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Retro Weekends Episode 7: Castle of Illusion

 
 
 
 
Retro Weekends plays and reviews Castle of Illusion for the Genesis. All gameplay footage taken from real hardware.
 
   

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
What we thought
 
 
Chris

"A reasonable platformer all in all but nothing truly amazing. What really holds up here honestly is the presentation, the music and graphics especially are extremely nice, and these elements pull the game up quite a bit and help to make it something worth checking out."

     
3/5
 
   

"I like this game but I've got a lot of nostalgia for it as I had it when I was a kid. To be honest, looking at it with a critical eye the gameplay here is probably only just doing enough to be respectable in my opinion, its really not very complex for the time in level design, and the game is a little too easy too. The standout thing here really was that it looked fantastic in 1990, the animation was great and the game is full of nice little touches."

rich
   
3/5
 
 
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