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So I’ve been playing Nijiro Paradise, the Ojamajo Doremi party game for the playstation. I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite game of all time or anything but I do think it has its charms. When I boot it up for the first time and was able to control a sprite of Doremi I was filled with such a powerful joy, and I think that at least is something worth experiencing. A lot of the activities are funny, like hitting Oyajiide with a hammer or running around with the Ojamajos dressed up like ninjas, and there’s a lot of personality to seen like how the random event wheels are spun by the fairies or mascot Oyajiide. It definitely has serious issues though, there are only 15 mini games, which can be fun but are definitely pretty simple, and the limited amount of music can get pretty repetitive. Additionally, playing a main story game takes a very long time to complete, even on the shortest setting.

All in all though, it’s a fun little thing that I think is checking out for at least a minute minute or two if you’re as into Doremi as I am. You can find the rom here if you are interested, I’ve been running it on the ePSX emulator.

Also, I’ve made a bit of a guide to the game under the break here in case anyone needs one. It’s by no means exhaustive (I haven’t unlocked all the collectibles, for example), a whole lot of it is probably pretty obvious, and what I’ve done here already took way more work than I originally envisioned, but maybe if there’s interest I’ll continue to edit and work on it. If I get anything wrong or am missing something I’ll be sure to fix it if you tell me! Just send me a dm or an ask or something. I have no idea what the actual names of a lot of these things are, so there’s sure to be some mistakes in that regard at the least, and there’s a good amount of things that are still a total mystery to me.

So after the title screen you’ll be dropped into a little menu that looks like this. Probably obvious, but you move Doremi with the directional buttons in front of the chest that represents the game mode that you’re interested in, and then hit the circle button to enter that mode. (Possibly of note: When navigating all menus in this game, the circle button is always to select things, and ‘X’ button is to go back. Maybe this is normal, but I remember as a kid it always being the opposite.)

Red Box: Story Mode

Yellow/Orange Box: Quickplay

Blue Box: Extras (Mini games, voice lines, OPs)

Purple Box: Load file

Greenish Yellow Box: Options

Story mode setup:

Most of this is probably fairly obvious, but here we go (I’m not actually actively translating what Rika is saying here)

Select the number of players

Select which players are bots, and which are real. Highlighting a player and pressing the up directional button cycles them between being a computer player and being a real player. Pressing the down directional button cycles between the blue easy difficulty and the red hard difficulty for computer players.

Select which character each player is playing as. The initial playable characters are Doremi, Hadzuki, Aiko, Onpu, Momoko, and Hana. Later on you can unlock Pop as a playable character.

Choose how many drops you need to exchange for a crystal (at least I think that’s what these things are called). I’ll explain what this means in the gameplay section, but essentially this is an indicator of how long the game is. The options are 100 to 900 in increments of 100.

From there the game will ask you to confirm your settings. I show you this selection here divorced from the rest because this selection is used every time the game asks you to confirm something. Basically, the blue one on the right means no and the red one on the left means yes.

After confirming that your settings are correct, you’ll get a simple cut scene and be booted into the game.

Quickplay setup:

This setup process is almost the exact same as the other one, with a few exceptions.

You’ll be given the chance to choose from three possible maps: the school, the Maho-do, and the Witch World. I’ll get into what those look like and what properties they have in the gameplay portion. The reason the story mode doesn’t have a map select is because the story mode map is all three of these combined.

This part looks the exact same for quickplay, and has the same 100-900 options, but it’s meaning is a bit different. In quickplay, this is the number of drops you need to win the game. This still determines the length of gameplay, but picking 900 here is probably going to be a shorter game than picking 100 in story mode.

From there you enter the game.

Basic Gameplay:

The goal of quickplay is to get to the target number of drops you set before any of the other players do. In the top right, you should be able to see how many drops you have as shown in the image above.

The primary way to get drops is to complete objectives. One of the very first things that will happen when the game starts before you’re able to make any decisions is that you’ll get some objective dialogue from a side character, after which one or two tiles on the map will be marked.

If just one tile is marked, it’ll be with a character as shown above. In that case, the current objective is to make it to that tile before any other player does. Don’t worry about trying to land on this tile exactly, if you are set to move past the tile that the objective is on your movement will just end at the objective tile. When a player makes it to the objective, a little animation plays and that player receives a random number of drops. I’ve seen it range from a bit lower than 30 to over 100, and it seems that the longer the game has been going the higher it is likely to be. Completing objectives also often grant you access to a rainbow seed, which is a whole other thing I’ll get into later but is another way of getting drops.

If two tiles are marked, the first one will depict some sort of object and the second will show a person. In these cases, you have to first go to the tile with the object before you can complete the objective by going to the tile with the person. In the example above, you’d need the watch before going to Tamaki. When a player makes it to the item tile that item goes in their item inventory, but the item on the tile does not go away. The tile only goes away when the objective has been completed, so every player is able to retrieve the item and attempt to make it to the objective, not just the first. These two part objectives don’t seem to be worth anymore drops than normal, and also often grant you a rainbow seed.

After each player has made their turn, the objective markers that depict characters will randomly move one tile in any direction that a player character could. The item objective markers don’t move.

When you’re playing story mode, a whole new element is introduced to this formula. Now there are seven circles in the top right above the drop counter. These represent how many crystals you have. In the image above the player doesn’t have any crystals, but as they get some those slots will fill with little colored spheres. You win the game when all seven are collected. Each crystal is obtained by trading in drops, and the trade-in value is set by you when you are setting up the game.

