disney castle of illusion starring mickey mouse review

Except when you realise they’re not errors: the graphics have been updated but the gameplay has been purposefully left just as it was in 1990. The collision detection is unpleasantly random too, resulting in a game where progress is often due to luck rather than skill.įor a game that looks so good, and has clearly been constructed with such care, it’s hard to understand how it could make so many basic errors. Mickey feels weightless and imprecise to control, which is exactly what you don’t want in a 2D platformer that’s as spitefully hard as this. There’s far too much inertia in Mickey’s movements as it is but there’s also a weird control lag that sometimes seems like you can wander off to make a cup of tea between the point at which you press a button and actually have its effect register on screen. Perhaps the most impressive effort though is creating a Super Mario 64 style hub in 3D, which also looks great and really does go above and beyond for a game that struggles to justify the effort.Īlthough the level design is often clever the problem with Castle Of Illusion is the controls and jumping mechanics.

The Cake Land level in particular is enough to have you salivating in hunger, and the bright colours and cheerful demeanour are a welcome break from modern gaming’s dourer colour palettes. Obviously the original was all 2D sprites, but although the remake retains the 2D gameplay the polygonal visuals allow the camera to swoop and shift both for dramatic effect and to completely change the nature of some sequences: as Mickey is chased by boulders or dives between the innards of a giant clock.

Disney castle of illusion starring mickey mouse review