Winx Club Saving Alfea Review Coming

So I just got the game today and beat it in maybe an hour. The review will be up soon.

Winx Club Saving Alfea coming to the US October 28

Amazon listing

It costs 29.99 instead of the usual 39.99 which means this is a budget price.

I can't find the developer but I have to admit that LittleOrbits history hasn't been all that great so far. The have had mediocre games such as Young Justice Legacy and Barbie Dreamhouse Party, along with seemingly unfinished games like Monster High 13 Wishes.

And yes I will be doing a review.

Magic Collection

Viz media will release a huge book containing all of the Winx Comics they have released (Vol.1-9)

Viz has stated that they have no plans to release any more volumes, but if that changes they will let us know.

Magic Collection will be released September 16th 2014.

The cheapest place I have found selling it is Rightstuf.com

Pop Pixie is Now On Netflix

All of the Episodes

Hopefully we can see a DVD release similar to Winx Club Seasons 1 and 2

Winx Club 3DS

There is a listing on many websites for a Winx Club 3DS game said to be released this September.

Amazon.co.uk has the game listed twice. Could this be on Wii U as well (I wouldn't get my hopes up).


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16878001004

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=9207525

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Solutions%202%20Go%2C%20Inc.&index=video-games-uk&search-type=ss

Magic Marathon

Magic Marathon Tomorrow !

Don't miss it!

Hopefully they will be on Amazon Instant Video as well.

Nick DVD Scavenger Hunt

Paramount Pictures has released all of Seasons 4 and 5 on DVD in English.


Season 4

The first 7 episodes were released bundled with "Secret of the lost Kingdom" Sadly this is the only release of Season 4 so far in the US

The UK and Australia were treated with a second DVD that has the next 7 episodes, Sadly they have not released any DVDs of Season 4 Since.

 With that being said, Paramount actually released all of Season 4 in places like Brazil and the DVDs have English Audio.

 Season 5

Like with Season 4, the first 7 episodes of Season 5 were bundled with "Magical Adventure"

The UK received the full release of Season 5 across 4 DVDs like Season 4

The Season 5 DVDs are easy to find but you will have to search through Brazilian websites to find the Season 4 DVDs

Winx Club Believix in You

Since the 4kids Dub ended, Video Game rights for Winx Club switched from Konami to Namco Bandai in Europe. A lot of people don't like Bandai because while they do make ok games with nice graphics, their minimal effort clearly shows. But Namco Bandai gives different developers the job to develop a lot of games while they are simply the publishers. That being said.....Namco Bandai........ WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU GIVE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS TO A COMPANY THAT HAS ONLY DEVELOPED CELL PHONE APPS. 

Anyway, the game was developed by Foward Games, A company who unfortunatley have only made cell phone app games. This is their first and as of now only console game.

So does that make this game bad, hmmm..... not really. The problem isn't that this game is bad, but it just feels like a bad cell phone app, which isn't surprising. With that being said, the developers clearly did the best with what they knew how.

Story:
Just a heavily simplified Season 4.

Gameplay:

You start the game out with t a bunch of still images of the girls going to earth to open up the love and pet shop and talking about the "Sorcerers of the Black
Circle" as they are called in this game. You play through  the game in Episodes and weeks and each episode you have a different objective. Mostly it will be to earn enough money in the love and pet shop, but sometimes you will have to win enough battles against the Wizards, Spend time with your boyfriends and also help people believe in Magic.

You do all of this through playing mini-games. You will always start off with the main screen. At the top of the screen it has a picture of gardenia also giving what week it is and how many credits you have. On the bottom screen you have the objective on the left and the status on the right. Depending on the objective your status could change from "Battles Won" to "Relationship level". You have to make sure this status is maxed out before you can continue to the next Episode.

At the bottom of the screen you have all 6 girls to choose from, you must play as all the girls to finish 1 week and continue to the next. When you select a girl you be brought to her profile menu. At the top screen it shows her Relax level and Love level along with her horoscope. Relax and Love will determine how useful this Winx is in Battle and if the weekly objective is related, then this will help max out the status on the main screen. The horoscope shows happy, calm and sad faces for "Work, Relax, Love and Believix".