In order to trade-in your drops for a crystal, you have to stop at the tile marked with Majo Rika on your map. Just like with the objectives, you don’t have to land on this tile exactly, if you would move through it and you have enough drops to trade in for a crystal, you’ll stop on this space. If you don’t have enough drops, you’ll move through the tile as if it was any other. When you trade-in your drops, Majo Rika will take every single drop you have, not just enough for the crystal, and no matter what she will only ever give you one crystal. So if crystals are worth 100 drops, and you go to her with 224 drops or something like that, she will take every single one, not just 100, and she will give you only one crystal, not two. This of course means that the moment you get enough drops, it’s often wisest to ignore the next objective in favor of going to Rika. Additionally, when you trade-in your drops Majo Rika will leave the map for a turn or two before coming back with your crystal. If you move during the time that she is gone, she will return to the map in whatever location you are currently at. The Majo Rika tile always starts at the same place the players started the game, but in this way the Rika marked tile will move throughout the game.

In the top left of the screen there you’ll see information that should look something like the image above. The number next to the clock icon tells you what turn it is. In this example the game just started and it’s the first turn. The number below tells you how many spaces away the current objective is, accompanied by a picture of that objective. In the case of this example, the objective is Majo Heart and she is 19 squares away.

Along the bottom of your screen, there is a little character portrait like the above for each of the players. Beneath them there are three notes, and beneath those there is a space for a number. Whenever you are affected by an ongoing passive effect, an icon representing that effect will cover up one of the notes, and beneath it will be a number indicating the number of turns that effect will continue to last. I’ll show images of these as they become relevant.

On your turn, you’re able to select from the following five options. During this time you’re also able to move the camera freely around the map by hitting the triangle button. If you select a tile with your cursor while in this state, it will tell you how far that tile is from your current location. If you hold square during this time, it will bring up a map of the board.

This is the full story mode map you see when holding square, marked by me to show the three separate quickplay maps. The red is the school section, the blue is the maho-dou section, and the purple is the witch world. I’ll explain what all those tile symbols mean when I explain what each tile does.

But back to those five options above. The first, marked as “Dice”, simply rolls you a six sided die. The result is how many tiles you can move that turn. I’ll get more into how individual tiles and the connections between them work later, but essentially you can move in any direction that has a connection to another tile from your tile, but moving back and forth between the same two two tiles does not work. That is, if you rolled a six, you would not be able to move left, then right, three times over and only move one space. You’d have to move all six in a continuous direction. This is not to say you can’t use wraparounds in the map in order to end up at a tile closer to your starting location than your die roll, however.

The “Prepare” activates a little transformation animation in which your character transforms into their witch apprentice uniforms. This uses up your turn and you won’t be able to move or do anything else, but while in this transformed state you’ll be able to use magic. This transformed state lasts for five turns. Transforming like this will give you the transformed passive below your character portrait, as shown above. In this example, Hana is transformed and she will remain so for two more turns. The image representing this state is different based on the transformation item your chosen character uses in the show, Hana has this, Doremi, Hadzuki, Aiko, Onpu and Momoko have the perfume from the Dokkaan season, and Pop still has the origional apprentice tap from season 1. Their transformation animations and music are also character appropriate, it’s very nice. While in the witch world area, you are automatically transformed and remain that way until you leave, no need to use this option.

The third option “Magic” opens up this magic inventory. In the example above all the spells appear duller and less colorful than usual, this is an indication that the character is not currently transformed and is not able to cast any of the spells. I’ll get more into what each of these magic spells do in it’s own section; there’s a whole lot of them. Casting a spell is accompanied with it’s own little sounds and animation, and replaces your dice-rolling movement action for the turn.

The fourth option “Item” opens up this item inventory. This holds objective items, items that you buy from Dela, and your rainbow seeds. Unlike the spell inventory, none of these items will have activated effects, all you can really do from here is see what you have and throw away items to make room for more. I’ll get more into what these do later, but they usually take effect in response to another thing happening, such as your turn ending, landing on a particular tile, or an effect happening to you.

The fifth option “Options” is just what it says, it allows you to change some options and save the game. Won’t really get too much into it.

Tiles:

Alright, now that you know your objective and your options, lets see what happens when you land on any given tile, and how travelling between tiles works.

So first I’ll go over some how movement between tiles works, using this relatively complicated part of the map here. Those red lines between tiles are the standard connection between most of the tiles, you’re able to move across them the same both ways. The arrows are one way paths, you can go the direction the arrow points but not the opposite way. The section of map also shows a dead end, that wing tile in the top right has only one pathway in and out. As I said earlier you can’t move back and forth over the same few tiles, so in order to land on that tile that tile has to be the last in a continuous movement toward it. That is, you have to roll exactly the right number to get there. If you are on the tile one below it, you’d have to roll a one exactly, or else you wouldn’t be able to walk simply up to go to that space. However, if you were to roll a 5 it would be possible to land there by going down and looping back around.

This tile will grant you a small number of drops upon landing on it, and that number goes up as the game goes on. At first it gives 5 drops, after a decent number of turns that number turns to 10, and then 15, and presumably if games go real long that number continues to climb.

On the mini map, these are represented by a blue ‘+’ sign.

This tile is the exact opposite of the previous tile, it causes you to lose a small number of drops, and the number you lose increases as the game goes on. The value of these tiles is always the negative value of the opposite ones, so in the beginning these take 5 drops, and then 10 when the others would give 10, and then 15 and so on. If you would lose more drops then you currently have you just go to 0, you don’t go negative or take a penalty or anything.

On the mini map, these are represented by a red ‘minus’ sign.

Landing on this square will grant you a random spell that will be added to your magic inventory, provided you have room for it. I’ll devote an entire section to these spells a bit later.

The tiles are represented by a yellow ‘C’ on the mini map.

Landing on this square triggers a mini game, which starts with a little dialogue from Oyajiide who I guess is in charge of the mini games. Before the game, three roulette wheels will spin, each determining something about how the game will be played.

The first chooses who you will be playing the game against, as all the mini games are 1v1. If you are only playing against one other player, obviously that player will get chosen every time.

