March 13th, 2008 by PCGGame Review: Magic Farm
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Game Description:
In Magic Farm you take on the role of a savvy young entrepreneur with a magical green thumb. Grow a variety of flowers and fruit in this enchanting new Time Management game. Sell your flowers separately or make beautiful bouquets for maximum profits! It`s up to you to water, protect, and sell your cash crop in order to save your beloved parents.
Game size: 19.5 MB
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Review from: GameZebo
The casual game industry has unearthed another farm / gardening game. Magic Farm - not to be confused with Magic Seeds - makes a nice entry into the world of sims and role-playing games (RPGs). Gameplay and scenery resemble both the recently released Bloom Busters and Grimm's Hatchery, but although the game isn't original, it offers many elements to avoid being just another clone with a new theme.
Magic Farm charms and enchants especially thanks to Robin, the dragon help mate. Robin helps a young girl with no name find her missing beloved parents. To find her parents, she needs to work on a farm to raise money for trips and trades with the townspeople. Finding her parents only takes up half of the game. The other half sends the girl on quests where she completes a variety of tasks.
The town folk guide the girl on her journey, buy plants from her, and sell items to help her. Managing the farm requires staying on top of food and water supplies, beating off monsters and bugs with a stick or whatever tool at hand, feeding plants, and gathering bloomed flowers. A level lasts for one day, so a clock appears to show how much of the day is left. The timing of a day changes - it's not clear how this works.
Robin helps with all the tasks and, unlike other games involving a helper, does a great job of not crashing into the girl while working. He's a pleasure to have around as company and never annoys while the two work hard cultivating the variety of beautiful plants. The two travel from farm to farm and discover new plants and more aggressive bugs and monsters...
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Magic Farm charms and enchants especially thanks to Robin, the dragon help mate. Robin helps a young girl with no name find her missing beloved parents. To find her parents, she needs to work on a farm to raise money for trips and trades with the townspeople. Finding her parents only takes up half of the game. The other half sends the girl on quests where she completes a variety of tasks.
The town folk guide the girl on her journey, buy plants from her, and sell items to help her. Managing the farm requires staying on top of food and water supplies, beating off monsters and bugs with a stick or whatever tool at hand, feeding plants, and gathering bloomed flowers. A level lasts for one day, so a clock appears to show how much of the day is left. The timing of a day changes - it's not clear how this works.
Robin helps with all the tasks and, unlike other games involving a helper, does a great job of not crashing into the girl while working. He's a pleasure to have around as company and never annoys while the two work hard cultivating the variety of beautiful plants. The two travel from farm to farm and discover new plants and more aggressive bugs and monsters...
Review from: Meryl.net
Bloom Busters, Magic Seeds, Alice Greenfingers … now Magic Farm — another another farm / gardening game. Unlike the others, it has a touch of role-playing games (RPG), but it won’t turn off those not interested in RPG — I promise.
If you’ve played Bloom Busters or Grimm’s Hatchery — you’ll notice some similarities. However, I’d say this one offers more adventure and variety than Bloom Busters. Grimm’s Hatchery runs a different type of business and both games have features the other doesn’t have.
The game brings many features that you can’t say it’s another clone with a different theme. In fact, it has its own special charm because of the dragon help mate named Robin. The girl (whose shoes we fill) in the game has no name.
The amazing Robin does as many tasks as we do and does a better job of it than other games with a helper. Robin rarely clashes into our character and works hard. As the dragon gains experience, his skills improve making him faster and stronger in doing tasks.
It’s nice having company on their travels from farm to farm where they also discover new plants and battle more aggressive bugs and monsters. The two start with a journey to find the girl’s missing parents. Along the way, she needs to earn money, which she does by raising and selling plants...
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If you’ve played Bloom Busters or Grimm’s Hatchery — you’ll notice some similarities. However, I’d say this one offers more adventure and variety than Bloom Busters. Grimm’s Hatchery runs a different type of business and both games have features the other doesn’t have.
The game brings many features that you can’t say it’s another clone with a different theme. In fact, it has its own special charm because of the dragon help mate named Robin. The girl (whose shoes we fill) in the game has no name.
The amazing Robin does as many tasks as we do and does a better job of it than other games with a helper. Robin rarely clashes into our character and works hard. As the dragon gains experience, his skills improve making him faster and stronger in doing tasks.
It’s nice having company on their travels from farm to farm where they also discover new plants and battle more aggressive bugs and monsters. The two start with a journey to find the girl’s missing parents. Along the way, she needs to earn money, which she does by raising and selling plants...
