In competitive play, making combos - clearing one area immediately after another - forces a new line of balls to appear in the enemy’s window. New lines of balls continue to scroll downward, so there is always pressure to clear up space. The player controls a jester that sucks up colored balls and throws them back, lining up and clearing balls of the same color. Unlike so many other puzzle games, the rules and controls of Magical Drop are so simple that any novice can easily learn and play. It feels like a crusty, dry turd.Īlong with Money Idol Exchanger, Magical Drop was the peak of Neo Geo’s puzzle game output in the ‘90s. It all comes down to how the game feels: The swift character movement, the sounds of clearing a row of icons, and the sight of crushing an enemy with a combo. Like Bust-a-Move, Magical Drop is a timeless puzzle series that perfectly displays that throwing balls at other colored balls is all it takes to make a good game, sometimes. Whether I was practicing at home or showing off at my local arcade, Magical Drop became my obsession.
There are thousands, if not millions, of games out there, begging to be played but last summer there was only one that mattered to me: Magical Drop 3.
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