Castle Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a video game developed and published by Sega in 1990 for the Sega Genesis. Ports for Master System and Game Gear were released in 1991. A Japan-only Sega Saturn port was released on October 15, 1998. It is the first installment in the Illusion franchise.

A remake was released in 2013 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and iOS, while the Windows Phone, Android and macOS versions were released in 2014 by Sega and Disney Interactive Studios. The Xbox One and Xbox Series X versions are backward compatible with the Xbox 360 version. The macOS version was released by Feral Interactive.

Plot
Mickey and Minnie was going out for a stroll, until Mizrabel takes Minnie to her castle so she can steal her Youth, beauty, and Mouse form and will be as beautiful as Minnie, Minnie however will end up as ugly as Mizrabel, Mickey needs all of the 7 gems, each from the Masters of Illusion, to get into the castle and save Minnie.

Overall

 * 1) Good graphics, as the colors are very bright, vibrant, pleasant to look at, and show a lot of emotion.
 * 2) Incredible music. The music never gets old, from the first level to the boss, the music is upbeat and it more relaxing in the remake.
 * 3) The controls are well responsive, while the jumping feels a bit floaty, it controls pretty decently.
 * 4) Awesome boss fights, for example the Jack in the box fight, it's very good and makes you get up on your toes.
 * 5) Good visuals for a Mega Drive and HD game, from The Dark Forest, to the Candy World, it's pretty good.
 * 6) The Sega Game Gear & Master System versions have new machanics as well and has new things the Mega Drive version didn't add.
 * 7) * You can pick up thing and throw them at enemies or use them as platforms.
 * 8) * The graphics look very good, going for a cute style to the characters.
 * 9) * It spawned 2 more sequels to the Game Gear & Master System line-up.
 * 10) Castle of Illusion was so succesful that World of Illusion was made for the Genesis years later.

Remake

 * 1) Amazing graphics and very amazing visuals for a 2013 remake, the models and animations are awesome. Especially if your playing the game on a Xbox One and Xbox Series X, the graphics look HD and the Lighting is much better.
 * 2) The game is much darker than the original game, and the tone is similar to that of dark fantasy films from Disney's golden age such as The Black Cauldron.
 * 3) Good voice acting, which the game introduces the Narrator to tell the game like a storybook, and he isn't very annoying, not to mention, the voice actors for Mickey and Minnie reprise their roles for the game.
 * 4) Vibrant soundtrack, thanks to Grant Kirkhope, in which the game uses instruments for the music to remake from the Genesis game, which means the music is very good and isn't annoying to listen too.
 * 5) The controls have been improved from the first game as now there are 3D sections where you move Mickey in a 3D plain.
 * 6) You can unlock a few costumes, and each one of them are good.
 * 7) * The knight costume can be unlocked by defeating Mizrabel and beating the game.
 * 8) * The magician costume can be unlocked by collecting the 5 playing cards.
 * 9) * And finally the explorer costume can be unlocked by collecting 5 of Donald's chili peppers.

Overall

 * 1) Despite the game being great, it's next game mh:crappygames:Fantasia was very terrible to the point where Sega got sued by Disney for trying to recall all copies due to Infogrames figuring out that Sega didn't own the rights to mh:greatestmovies:Fantasia, as it was all just Sega making sloppy accidental licensing agreements with Disney without Roy Disney Jr. realizing, as he made a promise with his uncle Walt that he would not let The Walt Disney Company make licensing deals with other companies to make adaptations of Fantasia.
 * 2) The game is short, taking about 30 minutes to beat the game, which is standard for platformers of its time. Thankfully the Remake makes the game longer.
 * 3) * The Sega Master System and Game Gear ports are even shorter, since the levels don't have different sections.
 * 4) The fight with the Grumpy old tree in very easy, not even the remake makes it harder, since all you do is jumping over it when he rolls and then jump onto him after a few acorns drop down.
 * 5) As typical for Sega Saturn-ported games, especially Sonic Jam, the Sega Saturn port is an emulated rom of the Genesis version that doesn't use the Saturn's capabilities.

Remake

 * 1) The controls, while great, can be slippery due to how fast Mickey moves, this is somewhat mitigated though, as the mobile version has controls that the player can customize.
 * 2) The Narrator can be pretty tedious to listen to, luckily you can turn him off in the setting.
 * 3) The IOS Port suffers from downgraded graphics, which was executable due to the IOS's capabitilies.
 * 4) The 3D sections are used rarely, due to the game being designed with 2D platforming in mind.
 * 5) Unless getting the Costumes can be quite tedious, unless you have a guide, it'll take you hours to find them.
 * 6) The game was sadly the only game to be made by Sega Australia, as the company was shut down for good due to bad sales (due to being released at the same time as Super Mario 3D World.

Reception
During release, the game reviewed with critical praise, with critics praising it's controls, graphics, & music, and it's difficulty being put depending on which level, the remake recived positive reviews too with it's Beautiful Graphics, Fluent Music, and it's Decent Controls. The Remake was also critically acclaimed during it's released,

Trivia

 * The remake is the only game to be developed by Sega Studios Australia, as the company was shut down after the game was released.
 * This was the second Mickey Mouse game to be released in Japan, one was Mickey Mousecapade.

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