Magical Drop V - Also Featuring Ghostlop (PC)

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Originally Posted by Joystiq

You've waited forever for a new Magical Drop game, and Ignition Entertainment and developer Golgoth Studio will finally deliver. Magical Drop V will be released on Steam for PC on November 15.

As we discovered to our surprise and delight last E3, Magical Drop V is not just a new game in the Data East color-matching puzzle series, it also contains the characters and gameplay from another unreleased puzzler, Ghostlop. Players can choose to play either game, even facing off in multiplayer across two different games.

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I really wish these were SNK games instead of Data East games, purely for the precedent setting, but I love the idea of getting both a new Magical Drop and an official release of Ghostlop.

This will never stand up to Saturn Magical Drop 3 AKA the best vs. puzzle game ever but oh god I hope it does.

I thought Data East was totally dead.
Where the fuck is my Bad Dudes HD?

I will buy this day 1 full price.

I think that's a first for me and PC games.

All I want is Magical Drop 3 with online multiplayer. The game was perfect. The only thing it needed was some way for me to play other people. How this doesn't exist yet is perplexing.

It's been on GGPO for ages, but it's not a very active game.

*tosses GGPO into Google*

huh. I've never heard of such a thing. Amazing. I can't imagine how well known this is among the non-game forum crowd. That could be why MD3 doesn't get much action...

This launches in a few hours. http://store.steampowered.com/app/204960/

Still no price.

I hope it's good!

If the price is right ill buy it, otherwise steam sale!

$10
Someone tell me if it's good like Magical Drop 3 Neo Geo or LIFE-CHANGINGLY FUCKAWESOME like Magical Drop 3 Saturn!

do want.

I don't know shit about Magical Drop and some quick googling isn't doing anything for me, what's unique to the Saturn version?

60 FPS versus 30 FPS, mostly. I'm sure there were more differences since the Saturn one was a little more console focused but the framerate was a big deal for me. It's a very fast-paced game!

The Steam game is 60 FPS.

Has anybody actually purchased this? Is it worth the purchase?

Yes, I realize I'm asking this about a $10 game.

Wait for a sale you fools. It'll be $4 in a month or so.

I think this might not be a good version. Buggy. But the comments about it being less responsive than earlier games are what's really keeping me away. I guess I'll hold out for some pro patching.

There's a demo out, and holy crap. This is awful.

It didn't detect my gamepad. Fine. Most crappily-programmed games don't, since my pad isn't a real 360 pad. I use x360ce - which has never failed me before - and it crashes the game. In every possible hook mode.

So I give up and just deal with the keyboard. The default is some insane WASD setup, with KL for grab and throw and space to drop. This isn't acceptable, so I try to remap things to use the arrow keys and ZXC. Guess what? You can't map movement to the arrow keys!

So I give up and just deal with the horrible default controls. And holy shit, there's some weird delay on everything. Tapping doesn't seem to buffer properly, and I end up undershooting where I'm trying to go. But it isn't a problem, because the AI is fucking awful and I have zero difficulty in annihilating it.

Fuck this shit.

Thanks for saving me a few bucks, beevork.