Animal Crossing with magicians?!
*swoon*
That’s the basic premise behind Konami’s upcoming Nintendo DS offering, Little Magician’s Magic Adventure or Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times – not to be confused with the online Manga of the same name – or Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry (EU).
Players will take the role of a custom-created boy or girl and enroll in the Magic Academy, alongside 150 fully interactive pupils, to become a master magician. Over the course of the 52 week school term, players will encounter different stories and adventures based on the bonds formed with the other students and how you choose to solve the 52 adventures.
If this is anywhere near as addictive as the original Animal Crossing – which is pure digital crack – your life will cease to exist outside Magician’s magical realm. There’s an English video clip of Magician/Enchanted Folk posted to YouTube for all our cave-dwelling readers who’ve never experienced the greatness that is Animal Crossing. For a real treat, check out the original Japanese game site; there you’ll find several movies, TV commercials and screen-shots.
It appears that Magician/Enchanted Folk will release sometime in 2009, but nailing down the exact month or even which quarter appears to be a crap-shoot – Konami US doesn’t even list the game on its website – so as soon as we know, we’ll let you know.
This looks great. Loved Animal Crossing and this looks quite similar. Going to have to get this.
Absolutely a must-have. Thanks for finding this, Toger!
The DS never fails to amaze me with the scope and variety of the titles it offers. I really don’t take advantage of mine nearly as much as I should – it’s reserved mostly for airplane rides and lengthy visits to relatives’ homes. I should reevaluate how I use it. Thanks for the info, Toger!
Is it possible to date the same gender in the game ?
Welcome to the site, Takara! To be honest, I didn’t play this game long enough to do more than start friendships with the other students. The magic learning component was so incredibly clumsy and the game itself was so non-intuitive that I just gave up. If I remember correctly, I don’t think you could date anyone as this was more like Animal Crossing instead of Harvest Moon.