The more NPCs you try this on, the more values you collect and can later use to reprogram other characters. I then walk up to it and open up the ‘inventory’ menu, where each behaviour for this enemy is listed on a late ’80s style green-screen menu as mentioned, this includes who their allies are, their enemies, the way they attack and even special attributes (I can make a character fireproof, for example). I draw around the howler and stop it in its tracks. Let’s say I’m being attacked by a howler, the aforementioned standard enemy dog NPC. Before I can reprogram NPCs, I have to capture them in first person by drawing a circle of light onto them this freezes them so I can approach them and begin reprogramming. The game’s title also refers to its key means of interaction.
From here on, it’s down to you to explore this sizeable hub and solve puzzles to help you gather the skills to eventually take on the Sky Bastard. You’re then dropped into a mostly black and white open world. This leads you through an evocatively System Shock like retro sci-fi environment and you’re taught how to reprogram AI, which is the core conceit of The Magic Circle. Here, an entity from a previous version of a game made by this team urges the player to help him wreak vengeance on the Sky Bastard. I turn my ordinary howler into a beast who gets around with a little helicopter rotorOnce the fantasy fluff ends, your character literally walks through the title screen of The Magic Circle into the back end of the game, as it were. Things aren’t going well on the project, and it’s about to get even worse. This context is introduced via a mainly non interactive opening that takes the form of a generic black and white fantasy RPG revenge premise, which is being talked over by the game’s creative director and a dissenting member of staff. The Sky Bastard, essentially the creative director of the game within the game (which is also called The Magic Circle ). I first sampled it back at GDC earlier this year, and since then it’s come on a long way in terms of how intuitive it is to play. It can also be believed that the eight stages signify the passing of time and how Yūko can control it.Created by ex-BioShock staff Jordan Thomas and Stephen Alexander, and Dishonored AI programmer Kain Shin, The Magic Circle is a game about reprogramming NPCs in a mini sandbox, set within a game that’s stuck in development hell. It is unknown if these things have anything to do with the eight stages of the moon shown on the Magic Circle. Yūko also seems to always enjoy the night time and often stays up until late hours of the night just sitting in the back yard of the shop or standing beneath the cherry blossom tree. In xxxHolic, Yūko will sometimes ask Watanuki for more sake with her dinner in order to celebrate the full moon. It is unknown what the circle symbolizes though one could think that it means that Yūko "sees" and "knows" everything since she can travel to different worlds and through time.
The eye in the center of the circle matches the eye that is sewn into Yūko's dress which she wears every time she meets the group in Tsubasa. This shows that her power is incredibly unique and unlike any other. However, Yūko's magic circle looks nothing like any other character's magic circle and is completely original. Throughout the holic and Tsubasa series, we see that many magic circles resemble one another. Yūko's magic circle symbolizes her power and so all the smaller symbols within her Magic Circle tell about different aspects of her unique abilities. The smallest circles on the edge of the entire magic circle are the zodial signs. The fourth diagonal looks like an infinite symbol. Three of the symbols in the diagonals of the circle are the Rayearth "machine" symbols. The smaller circles on the diagnols contain the avatars of the mashin in MKR. The circles that are directly upwards, downwards, and to the sides (north, south, east and west) contain a symbol that looks similar to the staff that the Tsubasa group paid to Yuko in one of the chapters. Beyond these symbols, there are another 8 circles, each with a symbol inside. The symbol in the center is an eye which is surrounded by the 8 stages of the moon. Yūko Ichihara's magic circle is bright purple and contains many symbols.
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