The second wheel chooses the wager for the game. Every game involves a wager of your drops, and this wager can be 10-50 in increments of 10, or half of your current drops. At this time the chosen amount is taken from both of your drop pools, and if a player is unable to pay the full amount Oyajiide comments on it and adds the rest of the drops in himself. At the end of the mini game, the wager is redistributed based on the scores the players got in the game. In some of the mini games the score is almost always very close, so the loser may end up only losing 1 or 2 drops even at the highest wager. In other mini games, the loser automatically has a score of 0, and so the entire wager goes to the winner. The former is a bit more common however, so often times these mini games don’t change the standings significantly.

Quick sidenote: another way these mini games can cause a big swing, even if the mini game has a close score, is when one of the players doesn’t have much drops to begin with. Since Oyajiide will pay the rest of the wager when you don’t have enough drops, even a tie with the other player can result in pretty big drop gains for you while the other player doesn’t gain or lose anything.

Anyhow, the third wheel is what decides the actual mini game that you play. There are 15 mini games in total. Initially the games on the wheel are named with just question marks, only revealing themselves when you play them for the first time. Once you play a mini game in the either quickplay or the story you’ll be able to play it anytime you’d like in the extras menu. I’ll devote an entire later section to the mini games instead of discussing them here.

The tiles are represented by a pink ‘P’ on the mini map.

Landing on this space causes you to jump to another random place on the map.

These tiles are represented by a green ‘W’ on the mini map.

Landing on one of these mystery tiles will cause one of the events above to happen at random. You can gain or lose drops, get a magic spell, play a mini game, or be warped to a random location.

On the mini map these are represented by a grey question mark (really just the hook part).

Landing on one of these blank tiles often just means that nothing happens, but they can also be an important resource. If you land on them while you have a rainbow seed in your item inventory you will plant a rainbow flower which will last for five turns.

The top image there is what a rainbow seed looks like in your item inventory so you know when you have one to plant, and the image below that shows what a tile looks like when a flower has been planted there. The number indicates the number of turns that flower will remain there, and the color of the soil is different based on the character that flower belongs to. In the example shown here the flower belongs to Doremi, so the color of the soil is is a pink/red. There is no benefit or penalty for any character to pass or land on a tile while a flower is planted there, it is essentially exactly the same as a blank tile with the exception that you can’t plant an additional seed there.

While at least one flower is planted at the end of each round of turns after each player has made their move this little screen will appear depicting each player’s drop total, the number of flowers they have planted, and the amount of drops they get this turn from their flowers (sorry about this screenshot, I can never seem to get it not in mid animation and I kind of just gave up). During the beginning turns of the game each flower you plant gives you five drops at the end of each round of turns, but this value goes up as the game goes on. This value is actually exactly the same as the amount you would get from landing on the blue drop tiles, or as much as you would lose for landing on the red ones. In this example here the game had advanced far enough that they were worth ten drops each.

The blank tiles are represented by a white box on the mini map.

The final tile are the Dela tiles. These tiles are all on dead ends or otherwise inconvenient locations, so landing on them can be pretty hard and is something you have to go out of your way to do.

These shops give you the option to buy items that go into your item inventory by spending your drops. I’ll go more into these in their own section, but I’ll be straight up and say here that this is the area of the game I would need to do a lot more experimenting in. These items are out of the way, cost drops, and only activate in response to certain things so figuring out what they do is not always very simple.

As you can see from the two examples above, Dela’s selection isn’t always the same. I believe that Dela’s selection is based on which of the Dela tiles you land on and what the current objective item is (it is possible to buy objective items from Dela rather than retrieving them from their location). I’m still not completely sure on the specifics however.

It is also possible to sell items back to Dela. She’ll buy items from your inventory for half the price it would take to buy them from her. She will not buy your rainbow seeds.

These tiles are represented by a dark green ‘D’ on the mini map.

Interim:

Every ten turns there is an interim period. As best as I can tell, this is what happens during that time:

First the player who has earned the most drops over the course of the last ten turns is given a reward of additional drops. This reward seems sort of random and scales higher and higher as the game goes on, starting at around twentyish.

Next the game identifies the player who is currently winning overall based on their crystal count, and if that’s the same breaking the tie with their drop total. No reward or anything for this.

Finally, the game changes the turn order.

It seems like during quickplay an additional event happens right before each interim to potentially speed or mix up the gameplay. During this time I’ve seen Majo Rika grant each player a handful of free items, Majo Rika requesting a Magical Stage that resets every player to the same location, and Oyajiide swap around the locations of all the players.

Mini games:

Here are all 15 of the mini games. Short descriptions are actually already available on the ojamajo doremi wiki but I figure I’ll give it my own somewhat more expansive go. Every single one of these games is played by two players.

In this game you and another player compete to collect scrolls to earn points while avoiding various obstacles. You move your character with the directional buttons and you jump with the circle button.

There are two kinds of scrolls to collect, one smaller and the other bigger. The small scrolls are worth one point, the bigger scrolls are worth five.

The obstacles that you face include:

Various chests and cat statues that block your movement but can be jumped over.

Taller cabinet looking things that block your movement and can not be jumped over (you can see these in the image above).

Gazamadon who appears on the left side of the screen, moving up and down and occasionally shooting a line of fire all the way across the screen. Touching either Gazamodon or the fire causes you to be stunned for a moment and lose five points. The fire can not be jumped over.

Gaps that must be jumped over. Falling down the gaps stuns you for a moment and makes you lose five points.

Comets that crash down from the sky and must be navigated around. Getting hit by one stuns you and causes you to lose five points.

About 2/3 of the way through, you’ll hear Majo Rika say ‘dokkaan!’ From this point onward, every single scroll that spawns will be the larger ones that are worth five points.

You can’t move through the other player, and running into them slightly pushes them toward that direction.

In this game you and another player compete to collect candy for points while avoiding three roaming ghosts. You move your character with the directional buttons.

There are two kinds of candy to collect, the smaller wrapped candies and the bigger lollipops. The wrapped candies are worth one point, the lollipops are worth five.

Three ghosts wander the level. They seem to move randomly. Getting hit by one causes you to be stunned for a moment and makes you lose five points, as well as causing that ghost to disappear briefly before reappearing elsewhere in the level.

