Magical Vacation
| Magical Vacation | |
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Front cover of the Magical Vacation package.
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| Developer(s) | Brownie Brown |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Designer(s) |
Nobuyuki Inoue (director) Hiroshi Yamauchi (executive producer) Shigeru Miyamoto (producer) Kensuke Tanabe (advisor) Shinichi Kameoka (illustrator) |
| Composer(s) | Tsukasa Masuko |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance Virtual Console |
| Release |
Game Boy Advance
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Review scores | |
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| Publication | Score |
| Famitsu | 35 of 40 |
| Portable Review | 42 of 50 |
Magical Vacation (マジカルバケーション Majikaru Bakēshon?) is a 2001 role-playing video game developed by Brownie Brown and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance only in Japan on December 7, 2001, and was later re-released in the same region in 2006. Japanese singer, model, and actress Mika Nakashima was featured in the television commercials for Magical Vacation.
A sequel was produced for the Nintendo DS in 2006, titled Magical Vacation: Itsutsu no Hoshi ga Narabu Toki; It was released in North America and Europe as Magical Starsign.
The game is a standard RPG adventure game, where the player interacts with the overworld to progress the story while battling against enemies in a turn-based battle system. There are 16 different elements in the game, each of which is stronger than another specific element, and weaker against another. Exceptions to this rule are: the love element (not stronger or weaker than any of the other elements), the dark element (stronger than all other elements except for love and light), and the light element (no weakness).
The player can increase the power of attacks by borrowing power from elemental spirits in a process called Seirei Combo (精霊コンボ?, spirit combo). To use a spirit combo, the player must summon an elemental spirit, and use magic of the same element in the following turns to release vast amounts of damage. Attack power is doubled per spirit present, meaning 2 spirits would create 4 times as much damage, and 3 spirits would create 8 times as much. The maximum combo (7 spirits) yields 128 times as much damage. The power of basic magic can surpass that of advanced magic if the player uses this combo. However, certain special rules apply to its use. For instance, the enemy can summon spirits of a stronger element to eliminate the combo's effectiveness (having one fire elemental spirit will eliminate the effect of one wind elemental spirit), and spirits can be extracted from the field using certain spells. The combo also applies for bombs which contain the magic power of an element. The maximum number of spirits that can be summoned is 7 (regardless of how many spirits were present at the start of the battle), and spirits must be re-summoned per combo use.
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