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''[[Magical Vacation]]'' (2001) was the first entry in a role-playing game series that takes place on Kovomaka. The main characters are a group of trainee mages that attend the Will-O-Wisp magic school. They can interact with elemental spirits and cast elemental spells.
In the first game, the students are on summer vacation (hence the name) when they are attacked by [[The Heartless]] which splits up the students. It's up to the main character to rescue the students. Sadly, this game never met an Eastern Release, similar to Mother 3.
The sequel, ''[[Magical Starsign]]'' (2006), takes place 800 years later, when one of the teachers disappears. The students find a magical spaceship in a part of the school and get lost in space, having to reunite with each other and rescue their teacher.
Also, for some reason, a great deal of things in the games are made out of gummi. Including the power-ups and the [[Cosmic Keystone|Cosmic Keystones]].
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* [[An Ice Person]]: Sorbet▼
** Blueberry in Vacation.▼
* [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil]]▼
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: General Knucklestorm.
* [[Ax Crazy]] / [[Psycho for Hire]]: [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Magnus Muzzleflash]], a "murderous psychopathologist and a gun-toting pox" who doesn't think twice on gunning down his own troops if they get on his way. He was actually in prison due to his crimes against the galaxy before Abalon required his services.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Semolina's clip ends up being a conduit that allows her to speak through Mokka from beyond the grave.}}
* [[Comically Small Bribe]]: An early clue that the police are corrupt.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Farina in ''Magical Starsign'' is ''unspeakably'' creepy. She barely ever speaks, and for the majority of the game her dialog box face graphic is the same blank expression. She's a magical prodigy, which is unusual enough, but you learn about this when she ''wordlessly vaporizes'' a monster that was enchanted to revive endlessly after your party beats it. Her pet frog died and her nursemaid put it into a potted plant's soil as fertilizer, after which she began gathering animal corpses and packing them in. Later in the game, she beats up the pirate otters stranded at Assam and exercises dominion over them. {{spoiler|But worst of all is when, stemming from those last two examples, she nurses a holy tree sapling by [[Not Good
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** Considering her nicer actions when she's first introduced (Destroying said monster, and a second one, and helping Pico escape) she's probably a truer example of [[Ambiguous Innocence]]
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Ganache Nighthawk, Miss Madeleine and optionally your own character can use dark magic.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Master Kale {{spoiler|wants to speed up the upcoming apocalypse because he thinks the world has "gone off it's proper course.'' With the [[Robot War]] set to start in a few years, Sorbet finds it hard to argue with him.}} Depending on [[WMG|your interpretation]], Farina might fit too.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mokka
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Mokka
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Semolina immediately volunteers to be made into a [[Cosmic Keystone]], and does so before the party can try to stop her. And Sorbet reveals if Semolina hadn't done it, she would have.}}
* [[Elemental Powers]]: The main system of magic. The full list of elements in the game is earth, machine, bug, wood, poison, beast, thunder, water, beauty, sword, wind, sound, fire, love, darkness, and light. The sequel trims it down to earth, fire, wind, water, wood, light, and darkness.
* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: In ''Magical Starsign'', the elements are effective against one another like this: Wind -> Earth -> Water -> Fire -> Wood -> Wind. Dark and Light are weak to each other.
* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: The first [[Space Police]] detective the party faces is Mugwort, an [[Funny Afro|afro-wearing]] lizard with bell-bottom pants and platform shoes. He even strikes the classic Disco pose when casting.
** Main/Lassi/Mokka:▼
*** Main: Ego.▼
*** Mokka: Superego.▼
** Chai/Pico/Sorbet:▼
*** Chai: Ego, often the fastest to break up arguments between Pico and Sorbet▼
*** Pico: Id, hot-headed, needs to be brought back to earth by Sorbet regularly.▼
*** Sorbet: Superego, tries to keep Pico in line.▼
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: One of the otters is named - I kid you not - '''Hard-Up Hank'''.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: The Book of the Darned.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Brie Pourri and a good portion of the Space Police.}}
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: You get to name your entire party. Not only that, the dev team went the extra mile with when user-inputted names are spoken in certain context: Soon after Mokka joins the party, Lassi has a line where she whispers to your character, addressing him/her by name in a hoarser whisper. How do they show that she's adding emphasis without the ability to use italics? The same way most people do it: ALL-CAPS. ''Even if your name isn't in all-caps.'' Most games don't do this, even in mid-all-caps lines.
