Twinkle Tale  Taking place in the fantasy world of Alpherion, the players take control of young apprentice magician Saria on a journey to rescue the great wizards of her land from their captivity and recover the powerful gemstones from the dark sorcerer Gadou and his followers before the demonic king of darkness, Kaiser Demon, is summoned and brings chaos to both the land of Alpherion and the world. Its gameplay mainly consists of run and gun action mixed with minimal exploration elements, using a main three-button configuration. Despite being exclusive to Japan, "Twinkle Tale" garnered mixed to positive reception from critics who reviewed it as an import title since its release and was commended for the detailed presentation, colorful visuals, gameplay and replay value but some of the reviewers felt divided in regards to the music and sound design. In recent years, the title has since become an expensive collector's item and one of the rarest in the Mega Drive library, leading it to fetch high prices in the secondary video game collecting market. The game has never been officially released outside Japan, although fan translations exist. "Twinkle Tale" is a run and gun game that is played in a top-down perspective similar to "Étoile Princesse", "Kiki Kaikai" and "Mercs", where the players take control of Saria, the main protagonist of the game, through nine stages of varying thematic set in the land of Alpherion where the main objective is to rescue each of the great wizards of the land and recover the kingdom's powerful gemstones from Gadou, one of the main antagonists of the game by defeating one of his servants, alongside with one of his creations that act as a boss at the end of the stage in order to progress further through the game. The player has access to the options menu at the title screen before starting the game, where various settings can be adjusted such as controls and difficulty configurations. Some of the levels featured are linear in nature, populated with obstacles and enemies, involving the player to traverse the stage by running, shooting and dodging enemies, while other levels that are featured early and later in the game features various paths to choose from, making the player to take any routes to reach the end, which encourages exploration in order to find items hidden in treasure chests such as star-marked orbs that increases Saria's current magic attack in use up to three times, which decreases after taking an enemy hit, two types of magic bombs that alters between each other when not picked up and vials that restores the player's health.