About 2/3 of the way through, you’ll hear Majo Rika say ‘dokkaan!’ From this point onward, every single candy that spawns will be one of the lollipops that are worth five points.

You can’t move through the other player, and running into them slightly pushes them toward that direction.

In this game you and another player compete to make it to Pao on the other side of the screen first while avoiding obstacles. You can move your character up and down by using the directional buttons, and you make the character move forward by alternating between the triangle and square buttons. However, by speeding forward you deplete your stamina, which is represented by series of music notes at the top next to your character portrait. When your stamina completely runs out, your character stops completely to catch their breath, resulting in a significant loss of progress.

There are two obstacles you encounter in this game, the logs and the puddles. The logs block your movement and must be walked around, the puddles slow you down and cause you to lose stamina when you walk through them.

Throughout the level, you run into cake pickups. Collecting one of these cakes completely refills your stamina.

Points seem to be assigned based on how fast you make it to Pao, and are only assigned to the player that makes it to Pao. This means that the losing player always gets no points, and regardless of the score of the winner they take the entire wager. If the game timer between the character portraits at the top runs out before either player makes it to Pao, both players get a score of zero and neither get any of the wager.

You can’t move through the other player, and running into them slightly pushes them toward that direction.

(This game is really hard, I think I’ve only won once of many many attempts)

The goal of this game is to hit Oyajiide in the face with a hammer a bunch of times (and what more could you ask for in a game?). Onscreen there are eight button symbols representing the circle, triangle, square, ‘X,’ and directional buttons. When Oyajiide appears on a symbol, hitting the corresponding button hits him with a hammer. Although Oyajiide will appear in multiple locations at once, you can only swing one hammer at a time. That is, when you hit a button to swing the hammer, you have to wait for the animation to finish before you can swing the hammer somewhere else.

The faster you react and hit Oyajiide, the more points you get. There is no penalty for missing or ignoring an Oyajiide, but if you swing the hammer and it doesn’t hit anything you lose five points.

Occasionally the game will fake you out by opening up one of the button symbols as if Oyajiide will appear but he never does, so keep an eye out for that.

About 2/3 of the way through, you’ll hear Oyajiide say ‘dokkaan!’ At this point the positions of either the directional buttons or the shape buttons will be mixed up to increase the difficulty.

Both players are given the exact same situation. The locations of Oyajiide and the fake outs are always identical, and when the buttons are mixed up near the end both players will have their buttons mixed up in the same ways.

The goal of this game is to kick a soccer ball further than the other player. You accomplish this in two stages, first you have a running stage to build up speed toward the ball, and then once you make it to the ball you choose the angle at which you will kick it.

During the running stage, you build up speed by alternating between pressing the triangle and square buttons as fast as possible. The faster you manage to go during this stage, the further you’ll be able to kick the ball. You can tell how fast you’re going by the bar in the center of the split screen; in the example above you can tell that Doremi went much faster than Pop.

To choose the angle of the kick in the second stage you press the circle button when the needle is pointing toward the angle of the arc that you would like. The needle cycles between 0 and 90 degrees on the arc, and if you let it cycle through the whole arc four times without hitting circle you will automatically hit the ball at 90 degrees. As best as I can tell, the most ideal angle is closest to 45 degrees.

Note that the point tally for this mini game is a little bit weird. After you kick the ball the game will display your points increasing as the ball travels further and further. The rate at which your points go up seems to be fixed, and is not representative of how fast your ball is actually going, so once your ball lands the point tally will often still increase for a while to catch up to where score should actually be.

This game is essentially hot potato, the goal is to pass an Oyajiide head that is growing bigger and bigger to the other player so that they are the ones who are holding it when it explodes. Passing Oyajiide is accomplished by clicking the button prompts on screen in the order they appear. In the example above, the player would press circle, ‘x,’’x,’ circle in that order in order to pass the head.

The sequence of buttons needed to pass Oyajiide can be as short as two or as long as four long. This number seems to be completely random, at the very least it is definitely not based on how quickly or accurately you or the other player has been finishing the prompts. Getting a button prompt wrong causes a buzzer sound to play and leaves you unable to enter in any buttons for a second or so.

The time it takes Oyajiide to explode is random, and I’ve recorded it as taking as low as 40 seconds to a decent bit over a minute. Aside from Oyajiide growing redder and larger in size, as he nears exploding the character reactions will change to be more panicked. I’ve never seen him explode before the characters begin to act panicked, so you’re probably safe before that point.

Oyajiide starts in the hands of a random player.

The score for the winner seems to be determined by the number of correct button inputs they made plus one. The score doesn’t really matter though because the loser will always get a score of zero, so even if the winning player didn’t make a single input the entire game they will take the entire wager.

The goal of this game is to feed beads through this bead machine to make bracelets, which earns you points. There is an element of multitasking to this game, you have to both feed beads into the machine and crank the handle. In order to feed beads into the machine you respond to the button prompts on the side. In the example above you can see that Doremi needs to hit square, ‘x,’ triangle in that order. However, these button prompts will run out after responding to a couple of them, as you can see by looking at Pop’s side of the screen. In order to get more you have to crank the machine. Cranking the machine is accomplished by hitting the directional buttons in a clockwise pattern: left, up, right, down, left, up, etc. You can tell where in that pattern you currently are by looking looking at the top center of the screen, beneath the timer.

About 2/3 of the way through, you’ll hear Majo Rika say ‘dokkaan!’ After this point, every new button prompt to load the machine that appears will be for the same button. From this point it’s safe to just mash that button while focusing on cranking the handle as fast as possible.

Both players get the exact same sequence of button prompts, and after the ‘dokaan!’ the button prompt that both of them get will also be the same.

The goal of this game is to weave a scarf so that its colors match up with the sample scarf above it as closely as possible to gain points. After being presented with a sample scarf, a bar below it will slowly move from left to right. Not holding down anything will result in a section of scarf that is a blank white, but holding down a button will make the section of scarf there that button’s corresponding color.

