the article above from Rock Paper Shotgun:
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::: Incidentally, if you cast a personal shield, Haste, and the "lightsaber" weapon enchantment (or just grab the Arcane Saber from Chapter 11), you ''can'' run around and cut through things like a Jedi. Just don't expect it to work for very long, or against certain enemies. And you'd probably be more effective just using spells anyways.
** ''Thoroughly'' averted with the [[Warhammer 40
* {{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop]]}}
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Burning, chill,<ref>slows</ref>
* [[Stationary Boss]]: Grimnir, Fafnir, Assatur. Also The Machine and, oddly enough, several ''doors''.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: At one point you encounter a goblin archer wearing a green shirt and a hat straight out of the Errol Flynn film, making him of course {{spoiler|Goblin Hood}}.
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* [[Turns Red]]: Fafnir will start knocking holes in the floor, exposing the lava lake below, and using hypnosis on you to [[Interface Screw|invert your controls]] and make you fall into them.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]:
** Summon Death, which [[Exactly What It Says
** Thunder Storm, though, is. You'd think that Lightning Bolt, en masse, combined with Rain would be devastating against anything you're fighting against... but the lightning bolts land on random parts of the screen...and can hit you and your teammates. There's also its DLC equivalent, Meteor Shower. Of course, they become a lot less useless when you realise you can cast a very simple spell to make yourself immune to fire and/or lightning elements...
** Crash to Desktop is this, sort of. [[One-Hit Kill|Blue-screening enemies]] is fun, but remember that it will randomly target ''anything'' near the caster, friendlies and the caster included. If you [[What an Idiot!|cast it with no targets nearby, you will blue-screen yourself]].
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* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Also a bit of [[All There in the Manual|all there in the concept art]]. Almost all the concept art shows the wizards wielding the [[Joke Weapon|Sausage On A Stick]]. Cheese would also seem to count, mentioned on more than one occasion by npc wizards.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The village of [[Meaningful Name|Dunderhaed]] in Chapter 3.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Besides the many ways you can inflict harm upon yourself, you can butcher defenceless NPCs with wanton abandon, although this can [[Game Breaking Bug|screw up future cutscenes]].
* [[The Vietnam War]]: The first DLC expansion to the game.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Vlad rants at your characters for fighting the bosses in the later game instead of talking to them like he's been telling you to do, which [[We Could Have Avoided All This|would allow you to get their help instead of having to beat them into submission first]]. [[Railroading|It's not like the game lets you do otherwise]].
* [[Widget Series]]: Starts off tame enough... then you notice the abundant [[Shout
* [[With My Hands Tied]]: {{spoiler|Grimnir}} spends the entire fight casting magic without having ever broken his bonds. He still manages to be a difficult battle despite this.
* [[Wolfpack Boss]]: The necromancers in Chapter Nine. As if they weren't bad enough, they also [[Flunky Boss|summon hordes of zombies]].
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: The DLC ''The Stars are Left'' was originally named ''The Stars are Right''. After learning that the name was already being used, the creators changed it a mere ''12 hours'' prior to its announcement.
* [[X Meets Y]]:
** [http://kotaku.com/#!5773504/the-most-surprising-fantasy-game-expansion-pack-ever-created As a Kotaku commenter put it:]
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** The [[Word of God|developers]] would like to think of it as "A mix between ''[[Moonstone]]'' and ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)]]''"... Though, one of the developers has a brother who compared it to ''[[Guitar Hero]]''.
* [[Yeah! Shot]]: Mocked. At the end of the game, your wizard will attempt this as the "Level complete" message shows up. Twice. Then the credits roll.
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