Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times
Encyclopedia
Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times, known in Europe as Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry and in Japan as , is a fantasy
-adventure
and life simulation game
for the Nintendo DS
where players are tasked with attending classes in a Magic Academy, to learn the mysteries of magic and the art of casting spells, while building relationships with other students.
There is also an option of customizing your character and decorating your own room.
Magician's Quest also features Wi-Fi
cooperative play, and you will be able to use a "magical alphabet" to chat. Since the game uses the DS internal clock, at certain times random events may occur. The game is strikingly similar to Animal Crossing: Wild World
on the same platform but offers far more to do and a much bigger world to live in.
There are plenty more things to accomplish; for starters, depending on the gender of your character you can have multiple girlfriends/boyfriends throughout the course of the game (more than one at a time), you can host an exchange student by way of Wi-Fi, you can have your friends move into your dorm temporarily, you can form a band (each villager plays a different musical instrument ranging from the violin to electric guitar) and you can play with your favourite villagers one-on-one. There is no debt to pay off to a Tom Nook figure like in Animal Crossing, and there is a greater variety of villagers (you can even have a blue cell phone in your town, and multiple undead creatures and plants like roses and hibiscus). Once a month "Mystery Time" will occur when the Nutcracker score plays and the gameplay is different; you can have exclusive lessons and catch exclusive bugs and fish. The following day, a strange villager will appear with a quest. These quests are not difficult, and a reward is earned after each one you complete. The Mystery Time villager could range from Satyr, a hippie who wants to have a "jam session" with you, to Death, who you must find if you can't give him candy. There are also dragons and fairies and everything in between.
Upon release, many criticized Konami for copying several elements of gameplay directly from Animal Crossing: Wild World. Official Nintendo Magazine compared it to other games that attempt to emulate first party titles and called it "Everything that's wrong with the gaming industry."
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
-adventure
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
and life simulation game
Life simulation game
Life simulation games is a sub-genre of simulation video games in which the player lives or controls one or more virtual lifeforms...
for the Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS
The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
where players are tasked with attending classes in a Magic Academy, to learn the mysteries of magic and the art of casting spells, while building relationships with other students.
Gameplay
At the start of the game you can create your own character, by selecting the gender, your name and appearance. The game involves learning new magic spells from the other characters in the school. These spells will be put to use in a series of 52 adventures.There is also an option of customizing your character and decorating your own room.
Magician's Quest also features Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...
cooperative play, and you will be able to use a "magical alphabet" to chat. Since the game uses the DS internal clock, at certain times random events may occur. The game is strikingly similar to Animal Crossing: Wild World
Animal Crossing: Wild World
is a 2005 social simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console, and is the second game in the Animal Crossing series....
on the same platform but offers far more to do and a much bigger world to live in.
There are plenty more things to accomplish; for starters, depending on the gender of your character you can have multiple girlfriends/boyfriends throughout the course of the game (more than one at a time), you can host an exchange student by way of Wi-Fi, you can have your friends move into your dorm temporarily, you can form a band (each villager plays a different musical instrument ranging from the violin to electric guitar) and you can play with your favourite villagers one-on-one. There is no debt to pay off to a Tom Nook figure like in Animal Crossing, and there is a greater variety of villagers (you can even have a blue cell phone in your town, and multiple undead creatures and plants like roses and hibiscus). Once a month "Mystery Time" will occur when the Nutcracker score plays and the gameplay is different; you can have exclusive lessons and catch exclusive bugs and fish. The following day, a strange villager will appear with a quest. These quests are not difficult, and a reward is earned after each one you complete. The Mystery Time villager could range from Satyr, a hippie who wants to have a "jam session" with you, to Death, who you must find if you can't give him candy. There are also dragons and fairies and everything in between.
Upon release, many criticized Konami for copying several elements of gameplay directly from Animal Crossing: Wild World. Official Nintendo Magazine compared it to other games that attempt to emulate first party titles and called it "Everything that's wrong with the gaming industry."
External links
- http://www.gamespot.com/ds/rpg/tongariboushinomahouno365nichi/news.html?sid=6199002&mode=previewsPreview from GameSpotGameSpotGameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. The site was launched in May 1, 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. It was purchased by ZDNet, a brand which was later purchased by CNET Networks. CBS Interactive, which...
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