Review from: It Expression
Magic Farm is a sim game in the style of Alice Greenfingers and others where your time management and business tycoon skills are tested in building a thriving business.
This game certainly has it's challenges, with the flowers needing water being the most important task of all. If they don't get enough water you get a minus amount and your savings goes backwards...
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This game certainly has it's challenges, with the flowers needing water being the most important task of all. If they don't get enough water you get a minus amount and your savings goes backwards...
Review from: give away of the day
Introduction & Game details
Before starting the game you have to setup your profile, once this is done you can gain access to the main menu, which has four buttons Campaign, Options, a blank one, and Exit. A this point I’m assuming that the blank button may give rise to an arcade option once you’ve played a specific part of the campaign mode, though searching the net for information at this point was fruitless as apart from one reference that points to today’s giveaway there’s no other reference to this game yet, which would indicate that it’s a new release? There seems to be no ability to set up multiple profiles of this game, so only one person can play the game at a time unless you are willing to install the game to different locations on your computer, or better still on more than one computer. The options menu allows you to control the music and sound effects (see the notes section below) and gives you toggles for Full Screen/Windowed mode, a 3D Accelerator (see notes for a link to an explanation) and a Special Cursor, all of which are on by default.
The Game
Despite there being no help menu or how to play instuctions, you do get ‘on screen’ prompts and information windows. When in town if a a character appears in the foreground, and your cursor changes to a mouthjust click on the character for dialogue. The initial story you get from the first person you meet tells you to earn some cash so that you can hire a detective to find your parents (the main character is a young woman). Once the dialogue ends you have to click on the button above that says “To the Farm”. Clicking on the character in the foreground again, once this has passed does initiate another response that basically says “have you brought the cash” and “try to earn it faster, as time is of the essence” Whenever you are in this particular dialogue screen you can return to the levels map, or as it’s called in this game, ‘The Global Map. Anyway, here’s where the actual game play starts. It’s on the same lines as Funky Farm (though much more entertaining)whereby you have to earn cash by creating produce; in this case it’s flowers rather than cattle. It’s as simple as that. The game play is relatively easy (or so I thought). You work day by day. The time of day can be seen with a quaint looking clock to the top left of the screen. To pause the game click on the space bar and to exit or return to the options menu click on Esc. Your game is automatically saved when you exit. On returning you are given the option of returning to where you left off, or starting a new game. If you choose the latter you have to go through the whole dialogue process again as the Go to Farm button remains inactive till you’ve scrolled through all the dialogue...
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Before starting the game you have to setup your profile, once this is done you can gain access to the main menu, which has four buttons Campaign, Options, a blank one, and Exit. A this point I’m assuming that the blank button may give rise to an arcade option once you’ve played a specific part of the campaign mode, though searching the net for information at this point was fruitless as apart from one reference that points to today’s giveaway there’s no other reference to this game yet, which would indicate that it’s a new release? There seems to be no ability to set up multiple profiles of this game, so only one person can play the game at a time unless you are willing to install the game to different locations on your computer, or better still on more than one computer. The options menu allows you to control the music and sound effects (see the notes section below) and gives you toggles for Full Screen/Windowed mode, a 3D Accelerator (see notes for a link to an explanation) and a Special Cursor, all of which are on by default.
The Game
Despite there being no help menu or how to play instuctions, you do get ‘on screen’ prompts and information windows. When in town if a a character appears in the foreground, and your cursor changes to a mouthjust click on the character for dialogue. The initial story you get from the first person you meet tells you to earn some cash so that you can hire a detective to find your parents (the main character is a young woman). Once the dialogue ends you have to click on the button above that says “To the Farm”. Clicking on the character in the foreground again, once this has passed does initiate another response that basically says “have you brought the cash” and “try to earn it faster, as time is of the essence” Whenever you are in this particular dialogue screen you can return to the levels map, or as it’s called in this game, ‘The Global Map. Anyway, here’s where the actual game play starts. It’s on the same lines as Funky Farm (though much more entertaining)whereby you have to earn cash by creating produce; in this case it’s flowers rather than cattle. It’s as simple as that. The game play is relatively easy (or so I thought). You work day by day. The time of day can be seen with a quaint looking clock to the top left of the screen. To pause the game click on the space bar and to exit or return to the options menu click on Esc. Your game is automatically saved when you exit. On returning you are given the option of returning to where you left off, or starting a new game. If you choose the latter you have to go through the whole dialogue process again as the Go to Farm button remains inactive till you’ve scrolled through all the dialogue...