Magical Drop III

Try to match three or more objects of the same color while playing against the computer or alone in two different types of games: survival mode or magical journey.

Gameplay is very similar to Magical Drop 2 - line up three similary-coloured bubbles and they disappear. Two new additions to Magical Drop III were the countdown block (indestructible, but counts down by one for each group you destroy) and a multicoloured block that eliminates all blocks on the screen, including countown blocks, ice blocks and bubbles.

There were also a few changes in the rules from Magical Drop 2:

• If you clear the whole screen, but are holding any blocks in your hand, you will no longer get credit for clearing the screen.
• Juggling bubbles (throwing and catching groups of bubbles in rapid succession to fool the game into thinking they were all still in the air at once) is now a lot harder to do.
• Juggling the last few sets of bubbles while clearing the rest of the screen no longer gives you credit for clearing the whole screen.
• Juggling bubbles into positions where they would normally break, and catching them before they do, is now next to impossible.
• Super bubbles that eliminate all bubbles of their own colour now count as bubbles of that colour when you are picking them up (phew!). For example, if you had a green super bubble underneath or on top of a normal green bubble and you grabbed them, Magical Drop 2 would give you the bubble on the bottom, while Magical Drop III would give you both of them.

The single-player game is also more difficult: Magical Drop 2 happily allowed players to progress as far as level 60 without becoming unusually tough, where Magical Drop III becomes very challenging around level 30.

In the story mode, if you do not collect any fire bubbles, you will not advance any spaces. You can use this to your advantage on spaces that provide very simple puzzles (the first space always works, there are others) to rack up the score.

Scores higher than 999999 (which are very achievable using this trick!) will not display correctly on the high score menu, but they will be listed in the proper order.

The following tricks can be done on the CHALLENGE mode: Play as Father Strength, Highlight Strength at the character select screen, then hold down the C button and press the A or B button different color depending on with button is pressed. Unlocking Hidden CharactersHighlight Star at the character select screen and wait for the timer to count down to 17. Then press the C button 3 times, holding it down on the 3rd press. 6 secret character will appear 4 on the top middle of the screen and one each corner of the top roll of the character choices.