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Witch's Wish | 
| From: Natsume, Inc.
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $19.99
as of 9/6/2010 01:11 CDT details
New (1) Used (1) from $14.85
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 3044
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: adventure_games
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: NDSS2G10026
Model: 719593100263
UPC: 719593100263
EAN: 0719593100263
ASIN: B0030LKLVO
Publication Date: May 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Use the Touch Screen to cast exciting spells! | | • | Use magic to solve puzzles and help friends in need! | | • | Engage in thrilling magic duels! |
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Product Description
Vicky wants more than anything to be a witch, but in her town, only rich girls can afford to go to witch school. It seems hopeless until she meets a mysterious girl who shows her that she has the powers of a great witch. Can Vicky use her newfound abilities to save the town from a dark force that threatens to tear it apart?
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| Customer Reviews:
 Perfect for 10-12 years olds July 16, 2010
B. schmidt (Nashville,TN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fun game for 10-12 years olds,my grandaughter plays it and really likes it,fun game.
 Not exactly spellbinding June 7, 2010
M. Hall
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
As a fan of Harvest Moon and Rune Factory, I picked up 'Witch's Wish' with the hopes that Natsume would deliver an excellent game again. I won't say they failed completely, but while Witch's Wish is a fair way to pass the time, I wouldn't recommend this game for anyone who isn't a 12 year old female. That said, I'm not a 12 year old female, so my feelings about this game are slightly biased.
Now, the main storyline of Witch's Wish is that Vicky is a poor girl who can't afford magic school. Only the rich can afford magic and, therefor, use magic. A girl named Tanya wants to seal magic away to stop the rich and the poor from fighting. But Vicky learns how to use magic and sees that it can be used to help people. The story is divided into 'Chapters', most of which are episodic events in which Vicky uses her magic to help others. Sometimes the game allows you to participate in 'Witch One', a competition in which Vicky can duel other users of magic.
In order to actually use said magic, you will utilize the touch screen by drawing the design of a particular spell on the 'magic board'. Needless to say, this doesn't present much of a challenge, and gamers who are looking for something with deep and difficult gameplay should stay far, far away. But if you are, as I said before, a 12 year old girl, you will probably enjoy tracing the simple designs of the magic spells on the board with your stylus to cast the spells. I, however, found that it got boring and redundant after a while, and would rather point and click than have to continuously draw a circle over and over again to set my opponent aflame.
One major beef I have with this game is the graphics. While a handful of the characters are drawn in an adorable style that will appeal to anime fans, it seems like this game has two very different artists. The majority of the characters, i.e. the townsfolk, are drawn in a kindergarten-esque cartoon style that's repulsive on the eyes. When juxtaposed beside a character drawn in the anime style, like Vicky, for example, it's definitely an eye-sore. One major draw for me buying this game was the graphics and the way Vicky was drawn... I had no idea that not all of the characters were going to be drawn that way.
All that said, Witch's Wish was a fairly entertaining game to play when I had absolutely nothing else to do... but if you're looking for a good spell-casting game, you might as well go pick up Harry Potter or something. Not even the cutesty anime characters can save this game, because not all of the characters are drawn in the cutesty anime style.
TL;DR - If you're not a 12 year old girl, pass on this game. If you are, you'll probably have a lot of fun.
 Witch's Wish for DS June 23, 2010
012467 (Florida, USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this for my brand new DSi XL because I was happy to see a new "cute anime" type game coming from Natsume. However, this game fell short of my expectations. I didn't expect it to be the greatest game, but I did expect it to at least be fun which it is not.
Pros:
*Well.. your main character is really cute..
*The storyline holds some depth
*The graphics are pretty nice most of the time
*Casting spells can be kind of fun
*The sound effects are realistic
*The music is really nice
Cons:
*As stated with the previous review, it does look like 2 seperate artists worked on this game. They do clash with the overall feel of the game
*The creators became lazy and there is double or triple of everyone except the main group of characters
*You watch more than play. Most the game is reading conversations and involves very little free play. You cannot even save when you want to most the time
*Casting spells is OK, but it can get very boring and repetitive. "Thrilling magical duels"? I think not.
