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.Especially if your playing the game on a Xbox One and Xbox Series X, the graphics look HD and the Lighting is much better. Amazing graphics and very amazing visuals for a 2013 remake, the models and animations are awesome.Castle of Illusion was so succesful that World of Illusion was made for the Genesis years later.It spawned 2 more sequels to the Game Gear & Master System line-up.The graphics look very good, going for a cute style to the characters.You can pick up thing and throw them at enemies or use them as platforms.The Sega Game Gear & Master System versions have new machanics as well and has new things the Mega Drive version didn't add.Good visuals for a Mega Drive and HD game, from The Dark Forest, to the Candy World, it's pretty good.Awesome boss fights, for example the Jack in the box fight, it's very good and makes you get up on your toes.The controls are well responsive, while the jumping feels a bit floaty, it controls pretty decently.The music never gets old, from the first level to the boss, the music is upbeat and it more relaxing in the remake. Good graphics, as the colors are very bright, vibrant, pleasant to look at, and show a lot of emotion.Sharp, funny, and finger-on-the-pulse, it’s the information you need to know even when you don’t know you need it.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. GR Editorials is a semi-regular feature where we share our informed insights on the news at hand. You know that kid at parties who talks too much? Drink in hand, way too enthusiastic, ponderously well-educated in topics no one in their right mind should know about? Loud? Well, that kid’s occasionally us. There can be no higher praise of a remake than that. If one thing alone should be taken away from this 2013 game, it's that remakes should abandon all thoughts of porting the original code and instead make the original game again from scratch, using today's hardware and the original concept documents.īy never losing sight of what made the original what it was, the Castle of Illusion of 2013 is the one that gamers imagined they were seeing in 1990.
Future remakes of classic games need to learn from the successes of Sega Studios Australia's Castle of Illusion.