The bottom screen has the many different activities you can assign to said girl. They are activities that play out through mini-games:

Work:
Credits +
Relax -

Relax:
Relax +
Credits -

Love:
Credits -
Relax +
Love +

Believix:
I'm sorry I forgot what Believix takes and gives

As you can see above, the mini games give and take things.

Credits are either needed to finish an episode or play other mini-games

Relax gives you magic points for battle

Love I believe gives you health

Mini-games

I'm not going to go into the Mini-games much since they really aren't worth talking about. They are more of a chore than they are fun

There are 19 mini-games in all

Each girl has her very own Work game and her very own Believix game. There are 4 relax games and 2 love games.

None of these games are very interesting. They range from pressing buttons to make a fairy pet dance to holding an umbrella over a couple so they don't get wet (???). Some are even heavily glitched and have control issues. 

But the best thing in the whole game is the Battle game. 

Depending on how you performed over the week, each girl will have an efficiency level telling you how useful they will be in battle. If your Love and Relax were high, then your Magic Points and Heath will be high and Vice Verca. In the very first Battle you will only have two attacks which are shield and Bolt which both cost no Magic points. Over the Course of the game the girls will unlock more Believix Powers/ The downside to this is that all the attacks and shields look the same. Before each battle the top screen will give you hints such as "use your shields to defeat enemy's" ect.  

This part of the game should have been expanded upon as it's easily the most interesting feature.

There is also a free play mode where you can play any mini-game you want and a multiplayer mode where you can play against someone else who has the game.(HA!)

Overall this game should have been given to a different developer. They tried their best with what they had but they probably didn't have the tools to make a great game.

I give this game 2 Wings down

Nick drops Winx after Season 6

The Nickelodeon voice actors confirm via twitter that after Nick finishes airing Season 6 they will drop Winx.

This is sad sad news. But this is only in the US it seems. The big question is what will happen to Winx in the US, will DVDs be released. Are the Rai English Season 1-2 DVDs that are being released this year being released by New Video Group BECAUSE Nick is dropping Winx? If that's the case then will they be releasing the Rai dub for Seasons 3 and 4 as well?

If Winx does get picked up by a different network, how will Seasons 5 and 6 merge with Season 7. GAH I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS. We just have to wait for answers.

Winx on Amazon Instant video

The Winx Club images on Amazon instant video have been edited with an orange border and a Nickelodeon Logo on the top right corner. At least they are still taking ownership of the series because their lack of promotion really makes the show feel like a special feature as opposed to a show that the network produces.

Pop Pixie Nickelodeon U.K website

The Pop Pixie website on Nickelodeon U.K. is now available!

http://www.nick.co.uk/shows/poppixie/

Hopefully we won't have to wait long for it to come to the U.S!

Pop Pixie set to premiere on Nickelodeon UK in the summer

Grant White from Toonzone reports that Pop Pixie is one of many shows on Nickelodeon U.Ks Summer Line-up.

The main Nickelodeon channel will see the addition of Pop Pixie, a spin off of the popular Winx Club series focussing on the Pixie side characters as they have their own adventures in Pixieville starting this month. Winx Club itself is also set to return for a brand new season soon after. Fans of the show should also look out for new episodes of the similar Mia and Me, starting February.

http://www.toonzone.net/2014/02/nickelodeon-reveals-hot-animated-summer-lineup/


Pop Pixie is a spin-off of Winx Club starring the Pixies. The Pixies have gone through many changes such as Digit now being a male, the pixies overall body structure and overall seems to be in a different universe from Winx. If I could compare it to any other show it would be Trollz.

Winx Club: Original Season 2 DVD to be released June 10, 2014

The Shadow Phoenix will rise again!

These listings on Amazon.com confirm that New Video Group will also release Season 2 of the Rai English Dub.

As you know, Season 2 introduces new characters like:

Lord Darkar

Aisha/Layla

The Pixies

And How could we ever forget Dark Bloom

Oh my....

Are you excited for Season 2?