Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventure: The Weird Platformers of Vic Tokai

The Sega Mega Drive’s weirdest game?

Ryan takes a look back at the incredibly strange Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventure… For this writer,Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventuremay be the best of the lot.

The twist is that Kakefu has a little furry friend he can use to throw at enemies.

CalledPsycho Fox,the game replaced the slightly bland-looking little kid with an athletic mammal and his trusty owl.

Most of all, though,Magical Hats best improvements are mechanical.

Thanks to his magical turban, Hat can also control the rate of his descent after a jump.

The mechanical gorilla seems to be the only transformation you could select during a boss battle, for example.

Of all the iterations Vic Tokai made of its same basic platformer,Magical Hatis by far my favorite.

For what it is,Magical Flying Hatstands up as a fun way to while away a few hours.

Some of its design decisions are really, really strange, admittedly.

For me, its one of the most entertaining games ever released for the Mega Drive.