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Video Game: Magical Battle Arena

In a different dimension from this world, there exists another world where every thousand years a legendary tournament is held.

Magical Battle Arena is a 3D aerial fighting doujin game developed by fly-system and Area ZERO, featuring the Magical Girls and female mages of several different franchises.

The story behind this game revolves around a tournament that takes place every millennium, one consisting of many great and powerful mages from different worlds, in order to maintain the cosmic balance of magic amongst the multiverse. The many participants are summoned from the world they originated in against their will and sent into a different dimension where the tournament is being held. A mysterious voice tells each one of them that they will need to win the tournament if they wish to return to their home, and that should they win, they will be granted one wish. If you want a more in-depth (and spoiler-heavy) details of the game's story, we have a page for that.

Aside from it's Story Mode, the game also features a Versus Mode to battle against four players and/or the computer locally, and a Practice Mode to refine your skills. The Lyrical Pack and later versions of Magical Battle Arena also includes a Survival Mode and Mission Mode that can be unlocked upon completing the Story Mode on Normal without using continues. The game later received online gameplay through the Network Mode added in Magical Battle Arena: Complete Form. The following are the characters included in the game, grouped by the game they appear in and how to unlock them:

Magical Battle Arena:

Takamachi Nanoha (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, initially available)
Fate Testarossa (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, initially available)
Kinomoto Sakura (Cardcaptor Sakura, initially available)
Hoshizora Kirara (Magical Girl Kirara & Sarara ~Dioskroi Of Starlit Sky~, a related eroge by the circle; initially available)
Hoshizora Sarara (Magical Girl Kirara & Sarara ~Dioskroi Of Starlit Sky~, initially available)

Unlockable:

Ruru Gerrard (Original Generation, complete the Story Mode using anyone to unlock)
Nowel Diastasis (Original Generation, complete the Story Mode using Ruru to unlock)
Gadget Drone Type-I (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, complete the Story Mode using Nowel to unlock)

Added in v1.01 - v1.05+:

Lina Inverse (Slayers)
Naga the White Serpent (Slayers)
Kukuri (Mahoujin Guru Guru)

Lyrical Pack:

Hayate Yagami (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, complete Mission 10 to unlock)
Vita (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, complete Mission 20 to unlock)
Takamachi Nanoha StS (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, complete Mission 30 to unlock)

Added in v1.53+ - v1.54+:

Lord of Nightmares Lina (Slayers)
Kita Kita Oyaji (Mahoujin Guru Guru)

Magical Battle Arena: Complete Form:

Takamachi Nanoha StS (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, initially available)
Fate T. Harlaown (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, initially available)

Added in v1.53:

Lord of Nightmares Lina (Slayers, unlocked through Mission Mode)
Kita Kita Oyaji (Mahoujin Guru Guru, unlocked through Mission Mode)

Added in v1.70+:

Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji (Magic Knight Rayearth; only one of the girls can be active at a given time but they switch places with each other)

The original game was first released on August 17th, 2008 during Comiket 74, with it's Lyrical Pack expansion being released on December 30th of the same year. Two years later, the game received an Updated Rerelease with Magical Battle Arena: Complete Form, adding the features of the original game and its expansion pack, new changes to the game's engine, and additional characters. The game's website can be found here

and patches for each respective version of the game can be found here

. Demonstration videos can also be found here

. A basic guide for the game courtesy of Neoseeker can be found here

. Translations for the Options Menu

, and Lyrical Pack-related content

are also available.

See also Elemental Battle Academy, a ground-based third-person shooter-fighting game hybrid by fly-system. Magical Battle Arena later received a Rule ⑨ Spiritual Successor with Touhou Sky Arena.

This game provides examples of:

