Trivia / Magicka

• 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 do Poison damage by wielding Poisoned Weapons, for example, 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 Game-Breaker.
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  • The source of the wooden horses is from the animator being frustrated by how hard it is to animate quadrupeds, and deciding to just stick in wooden, toy-like horses, not expecting them to stay in the game. Obviously, they did.
  • In Chapter 3, during the airship ride, Vlad needs to leave the ship somehow for the story to make sense. So, they put in Vlad just jumping off the ship as a joke and placeholder. Everyone was so amused by this that it stuck.
• Pre-Order 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 drops meteors on random parts of the screen. The Wizard Hat DLC was later made purchaseable, so now everybody can enjoy mashing their teams with meteors.
• What Could Have Been: The developer commentary reveals quite a bit about what earlier concepts of the game were like. It was quite different from what we eventually got. There are a few major examples of ideas that were cut out:
  • The introductory narration was going to be given by The Headmaster to the Wizards gathered in the dining hall. Now that it's a more basic introduction, The Headmaster and most of the rest of the Castle don't really have a reason to be there.
  • Chapter 2 was originally going to have branching pathways, allowing the players to travel through either the forest or the mountains.
  • Parker was originally an Optional Boss who could be accessed by setting off dynamite to blow open the rubble blocking the tunnel at the beginning of the Jarn Mines in Chapter 8. She was eventually recycled as the first boss of The Stars Are Left.
• Word of God: Quoted directly from a interview when asked to reveal something about the game no one knew, "I could perhaps mention that the moose in Vlad’s castle, is actually a whole moose just stuck inside the wall."
  • YouTube commentator/gamer TotalBiscuit went to Sweden and acquired an entire developer commentary/ Let's Play as the four main developers played through the entire game while commentating and answering questions.

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