It’s probably obvious since a legend for the colors can be seen right in that screenshot, but triangle is green, circle is red, square is pink, and ‘x’ is blue.

The game ends after you make four scarves.

The goal of this game is to collect more of Pao’s magical poop than the other player while avoiding the Oyajiide heads. You move around the screen using the directional buttons, and you charge up and release the magic spell used to collect the poop by holding and letting go of circle.

Pao moves around the screen and fires lines of poop in random directions. It is not enough just to just fly over the poop, you have to use a magic spell in order to collect it. By holding circle, you cause an aura to grow around you. When you release the circle button while there is magical poop in that aura, whatever is in the aura will be drawn to you and you’ll receive points based on how much you collected.

Occasionally an Oyajiide head will be in the line of poop that Pao fires. Touching the Oyajiide head, regardless of if you are using the aura or not, will stun you for a moment in which you can’t move or collect anything, as well as cause you to lose some points.

About 2/3 of the way through the game you’ll hear Pao say ‘dokkaan!’ As best as I can tell this doesn’t actually affect gameplay in any way. It’s possible this makes the poop worth more points, but it’s a pretty difficult thing to track.

This is a memory game, the goal of this game is to match more tiles with the same image underneath them than the other player does. You move the cursor with the directional buttons, and you flip over a tile with the circle button. If you don’t flip a tile by the time the timer runs out, your turn will end.

One thing that makes the game easier is that half the tiles are pink and the other half are blue. The matching picture of a pink tile is always under a blue tile and vice versa, so make sure that you are always picking one of each instead of two of the same color.

One thing that makes the game harder is after each turn Oyajiide will shift a row or column by a space, so that the board is constantly shifting.

Each successful match you make earns you one point, and allows you to flip two additional tiles to attempt to make another match before your turn ends. Most of the time the game ends when all of the tiles have been matched up, but if the game takes too long it’ll end automatically with some of the tiles left unmatched.

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The goal of this game is to jump over a flower that is progressively growing taller and taller until you can jump high enough to reach Pao at the top. On the side of the screen is a red bar that is constantly filling to the top before cycling back to the bottom. By pressing circle you stop the bar with a slight delay, the higher the bar ends up the higher you jump.

Each time you successfully jump over the flower it grows a little bit taller. This also increases your overall jump height, but the flower grows faster than your jump height does. This means that at first you can get away jumping over the flower with the bar only half full, but by the end it has to be pretty near the top for the jump to be successful. If the bar is not high enough for a successful jump, you’ll still perform the jump without crossing over the flower and causing it to grow, wasting a decent amount of time.

It is possible to win just by jumping at max height every single time, but it is much faster to try and jump over the flower at the minimum height required to do so, provided you actually manage to jump over it every time.

The points for the winner seem to be based on how quickly you make it to Pao. The points don’t really matter however, since the loser will always receive zero points and so the winner will always take the whole wager regardless of their score. If the timer runs out after a minute and ten seconds or so before either player makes it to Pao, both players will get zero points and neither will get any of the wager. Even on the easiest setting the AI will always win before this point so this is only really a thing when playing against another human though.

The goal of this game is to make it past a series of three gates before the other player. Each gate has two doors, while approaching the gate you can choose what door you want to enter by hitting the left or right directional buttons. You can change your mind or attempt to trick the other player as many times as you want until you reach the gate.

Once you reach a gate, the door you had selected will open to reveal either Pao or Oyajiide. If Pao is revealed, you may move on towards the next gate. If Oyajiide is revealed, you must start over again all the way from the beginning. The positions of Oyajiide and Pao are determined from the beginning, are the same for both players, and don’t change even when you start over. Be sure to keep an eye on the other player if they are ahead of you, because they will reveal who is behind the doors before you get there.

Theoretically it would be possible to force a tie by copying what the other player is doing every time. However, the computer players at least will desperately try to shake you off by pretending to pick the opposite of what you are every time before switching over to their true pick at the last moment. The computer is so committed to this that sometimes they will be forced into picking what they know is an incorrect door because they were unable to change in time, but the timing to pull this off is pretty unreliable.

A map in the middle shows the progress of both players. Here you can see that Doremi is at the second gate and Pop is at the first, although this will not last as Doremi has run into Oyajiide and will have to start from the beginning.

I’m actually not sure how the point system works, I believe it is based on either where you are when the game ends, or maybe a combination of that and how many times you had selected the correct door. Regardless, the player who made it to the end will always be the winner. If the game drags on for too long the game will end even without anyone making it to the end. However, getting a score of zero seems to be impossible so even if the game ends from the timer running out both players will receive points.

The goal of this game is to accurately respond to the button prompt shown in the center as quickly as possible. Each round, flashing circle, triangle, square and ‘x’ symbols will cycle in the center box, before settling on a single button prompt. In the example above, the button prompt was circle. The faster you press that button, more the points you receive. If you press the wrong button or wait for too long without answering, you will receive no points for that round. If you press a button before the prompt has been revealed you will also receive no points for the round, even if the button you pressed turns out the be the correct one. You never lose any points.

Below each character you can see their response time, and above each character you can see the button they entered. In the example above, Doremi correctly pressed the circle button in .73 seconds.

About 2/3 of the way through the game, Pao will say ‘Dokkaan!’ From this point onward there is a chance Pao or Oyajiide appear instead of one of the normal button prompts. If Pao appears any button you press will be counted as the correct answer, so just press any button as fast as possible. If Oyajiide appears, the only correct move is to not press any buttons at all. If you do hit a button, you will receive no points for the round, but if you wait for the next round without pushing anything you’ll get some points.

The goal of this game is to shoot Oyajiide’s face as many times as possible, which nets you points. You move the crosshairs with the directional buttons and you shoot by pressing the circle button.

