
Last year, Imagineer and developer syn Sophia (the team behind Nintendo's Style Savvy / New Style Boutique series) announced a new Switch dressmaking game called Magical Craft. It's already been released in Japan late last year, and now, in an update, an ESRB listing has surfaced.
No local release has been announced just yet, but if this rating is any indication, it seems we could be getting some news soon. The developer is the same Japanese team behind the 2023 Marvelous Switch release Fashion Dreamer. It also more recently helped Imagineer with Fitness Boxing 3.
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In this title, you gather fabrics, motif patterns and other items to make dresses, with "over 100,000 possible designs". To complete each dress, you'll play through mini-games featuring four kinds of sewing magic, and your villagers can then wear your creations.
Here's an official description about the game's protagonist and story (via Gematsu):
"The story unfolds in the tranquil village of Frune. The protagonist, a young girl named Lilia, begins her journey as a dressmaker, using the “sewing magic” she inherited from her grandmother. As she fulfills requests from the villagers and works toward becoming a legendary dressmaker, her everyday life of dressmaking begins."
If we hear any updates about a local release, we'll let you know.
[source esrb.org, via gonintendo.com]





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We need a Switch 3 for this game !!
Joke aside, I'll follow this project...
Looks better than Fashion Dreamer. Which I really didn't like.
aesthetically, reminds me of atelier
I think you mean WWF No Mercy Developer's Next Switch Game Has Been Rated By The ESRB.
Nice to see this one is getting a Western release. I saw the Japanese trailer a while ago and was hoping it would arrive here too, as it seems right up my alley.
Wut...?!
Magical Craft English version?! 😃😃😃
Yay...!!!
Another fashion games for Switch 1. 😄
If it's not Styling Star HD, I don't care. Nintendo were fools to make that game a digital 3DS exclusive and rob Smash fans of the origin game of "Ring A Ding".
I have been wanting Style Savvy for the Switch for quite some time now. This ain't it but it's the same devs behind said franchise, so I'm down.
I always wanted to play it, but didn't get for the 3DS. An HD glorious makeover would suit this game greatly, so I will keep an eye on this and hope that an US / EU version is on the way.
As someone else pointed out, the artstyle feels kinda Atelier, but it also feels like early 80-90s anime too.
Is it going to be censored, huh?
I loved the Style Boutique games on 3DS. The first one was a freebie from buying a 3DS XL from the UK (as I'd already owned the physical editions of the free games), and I found myself really enjoying the game, and I proceded to grab the physical editions of the two games that followed.
Sure, it's "girly", but I really liked the more businessy side to the game, and it was so well made, cosy, and the graphics were beautiful. Definitely surprised me by how good the games were (the third one let me down by ditching stereoscopic 3D for no good reason).
Fashion Dreamer was such a crushing disappointment though, because despite it being developed by more or less the same team (and replicating the same aesthetic), it was an entirely different sort of game with no goals, which is fine for a young audience, but its predecessors were already quite accessible enough, so why mess with that formula?
A new proper Style Boutique/Savvy is all we want. I don't understand why Nintendo is letting an IP with three entries on the 3DS lay dormant like this.
Didn't know this game came out in Japan last year, seems pretty good based on what's mentioned in the article and trailer (potentially objectively better and/or appealing to more than Fashion Dreamer) - anyway, glad to hear that it got rated by the ESRB and so should eventually get a Western release for those interested in it!
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