A well made side-scrolling platformer (Castle Of Illusion)

Member Name: Burning_Darkness

Product:	Castle Of Illusion
Date:	14/10/09 (12 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: poilished visuals, varied level design, simple and fun

Disadvantages: nothing groundbreakingly original

Castle of illusion is a rather polished side scrolling platform game for Sega Mega Drive and Amiga, and whilst nothing groundbreaking it remains a solid little game. The game sees you playing as Mickey Mouse, ona quest to rescue Minnie from the clutches of an evil witch, working your way through numerous levels including an enchanted forest, toyland world, spooky gothic castle, a giant's library, and across gloomy mountains complete with thunder and lightning and creaky rope bridges.

The cartoony graphics and animation are of particularly high quailty for the time, the controls are responsive, and there is a lot of variation on show here, both in the varied range of enemies and bosses and in the level design, which ranges from underwater sections, sections requiring you to run at high speed down a series of ramps Sonic The Hedgehog style, and working across cavers that frequently flood with torrents of water that will esnd you back to the beginning if they catch you.

You attack both by jumping on enemies and by hurling apples and marbles at them, and the constatnly changing levels keep things exiting, with mickey wobbling along huge cobwebs in a forset one minute and dodging sugar cubes in a giant cut of tea the next.

A well made little platform game that whilst nothing stunningly original remains of a high standard thrughout both graphically and gameplay wise.

Summary: A polished little platform game