The Oyajiide heads appear from the left side of the screen and move toward the right, moving in irregular patterns that can make them difficult to follow. Each time you shoot an Oyajiide head gives you one point. Shooting an Oyajiide head will not cause it to disappear and hitting the same one more than once gives you just as many points as hitting it the first time, so usually you’ll closely follow the same head around hitting it as many times as possible before it disappears on the right side of the screen. The number of times the head has been hit by each player will be displayed by the head, in the example above neither head currently onscreen has yet been hit by either player.

Occasionally Pao will appear from the left side and move across the screen until it disappears off to the right. You would think that hitting Pao would cause you to lose points, and you would be wrong. Try as you might, but the game will not acknowledge that you have shot Pao at all, attempting to do so results in no positive or negative change of points and no sound or animation to indicate that anything at all has happened. He doesn’t have any function, he’s just there.

About 2/3 of the way through, you’ll hear Oyajiide say ‘Dokkaan!’ After this point only one one more Oyajiide will spawn, and instead of moving across the screen he’ll seem to grow larger as he moves closer toward you. This Oyajiide head can be shot an indefinite number of times for one point each just like any other Oyajiide, but since this one won’t ever move out of the way of your crosshairs the game from this point onward becomes about mashing the circle button as fast as possible.

This game begins by presenting you with a complete picture, and then breaks it into a four by four grid and removes some of the pieces. The goal of the game is to accurately add the pieces back to the puzzle to get points. At the bottom of the screen, you see the puzzle pieces that you have to work with. You select them by using the left and right arrow keys. At the top a cursor is automatically moving across the the picture, when the cursor lands on the spot you want press the circle button to insert the currently selected puzzle piece there. You are unable to do this and there is no effect if you attempt to put a piece on top of another part of the picture that is already there, even if that part was incorrectly placed.

Each piece you place correctly earns you points. Placing a piece incorrectly doesn’t lose you any points, but it does mean that you won’t get any points for that piece and the piece that was supposed to be there.

Both players are given the exact same puzzle with all the pieces missing in the same way.

The game ends after a bit more than a minute or so when the timer runs out. It will then show you the completed picture once more, this time highlighting the spaces that were placed incorrectly or not placed at all.

Spells:

Here are the descriptions for all the spells that I ran into. These are the ones accessed from the magic menu and require being transformed to use. There are a few that I saw computer players get that I haven’t been able to get, so unfortunately I know this isn’t a complete list, and also I may not be 100% clear on all the effects yet. Sorry in advance.

This one comes from a short period of time when I was trying to translate the names of some of these items. I quit after it became clear google translate would fail me, but a couple of them like this were easy enough to do.

This yellow winged staff spell will teleport you to a random space within that blue box on the map. You will not be able to move on the turn you use this, and there is no effect from whatever space you land on.

This silver winged staff spell will teleport you to a random space within that red box on the map. You will not be able to move on the turn you use this, and there is no effect from whatever space you land on.

This blue winged staff spell will teleport you to a random space with that purple box on the map. As always, you will not be able to move on the turn you use this, and there is no effect from whatever space you land on. That said, remember that being in the Witch World makes you stay transformed for as long as you remain there.

This red winged staff spell seems to teleport you to a random space anywhere outside of the witch world. When I used it it felt like there was a bias toward the more bottom and left parts of the map, but that may be random chance. As always, you will not be able to move on the turn you use this, and there is no effect from whatever space you land on.

This green winged staff thing staff thing seems to teleport you to a random space within that yellow box on the map based on my experiments. These buildings in the background are unique to this part of the map, so you can use them to identify this area. As always, you will not be able to move on the turn you use this, and there is no effect from whatever space you land on.

While I’m reasonably confident in my translations for the teleportation items, from here on out they become more and more dubious before I stop completely.

When you use this mystery die spell Baba will appear and talk a whole bunch. After this you will roll two dice in a row. If the first die is higher than the second, Baba will laugh at you and you will lose every drop that you have. If the second die is higher than the first, Baba will be in shock and your die count will double.

Based on context it seems that this is flavored as some kind of bet with Baba. Functionally, it’s a 50-50 shot to either double your drop count or lose it all.

I spent a lot of time experimenting with this since initially it was a total mystery to me (I had zero drops and so nothing happened no matter what result I got on the rolls), and not once did I get a tie. My guess is that it just can’t happen, it’s not the only time the game implies a result could be possible while ensuring it can never happen.

As with most spells, you will not be able to move the turn you use this.

When you use this red die spell you roll two die for movement this turn instead of one. Unlike most spells, you do get to move the turn you use this (that’s the whole point).

You move this distance on your broom instead of walking like normal. After a lot of experimentation, I believe that moving on the broom is exclusively there to flavor the movement as more fast than normal and doesn’t have any actual meaning or purpose mechanically. The only times you move on the broom are when using these extra dice roll spells or when you move between the witch and human world.

When you use this blue die spell you roll three die for movement this turn instead of one. Unlike most spells, you do get to move the turn you use this (that’s the whole point). You move this distance on your broom (I talk about what that means more above when I describe the red die spell).

Yeah, this translation is pretty rough. When you use this green die spell you first roll one die. That result tells you how many turns you will have a passive that let’s you roll two dice for each turn instead of one. Unlike with most spells, you’ll be able to move the turn you use this.

The icon for the passive looks like the image above. In that example, the passive will last for four more turns. This passive is only in effect for as long as you remain transformed. If you untransform before this passive runs out, the passive icon will remain but you’ll only move with one die instead of two until you transform again. If you use any other spell that also grants you extra dice of movement, it will completely replace the effects of this spell.

You move this distance on your broom (I talk about what that means more above when I describe the red die spell).

Yikes, another bad translation. This should be the last one. Anyhow, when you use this yellow die spell you first roll one die. That result tells you how many turns you will have a passive that let’s you roll three dice for each turn instead of one. Unlike with most spells, you’ll be able to move the turn you use this.

