Also, how is Magical Drop different than Bust-a-Move/Puzzle Bobble? Are they related in any way? How do they compare?
Mechanically it's completely different outside of the general idea of color matching orbs. Basically you pull a color orb (and can keep moving around and pulling as many of the same color as you want afaik), then toss it back up to form 3+ in a row to make them and any color connected orbs disappear. Then there's little powerups to make all of a color disappear or row or whatever.
But as I said before the big difference between Magical Drop and pretty much any other games is how fast it can play, and how easy it is to play fast, vs say Tetris or Puyo where you need more proficiency to play fast, or BaM/PB where you're kind of limited by the left/right direction speed. Once you have the basic mechanic down the game can get crazy fast like no other personally, and it's especially fun against someone else.
The different characters are a nice way to handicap too, as I found out recently when playing my nephew. I kept playing the Fool while he kept moving up the characters one by one until we were on pretty even footing.
I'm curious about this too. Isn't it just II that's on Switch though?
Yeah just MD2 on Switch (for now?), but I asked the same thing earlier in the thread and got this reply:
The generally preferred version is MD3 due to the "magical journey" board game where your performance on a stage determines how many spaces you can move forward on the board. Also, the graphics look a bit nicer and there are some characters with jagged drop patterns, which isn't a thing in MD2.
...course I went ahead and got MD2 anyways and don't mind.
