Magic Boy for SNES

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Review #309

Magic Boy

Bubble Bobble Boy

SNES 1993 JVC Action Action › Platform
Magic Boy screenshot for SNES
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
4 / 5

Gameplay

Plays like Bubble Bobble. Levels are a vertical shaft. Objective appears to be killing all enemies.
Really weird mechanics - shoot to stun an enemy, they attach to your when touched, you must discard the attached baddie via X - if you wait too long they kill you
Shoot question block tiles to cause fruit to fly out and land randomly, again like Bubble Bobble.
Screen wraps on some levels
Whole bunch of collectables that do who-knows-what
Controls really well
Fun little game

4 / 5

Level Design

Screen-based levels. Just a tall shaft.
Platforming is interesting as you (and enemies) can jump up through anything. Platforms only have top surfaces.

2 / 5

Theme

You're a cartoony fat blonde kid with a wand and you're shooting bizarre mutant...things. You wouldn't look at this and say, wow that looks cool.

3 / 5

Art Style

Simple graphics that are well drawn. Pretty stupid looking character models though

2 / 5

Audio

I tried to like the music but it's not catchy. Once I realized this is a Bubble Bobble clone all I could think is how disappointing the music was compared to Bobble's theme
Sound effects are annoying

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