The icon for this passive looks the same as the icon for the green die spell above. This passive is only in effect for as long as you remain transformed. If you untransform before this passive runs out, the passive icon will remain but you’ll only move with one die instead of three until you transform again. If you use any other spell that also grants you extra dice of movement, it will completely replace the effects of this spell.

You move this distance on your broom (I talk about what that means more above when I describe the red die spell).

When you use this white arrow spell you pick a number between one and six. You are then able to move that distance as if you had rolled that number on a die normally.

This pink puff looking spell is the magical stage spell. When you use it activates a magical stage animation that includes all seven of the playable characters. At the end, every single player is teleported to the current objective square, and the player who cast the spell gets points for the objective as if they had completed it normally. No other movement on the turn you use this.

Although during the animation every player character is transformed, it doesn’t actually apply the transformation passive to anyone.

When you cast this yellow music note spell you swap locations with another player of your choice. No other movement this turn.

I’m going to refer to these as the ‘magic symbol’ spells because it has a similar look to the spell tiles on the map. When you cast this green magic symbol spell you steal one random item from every other other player. No other movement this turn.

When you cast this red magic symbol spell you steal a random number of randomly selected items from player of your choice. I’ve recorded the number of items stolen as ranging from four to six. You’ll be given the chance to look at each players inventory before deciding who to steal from. If there is not enough items in your inventory for all the items stolen, you’ll receive the first few until you inventory fills and the rest will just disappear forever. No other movement this turn.

When you cast this blue magic symbol spell you steal two items of your choice from another player of your choice. You’ll be given the chance to look at each players inventory before deciding who to steal from. If there is not enough items in your inventory for both the items stolen, you’ll just get the first item you selected and the second will disappear forever. No other movement this turn.

When you cast this black bag spell you’ll summon Dela as if you landed on one of the Dela tiles on the map. No other movement this turn.

This was the selection she had every time that I summoned Dela this way. I’ll get more into what each of these items do in their own section.

When you cast this brown bag spell you steal something from the item inventory of another player of your choice. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to do much experimentation with this one, it’s unclear if what you steal is random and I haven’t stolen rainbow seeds with it yet. I have however successfully stolen objective items. No other movement this turn.

When you cast this spell that looks like a crowd of the ojamajos or maybe their fairies you first roll a die. All other players are unable to transform for that many turns, and if they were transformed already when you used the spell they will lose the transformation.

Unfortunately I’m a fool and haven’t taken a screenshot of what the passive icon for this looks like, but it’s the same as that character’s transformation passive icon except it has a red ‘x’ through it.

Now we’re getting into spells with effects that are still somewhat unclear to me. Every time I’ve used this exclamation hand spell it has applied the effect of a teleportation/jump item that is currently in my inventory to a player of my choice. So when I just had the blue winged staff witch world jump spell in my inventory, it would teleport the player of my choice to a random tile in the witch world. This does not expend that spell in my inventory, and usually replaces my movement for the turn.

There are plenty of unknowns with this item however. I have no idea if you can select which teleport to put on them if you have more than one in your inventory, and I have no idea what will happen if you don’t have any teleportation spells in your inventory at all.

When you cast this flower spell you summon Lala who will appear next to your character portrait and above your passives. What does she do? It’s not completely clear. Not super useful I know, sorry.

No other movement this turn.

There is a random event I’ll get more into in a later section that makes your character’s fairy appear exactly like Lala does and causes your income from rainbow flowers double for a handful of turns. Originally I considered that was what Lala did, but further experimentation disproved that theory.

The translation of the item based on google translate seems to be ‘all things’ or something like that. Maybe it means you only give Majo Rika the exact number of drops you need for a crystal?

When you cast this yellow drop spell you steal drops from the player of your choice. The number of drops you steal is random, but seems to average around a third of that players current drop total. You’ll be able to see how many drops each player has before you make the decision who to steal from. No movement this turn.

When you cast this green drop spell you steal drops from every other player. The number of drops stolen is random and seems to range from a bit under ten to a bit over twenty, it doesn’t seem to be based at all on the drop total of the players you’re stealing from. No movement this turn.

I’m an absolute fool and forgot to take a screenshot of the blue drop item, it looks just like the two items immediately above this one but it is recolored blue. When you cast the blue drop spell you steal half the drops from a player of your choice. No movement this turn.

Some items that I know exist since I saw the AI get them, but have yet to get myself so have been unable to test them:

There is an orange winged staff, identical to all the other jump/teleport items except it has been recolored orange. Presumably it teleports you to a random square in a specific part of the map

There is a blue bag that looks very much like the brown bag used to steal inventory items, only recolored blue. Based on it being a bag I presume it steals something from another players item inventory, and it being blue I presume it gives you more choice in what you steal than the brown bag, since that seems to be the trend in blue versions of items.

And who knows what else I’ve missed.

Dela items:

Here is what I know about the each of the Dela items I’ve seen. I mentioned this briefly before, but this is one of my weakest areas, I have no idea what a lot of these do.

This item that looks like a jug of milk or something gives you a random number of drops at the end of each of your turns. I’ve recorded the number as being as low as two and as high as eight, and I think the number skews higher the further in the game you are. I’m not sure how long it lasts, I honestly suspect it lasts for as long it remains in your inventory since I haven’t ever seen it go away.

This item that looks like a baby bottle seems to prevent you from losing any drops when you land on one of those red spaces that makes you lose drops. It doesn’t get consumed when it does this, so as far as I know it lasts indefinitely.

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to activate this cola item. There is an event that I’ll describe in a later section in which Baba follows you around and causes various effects, my guess is that having this cola in your inventory wards her off.

This coffee can item prevents you from falling asleep. There is a random event that can occur that I will describe in a later section that makes you fall asleep and skip your next turn. Having this item in your inventory will make that event have no effect.

I have no idea what this button-looking item does. My intuition says it’s protection from a negative random event and not an objective item. It’s expensive and always seems to be an available part of the stock.

