Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color
Magic Pengel is centered on the player, as a character able to manipulate a "Pengel" (which looks like a stylized fairy combined with a paintbrush) to create a creature, or "Doodle". Using the Pengel…
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color is an adventure developed by Taito, released 20 March 2002 on PlayStation 2.
What Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color is
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color is an adventure game developed by Taito and released in 2002. It was published by Agetec. It is available on PlayStation 2 only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story begins when you (the main character - this character is never shown or given a default name in order to keep with the "second person" feel of the game, however, it is implied that the unseen character is a young boy) wake up in someone's yard and sees a Pengel. A mysterious voice tells you that you can use the Pengel to draw whatever you like, and that the shape will become your companion on your quest. You draw a simple shape to become your first Doodle, however, the Doodle falls off a cliff and is rescued by a girl. Then it runs away. After lecturing you, the girl introduces herself as Zoe, then introduces her (foster) brother, Taro. She takes you to the arena where a tournament…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color launched on 20 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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