![]() Good thing when I played the game, I was a kid then, eh? Shame that I just played and completed this game in one hour today, eh? Such are my skills (PFFFFFFFFFT). But flower’s’ll do, OK? You can sort of tell from the general description that this is a game aimed at kids. We use a cloak to turn them into flowers, alright? Maybe cards, occasionally. Look, it’s a Disney game, we don’t KILL things in Disney games. But what is your weapon of choice? Is it the butt bash of Castle of Illusion? Nay! Is it the plunger of Quackshot? Nay! You use a magician’s cloak! But seriously Goofy, stop being friends with that dickhead. Yeah, that weaselly bastard Pete who tends to be Mickey Mouse’s antagonist for no real known reason and ends up becoming best friends with FUCKING GOOFY I MEAN WHAT EVEN IS THAT, DISNEY, ARE YOU EVEN TRYING? Anyway, the box suddenly transports them both to a MAGICAL world (because MAGIC of course, like yeah) and they need to find their way through the maze of MAGICAL worlds (because MAGIC of course, like shu’up) and make it back to reality where they can actually be rad magicians all over again.Īnd the game takes you through a plethora of random worlds, not particularly interconnected in any way, gives you random magic spells that you use once as a set piece for the next level and then at the end of it, you battle it out with the villian extraordinaire: PETE. When you think of Disney characters dicking about, technically Donald’s the main culprit but then again, Mickey’s a bit of a noob sometimes. Mickey and Donald are being all apprentice magician-y when they find a MAGICAL box (because MAGIC of course, like duh) and start dicking about with it. OK, story time, people! Sit tight, it’s not going to last very long! You need to drop something down a ledge, you would drop it DOWN the ledge. BLOWN.Īctually, when you think about it, it sorta makes sense. You pressed DOWN at the edge of the ledge. How satisfying is it to actually work something out on your own instead of… y’know… cheat. We had to totally trial-and-error the bastard thing but eventually we found it out. It was like asking people nowadays if they know how to find specific item X in game-that-everyone-lauds-about-but-never-plays. And here’s the thing: we had to work it out on our own. I have a weird relationship with games sometimes.Īnyway, we had to actually ASK people we knew what to do on that level. It’s what’s known as ‘leading you by the hand’ without actually making you feel remotely special. But then again, if you had this on the PS1, it’d have told you what button to press at any given moment to take away any feeling of independence. WELL WHO THE FUCK KNEW HOW TO LOWER THE ROPE IN A GAME THAT DIDN’T TELL YOU HOW TO? What, do you just stand at the edge and hope it happens?! DO YOU PRESS A BUTTON TO LOWER A ROPE? All the buttons were tied up with other functions! See, if it were on the PS1 or maybe even the SNES, you’d have ninety other buttons you could use. A little ways past this point, you had some seesaws that would propel one of the characters onto the next ledge and that character would have to lower a rope. See, when we WATCHED the video, we knew what we had to do. Now when we saw the footage and liked the idea of a game we could actually play and complete together, we bought it.Īnd we couldn’t get past the first level. The video cassette had 30 minutes of footage of games on the Mega Drive that were coming out soon (most of the footage was dedicated to showcasing Sonic 2 as it was due for release at the time) and one of the games involved was indeed World of Illusion. I know that because I REMEMBER WHAT VIDEO CASSETTES ARE. Back in the day, my brother and I bought a Sega magazine that came with a free VIDEO CASSETTE. In fact, he obviously likes it so much that he dragged Donald along for the ride this time. Turns out castles filled with crazy toys and cookies and other stuff aren’t enough for Mickey Mouse. There were castles in it and gems and illusions. I even knew what twee meant at the age of 10. It was fun and platformy but it never made me think “ooh, yay, Mickey, yay, whatever like, I love him.” If anything, I thought it was a nice twee game. To be honest, I don’t know that much about the Mega Drive version but I had the Master System version and to be quite, it wasn’t exactly that good. Back in the early days of the Mega Drive and Master System (you remember that console right? It’s that console that… y’know… predates the Mega Drive? The one was like a slightly higher-powered Game Gear?), Mickey Mouse of Disney fame appeared in a game called Castle of Illusion and it was apparently bloody brilliant.
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