![]() Classic Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Hot Dogs! Practice mode lets you acquaint yourself on the levels minus the boss fights. If you want to jump into the action, choose Normal. Two game modes are available for your choosing. Building up to the final fight with Mizrabel. The end of levels introduces you to a boss battle to get the Seven Gems. Jumping is one of your main weapons to defeat enemies, collect apples and marbles to shoot. If all your lives are gone, or the number of tries is used, this will result in a game over screen and brings you back to the beginning of the game. ![]() You also get four hundred seconds to finish each part of the adventure. You are given three lives on each level, collect items for bonus points such as an increase in your health and extra tries. Play through Five levels, The Enchanted Forest, Toyland, The Storm, Dessert Factory, The Library, and The Castle. Levels are toned with bright hues and colorful character sprites. In this side scroller, speak with the true owner of the castle and find the Seven Gems. You are tasked to navigate the Castle of illusions. Minnie is kidnapped by the evil witch bent on stealing Minnie’s youth. Play as Mickey in this Sega Game Gear version. The wonky controls and complete lack of challenge put the final nail in the adorable, big-eared coffin.Oh Boy! Gosh! Classic Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse stars Walt Disney’s most famous character. Even for a diehard Disney fan the ten-dollar price tag is a huge detriment to the appeal of the game. Ultimately the game seems like something that would be more suited to the attention of a child, which is again not a shock considering the source material. The game has a remastered soundtrack and a narrator, but with a plot this thin and unessential it’s almost comical to have someone telling you about what Mickey was up to next. Despite that, the game has a high level of polish and the requisite Disney charm is as well executed as one would expect from the most lucrative family entertainment company in human history. Once you’ve rescued Minnie there isn’t much to do beyond a few collectibles and some unlockable costumes that sadly have no purpose beyond adornment. There’s little challenge involved in collecting all the gemstones and the game is easily beaten in a single lengthy sitting. Unfortunately they’re generally easy to find and experienced players will find themselves eyeing an area and successfully prognosticating the existence of gems there as well as how to attain them. ![]() As you may imagine, collecting the gems becomes the primary focus of the game. Each door requires a certain number of gemstones to open, handily inscribed above each portal. Initially only the foyer and a single door will be accessible but above are yet more doors and more levels to explore. Though the levels themselves are linear, players have a certain freedom to move throughout the castle at will. Along the way you’ll see sparkling gemstones and your unstoppable impulse to collect them will be correct. ![]() Players progress through a series of levels with plenty of jumps, moving platforms and enemies to be fruited or bounced on. So of course Mickey must come to the rescue. An evil witch, with the ultimate goal of stealing her beauty, has kidnapped Minnie Mouse. The game is a spiritual homage/remake of a much older game by the same title and nowhere can it be seen more than the slapdash story. The only 3-D segment I truly delighted in was one in which you have been suddenly shrunken down and are on the run from a tumbling apple of destruction in a very Indiana Jones-esque sequence. It might sound like this is a bad thing, when in fact the 3-D portions of the game are the most frustrating due to the looseness of the controls. Despite the three-dimensional graphics and some fully three-dimensional sequences the majority of the game is played from a classic side-on perspective. Presumably in the greater Disney canon, all apples are poisonous. Moving Mickey is accomplished via a virtual analog stick and tapping the other side of the screen makes him jump and a red button throws any apples you may have collected. Unfortunately that enchantment wears off rather quickly as you speed through what is underneath all the polish, just another platformer. Castle of Illusion isn’t anything unusual in that regard, but the game is unexpectedly enchanting, even for an adult. Even in the Kingdom Hearts series despite the fact that players could take iconic characters into combat, there was nothing that verged on ‘adult content’. Much of this can be attributed to Disney’s careful control of their characters to ensure no potential tainting of their family-friendly brand. There have been very few Disney video games that have truly challenged and engaged adults. ![]()
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