/vr/ - Retro Games

Magical Quest, the first one. Just went through it, got a decent amount of game overs, this game is surprisingly challenging, but always fair.
Super comfy and nostalgic, even though I only played it for the first time a few years ago, I feel like I've known this game since childhood, it has something magical about it. I love the little humor during cutscenes, like when Pluto gets lost, and Goofy says "gwarsh! don't worry Mickey, I'll find Pluto, don't worry!", then he moonwalks the other way, and Mickey goes "Worried? who's worried?, if Goofy says he'll find Pluto, then he'll definitely... he'll surely... PLUTOOOOOO!".
I also like the cutscene at the beginning of Pete's Castle. Mickey gets scared and says something like "gee, dure is dark around here, maybe this isn't Pete's castle after all...", almost like his fear is making him trick himself into not going in, then he hears Pluto inside, and goes "I'll save you Pluto, don't worry! (I'm doing enough worrying for the both of us...)".
It hits different.

>>5925035
The Mickey games by Sega and Capcom are good in virtue of them being solid titles by these companies who were known for top quality stuff in the late 80s and early 90s.
Castle of Illusion is just a normal platformer, nothing innovative, but extremely well designed. It doesn't really play like Mario, you don't have a run button. It's more methodic rather than momentum-based, but it's pretty fun and has a butt-bouncing mechanic for killing enemies, a bit of a gimmick but it works.
Then World of Illusion added co-op to the mix and changed the level design around to match that, so levels are slower paced and puzzle-oriented. I love it, but not as much as Castle.
My favorite co-op Mickey games is Magical Quest 3 by Capcom. I somehow got a bootleg copy of it back in the 90s, and played it a lot with my cousins. Solid game.
Magical Quest 1 is also a solid single-player game. MQ2 is co-op but I never played, I assume it's good and it's also on Sega Genesis.
The Magical Quest games add new abilities to Mickey, in the form of suits, you can have Bionic Commando/Umihara Kawase controls, for example. You can change between suits on the go (once you obtain them).
Mickey Mania, which was western-developed, looks great, had very nice ideas, but the controls and level design is what you'd expect from a western Disney game. Still not bad.
Just stay away from Fantasia, that one was an abomination. It was by Sega, but not Sega of Japan, iirc it was outsourced to Australia.

Magical Quest 1 is kino. Single-player only, though.

>>5836293
Amazing game, but I hope that's not your own screenshot.

Demon's Crest as a very particular dark yet vibrant color palette. But many SNES games achieved similar levels of details.
Capcom themselves, with their Disney games, did some really great spritework and pixel art.