{"id":21121,"date":"2021-04-12T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21121"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:18:00","slug":"magic-twins-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/12\/magic-twins-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Twins (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Twin witch sisters Abra and Cadabra decide to use their magic to dye their clothes, but when the spell goes wrong, all sorts of colored monsters appear from their cauldron and cause havoc everywhere.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s up to the twins to use their color magic to zap all the monsters in this two-player focused action puzzle game.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The playfield is set up like a grid, and monsters of different colors come from the middle and creep outward from either side.\u00a0 Abra and Cadabra are on each side and can move up and down.\u00a0 Use the shoulder trigger buttons to fire a blast.\u00a0 If the blast is the same color as an enemy, they will disappear.\u00a0 You can switch from four colors using the face buttons.\u00a0 If the monsters reach the barriers on each side enough times, it\u2019s Game Over and you must start the level over again.\u00a0 Sometimes monsters leave behind crystals.\u00a0 If you zap them with the same color blast, you\u2019ll collect them.\u00a0 Gather four and you can push both shoulder buttons to cast a spell that turns all the monsters certain colors.\u00a0 Although I didn\u2019t find this very useful when I was playing.\u00a0 Each level has a different objective to pass.\u00a0 Sometimes you must zap certain colored enemies, cast a certain number of spells, survive for a given amount of time, etc.\u00a0 You can also earn extra stars by completing side missions.\u00a0 Stars allow you to unlock extra levels and other goodies like new outfits for the witches.\u00a0 The whole game kind of reminds me of an action oriented Plants vs. Zombies.<\/p>\n

You can play this game with one or two players.\u00a0 In single player, you control one witch at a time and switch out using the L and R shoulder buttons.\u00a0 The witch you aren\u2019t controlling moves on her own, but boy is she dumb and slow.\u00a0 I think the game would\u2019ve been better if you could\u2019ve controlled each witch using the L and R analog sticks.\u00a0 That would\u2019ve gotten rid of one less button press, and made the controls less fiddly.\u00a0 Because of this, single player is near impossible early on.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t able to get past an early level where you had to survive for three minutes.\u00a0 I was able to get past it with a second player, but we didn\u2019t go too long after that because the game is just not very interesting or fun.<\/p>\n

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When you zap enemies with spells, they just dissolve into nothing.\u00a0 If a spell hits the sister on the other side, she\u2019ll just say \u2018ouch\u2019 but that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.\u00a0 Magic Twins is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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