The Storm’s ruins now incorporate additional swimming and puzzle challenges as you navigate platforms that crumble out from under Mickey, between hazardous waterfalls no less! Toyland now has you clearing a path through piles of presents and navigating paths according to their reflection in a mirror. The Enchanted Forest now features mischievous signpost puzzles and platforming challenges on fluttering leaves. Once you’re properly dropped into a stage, you’ll be consistently impressed with how much painstaking detail has gone into completely redesigning the Genesis game’s more straightforward level environments. Of course, all of this has to be unlocked however. You can also interact with certain objects to read up on bosses, check out concept art, and even change Mickey’s costume. From here, you can wander into certain rooms representing the two “Acts” and boss fight in each world, Super Mario 64-style. Upon properly starting the game, you’ll get a chance to get used to the (simple) controls before you’re placed into the castle’s hub area, a new addition to the remake. It’s simple stuff, still firmly rooted in the damsel-in-distress gaming traditions of the 80’s and 90’s. In order to reach the castle tower where Mizrabel holds Minnie captive, Mickey will need to locate seven Gems of Illusion held by Mizrabel’s most trusted underlings, the Masters of Illusion. Mickey gives chase all the way to Mizrabel’s lair, the titular Castle of Illusion. Mickey and Minnie Mouse are strolling through the forest one day, when suddenly, the witch, Mizrabel, jealous of Minnie’s beauty, snatches her from Mickey. The remake adds in a narrator and several cutscenes to tell the story, but despite the narrator’s infectious energy and the striking still art of the cutscenes, the premise is still ultimately tissue-thin. Even if you’ll breeze through it in just a couple of hours though, the game is difficult not to love, simply due to how polished and adorable it all is! The game is quite forgiving in keeping young kids and inexperienced players in mind, so retro gamers looking for a challenge might be disappointed that Castle of Illusion’s remake is rather on the easy side, and doesn’t have adjustable difficulty settings to boot. The gameplay result however is a joyful and charming 2D/3D hybrid platformer that is full to burst with enchanting Disney magic, regardless of whether you’ve played the Genesis game or not. What a remake it is too! Rather than just taking the exact design of the original Genesis game, touching up the graphics and music, adding achievements/trophies, and calling it a day, Sega Studios Australia, responsible for developing the game, have redesigned the entire affair from the ground up! The level backdrops and boss identities are familiar, but everything has been re-tooled, expanded and polished with current console technology, to the point where the adventure will feel entirely new, even for die-hard fans of the original Genesis game! It looks mighty gorgeous too, being one of the most visually striking Disney games to date on any platform! The game was a frequent request for Nintendo’s Virtual Console catalogue amongst enduring Sega loyalists, though it seems that Disney has done this demand one better, commissioning an entire remake of the same name for current digital console game channels. Among these were Golden Axe, Altered Beast and a beloved little Disney game called Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse.Ĭastle of Illusion’s fan following has persisted to this day, not only leading to sequels on the Genesis, Sega Master System and Sega GameGear, but also a recent spiritual follow-up, Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion on 3DS. Contrary to popular belief, the Sega Genesis managed to have hits before 1991’s release of the original Sonic the Hedgehog.
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