Topic: Magical Vacation 2 from Brownie Brown

[Caliban]

From the-magicbox.com:

"N I N T E N D O   D S

- Nintendo will release an English version of Brownie Brown's Nintendo DS RPG Magical Vacation 2 in Europe in January 2007."

Hopefully they will release it in NA too!

[KDR_11k]

Magical Vacation? What's that?

[jasonditz]

Its an RPG about students at a school of magic on some planet who discover that there's civilizations on the other 4 planets in their system.

The screenshots look really pretty, and the game can supposedly be played entirely with the stylus.

I'd love to take a crack at an english language version myself. Brownie Brown does good work.

[jasonditz]

Hopefully we'll hear about the NA version at E3... we could use some more genuinely high quality RPGs for the DS.

[Caliban]

Magical Vacation has a gameplay-style similar to Seiken Densetsu(Secret of Mana) last time I read something about it.

[Ghisy]

Whatever happened to the first Magical Vacation?
We never got an English version

[Louieturkey]

Nope, and probably never will, it was a GBA game and with Nintendo dropping support, I don't see it ever coming stateside.  Luckily with the UK getting an English language version of MV2, we'll get one as well.

[jasonditz]

If the Magical Vacation games become a runaway hit or something we might eventually see a remake or something being brought to the US.

[Ghisy]

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Originally posted by: jasonditz
If the Magical Vacation games become a runaway hit or something we might eventually see a remake or something being brought to the US.

Yeah, I thought about that too.
Seems like it might be the only chance we have...

[jasonditz]

C'mon guys, don't leave Brownie Brown hanging... I bought the US version today and have just started playing it, am I really the only one?

This is a rough time to release the game, there's a slew of good DS stuff coming out right now that're much higher profile, and then the Wii is coming out in a couple weeks... but still, this is a very charming game and it deserves some attention.

[blackfootsteps]

So is this game the same as Magical Starsign? I have fallen so far behind with DS games lately, too many good games all at the same time, it's like the SNES days.

[Kairon]

Nintendo DS. It's like a Super NES you can play with. Outside.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

P.S. I am getting this game in the mail, and looking forward to getting hands-on knowledge of what Brownie Brown is capable of, even though I can best describe the art style as girls with rasta dreadlocks, in the worst possible way...

[jasonditz]

yes, the North American release is called Magical Starsign.

And the graphics are a bit... underpowered compared to what we know the DS is capable of. That doesn't really detract from the gameplay to me, though in retrospect, the stylus controls that I was so excited about are a bit... cumbersome. They work, sure, but I think I'd rather the game played with the D-pad and buttons instead.

Still early into the game (I just got to the mole city), but it seems a bit garden-variety so far.  

[hudsonhawk]

How's this held up for you?  I just finished Contact and need something new.  I'm deciding between this, Mana, and FF3.

[jasonditz]

I have a hard time recommending it... I haven't gotten much farther in the game, it feels very much like a "handheld RPG" though... like they thought a fully touch screen interface was a nice enough gimmick that they could eschew depth and story for it.

Whereas Golden Sun and Fire Emblem were very much RPGs, and you could've seen those games being top notch RPGs for the SNES or something, when I play Starsign I'm very aware I'm playing a handheld game...  it's very linear, very designed to be played in bite-sized morsels, and in the end, very plain as a result.

It's not that it's a bad game, you understand, it's just that it doesn't shine in any aspect.