Magolor's Tome Trackers

Magolor's Tome Trackers Preview image of Magolor's Tome Trackers, from Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe. Details Type(s) Find-it game Levels 3 Players 1-4 Appears in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe Comparable to Waddle Dee Café: Help Wanted!

Theme music "Magolor's Tome Trackers" "Magolor's Dizzy-Tizzy Tome Trackers" Music that plays during the first 35 and last 25 seconds respectively.

Magolor's Tome Trackers is a Sub-Game which appears in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, as an addition over the base game. It can be accessed in Merry Magoland or in the Lor Starcutter (though in the latter, 10 Energy Spheres must be collected first). In this subgame, Magolor tasks up to four players to compete against each other to be the first to find the specific tomes he is thinking of before time runs out. His memory can be a bit fuzzy, though, so some guesswork will be needed from the contestants to find the correct book first.

Gameplay

Gameplay of a round of Magolor's Tome Trackers.

In this game, each contestant, whether that be Kirby, King Dedede, Meta Knight, or Bandana Waddle Dee, is outfitted with a scholar's cap. Magolor is dressed like a professor with a white mustache. At the start of the game, each contestant is allowed to roam freely before a timer of sixty seconds starts. During this time period, Magolor will ask for a specific book, which the contestants must find. Each time a contestant finds the right book, they gain a point, and the book in question is replaced with a different one. Each tome can have a different binding color and a different character or symbol on its cover. At certain times, the correct book is not shown right away: for example, the book's back is shown instead of the front, with Magolor flipping it, or Magolor removing the dust covering the book's front. At 25 seconds remaining, the "Last Chance" begins, where every book has the same color, and the contestants must find a certain amount of a specific cover. Books collected in the "Last Chance" are golden, and worth twice as many points. If the correct book is not collected after a certain amount of time, it will gain a pulsating glow and the timer will be paused until a player picks the book up. However, this does not happen during the last 25 seconds.

The playing field of Magolor's Tome Trackers consists of three levels of thin floors over a wide floor at the bottom. There are gaps in the thin floors in places, and contestants can run off the left side of the screen to appear on the right side, and vice-versa. There are three difficulty levels for Magolor's Tome Trackers: the differences between the levels are the CPU difficulty and the amount of tomes. At the start, level 1 has five tomes, level 2 has six, and level 3 has eight; after four tomes are grabbed, level 1 gets two additional tomes, level 2 gets five additional tomes, and level 3 gets seven additional tomes.

Tome symbols

The tomes in this Sub-Game have a variety of symbols on their covers, referencing different characters, items, and other entities from the Kirby series.

Missions

There are nine Missions for this Sub-Game. They are as follows:

• New Student at the Library - Play Magolor's Tome Trackers for the first time.
• 5 Tomes in a Row - Find 5 Magic Tomes in a row before your rivals can grab them.
• Then I Volunteer! - Play while wearing the Elfilin dress-up mask.
• Tome-tally Perfect - Win without grabbing a single incorrect tome.
• 7 Gold Tomes on Level 2 - Find 7 Gold Magic Tomes in a single game on Level 2.
• 18 Points on Level 3 - Win with 18 or more points in a single game on Level 3.
• 100 Total Points - Earn a grand total of 100 or more points.
• Clear All Difficulties - Win on all difficulty settings. (Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3)
• New Head Librarian - Complete all other missions for Magolor's Tome Trackers.

Once all 100 regular missions are completed, two final missions related to this Sub-Game are unlocked, as part of the "True Extra Missions" category:

• Consecutive Tomes Tracked (Level 2) - Find 6 Magic Tomes in a row in a single Level 2 game of Magolor's Tome Trackers.
• Tracking a High Score (Level 3) - Win with a score of 20 or more points in a single Level 3 game of Magolor's Tome Trackers.

Tutorial transcript

• "Find the Magic Tome with the same cover image that Magolor is picturing! Press A/B to jump and ↑ or B/Y to retrieve a tome."
• "After Last Chance begins, the points will be doubled! Find as many Gold Magic Tomes as you can to make a stunning comeback victory!"

Gallery

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  Magolor thinks about a variety of tomes to track

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  Magolor identifies four tome trackers

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  Last Chance begins

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  During Last Chance, Magolor looks for a number of golden tomes with a specific cover

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  Results including a tie with a CPU contestant

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	みつけて！マホロア図書館としょかん Mitsukete! Mahoroa toshokan	Discover! Magolor Library
Traditional Chinese	尋找！魔法洛亞圖書館 xún zhǎo! mó fǎ luò yà tú shū guǎn	Find It! Magolor's Library
Simplified Chinese	寻找！魔法洛亚图书馆 xún zhǎo! mó fǎ luò yà tú shū guǎn
Dutch	Magolors zoekboeken	Magolor's book search
French	Chasse au tome de Magolor	Magolor's tome hunt
German	Magolors Bücherhatz	Magolor's Book hunt
Italian	Caccia al tomo di Magolor	Magolor's tome hunt
Korean	찾아라! 마버로아 도서관 chaj-ala! mabeoloa doseogwan	Find It! Magolor Library
Portuguese	Caça ao Livro de Magolor	Magolor's Book Hunt
Spanish	Cazagrimorios de Maglor	Magolor's grimoire hunt A "Grimoire" is also known as a "book of spells" or a "spellbook."