*Anyone can do magic if they "learn" it at school by sketching symbols on a chalk board - completely ridiculous, but perhaps some can overlook it and children won't think into it that much
*Game length isn't very long, but it feels long because of the vast amount of conversations held
*The game doesn't flow well. I have now forgotten the point of the game because so many secondary events are taking place
All in all, I wish I hadn't of purchased it for 20$. It would've been OK for 10$, but not 20$. You may enjoy this game, but to each his own. I just didn't really like it all much. Maybe next time, Natsume
 I WISH This Game Hadn't Been HORRID August 9, 2010
Feytaline (Pittsburgh, PA)
For someone like me, who loves cutesy art, Halloween, witches, pumpkins, this game seemed so perfect! Awww, just look at the cute little moe witch! And it's simple, too, aimed for 10 year olds! Just the kind of game I like!
NOT. This game is insulting even to a ten year old. When I first opened the screen, I was excited by the prospect of really cute art, and decent music. Natsume! hadn't let me down with Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon, and while I was expecting this game to be much, much easier, I wasn't expecting it to be garbage.
You play as Vicky, a young girl who lives with her grandmother. In their town, a great wall separates the people who are rich from those who are poor. The rich people can also use magic, which they learn at expensive magic schools. Somehow the poor people haven't yet rioted... it's not that kind of game. Anyways, Vicky blabs a bit about how she wants to be a witch to help her grandma, and then you see her grandma.
She looks like she was drawn by a COMPLETELY different artist. Probably because she was. Same as every townsperson. That cute, moe style? Only Vicky, Tanya, and Vicky's three other school friends are drawn in that style. Everyone else is drawn in the style of a NINTENDO WII AVATAR. It is incredibly clashing and I was wondering what the hell had happened at first. Vicky's OTHER classmates are cross-eyed Gaia On-line avatar wannabes. I am still in awe as to who the hell let this through final production like that. You won't see those cheap art screenshots on the back of the box. Nope.
Gameplay itself. I'm used to repetitive rune drawing from A Witch's Tale--where it is actually FUN. In that game, you can guess what magic enemies are weak to. In this game, there is no rhyme or reason. You can attack ten times with Earth magic on an enemy, it will be "canceled out", give up, use something else, get defeated, use Earth again, suddenly, it's super effective (meaning, you should have been using it all along). You have exactly 2.5 seconds to draw a circle. I thought it had to be exact. Nope. Just scribble some semblance of a circle. Why the timer? It's actually pretty hard to do it that quickly. If you don't trace a rune exactly, you attack yourself. Sometimes you attack yourself because you didn't select a target, even if you DID. Some fights are plot defeats, but there is nothing to tell you which ones those are. If you're taught to do something in one fight, and you do it in the next (I'm talking the double-spell casting here) you can't. You have to get defeated so she REMEMBERS she can do it. If I were ten, I would be so unbelievably frustrated I'd chuck my DS out the window and punch whoever got me this game in the jeans.
Also, Witch One? Skip it. You can beat the game without it, it has no plot bearing, it does not level you up at all--you don't gain experience from using your magic or unlock new runes any faster. The only thing I think it might do is unlock screenshots in the museum. MAYBE. I'm not sure.
Plot is not so bad. You play each stage in chapters--mysteriously skipping Chapter 5 ????? til you defeat the game (SPOILER: It's a pointless training chapter!) helping your friends and learning more about magic. It really has a lot of potential to be a good game, which is probably why it offends me so much that it isn't. Vicky is definitely a goody two shoes, but not to the point of being annoying. In one chapter, she helps her two friends who are having a girl fight patch things up--which was actually pretty decent. The story's basic moral isn't too bad either, it's just very poorly told because of the terrible gameplay.
Overall, I'm disgusted with Natsume! for putting out this game. So many things were good with it--good sprites, good music, 5 decent character designs, an okay story,-but so much was so wrong that I can only assume they had to shove this game out the door in a hurry.
Honestly, you want a good, fun game in a similar genre? Go for A Witch's Tale from Nippon Ichi. Plot is a little harder to understand, but the art is consistently good, the gameplay as well, and it takes longer than 5 hours to beat.
Witch's Wish June 30, 2010
Jamie Marie
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed in this game. I also have 3 nieces ages 6, 8, and 11 and they didn't like the game. For the few hours that you actually take to go through the game there is very little of it that you actually control the character. Other than looking around town once or twice, the game mostly plays itself. You have a small scene where you walk through a forest as well, or push up to fly the one direction in the sky. Between all my nieces they hated the game, too much reading and not enough play. If I could get a full refund for the game being a waste of time, I would. If I wanted to read a book I would have bought one! I do not recommend this game at ALL.
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