This is one of the games I bought along with my DS. I got it at a shitty Gamestop located in the Courtland Center mall, which you can see in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 when a bunch of military recruiters are preying on teens, trying to get them to sign up to be killed in a war. Anyways I would play this on my lunch breaks during the first few months I worked at Old Country Buffet and I can say that it is just okay. It is a competent minigame collection that cannot hold a candle to something like WarioWare.

Sonic Team and former United Game Artists staff kickstarted the Nintendo DS launch with a charming rub comedy that utilizes the unique features of the handheld so well. From holding hands with the stylus to calling attention into the microphone, you feel so close to your Nintendo DS as if it is your romantic partner. There is some repetition and sharp challenges at times, yet it does convey the struggles and passion in the heart when falling in love with someone.

Early Nintendo DS games have this distinct style and identity that capture bite sized handheld game design with new opportunities for touch and dual screen interaction. It is these games that I feel represent some of the more overlooked and aesthetically pleasing games that capture my heart. Touching is good is a weiiiiird slogan, but once you Feel the Magic, it’ll leave such a wondrous impression as it did me.

While Feel the Magic XY/XX or Project Rub, or I Would Die For You makes remarkable use of the DS's touch controls, the minigames and the gameplay lends itself tends to be easily exhausted, and sometimes repetitive. The game's strongest characteristic is the mid 2000's ultramodern revivalist art style, a choice that helped soften and depersonalize the risque nature of Feel the Magic's narrative while infusing it with a style more often reserved for album covers and interior design. Feel the Magic: XY/XX in its own time was a decent albeit unusual title that would tide you over until the release of WarioWare: Touched, or LovePlus.

I enjoyed my time with this game ! I honestly think it was just okay by the end.

To get this first part out of the way this game has SO MUCH charm and feel good vibes with its OST , art style and story overall. Its a very simple game where you try to impress a girl through various mini games.

Now the mini games is honestly where this game loses most of its point because while there is a lot of charm and a lot to love about the vibe of this game the mini games can fall flat. While some are fine there are a handful that are just annoying and or borderline "why" primarily 2 unicycle games where you have to be VERY precise or you will fail. Theses 2 precision games were by the far the worst of the bunch and it made for a very unfun time. Past that there is a boss gauntlet leading up to the final boss fight but I don't understand why its just 3 boss fights recycled but a bit harder there could have been new mini games made for that gauntlet.

Either way this is a nice little game but just don't go into it expecting anything amazing if you do however want a game with a lot of charm this is a great game for you as its pretty darn cheap to buy still!

A game that I really enjoyed (more than The Rub Rabbits actually) ruined by one of the worst difficulty spikes I can recall in any game I've played that killed any fun I was having.

No, the Nightmare chapter isn't challenging, it's just tedious, frustrating and usually plain unfair. Having to go through one 5 minute long (pretty simple) minigame, followed by a 3 minute one that feels like it's random chance, all just to get A SLITHER of an attempt at an incredibly unfair BS boss that seems to go on for 5 minutes+ but can all come crashing down for you in the space of 10 seconds was so tedious and mind-numbing that it really made me genuinely angry. Agrovating difficulty spikes in casual games are one thing, but wasting around 8 minutes of my time to get another attempt at a boss that would likely need 20+ from me to get lucky enough to finish is blood-boiling. From what I know, the game maintains this difficulty until the end, which was the final nail in the coffin for me.

Merit points for the great time I had up until the end of the game, but I just couldn't stick with it for the sake of keeping my DS in one piece.

It's basiclly a mini game tech demo showing off DS features at launch. Honestly for what it is it's not bad. The games themselves aren't really super great or have a lot of depth but you know what it doesn't hurt my experiance with the game. Feel the Magic just oozes style. The whole art direction of the game is just really werid and different and it just works. The minalmist art style, flashy color and weirdly catchy bizzare music in a crazy story all wrapped up in one. You have to win the heart of your crush and defeat your rival by playing these weird mini games while the weird love gurus the rub rabbits help you along the way. It's not a long game and the mini games moves at a brisk pace so it's never boring and it has such a joyful attitude about it, it's kinda mesmorizing. I can go back to this game every few years for a short playthrough and get enjoyment out of it. These are the kinda games I got the DS for.