* [[HP to One]]: One party member starts this way in the final boss battle, in addition to losing access to some commands. {{spoiler|It's Mokka, after he inflicts [[Explosive Instrumentation]] on himself.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Human Resources]]}}: {{spoiler|Robots? Their battery cores are made from gummified humans. Even your [[Robot Buddy]] Mokka.}}
▲* [[An Ice Person]]: Sorbet
▲** Blueberry in Vacation.
* [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality]]: Subverted: everyone's magic is useful in combat and in exploration.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Your character and Chai
* [[Kill It
* [[Kill It
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The Space Police make a good example.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Parodied, a [[Red Shirt|dwarf]] tells this to a [[Mook|Pirate Otter]]. [[Fridge Brilliance|A dwarf who'd inherited an exile on Cassia...]]
* [[Magic Knight]]: Especially Pico, who can have a good mix of attack and IQ, but Mokka, the main character, and Chai can pull this role off as well.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Mokka. Slow as hell and has almost one and a half times as much health as anyone else. Also has the best defense out of anyone else.
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** Right after said scene, {{spoiler|Sorbet tells you SHE was about to make the sacrifice needed.}}
** {{spoiler|The fact the main ingredient in a robot power core is a gummy made from magic users, right there in black and white, within something you need to read for plot purposes?}} Which becomes a lot more of a [[Wham! Episode|shock]] when you learn {{spoiler|that's why there's ruins on Erd and that the robots will eventually move on to other worlds when they need more.}} Oh, and when you find what's left of them? {{spoiler|You can go upstairs and fight a girl who happened to be one of the ones that lived through the process. [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|Who asks to be killed.]]}} THEN the game goes back to normal for a while.
*** Oh, and remember, this was made by the same team who brought you [[
* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Saved Enough]]}}: {{spoiler|Miss Madeline}}.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Pretty much every employee in the Space Police HQ.
▲* [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil]]
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Kinda shaky, but in Magical Starsign:
▲** Main/Lassi/Mokka:
▲*** Main: Ego.
▲*** Lassi: Id.
▲*** Mokka: Superego.
▲** Chai/Pico/Sorbet:
▲*** Chai: Ego, often the fastest to break up arguments between Pico and Sorbet
▲*** Pico: Id, hot-headed, needs to be brought back to earth by Sorbet regularly.
▲*** Sorbet: Superego, tries to keep Pico in line.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Pico and Sorbet. Also the closest thing to a canon couple the game gives us.▼
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The sequel has an 800 year timeskip. The same teachers are still teaching at the magic school, and they still look the same.
** Lampshaded by Chai.
** An NPC in the beginning mentions a teacher named Pistachio. Pistachio was a party member in Vacation.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Magical Starsign
▲* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Pico and Sorbet. Also the closest thing to a canon couple the game gives us.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|Oh, though you saved Miss Madeline from her fate? Too bad, she has to join the [[The Lifestream]] just as you finally rescue her. Kinda goes double due to all the effort you went to in order to save her in the previous game.}}
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Kovomaka is diverse, the other planets in the galaxy consist of a jungle, a volcano, a tropical island, windy plains, and rocky barrens.
* [[Space Pirates]]: The Pirate Otters. Right down to rehashing 18th century pirate wardrobes and accents.
* [[Space Police]]: Uh, the Space Police. However, they're not exactly out to help people
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Brie Pourri is quite the scantily-clad police officer that doesn't go unnoticed by some of the NPCs in Bena Rikashi. {{spoiler|Her boss sprite only serves to cement this.}} ▼
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Every party member except for Mokka could fit but Lassi and Sorbet are the best examples.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|Sorbet and Semolina. Especially Semolina, though. At least with Sorbet her inner thoughts surface more often than not.}}
** {{spoiler|Arguably, the game's world itself is a Stepford Smiler, with jokes and bright colors hiding a rather sordid history. Arguably, Kale's [[Start of Darkness]] was noticing this.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Suicide Is Painless]]}}: {{spoiler|Talk to the villagers after Semolina becomes a [[Cosmic Keystone]]. They reveal she wasn't very happy with her life. Sorbet reveals the same thing about herself.}}
▲* [[Stripperiffic]]: Brie Pourri is quite the scantily-clad police officer that doesn't go unnoticed by some of the NPCs in Bena Rikashi. {{spoiler|Her boss sprite only serves to cement this.}}
* [[Surprise Creepy]]
* [[Terrible Trio]]: Pirate otters, who sometimes come in Terrible Quartets, too.
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* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Book of the Darned. And it used to be standard curriculum, too.
* [[Two-Teacher School]]: We see Madeline and Gran Degree and that's about it.
* [["Wake
* [[Warmup Boss]]: The Antlion on Erd.
* [[Wizarding School]]: The main setting.
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