Magical Vacation

The game is an RPG adventure game, where the player interacts with the overworld to progress the story while battling against enemies in a turn-based battle system. There are 16 different elements in the game. The relationships among these elements are rather complex.

The player can increase the power of attacks by borrowing power from elemental spirits in a process called Seirei Combo (精霊コンボ; spirit combo). To use a spirit combo, the player must summon an elemental spirit, and use magic of the same element in the following turns to release vast amounts of damage. Attack power is doubled per spirit present, meaning 2 spirits would create 4 times as much damage, and 3 spirits would create 8 times as much. The maximum combo (7 spirits) yields 128 times as much damage.

Once upon a time, war erupted for three days in the magic kingdom Kovomaka. This war was kept a secret from ordinary citizens, but one man began to travel all around the country in preparation for the next battle, and several years later, the game's main character entered the magic school Will-o'-Wisp at the invitation of the school's principal.

The students of Will-o'-Wisp Academy are sent away to a summer school called Valencia Beach. At nighttime, strange monsters called the enigma appear on the beach, abducting the students and sending them to another world. The hero must find the missing students, while also uncovering the mysteries of the enigma and the war that occurred in the kingdom.

On release, Famitsu the two reviewers found the game very user-friendly and suggested it to new comers of the series. Two reviewers found the only downside to be that the controls take time to get used to and one reviewer saying the screen looks a bit dark on the Game Boy Advance. One reviewer said that knowing you could lose a hard-earned level ranking or important item made it exciting and that completing a dungeon that had previously bested the player gives a sense of accomplishment not found in other role-playing games.

The game was the second highest rated Game Boy Advance game from 2001 from Famitsu, only being beaten by Game Boy Advance release of Torneko: The Last Hope.