Retro Weekends Episode 33: Castle of Illusion

"I quite like this one, the game play is really good and its not just your average hop n' bop platformer. Out of the Disney games we've played so far I do find myself more impressed with this than Lucky Dime Caper, this does pretty much everything that game did well, but a year earlier (though it is admittedly a much easier game). In comparison to the very best platformers of the time though such as Super Mario Bros 3 its just blown out of the water."

"This game arrived a year after Capcom's Duck Tales and there's definitely some influence there (as well as some from Super Mario Bros 2), but thankfully it adds a few of its own puzzle solving elements to the mix as well, with some simple puzzles involving moving crates around and such. Graphically its good, with some especially nice boss designs, its really what you expect from the SMS really given its superior graphical capabilities to the NES. Castle of Illusion does the staples of the platforming genre well, and adds a few ideas here and there of its own."