History VideoGame / MagicalDrop

* {{Gainaxing}}: The World, which has arguably reached MemeticMutation status around the internet.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In higher difficulties, your opponent moves via ''teleportation''.

* BadExportForYou: The US and (moreso) World versions of Magical Drop 1-3 have [[InconsistentDub odd voiceacting]] and less features than the Japanese version. Most notably, the World version of Magical Drop 3 is completely missing the Adventure game mode, while the US version has a stripped-down one that removes the other characters from the board.
** Magical Drop V is slated to be a case of RegionalBonus instead by adding an extra game called Ghostlop to the US and world releases.
** The NeoGeoPocket version is the only english-language version to have actually translated the character's between-match dialouge instead of replacing it with generic "I will challenge you!" phrases.

* BonusBoss: Black Pierrot:

* ClusterFBomb: Chariot, at least in the Japanese version.

** Notably, they actually corrected an instance of CriticalResearchFailure between games. In Magical Drop 2, Strength was a huge, villainous, male bruiser... which is the exact opposite of everything the card represents. For 3, his virtuous and courageous tomboy daughter ended up taking his place. The first iteration of Strength still exists, but as a secret character.

* FunSize

* MarilynManeuver: Again, The World.

** The World wears only a floating toga strip. The funny thing is the game actually ''covered her up''. If you look at the artwork on the Rider-Waite tarot deck, of which the character designs are based on (see TarotMotifs below), you'll see that her costume is even more revealing.
** Same goes for the Star, who doesn't even have clothes, and the Sun.
** And the Empress. [[HellBentForLeather Leather clad]] FemmeFatale WomanInBlack with a NoblewomansLaugh, [[GainaxBounce bouncy breasts]] [[WhipItGood and a whip]].

** Notably, they actually corrected an instance of Did Not Do the Research between games. In Magical Drop 2, Strength was a huge, villainous, and male bruiser... which is the exact opposite of everything the card represents, so for 3, his virtuous and courageous tomboy daughter ended up taking his place.

* MsFanservice: The World

* GratuitousSpanish: Some of the characters in 2 and 3 talk in Spanish during gameplay for some reason.

* BadExportForYou: The US and (moreso) World versions of Magical Drop 1-3 have [[InconsistentDub odd voiceacting]] and less features than the Japanese version. Most notably, the World version of Magical Drop 3 is completely missing the Adventure game mode, while the US version has a stripped-down one that removes the other characters from the board.
** Magical Drop V is slated to be a case of RegionalBonus instead by adding an extra game called Ghostlop to the US and world releases.
** The NeoGeoPocket version is the only english-language version to have actually translated the character's between-match dialouge instead of replacing it with generic "I will challenge you!" phrases.

** the Empress is nearly perfect, embodying the positive and negative maternal aspects of the card, with a Dominatrix Evil Overlord persona and a kind, nurturing, saintly one — the plot of the second game revolves around freeing her from being stuck permanently in the former persona.

* ZettaiRyouiki: If Fortune in V turns out to be a {{Tsundere}}, she'd be a grade S.

* {{Bookworm}}/{{Meganekko}}: High Priestess

* CuteBruiser: Everyone, but specially Strenght

Another is the lenient combo system. While other games of this type such as ''TetrisAttack'' check to make sure that one group of pieces is DIRECTLY responsible for another matching up before issuing any kind of bonus or streak, ''Magical Drop'' is like ''{{Klax}}'' in that ANY new match is counted into the "chain" until the animation is done and all parts resting on the vanishing blocks fall into place.

A series of color-matching puzzle games created by the now-defunct Creator/DataEast. The original game was released in arcades in 1995. The second and third games were created for the NeoGeo MVS system; ''Magical Drop III'' was DataEast's final ArcadeGame. The fourth game, ''Magical Drop F'', was a PlayStation exclusive released in 1999. ''Magical Drop V'', developed by Golgoth Studio, was released on {{Steam}} in November 15th, 2012.

A series of color-matching puzzle games created by the now-defunct DataEast. The original game was released in arcades in 1995. The second and third games were created for the NeoGeo MVS system; ''Magical Drop III'' was DataEast's final ArcadeGame. The fourth game, ''Magical Drop F'', was a PlayStation exclusive released in 1999. ''Magical Drop V'', developed by Golgoth Studio, was released on {{Steam}} in November 15th, 2012.

* ArtificialStupidity: For some reason, the Magical Drop AI in Magical Drop V regularly dips into this (to the point where [[AIBreaker Death outright breaks most of them in under 10 seconds]]). Unfortunately, the Ghostlop AI goes to the other extreme and edges into PerfectPlayAI (especially if the rank gets jacked up from defeating [[BonusBoss Black Perriot]]), forcing fights against them to go to quota.

* BonusBoss: Black Perriot:

** In Magical Drop III, he occupies a "Special Stage" slot immediately before Tower, accessed by having 15,000 points and 3 consecutive victories before fighting Tower.

A series of color-matching puzzle games created by the now-defunct DataEast. The original game was released in arcades in 1995. The second and third games were created for the NeoGeo MVS system; ''Magical Drop III'' was DataEast's final ArcadeGame. The fourth game, ''Magical Drop F'', was a PlayStation exclusive released in 1999. ''Magical Drop V'', developed by Gogolith Studio, will be released on {{Steam}} in 2012.

* DevelopmentHell: Magical Drop V seems to have headed this way, with October 2011 being the intended release date (as per the facebook page, all other sources seem to say TBA 2011). Note that as of the current edit, the game hasn't even shown UP on steam for preorder. Rumor is that the PC version ended up being delayed just so that it would launch alongside the console versions.

Magical Drop is for the most part, a color-matching puzzle game built around TarotMotifs. Two details come together to make it noteworthy.

Magical Drop games put far more emphasis on characters than other puzzle games that make it to the U.S. territory. While other puzzle games have only small animated window dressing around the playfield, if they have characters at all, Magical Drop Uses characters as the background, and in VS. mode, each has several animations to coincide with the action and each even has unique voice samples (At least in the Japanese version).