Living in a Disney Magical World (3DS)

If you and your family are big Disney fans, the Disney Magical World Nintendo game for the 3DS and 2 DS is a fun way to relish in Disney dreams in-between your visits to the Disney parks.  Disney Magical World features over 60 of your favorite Disney characters and a chance to interact with them in fun new ways.

Communicate with Disney favorites such as Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Aladdin, Pluto, Cinderella, Scrooge McDuck and his nephews, and many more!

Disney Magical World is a fun entertaining world in which you build your own Mii character, socialize with Disney characters, run around doing tasks all around town, and even collect rare cards from characters featuring character artwork from Disney’s history.  As you progress in the game, you will visit the worlds of Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin, Cinderella, and Alice in Wonderland.

And if all this isn’t enough, you can design clothes and furniture, run a cafe, and fight off malicious ghosts to find missing items for townspeople.  There is so much to do in Disney’s Magical World.

In order to buy things for your clothes, furniture, and more, you create dishes to sell in the cafe to create much needed in-game money.  However, in order to progress to further levels, you collect stickers from doing various tasks.  Collecting more stickers gets you deeper entrenched into Disney’s Magical World.

You’ll find yourself fishing throughout the town in different watering holes and picking up things like silk leaves, cotton leaves, apples, twigs, wood, wheat fruit, eggfruit, aromatic nuts, jewels, opening treasure chests, and more.  These items help you to cook in your cafe, make clothes, and some items are lost treasures.

Conversing with Disney characters and townspeople, you find they are are often looking for the things that you find on your ventures.  They ask you for their help you find their missing items and they thank you profusely when you come back to them with their desired item.  You feel like a hero!

To sum it up, here are some of the fun adventures/activities you’ll get to do in Disney’s Magical World:

• Battle ghosts
• Run your own Cafe
• Celebrate holidays throughout the year by admiring the decorations throughout the town and making your own holiday themed menus in your cafe
• Take pictures of the Disney characters you meet and keep them in your album
• Creating beautiful and whimsical outfits in the tailor shop
• Decorating the cafe and your own room
• Growing crops, harvesting them, and using the fruits of your labor in your cafe recipes
• Collecting unique cards from Disney characters
• You can even share your room and cafe with others using your local wireless connection

The Disney Magical World for 2DS and 3DS is available as a game from Amazon for $25.71 or as a downloadable game for $29.99 from the Nintendo eShop.

A Mom’s Perspective

I have to say, Disney’s Magical World is a rather addictive game.  It’s fun running around doing various quests and granting favors for people and it’s a thrill to greet and talk with the various Disney characters.  There is certainly a sense of accomplishment in this games as people are constantly telling you how nice your newly tailored outfit is and are so full of gratitude for bringing them their missed treasures or completing quests on their behalf.

I enjoyed running after the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland’s adventure as well as tending to Rabbit’s garden in Winnie the Pooh’s Acre Forest.  But I couldn’t get to these levels until I had completed a number of tasks ahead of time, which makes the game even more addictive to see what will open up next.

You can’t help but feel good about Disney…and yourself.  Disney’s Magical World is pretty straight forward, as it gives you clues along the way to help complete your tasks.  But as you get further in the game, it does get a little tougher as to what you are supposed to do next.  My daughter and I found ourselves getting stuck at the same part of the game.  We put the game down for a month or two and tried it again, getting further along.

You and your kids will enjoy playing this fun adventurous game, immersing yourself into the world of Disney.  Disney’s Magical World is rated E, with Mild Cartoon Violence, according to ESRB.

*  I was given a download copy of Disney’s Magical World to try out for purposes of review.  All opinions are my own.