Magician's Quest Mysterious Times is a unique combination of an adventure game and simulation RPG. Players are tasked with attending classes at Magic Academy while learning the mysteries of magic and the art of casting spells while building relationships with other students.

As players attend Magic Academy, they'll be immersed in a living, breathing world where time flows as it does in the real world, and each week, player's wizardry skills are put to the test in a new magical adventure. Custom avatars can be made with 1500 varieties of clothing, furniture and characters to choose from. Additionally, players can learn new magic spells and abilities by forming different bonds with the 150 unique characters populating the world. Different stories and adventures will be revealed depending on what bonds are formed with the game's characters and how the player chooses to solve each of the 52 adventures. Gather information from friends and mythical characters in order to solve quests. Use all the magic learned to become the greatest magician of all time!

Magician's Quest Mysterious Times features Wi-Fi connection to play with a friend, allowing players additional, unique story lines and interactions. Players can also use the Wi-Fi connection to chat with anyone in the world by utilizing the games global magic alphabet.

Magician's Quest Mysterious Times contains over 50 mysterious events and introduces a variety of unique characters. Additionally, the town in Magician's Quest Mysterious Times is packed with all sorts of crazy characters and different locations to make purchases. While the majority of the people in town are students, each with their own personality, there are a number of others who live and work in town. Here's a guide to just a few of those people, what they do and where you can spend your hard earned Ritch, the currency gained within the game.

The Town and its People

Reginald: Reginald is responsible for everything that happens in Magic Academy's dormitories, where your character lives. He'll provide advice to you on all sorts of things from the layout of the dorm to the schools set-up and where you need to be at certain times. Be careful however, if you turn off your game and forget to save your progress Reginald will be the one who hassles you about it making you do chores to make up for it!

Mon Paris: Magician's Quest Mysterious Times is all about customization, this means you too! If you are tired of the same old look you begin the game with head over to Mon Paris and visit Roley, stylist to the stars. Here you'll be presented with a variety of styles to choose from. If you like one, for a small fee, you'll be magically transformed.

Mr. Oakley: Mr. Oakley will be the very first teacher you meet. He teaches staff magic classes which teach you how to perform various magic spells. Every time you attend one of his classes he'll teach you a new spell and stamp your attendance sheet. Be sure to attend classes, your attendance record counts!

Vivian's Boutique: School uniforms, not required! At Vivian's you can find all sorts of clothes and accessories to wow your friends. Items range from sensible shirts, glasses and pants to the out of the ordinary. When was the last time you went to school wearing a motorcycle helmet or Indian headdress on?

Thom: Thom is the man to see if you have a letter or note you want to send to someone else in town. He's the cool cat that works in your towns Post Office and allows you to send telegrams to your classmates or friends visiting town.

The Emporium: Some incantations require certain hard to find ingredients. Things like Freaky frog Fat and Eye of Newt as examples. Not only is the Emporium the place to find these ingredients but you can also earn Ritch by finding ingredients scattered around town for Malia the shopkeeper.

Principal Sol: As you might have guessed, Principal Sol is the headmaster of Magic Academy. In addition to managing day-to-day events at the school, he also teaches all of the introductory classes that'll teach you the basic skills you need to be successful in school. He may be an old man but he's full of wisdom.

Harrows: Easily the largest store in town with two floors of goods. One area offers an abundant supply of furniture, another area offers wallpaper and carpet while the third offers musical instruments and CD's. Not to mention, Harrows is your one stop shop for flying brooms and broom upgrades. But make sure you arrive with plenty on Ritch on hand, souped-up brooms are pricy but well worth it. Travel in style!

George: George the goat works at the local bank. Since buying all the accessories in the game cost money George is the man who'll manage it for you. Ask him to deposit or withdraw money from your account or even utilize his safe deposit box for items you'll need to store for use of later on.

Marcy: When life gets you down, she's the one to see. Marcy manages the Lime Light, a local hang out and juice bar. She'll be more than happy to pour you a tall glass of the daily special or offer you advice on any situation you present her with.

Here is a run through of some of the basics:

• Customize your Magician:
  • 1,600 customizable features including clothing, characters, spell upgrades, incantations, furniture and dorm room accessories. There are 20 additional themed dorm rooms including the haunted house, outer space, Asian inspired, Samurai, western and many more.
• Items:
  • In addition to casting spells, your magician can also use a magic wand that can change form into a multitude of tools including a watering can, shovel, fishing pole and insect net. These different uses will enable players to water and grow flowers that can be given as gifts or bribes to other students, catch fish and insects. After catching fish and insects you can either use them as part of an incantation spell or turn them over to the keeper of the fish or keeper of the insect catalogs who will purchase them from you providing you money you can spend in town. In town you can buy incantation items, purchase accessories, invest your money at the bank, send telegrams and much more. In addition to these items, players can purchase magic brooms of all kinds, some with special upgrades. The magic broom allows you to travel through each of the game environments much quicker covering more ground or if you play co-op with friends you can all travel together.
• Magic and Incantations:
  • Magician's Quest Mysterious Times features more than 100 magic spells and incantations. Incantations are similar to magic spells but require a special ingredient before they can be cast. These special ingredients can be found living and growing within the game environments, such as mushrooms or flowers, can be obtained from other in game characters who offer you gifts or purchased at the magic emporium in town. Some magic spells and incantations help you complete tasks and solve challenges while others are merely for fun. For example, the Spider web spell will stop bugs and insects dead in their tracks allowing you to collect them easily. But be careful it doesn't work on humans. The Treasure Hunt spell will cause buried objects to shine underground so you can find them easily and dig them up in order to sell them or give as gifts. The Transformation spell will cause non playable characters in the game to look favorably on you even if others have spread unfriendly rumors about you.
• Becoming a Wizard:
  • Using the stylus, players can perform a circular motion on the Touch Screen to turn their character into a Wizard in real-time. Changing into a Wizard allows players to perform magic spells and incantations. In order to be successful in solving the 52 adventures you must first transform into a wizard. All magic spells are taught daily in Magic Academy. Each Wizard has a "Wizard ID" that contains information and tracks the progression of your grade. Your grade as a wizard will increase the more you attend classes, answer quiz questions correctly and solve mysteries. Your current grades are represented by the number of stars in your Wizard ID.
• Magic Classes:
  • Classes are held every day at Magic Academy. You should try to attend as many classes as possible because here is where you'll learn your magic spells, incantations and everything there is to know about the town you live in. To attend classes, players can talk to the teacher outside the classroom and select the subject of the class you want to take. Classes include "Introduction", "Staff Magic", "Incantations", and "Magic Linguistics". The only class you can select at first is "Introduction". After completing this class, the subjects will change as time passes.
• Wi-Fi Features:
  • Magician's Quest Mysterious Times features Wi-Fi connection to play with a friend, allowing players additional, unique story lines and interactions. Players can also use the Wi-Fi connection to chat with anyone in the world by utilizing the games global magic alphabet.

Konami's Magician's Quest Mysterious Times, previoisly called Little Magician's Magic Adventure, will be released in May 2009 on the NDS.