Video Game / My Little Pony Magic Shards

My Little Pony: Magic Shards is a 2D platformer Fan Game of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic TV show made by Darkera Studios. It was developed with Game Maker and was finished in 2012. It can be downloaded here and the soundtrack can be downloaded here. The game features the Mane Six as playable characters, as well as 8 other purchasable ones, all with their own attacks except for two of them.

The Plot of the game is that an unicorn stallion named Lord Master, who was bullied in his youth, tried to obtain the magic of Princess Celestia, but failed, causing shards of magic to be scattered all over Equestria, and Twilight and her friends need to collect them before anything bad can happen.

A remake of the game was planned once, but it was never finished, likely so the developers could work on the game's Spiritual Successor, My Little Pony: Rise of the Clockwork Stallions.

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The game contains examples of:

• Airborne Mook: The pink and light grey fuzzies.
• Alliterative Name: Moonlight Mist.
• The Beastmaster: Fluttershy throws her pet rabbit, Angel, as her attack.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: The brown fuzzies, pony enemies, and the snake boss (when hit) have these.
• Black Mage: Bio, the black alicorn that was powering Lord Master while you fought him.
• Bleak Level: Puppet Panic 1. The music adds to the mood, and added by the fact that your vision is limited.
• Bouncing Battler: Rainbow Dash and Big Macintosh, as they don't have any other form of attack, only have the option to Goomba Stomp their enemies.
• Boss-Only Level: All of the boss levels except Boss 1 have no enemies except for the bosses themselves.
• Dark Is Evil: The pony enemies, as well as Bio, have black fur.
• Defeat Means Friendship: When you defeat Lord Master, he is forgiven and befriended by the Mane Six in a cutscene.
• The Dragon: Bio is working to help Lord Master with his plan by powering him up.
• Easily Forgiven: Lord Master, after trying to steal the magic of the ruler of Equestria, is quickly forgiven after mentioning that he just wanted to have friends, and even gets a job as a Royal Guard by her in the end.
• Edible Bludgeon: Applejack, Carrot Top, and Bon Bon throw apples, carrots, and candies respectively as their attacks.
• Every 10,000 Points: Collecting 100 apples awards you with 200 bits.
• Fan Character: Moonlight Mist, the white unicorn mare you can unlock, is the creator's fan character.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason Lord Master decided to steal Princess Celestia's magic was because he was treated badly when he was a colt.
• Guide Dang It!: You can fire your phoenixes to kill enemies by pressing X, but you wouldn't know this without guessing because the tutorial doesn't tell you.
• Goomba Stomp: You can defeat enemies by jumping on them, but how many times you need to do so depends.
• Heel–Face Turn: Lord Master changes his evil ways after he is beaten by the Mane Six.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: After defeating Lord Master, it's revealed that he was planning to control other ponies' minds to be his friends.
• Impossible Item Drop: The enemies can drop apples when defeated.
• Improbable Weapon User: Lyra and Octavia attack with musical instruments, Applejack, Carrot Top, and Bon Bon attack with food, and Derpy attacks with mail.
• Killer Rabbit: The fuzzy creatures, fish, and snake boss. Lampshaded by the narrator in the tutorial.

• Lava Pit: Certain levels, such as Hot Hot Mountain, have lava pits instead of bottomless ones.
• Lethal Lava Land: Hot Hot Mountain.
• Life Meter: In the form of Hearts Are Health.
• Light Is Not Good: The light grey, light blue, and pink fuzzies, as well as the bright yellow fish, can still kill you.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Lord Master.
• Nested Story Reveal: When you finish the game, it turns out that the story of the game is entirely fictional and written by one of the playable characters, Moonlight Mist, for the best young writers' competition.
• Nice Day, Deadly Night: Deep Everfree Forest takes place at night, your vision is limited, and the music is threatening compared to the rest of the Everfree Forest music.
• Money Spider: The enemies can drop bits when defeated.
• Palette Swap: You can buy these for each member of the Mane Six in the shop.
• Pop Quiz: One of the bonus stages has you answer questions about the My Little Pony series.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The brown fuzzies and the snake boss (when hit) have these. Also Lord Master in the final fight against him.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: The fuzzy creatures, fish, and snake boss.
• Rise to the Challenge: Panic Tower has you outrun rising lava.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: There are times where the grammar of the text is... less than splendid.
  Bio: "I am truely impressed!"
• Save-Game Limits: You can only have one save file.
• Save Point: You can only save your game in certain areas of the map.
• Scary Teeth: The brown fuzzies and the snake boss (when hit) have these.
• Schrödinger's Player Character: The game is this until you beat the Final Boss, where all of the Mane Six are present, as well as Moonlight Mist when it's revealed that the story was fiction. However, none of the other characters you can play as ever appear.
• Score Milking: In the boss fight against Discord, you can go back to the part with the free hearts by attempting to go back to the character select screen when you actually get to Discord, and collecting hearts gives you points.
• Secret Character: Aside from the Mane Six and other characters you can buy in the shop, there are other characters you can play as through pressing a key in the character select screen to input a password.
• Secret Level: The game has levels that can only be accessed if you collect all of the red medals in them. The Golden Oaks Library can be accessed without having to collect red medals, but it's not clear that you can even go there.
• Sequence Breaking: You can skip either Ponyville 2 or Ponyville 3 and go straight to Lake Hooves because of the way the map's formatted.
• The Spiny: Light grey fuzzies have spikes on the top of their heads.
• Spiritual Predecessor: Of My Little Pony: Rise of the Clockwork Stallions.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Puppet Panic 2 has cheerful music, whereas all of the other World 4 levels have threathening music.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: You cannot drown.
• Suspicious Videogame Generosity: In Boss 3, you are given multiple free hearts before the actual boss.
• The Lost Woods: World 3, which mainly takes place in the Everfree Forest.
• Top-Down View: The mapscreen is in a top-down view.
• Under the Sea: Lake Hooves and Puppet Panic 3 mostly take place underwater.

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