verily should be more game such as thine, ae magnificente gayme to be sure

i spent 5 thousand dollars on the in-game figure machine. worth every penny!

contender for goty 2016 (seriously) (not a joke) (its really good)

I fell in love with thecatamites' classic "Space Funeral" a while ago and decided to play some other games of his! "Magic Wand" falls somewhat into in the same category in terms of length (around 1,5 h) and conceptual direction:

You are an insomniac sword wielding-wanderer and capsule-toy affecionado with no pokets named "Radiget", traversing an uncanny and artistically wild world with weird denizens to talk to in a way that often makes little sense. You can move the camera angle to platform around the 3d-areas, equip your weapon to fend off enemies and destroy pots for some change. Thats it, basically.
Most people will find the pure gameplay appaling, but "Magic Wand" clearly doesn't want to be a "game" in the usual term. It is more an experience of oddly feeling at home in a charming and glitchy travesty of typical fantasy adventure tropes.

Sometimes heartfelt corruption overweighs well crafted but ultimatively shallow coherence.

Recommended for anyone who enjoys "real" "indie" concepts! If you are unsure, play some free game of his first.
Plus I liked the character collecting mechanic (which may contain grind if you want it 100%), because the odd sprites and the descriptions are grotesquely charming!

Did you know thecatamites has a whole load more games on Itch and harmonyzone.org?

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That was a neat experience. I loved the OST and the overall game idea, it's worth a shot.

its aight

Ae charming little tale! Humble Radiget has serendipitous journee through the plot of a JRPG, when All He Wants Is To Collect Capsules!!

Magic Wand likes to bill itself as a "capsule toy RPG", which is strange, since it doesn't contain any RPG elements. Instead it decidedly falls into the camp of "Exploration games", "Walking Sims" or whatever else you want to call it. While there is combat and even a boss fight or two, for the most part, interactivity is limited to walking around strange, surreal environments talking to the equally strange citizens. The game was made by thecatamites, better known for "Space Funeral" and "Goblet Grotto", and it certainly shows in both visuals and writing, the former consisting of enclosed isometric landscapes with a freely rotateable camera, alongside a look and feel similar to Minecraft, playing on an NES which had previously been thrown out of a window. Everything is heavily pixelated, with at times downright ugly color palettes and the level geometry often feels somewhat random, though never to the point of completely losing cohesion. The writing definitely recalls the style found in Space Funeral, mainly taking the form of short bits and pieces of dialogue, generally very bizarre and disjointed, with occasionally archaic terminology and weird spelling. Largely nonsensical at a glance, but still seemingly operating on some kind of bizarro-world logic, with recurring themes and characters. Unique stuff overall, but definitely an aquired taste.

You can see pretty much everything the game has to offer in less than an hour, which may be for the best, since that falls inside Steam's refund window. Certainly a unique experience, but difficult to recommend without some major caveats. If you haven't played Space Funeral, maybe try that one out first, but if you already did and are hungry for more, then maybe give Magic Wand a whirl.