GBA · Classic Vidya Review
Magical Quest 3 Starring Mickey & Donald
Completed 31 Dec 2025
Too Easy
Cover Art
Ending Screen
- In the third and final installment, the character you choose does slightly affect what powers you get - the costumes are not identical. This adds the smallest bit of replay value, but for this run I went with Donald.
- Of the suit powers you get, I’d rank this group about the same as Magical Quest 1. Still not as good as MQ2 but they do some interesting things (especially the Knight)
- If you are thinking of playing these games, this is the one that is by far and away hurt the most by the GBA screen area. Tons of levels are very vertical, and there are moments (especially in the final level) where you have absolutely no idea where it’s even possible to jump, because the next plaform is not visible on the screen. For this reason, this game is the ‘hardest’ of the three, but obviously not because of anything intentional in the design.
- This doesn’t really matter but once again Capcom did cut down the game system to make this even easier. Now, when you lose a life, you don’t just respawn in place, you get a balloon that you can use to place yourself anywhere on screen.
- Weirdly though, they made the respawn distance of enemies really short? As in, you walk 1 single millimeter away from where you killed an enemy, go back that direction, and it has respawned instantly. All 3 of these games do this, but this is the shortest-distance spawn by far. It’s like NES Ninja Gaiden level.
- This one also has the coolest boss fights of the trilogy; there is way more to do than just memorize the pattern and jump on their heads. The suits do different things to them, some have multiple winning strategies, and as a result there can be a lot more player creativity in how you face them. Though again it would be nice not to feel like you have infinity health.
- Overall none of these are really bad other than being too easy. Playing all 3 of them as though they’re one continuous game is fun since they are pretty short. It also doesn’t matter if you don’t do that; they don’t have plots that depend on one another.