It’s that time again; as an Overwatch 2 season starts to hit it’s later days, you can expect a whacky game mode to keep your spirits high. In this case, you can now step foot into the madcap mayhem that is Mischief & Magic.
An elaborate game of hide and seek, one team are seeker Genji’s – the other, mischievous Kiriko’s that can turn into ordinary objects. Your mission: Eliminate the haunted furnishings, or elude the rampaging ninjas.
Yeah, it’s classic Prop Hunt – Blizzard style.
My biggest clutch of the day. Let’s go! pic.twitter.com/1rakN3ecpX
— PhazoPrimePirate (@Phazo_Prime) July 26, 2023
Prop Hunt is an absolutely wild time, best enjoyed with mates who can all appreciate the absurdity – the earliest incarnation of such an experience (at least by my recollection) started in Garry’s Mod, and soon carried over to other Valve Source games like Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike.
The Blizzard flavour has a few tweaks to the formula, such as the inclusion of a Marco/Polo system – where the hiding Kiriko players will be forced to taunt periodically, giving a sound cue to their hidey hole. This is admittedly fine, but it does take some of the enjoyment out of nailing an especially epic hiding place.
Of course, like all Overwatch 2 events you can grab some neat rewards – including a twist on one of the coolest Ana skins in the game:
Mischief & Magic To-Do List 📝
🪄 Hunt props
🪄 Complete challenges
🪄 Earn rewardsJump into the new mode NOW to earn the Spiritwarder Ana (Epic) skin & more ✨ pic.twitter.com/QjxrzK1uyn
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) July 25, 2023
My time spent as a chair was as stressful as you could imagine – secreting myself away inside a tavern in the hopes that my other four-legged friends would mask me like a herd. Only this turned into a horror film when the Genji team came crashing into the joint, and began slaying my buttock-bearing brethren.
So I used an AoE stun ability and fled. But alas they had a man waiting outside. Still, a great time to be had by all.
Are you keen to try something a little goofy in the world of Overwatch 2? Let us know in the comments or on social media.
Known throughout the interwebs simply as M0D3Rn, Ash is bad at video games. An old guard gamer who suffers from being generally opinionated, it comes as no surprise that he is both brutally loyal and yet, fiercely whimsical about all things electronic. On occasion will make a youtube video that actually gets views.
