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Magical Chase (マジカルチェイス) Rough Difficulty Pc Engine 1991 [HD]
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Magical Chase (マジカルチェイス Majikaru Chieisu) is a scrolling shooter video game developed by Quest and released by Palsoft for the PC Engine in Japan in 1991. The game was graphically altered for its North American release in 1993 on the TurboGrafx-16. It was later ported for Windows in 1998, and for the Game Boy Color in 2000 as Magical Chase GB (マジカルチェイスGB 〜見習い魔法使い 賢者の谷へ〜, Magical chase GB ~ Apprentice Wizard to the Valley of the Sage ~)
Magical Chase is a horizontally scrolling shooting game.[1] The stars serve as Gradius-style options.
The game has been compared to Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams, as they both feature young witch characters who ride broomsticks, are of the same genre of shooting games, and were released for the PC-Engine in a similar time frame.[2][3]
There are a total of six levels in the game which can be played on the normal and hard difficulty settings. Only the first three can be played on the easy difficulty setting. As enemies are destroyed, they leave behind different colored gemstones which serve as the game's currency. Twice during each level, a shop appears where power-ups, health, and extra lives can be purchased (except for the third and sixth levels, where it only appears once).
Touching obstacles and the ground does not kill the player such as in Gradius but it does impede progress. If the player gets trapped behind objects at the left-hand side of the screen, "scrolling damage" will occur. Each stage is presented with the name of the mid-boss encountered, and keeping with the magic theme, is titled as a magical seal. Each level has a mid-boss and end-boss.