
And there’s a four-player brawl mode as well for some chaotic rumbling. These include head-to-head competition for two players, but there’s also a 2 Versus 2 co-op mode that lets two friends team up against an AI team. Fortunately, Magical Drop V has extensive options for both local and online multiplayer. The single-player aspect of Magical Drop V is fairly engrossing, but after a few hours most players will get the hang of it and crave greater challenges. This adds a little extra dose of variety to a game that can get repetitive. He has two different colored balls, and each matches one of the two types of bubbles that appear on his unique boards. Instead of stacking matching colored bubbles, he throws projectiles that can pop bubbles. One of the characters, Bruce does have a drastically different control scheme. Most of them play the same way, but the varying patterns will give advanced players an extra level of strategy to master. Aside from aesthetic differences, the bubbles will drop in a different pattern for each character. These characters range from cute anime cats to sexy dominatrixes, each with different voice work and graphics during play.

There’s an attempt at humor, and at giving the characters distinct personalities, but it’s so badly translated that it’s rarely comprehensible, and never entertaining. They exchange a few lines of clumsy dialog between matches, and that’s pretty much the extent of it. It’s much like the story found in numerous fighting games: A tournament is being held for a coveted prize (The titular Magic Drop), and players choose from a list of 11 quirky, tarot-card themed anime characters, then compete against the others in a bubble-bursting competition.Įach character has their own little story, but this hardly matters at all. There’s a story holding Magical Drop together. Using quick thinking and strategy, players can set up chain reactions that will flood their enemy with enough bubbles to fill their entire board a quick victory for skilled players.


If players can quickly pop bubbles several times in a few seconds, those bubbles are sent over to their opponent’s board.
