Mago is a 2D Retraux-style Platform Game that was developed by Dream Potion and Hype train. It has mechs, penguins, dragons, and bosses galore. The story is as follows: One day, an evil overlord named Gourmet decides to kidnap Banani, the girlfriend of a sorcerer named Pepe, to use her as an ingredient in his hamburger. Of course, Pepe doesn't want that, so he sets off on a quest to save her by platforming through various different themed worlds. The game is a Puzzle Platformer with some Run-and-Gun elements that features you having to use your wand to stun enemies, and purify malicious objects so they temporarily won't hurt you. The world map is similar to Gargoyle's Quest, in that you can move across it from a Three-Quarters View, coming across towns and enemies that upon touched, launch you in a sequence where you have to defeat a whole bunch of enemies in exchange for a large amount the game's currency.
Not to be confused with Mr. Magoo or Mägo de Oz.
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- All There in the Manual: None of the main characters' names are ever mentioned in-game, however the names for each one are Pepe (The main hero), Banani (The princess), and Gourmet (The villain) in passing by the devs.
- Cartoon Penguin: The game has penguins that live in the arctic, heck even the Sorcerer can turn into one in the auto runner stages.
- The Cameo: Many content creators across social media appear as cameos in the game. Such faces that appear range from the composer Noteblock, to many YouTubers including Somecallmejohnny, Arlo, Nitro Rad, Nathaniel Bandy, and many more.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Purple objects and enemies are interactible with your wand. Whether that be destroying it, purifying it or something else.
- Creator Cameo: The game's composer Noteblock appears in this game as the shopkeeper.
- Double Jump: Pepe can do this after jumping on an enemy.
- Fusion Dance: When the Twin Sparks are nearly beat, they fuse together creating a more powerful being.
- The Goomba: The game's most common enemies are perpetually smiling slimes whose color changes depending on the world you're in. They have no attacks, do nothing but move aroundnote , and can be easily defeated by Goomba Stomping them.
- Green Hill Zone: World 1 is this, as it is a meadow with teapot shrubs.
- Implausible Boarding Skills: As a penguin, Pepe can ski on a snowboard.
- Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: There are equal amounts of human characters (Such as Pepe, Banani and the hot air balloon pilot) as Funny Animal characters (Such as The Pandooky, the minigame hosts and the penguins from the level "Penguin War") in the game.
- Mini-Mecha: Pepe can use a mech that can punch anything it’s own size.
- Mocky Mouse: The minigame hosts are heavily stylized cartoony Funny Animals that look similar to classic cartoon characters from the 30s. One of them resembles Mickey Mouse, while the other resembles Bendy.
- Our Dragons Are Different: In World 4, Pepe comes across a dragon egg, which hatches into a baby dragon, Sapphire, of whom gets attached to Pepe, by the start of the boss fight, Saphire grew into a full fledged dragon, who got controlled by Gourmet for a while, then got back to normal.
- Plant Person: One of the minibosses in the third world, Dorada, is a humanoid plant carrying a spear. To defeat them, you must attack their purple hand before it hits you in one of their attacks. Afterwards, their head falls off, and you can Goomba Stomp it to deal damage.
- Retraux: The game has a Game Boy Advance-esque 32-bit artstyle, though the soundtrack is more akin to the Game Boy's 4-bit soundchip.
- Rhyming Names: The boss of World 3 is named Beaver Feaver(sic).
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: World 2 is a mountain covered in snow and ice.
- Space Zone: World 5 and 6 are this, 5 being on a moon, and 6 being on a ship.
- To Serve Man: The reason Gourmet kidnapped Banani is so he could use her as an ingredient in his hamburger. No, really.
- Variable Mix: The overworld theme's soundfont changes depending on which world you're in.
- Wind Is Green: The giant tiki mask miniboss from the Sapphire to the Rescue level has color coded elemental attacks. its wind attacks are green.
- Wizard Classic: Pepe, the Player Character, is a traditional bearded robe wearing wizard.