Anti-Villain: Nowel and Ruru, as the plot above shows.
Artificial Human: Nowel and Ruru.
Attack Drone: Sarara. StrikerS Nanoha also uses Blaster Bits.
Awesome, but Impractical: Every character's Desperation Attack. All their Limit Breaks can hit a large area and multiple opponents, but the Desperation Attack is a one-on-one attack that if dodged leaves you wide open and vulnerable. Although, if it hits, you are almost guaranteed to win.
Badass Back: Lina's Desperation Attack.
Barrier Maiden: The fate of the Telos.
Bare Your Midriff: Would anyone expect anything less from Naga the White Serpent?
BFS: Jet Zanber.
Beam Spam: Blaster 3.
Berserk Button: Vita's Desperation Attack involves her opponent accidentally shooting off her Nice Hat.
Big Bad: Nowel.
Bleached Underpants: Kirara and Sarara.
Cast from Hit Points: StrikerS Nanoha's Blaster System, naturally.
- Literally with Lord of Nightmares Lina. Every time Lord of Nightmares attacks or flies, she loses HP. This is a reference to the original Slayers light novel, where every time the Lord of Nightmares attacks Phibrizo, its hold on Lina Inverse decreases, and eventually its possession of Lina's body ends.
Charged Attack: Divine Buster, Axel Shoot, and some other attacks can either be fired instantly or charged for more damage. The characters with this ability can't move while charging, though. Other characters are restricted to fully charging before releasing them, but can move while doing so.
Combat Tentacles: Gadget Drone Type-1, though it crosses the line into Naughty Tentacles with its highly suggestive-looking melee special.
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Averted in the stages with a lot of Gadget Drones, but applies during the five-clone Mirror Match.
Defeat Means Friendship: In addition to the above plot, Sakura and Kukuri ally with one other after they fight.
Ditto Fighter: Sakura, thanks to The Mirror which allows her to morph into other characters � la Shang Tsung.
The Dragon: Ruru.
Drop the Hammer: Vita.
Dual Wielding: Fate from StrikerS.
Excuse Plot (The plot is mainly a justification on how and why various Magical Girls from different worlds are beating each other up)
Expansion Pack: Lyrical Pack.
- Updated Rerelease: Complete Form.
Final Boss, New Dimension: Subverted when it's usually Ruru who is fought in the other dimension in Story Mode.
Five-Man Band: If you squint a little, you could think of the five default characters this way.
- The Heroine and The Leader: Type-II — Nanoha, the most straightforwardly heroic.
- The Lancer — Fate, Nanoha's counterpart, and a little rougher around the edges than most.
- The Big Girl — Kirara, the most physical of the girls.
- The Smart Girl — Sarara, counterpart to Kirara and her moves have the most technological look to them.
- The Chick — Sakura, the girliest.
Golem: Naga the White Serpent's Limit Break.
Glass Cannon: Hayate's got some of the best special offense in the game, capable of tearing out huge chunks of life from an enemy. The only problem is, she has to stand perfectly still and has to charge her moves before firing them.
- StrikerS Nanoha can become this, when she has her Blaster mode on she hits harder than nearly anyone, the only problem is...
Golden Super Mode: The Lord of Nightmares possessing Lina makes her shine.
Gravity Sucks: Kukuri's Mini Planet.
Harder Than Hard: The aptly named Nightmare Mode
Harmless Freezing: Lina and Naga's Freeze Arrow spell.
Hold the Line: Some missions require you to survive until the countdown ends.
Hot Blooded: Kirara.
Humongous Mecha: The Desperation Attack of the Magic Knight Rayearth girls.
I Believe I Can Fly: Flight is a requirement for any character to be included, due to the gameplay.
An Ice Person: Naga's Dynast Breath and Hayate's Atem des Eis.
Improbably Female Cast: The only non-female character in the game is the Gadget Drone.
Jiggle Physics: Naga, although it was inevitable given that she's Slayer's bustiest character.
Joke Character: Gadget Drone Type-I.
Lethal Joke Character: Kukuri. No, seriously.
Limit Break: The Desperation Attacks.
Magical Girl: Oh, so many.
Macross Missile Massacre: Ruru's ranged special.
Make Me Wanna Shout: Naga's Desperation Attack. If you know Naga, you should have a pretty good idea what this is.
Making a Splash: Umi's Aoi Tatsumaki.
Mana Burn: Kukuri's Long Voiced Cat, which depletes a character's Charge Meter.
Massive Multiplayer Crossover
Mega Crossover: Justified that this is a fan-made game.
Mirror Match: In Stage 5, you fight five clones of yourself.
Ms. Fanservice: Na ga, Na ga, N a ga...
Noblewoman's Laugh: Naga, of course, and it's one of her Limit Breaks.
Palette Swap: The Clones, and your opponents in Survival Mode.
Panty Fighter: Magical Girls in skirts fighting in mid-air. Panty Shots are inevitable.
Pillar of Light: Nowel's Desperation Attack.
Playing with Fire: Lina's Fire Ball and Gaav Flare, Sakura's Firey, and Hikaru's Honou no Ya.
Power Creep, Power Seep: Power-wise, Sakura from Cardcaptor could match the other magical girls in terms of power, but it's a little harder to imagine her being as durable as Nanoha or Lina, considering how she kinda has the durability of an ordinary elementary school student.
Power Fist: Kirara.
Purposefully Overpowered: Appropriately, The Lord of Nightmares.
Really 700 Years Old: Nowel and Ruru.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kirara and Sarara respectively.
Roboteching: Axel Shoot and Plasma Lancer, amongst others.
Shock and Awe: Hikaru's Akai Inazuma.
"BemBem! Mou ii yo, mou ii! Mou ii yo~!"
Scenery Porn: The Cephiro stage added in v1.70+ is WAY too well done.
Sinister Scythe: Fate from the original series.
Spam Attack: Nowell's Desperation Attack as well as Sakura and Kirara's melee special moves. The former uses The Fight, if you're wondering.
Sphere of Destruction: A lot of attacks, but especially Dragon Slave.
Stripperiffic: Who else could be more stripperiffic than Naga?
This Is a Drill: Ruru, from her drill pig-tails, to launching a barrage of drill-missiles, she is the embodiment of this trope.
Theme Twin Naming: Kirara and Sarara.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Hayate's Desperation Attack summons Nanoha and Fate and they use their Starlight Breaker, Plasma Zamber Breaker and Ragnar�k Breaker attacks at the same time at the enemy... In the second season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, this attack combo was used to stun the Book Of Darkness, a being so powerful that entire armies couldn't defeat it.
Throw the Book at Them: Hayate.
Wave Motion Gun: Come on. We've got StrikerS Nanoha here, of all people! Her "normal" Super Move is the Blaster-3 Starlight Breaker (alias five simultaneous Starlight Breakers aimed at a single target from multiple directions) with which she... er... officially adopted Vivio. It does even more damage than her Desperation Attack, and even if you manage to escape the beams the shockwave is so huge that in the smaller maps there is no way to avoid it, and in the bigger ones it will require a full bar of stamina to escape in time. In three word: Wave Motion Spam.
White-Haired Pretty Girl: Hayate.
You Can't Fight Fate: Nowel's belief.
- Screw Destiny: ...and your character's answer to this.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Nowel's is sort of a shade of lavender, and Naga's is purple. Played straight with Umi Ryuuzaki.
Zettai Ryouiki: A lot of them have this.