{"id":1172,"date":"2023-04-07T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2023-04-07T21:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T01:13:54","slug":"the-magical-quest-starring-mickey-mouse-issue-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/the-magical-quest-starring-mickey-mouse-issue-44\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse \u2014 Issue&nbsp;44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1160\" src=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Magical-Quest-Starring-Mickey-Mouse-04.png\" alt width=\"1150\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Magical-Quest-Starring-Mickey-Mouse-04.png 1150w, http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Magical-Quest-Starring-Mickey-Mouse-04-300x262.png 300w, http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Magical-Quest-Starring-Mickey-Mouse-04-1024x896.png 1024w, http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Magical-Quest-Starring-Mickey-Mouse-04-768x672.png 768w, http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Magical-Quest-Starring-Mickey-Mouse-04-343x300.png 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24pt;\">Hop \u2018n bop Dis\u00adney&nbsp;style<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Hop \u2018n bops are the lifeblood of the old\u00ader con\u00adsoles. You did\u00adn\u2019t have a decent con\u00adsole if it <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1002\" src=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lyndsey-EIC-2021-300x150.png\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lyndsey-EIC-2021-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lyndsey-EIC-2021-500x250.png 500w, http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lyndsey-EIC-2021.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">did\u00adn\u2019t have one romp with a mas\u00adcot-like char\u00adac\u00adter at the helm. Even the ter\u00adri\u00adble con\u00adsoles had at least one. So, it should be no sur\u00adprise that a great sys\u00adtem such as the Super Nin\u00adten\u00addo was chock full of great bops. While a bit on the easy side and slight\u00adly deriv\u00ada\u00adtive, Mag\u00adi\u00adcal Quest Star\u00adring Mick\u00adey Mouse is in the pan\u00adtheon of good plat\u00adform\u00aders for the&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">SNES<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The game starts out with cutesy lore: Mick\u00adey and his friends Goofy and Don\u00adald are <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1159\" src=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Magical-Quest-Starring-Mickey-Mouse-18-1024x896.png\" alt width=\"373\" height=\"328\">play\u00ading a game of catch with Plu\u00adto at the park. The ball gets thrown too far and Plu\u00adto runs off. Goofy and Don\u00adald chase Plu\u00adto and even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly dis\u00adap\u00adpear, leav\u00ading Mick\u00adey to search for them. Mick\u00adey tum\u00adbles down a cliff and finds him\u00adself in a strange mag\u00adi\u00adcal land. After a bit of search\u00ading, a wiz\u00adard appears to inform Mick\u00adey that Pete is a tyrant over the land and has cap\u00adtured Plu\u00adto. With that infor\u00adma\u00adtion, it\u2019s now up to Mick\u00adey to save his canine com\u00adpan\u00adion and reunite with his friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">While search\u00ading for Plu\u00adto isn\u2019t hard, some of the mechan\u00adics are lit\u00adtle cum\u00adber\u00adsome. The spin-and-throw mechan\u00adic is weird at first, but even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly it becomes sec\u00adond nature. It\u2019s a lit\u00adtle too off some\u00adtimes, mak\u00ading clean hits more miss than suc\u00adcess. There are cos\u00adtume changes for Mick\u00adey that serve to high\u00adlight the mag\u00adic usage of the game, and each has a way to be use\u00adful. The prob\u00adlem is, it\u2019s not always clear what you should be using the suits for indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly. And upgrad\u00ading them is some\u00adtimes a chore. How\u00adev\u00ader, the over\u00adall basic hop \u2018n bop mechan\u00adics are excel\u00adlent and feel tight. Mick\u00adey is easy to con\u00adtrol, and bop\u00adping through the beau\u00adti\u00adful scenery is an easy affair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-589\" src=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Score-3-retrograde.jpg\" alt width=\"90\" height=\"148\">While the sto\u00adry isn\u2019t any\u00adthing to real\u00adly get excit\u00aded about, the graph\u00adics are. They\u2019re super lush and beau\u00adti\u00adful, with detailed sprites and abun\u00addant col\u00adors to bright\u00aden even the dark\u00adest of realms. The music is also appro\u00adpri\u00adate\u00adly bright, with a lot of sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties to the lat\u00ader excel\u00adlent Aladdin sound\u00adtrack. It\u2019s a Cap\u00adcom music show so the sound\u00adtrack is at worst decent. The tracks do add a lit\u00adtle some\u00adthing to the romp through loca\u00adtions, so the music is serviceable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">This is the very def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion of hop \u2018n bop in the ear\u00adly days of 16-bit plat\u00adform\u00aders. It\u2019s got a decent sto\u00adry, beau\u00adti\u00adful graph\u00adics and a decent sound\u00adtrack with excel\u00adlent plat\u00adform\u00ading and a vari\u00adety of mechan\u00adics to learn. If it had a save fea\u00adture, that might have pushed it to the upper ech\u00ade\u00adlon of <span class=\"caps\">SNES<\/span> plat\u00adform\u00ading. But, that bit of miss\u00ading mag\u00adic along with some quirky con\u00adtrol issues keep it from being an epic Mick\u00adey&nbsp;quest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse -- Issue 44\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CN8n_7-5qEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hop \u2018n bop Dis\u00adney&nbsp;style Hop \u2018n bops are the lifeblood of the old\u00ader con\u00adsoles. You did\u00adn\u2019t have a decent con\u00adsole if it did\u00adn\u2019t have one romp with a mas\u00ad\u00adcot-like char\u00adac\u00adter at the helm. Even the ter\u00adri\u00adble con\u00adsoles had at least \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/the-magical-quest-starring-mickey-mouse-issue-44\/\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,144,317,308,251,316,102,103,115],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrograde","tag-capcom","tag-disney","tag-hop-n-bop","tag-issue-44","tag-lyndsey-beatty","tag-mickey","tag-retrograde","tag-review","tag-snes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}