Welcome to the Kingdom of MagiQuest!

sure! it partially depends on whether you’re going to a location that still has Legacy MagiQuest or one that has 2.0, but gameplay is nearly the same! (Legacy locations, in my experience, tend to have more moving objects like simple animatronics or opening chests while 2.0 locations tend to have more screens which play animations)

you’ll get your wand (which is how you interact with the world! wave your wand to collect items + cause other effects), go to a quest station, and accept your first quest to earn a rune. runes are, essentially, spells (in later adventures, you’ll cast certain runes for certain effects)— the more runes you have, the more powerful a Magi you are!

the original way to play was to first go through all the rune quests and once you completed the Master Magi rune you’d do the adventures— this is my preferred way, but 2.0 splits it up so you earn 3 runes and then complete the adventure which requires those runes (this is good if you can’t complete the game in one day, but I still prefer the old way since adventures were meant to be a step up in complexity from rune quests)

Legacy MagiQuest will be immediately identifiable because it has live actors for most of the characters! MagiQuest 2.0 is entirely CG. however, storywise they’re still similar! you receive your quests from the Questmaster, you complete various tasks from the inhabitants of the world in order to earn various runes, and then go on adventures— first to restore the pixies, then to defeat the goblin king and return the princess’ jewels, and last to best the red dragon Charlock in combat. (Legacy locations have an additional adventure, since they unlocked the previously MQO-exclusive Silver Dragon adventure— 2.0 locations will only have the 3 standard adventures)

there’s some deep lore about characters you don’t see in standard play when it comes to Legacy (Xavier, for example), which I’m happy to get into if you’re interested! but the lore for 2.0 is fairly surface level (in that what you see when you play is really what you get). there’s also some things that get mentioned in Legacy, like Clans, which are no longer implemented in play (so if you hear, like, Trixter or Woodsy or Majestic, those were all old clans that new Magi could choose between)

also, as a note for my fellow wand collectors — avoid mixing legacy toppers with the newest wands!! (the magma wand + shadow wand)

u/Time_Function_5878 on the MQ reddit posted a link to a petition for GWL to save Legacy MagiQuest, which..

it’s reddit. the response was a few very pessimistic comments and not much else. being realistic, do I think GWL will listen to us? eh. but I’d much rather take the 10 seconds to slap my name on a petition than just complain about all hope being lost. we’ve had a lot of really amazing preservation efforts in the community and the release of the archive is a huge deal! but at the same time, it’d be cool if Legacy didn’t vanish as a playable experience.