When a spell goes wrong, Abra and her sister Cadabra need to get rid of all of the colored vials currently popping up over their land in Magic Twins.
Magic Twins is a local co-op game where one person plays Abra and the other plays Cadabra – two twin witches with the same goal in mind: save the world from their spell gone wrong. A giant cauldron has blasted a bunch of colors out into the world after a mistake when it came to changing the witches’ school uniforms. Now, Abra and Cadabra have set up barriers and need to get rid of the colorful potions that keep appearing.
On each side of the screen, there is a witch. You can move your witch up and down, throwing out colored spell orbs towards the various color pots. At the bottom of the screen, you can see the different colors you are able to switch to and throw. You will need to make sure you hit the right color with the matching spell, unless it’s a black or white color, which can be hit with anything. Sometimes, when you destroy a color pot, it will drop a new color orb, which you can pick up by shooting that orb with the matching orb spell. This will add the orbs to one of four slots on the bottom of the screen. You’ll want specific combinations of these colors to make large spells, which can help you in a pinch.
Once you have filled the orbs at the bottom of the screen, you and the other player will need to press the spell-casting button at the same time and watch the screen change. It’s a very useful action, especially when you are able to strip color from all the colored pots on the screen. Working together, you both can keep the screen clear and hopefully fix your mistake.
At the start of each level in Magic Twins you get three goals to try to achieve. These are sometimes vague like ‘be brave’ but become challenging quests like destroying a specific number of one color in a row. You’ll need to communicate with the other player to actually achieve these goals.
Speaking of communication, there are some levels in Magic Twins where you don’t have control over what color spell you have in your hand. Instead, the other player picks the color you will have and vice versa. This means that you both need to talk and request colors to keep the colored pots at bay. It’s a really interesting and intense way to play!
I got the chance to play through a bit of Magic Twins at Pocket Gamer Connects London, where I very much enjoyed this cute and fun little local co-op game. I look forward to seeing the game released!
Magic Twins is currently in development, but in the meantime, you can find out more about the game from the developer’s site.