I have no idea what this ticket looking item does (you’ll hear that a lot). My guess is maybe it has something to do with either the teleportation/jump items or the wing/teleportation tiles on the map.

This body temperature thermometer is an objective item for Yuki-sensei.

I have no idea what this handkerchief-looking item does. I’d suspect that it is an objective item I haven’t come across yet but it seems really expensive for that.

I’m pretty sure this necklace is an objective item for someone.

This spoon is an objective item for Lala.

I have no idea what this book is, I’d suspect it’s an objective item.

I haven’t seen what this watering can item does, but I’d suspect that it has something to do with rainbow seeds. Perhaps it increases the amount of time rainbow flowers stick around?

I have no idea what this bag item does, my guess is that prevents your item inventory from being stolen.

This headband is an objective item for a few different female classmate characters.

I have no idea what this red juice item does. My intuition says it’s protection from a negative random event and not an objective item.

I have no idea what this hair piece(?) item does. My guess is that it’s an objective item I just haven’t run into yet.

I have no idea what this headband does, but I have successfully activated it many many times as it activates every time you roll for movement. It seems like it makes the animation for your movement go much faster, but I have no idea what that means mechanically.

So yeah, sorry that section was probably not incredibly helpful.

Events:

Unfortunately these events seem to happen at random and a lot of them were discovered before I really had the guide in mind or thought to be taking screenshots, so a lot of them are poorly understood and have no visuals to accompany them. Sorry about that.

One random event that often happens is the player falling asleep, causing them to skip their next turn. While the player is asleep they have the sleep passive represented by the icon shown above. You can prevent this event from causing you to fall asleep by purchasing the coffee item from Dela.

Sometimes Baba will appear following a player, following them around and pestering them at the end of their turns. This is accompanied with all manner of random effects, like gaining or losing drops or items. In general she seems like a negative thing to have, but everything she does is unclear. When she is following you, she’ll appear to the right of your character portrait.

Instead of Baba, sometimes your character’s fairly will appear. While your fairy is following you you’ll see them displayed to the right of your character portrait just like with Baba. While your fairy is following you the income you receive from your rainbow flowers will be doubled.

Perhaps the most common type of event is when a conversation happens between a side character from the show and your player character. Typically the side character will say something to you and you’ll be given three dialogue options for how to respond. Since the entire thing is in Japanese I always pick the option completely at random but I have never once had a negative effect from these encounters. Every single time after these events I gain a bunch of drops based on how late in the game I am and a rainbow seed. I don’t know if different responses give you different amounts, but there doesn’t seem to be any real losing here.

Every so often a playable character that is not currently being played by anyone will fly in on their broom and stand somewhere on the map, moving one tile in any direction they can each turn. Moving to the tile that they are on stops you just like how walking over an objective tile stops you, and they’ll give you a rainbow seed. After a couple of turns they fly away.

The final type of event I have seen is when Gazamadon appears in the river by the bridge on the map. Each round of turns Gazamadon will roar and suck up a different resource, inventory items, drops, spells, currently growing rainbow flowers (or at least that’s what it looked like). In the one time I had it appear, it stuck around for three turns. Walking past it on the bridge had no effect.

Extras:

Alright, that’s all for the actual gameplay parts of the game. The last thing to talk about is that Extras section accessed from the blue chest in the main menu.

This is what the extras menu currently looks for me with all the things I have collected. When you open the game for the first time without any progress only the blue book on the bottom right will be there.

The blue book contains voice lines for each of the playable characters.

The yellow book allows you to replay any mini game that you’ve played, and records your highscores

The red book has the openings to each season of Ojamajo Doremi

Presumably there is another book that I’m missing that would go in the top right. If the wiki is to be believed, it would probably contain images or songs.

The above two images show you the menu for selecting which character’s voice lines you’d like to listen to, and then a menu to play eight voice lines for that character (in this case Doremi). It’s mostly stuff like their magical spell, their magical stage chant, etc, with a bit extra for each character.

You have access to every character and all their voice lines from the beginning, with the exception of Pop who is locked off until you unlock her as a playable character (more on that in a bit).

The above is the mini game selection, which will only become available once you have played at least one mini game in an actual match. Before you make it to this menu you first go through a bit of setup similar to if you were starting up an actual full game, deciding which character you’re playing as and if you’re up against a bot or a human.

You only have access to a game if you have played it in an actual match before. While a game is highlighted you can view the current high score for that game to the lower right, in this example here the high score for the ninja run game is 63 points. The little box in this menu that is not any game is a save feature.

And finally here is the menu for the OP viewer, with all the OPs displayed in reverse chronological order. I currently only have the Dokkaan opening unlocked so the other three are greyed out.

So here’s an important question: how did I unlock Pop and the first OP. Well I beat the story mode game, that’s all there really is to that. After beating the match in story mode by collecting seven crystals there’s another simple cutscene followed by the credits. After that it will order all the players based on what place they got before asking you to save and booting you to the title screen. After that, I had unlocked both.

Further work to do:

So it’s pretty clear that there is a lot unknown about this game. If I ever decide to continue working on the guide here’s the things I need to do:

Screenshot the item and spell descriptions. I’m an idiot so it didn’t occur to me that maybe that was a good idea until very late in the process. It’s probably smart to have the descriptions easily available

Actually make sure I’ve discovered all the items and spells. It’s very likely I’ve missed a few

Figure out what all the items and spells do

Unlock all the extra content

Figure out how the selection of Dela’s shop is determined

Figure out if the wing tiles teleport you anywhere in particular based on the tile you use

Get screenshots for all the events I missed, and do a lot more work figuring the events out in general

So there you have it. I don’t really know why I went ahead and spent so long on this, I sincerely doubt there will be all that much interest in it. It was fun enough to work on I suppose. Hopefully at least someone will get some use out of it.

Like I said in the beginning, if you have any questions/corrections/additions feel free to dm me or send me an ask. I’d really appreciate it.

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