Had potential to be a great game but color scheme actually made me sick, not figuratively, literally.
User Rating: 5.9 | Magical Vacation: 5-tsu no Hoshi ga Narabu toki DS
I picked up a copy of this game hoping to acquire a piece of hand-held rpg gold and was a little disappointed by the contents of this cartridge. At first glance this games has all the makings of a truly memorable handheld rpg. It has a great story, saving your friends and teachers from other planets by travelling by rocket. I turned the game on and was a little skeptical after the touch screen only interface started up. I love the touch screen as long as it supports left handedness and since this game was touch screen only it certainly allowed for me to play with my left hand. I found it very difficult however to actually control my character. I would have him running into wall or around key higlighted areas a couple of times before I could actually talk to whatever my litle green arrow was pointing to. I would have liked to have been given just a little d-pad or button control for the battle sequences. About an hour into the game I actually began feeling sick from the combination of color and music in the game. I don't think there was anything wrong with either the music or the colors in the game alone but when put together they turned my stomach into the next Mount Vesuvius. That was about the time I decided to close my shiny white DS Lite so as to avoid ralphing all over it and my marathon of Magical Starsign was cut short.
