Today we are going to be focusing on Mickey’s Most relevant and popular video game to date....No? Just me? Okay. The Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse! For anyone that was born in the 90′s they might remember this game, or at least seeing it on a used rack at gamestop! Released in 2002 and developed by Capcom for the Nintendo Gamecube The Magical Mirror is a point and Click adventure game starring Mickey Mouse.
So why this game? To be honest no major reason other than it was apart of my childhood and as I recall was a weird Mickey Mouse game with creepy overtones that never got scary but always felt uncanny valleyish/ dream like. The story starts with Mickey falling asleep and being tormented by a ghost that shows him an alternate version of himself behind a mirror. When Mickey goes to investigate he gets sucked into the mirror and stuck in an alternate version of his home where the ghost essentially has domain over everything! The way the game worked was interesting as well. You had to find 12 shards of the broken mirror and collect these 12 “Magic Stars”. The Magic stars would enable you to pull off “gags” which are essentially cut scenes that would open up/solve a puzzle or obstacle in your way.
Not enough stars? Your gag would fail and you would have to come back to that event when you had enough! It was a weird and convoluted game mechanic but it did make for fun backtracking later on in the game!
As a kid there was something pardon the word magical about being able to walk around Mickey’s semi magic house in search of mirror shards to stop some semi malevolent force keeping you there. Like if Alice in Wonderland and Mickey Mouse had a crossover it just had this weird vibe to it that kept me glued throughout it’s VERY short run time. All in all a relic of the past with very few people who fondly remember it, but I’m happy to be one of those few!
This game’s opening sequence was partially based on the Mickey Mouse Short “Thru the Mirror”
The game overall was given generally poor reviews due to the lack of instruction and cutscene heavy gameplay.
Famed Disney voice talent Dallas Mckennon played the role of the ghost in this title!
The game had different endings depending on how many shards you got, and if you decided to stay with or leave the ghost at the end!
If by some odd reason you’re still curious into this title give it watch in it’s full walkthrough below! Once again wouldn’t have this game without the Mouse, so Happy 90th Birthday Mickey!
