Overall, I found the game to check the two most important boxes for me: It looks amazing and is highly addictive. You get unlimited continues, but you’ll still need to seek out the best ways to beat the boss characters by multiple playthroughs. The usual adventure game logic rules here, so there’s a fair amount of second-guessing the puzzles or just using brute force to work through every possible menu command. The regular stages do get more difficult, and beating the game relies on accumulating Extra Lives and using your Magic Attacks at the right times. The control is perfect, and mastering the controls and ‘sphere attacks’ is easy. The music is awesome, and both Pop and Magic yell things out (in English!) like ‘POWAAHHUP!” when they grab certain items. The stages themselves look fantastic, with no single screen looking the same as the one before, both in terms of platform placements and the artistic backgrounds. The animated cutscenes, even without knowledge of the Japanese language, tell the story well enough, and look excellent. The length is a bit overlong, particularly in the absence of passwords or memory capacity saves (no progress saving exists, nor any level select passwords that I could find).
The Southern Gentleman’s Opinion and Letter Grade: B+ Pop’n Magic is a really fun single-screen game. One of the first action RPGs, The Magic of Scheherazade was a Culture Brain title for the NES (1989) and Famicom (1987, as Arabian Dream Scheherazade).
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A full playthrough of the game takes approximately an hour and a half.ĭestroying bosses yields an obscene amount of treasure and points. If you lose all of your lives in the boss fight, you can continue, but you’ll start a few stages back.
Each world consists of approximately 10 stages, with the final stage being a boss fight. There are multiple worlds to play through, including Woods, Haunted House, Ocean, and more. After each and every one is destroyed, you’ll move on to the next stage. Your goal is to clear each screen/stage of all manner of the Evil Vampire’s minions.
Gameplay: Pop’n Magic is a single screen action-platformer. The Evil Vampire stole three gems that kept order in the land, and now his minions are pillaging and destroying different areas, and it’s up to Pop and Magic to recover the gems and put a stop to the chaos he has unleashed. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat. Story: From what I can ascertain from the cutscenes and the scant bit of information I could find about this game, the two title characters, Pop (girl) and Magic (boy), are tasked with saving their land from an Evil Vampire (the guy looks a lot like Dracula, so that’s the best comparison I can make I couldn’t find his name). The Evil Vampire has stolen three precious gems and brought chaos to the land!