Magical Crusaders Matagi Magica

Mami battles Gertud.

魔法討伐隊 またぎ☆マギカ is an fanmade action-adventure sidescroller based on the anime, developed by 耳小屋. The latest version can be downloaded here. In the game, the player select between several Mahou Shoujo as avatar and battle through various Witch's lair to defeat Witches and obtain their Grief Seed.

As of version 3, player can choose between Mami, Kyouko, and Sayaka as avatar and play through Gertrud and Charlotte stages.

Installation

Download the latest version of the game and unzip it into a new directory.

• It needs the regional settings to use dot (.) and not comma (,) as decimal separator to run; to see kanji and not random mojibake, change regional settings to Japanese or use AppLocale.
• It is a Windows binary, but works just fine on WINE (for Linux, for Intel Mac). It is adviced to use this setting: 'env LANG=ja_JP.utf8 wine Player.exe' .

Controls

Basic Control

• ↑ / ← / → / ↓: Move avatar using the arrow keys.
• X: Jump, press X again to leap forward.
• Z: Basic attack.
• [Charge] Z: Hold down Z to initiate a charged attack.
• X + ↑: High jump, press X + ↑ again to double jump, or X to leap forward.

Mami

• Z: Summon five guns in front. If midair the guns fall on top of the avatar. Touching a gun fires it in the direction of the nearest enemy. Summoning guns uses 10 MP.
• Z + ↓: Swing a gun in melee, useful for hit something close fast.
• Z + ↑: Summon five guns in a row that fire in rapid succession after a couple seconds, can be used in mid air.
• [Charge] Z + ↑: Tiro Finale, uses 100 MP.
• [Charge] Z + ↓: summon a trap that immobilizes, doesn't seem to work on bosses, uses 50 MP.

Sayaka

• Z: Slash, can be used very rapidly or after a single jump upwards.
• Z + →: Thrust, dealt higher damage but slower, can be used when jumping forward.
• Z + ↓: Dash forward, temporarily invulnerable and anything the avatar passes through is killed. Stoppable by wall or ledge and uses 20 MP. In midair it's a down thrust and takes no MP.
• Z + ↑: Slash up.
• [Charge] Z + ↑: Kill everything on the screen, uses all MP and takes at least 100 MP to activate.
• [Charge] Z + ↓: Gives a temporary buff. While activated any damage taken is refunded at the end the effect. Drains MP rather fast and if it runs out.

Kyouko

• Z: Thrust forward, hitting anything three squares ahead, and misses everything else.
• Z + →: Sends spearhead forward, does no damage on the return and has a minimum range of 3 squares. Uses 10 MP. It can be used in midair and can also jump after using it.
• Z + ↓: Twirl spear for a few seconds, hitting everything close. In midair this uses 10 MP and sends spear-chain out, 270 degrees from avatar's back. Like Z + →, only the spearhead deals damage and it hits nothing in a 4 square radius, or anything beyond.
• [Charge] Z + ↑: Summons a huge spear from the ground three squares ahead. The shaft does not block or damage enemies, uses 100 MP.
• [Charge] Z + ↓: Sayaka's nuke from Episode 9, blasts all enemies on screen, uses all MP. Requires 100 to activate, deals 50 damage to self at the end (yes it can kill you).

Strategy

Mami

• X + ↓ dash into X + ↑ double jump to gain the most horizontal momentum possible. You can even jump clear over the first steps at the beginning of the level, even clearing the enemy's trail on Veteran.
• Z + ↓ can be canceled into X + ↓ or aerial X + ←/→. This is really useful for escaping Charlotte when she eats you. Conversely, you can also cancel dashes back into Z + ↓, so you can go X + ↓ to Z + ↓ to X + → for a really fast attack that covers a lot of ground.
• The fastest way to get access to small rifles is to do it on the ground and then shorthop up and catch them in the air. Aerial rifle spawn is obviously really slow, and this way is slightly faster than waiting for the grounded ones to land. Also, facing a wall and spawning rifles will spawn them all in the exact same place.
• Minor trick for Charlotte, if you go up on the top left platform of the three where she spawns, and stand all the way on the left, you can ↑Z and then move forward so that she spawns into a facefull of bullets.

Kyouko

• When Kyouko is in midair and sees an enemy she will sometimes put a cross hair over them, briefly. If you press Z and ONLY Z, you will fly towards the enemy. If you hit them you will bounce back a ways. You can use it again sometimes while you're bouncing back. This uses 10 mp per attack.

References

Move list Mami strategy