Poll: Disney Illusion Island Is Out On Switch Today, Will You Be Getting It?

I’ll probably get this game on discount, I really liked playing through Castle of Illusion as a teenager, so this will be a good purchase.

Cute game but a hard skip

I ordered it last night after watching/reading a few reviews. There is no option for my situation! It won't arrive today, but I'm not undecided and I'm too pedantic to settle for a non-exact answer.

HELP!

(Or ignore me, I think I deserve it)

I'm gonna be rude and lazy and just paste my comment from the review roundup article:

I'm not criticising, just sharing an observation... But in my years as a frequent reader at Nintendolife, there has seemed to be a positive correlation between the amount of pre-release coverage a game gets on the site and the eventual review score (compared to the metacritic average). Not necessarily a bad thing - I agree that it's nice to share in the positive coverage of a game and then revel in its release, but I think it's just worth bearing in mind that potentially some objectivity is sacrificed in the process.

For me, I will be getting this game and hope that it does well while exclusively available on Switch, but I'm not buying Day 1 because I've overspent on a couple of semi-unplanned video game purchases this month.

No. It's the exact sort of "whimsy" that I cannot stand.

I really love the look of it and will get it. But sadly it’s an awkward time with Zelda and Pikmin taking up my time. Once one of them is done though, then I’ll pick it up!

as a father I am always looking for games to share with my kids and this seems to go in the right direction.

Too expensive for a 6 hour game. I’m waiting for a good discount before buying.

No I'm not getting it. The game looks fun, but will most likely be too easy

I will definitely get it but as a previous comment said, too busy with Zelda and Pikmin right now!

No, the art style is just to empty and ugly. Cel shading graphics could be beuatiful, just look at the old Don Rosa Donald Duck pictures. It was an incredible amount of details life in those. This is not and the fact that its seem to be both short and easy is also a deal breaker for me.

We had it delivered this morning.

It is a great relaxing and just the right level of taxing for a chilled out experience.

The game screams that the dev team who created it has a real love of the genre and Disney.

Love the hand drawn animation and the music screams Disney Parks.

If you have kids who love Mickey Mouse, Disney or just platform games it a really great multiplayer game.

I have two under tens and a parent next to me really enjoying the experience.

I pre-ordered it Cool gane but Mario Wonder would have been enough to satisfy my 2D needs.

Great this is just on Switch, though guessing it must be timed exclusivity before it hits other platforms?

@Tryffel unfortunately the style is inline with the current Mickey Mouse art style. The look is heavily influenced by a lot of current Cartoon Network shows.

Nah, the levels look lackluster and quite boring. Like they where made of wallpaper cut and pasted to create a level.

If there was a game drought I'd have picked it up but I'm swamped so I'll wait for a discount. I'm a little worried it won't have enough variation due to the lack of combat.

I'm gonna wait till it's $25 or less.

No, it looks average and the art style is doing those classic characters a disservice.

disappointed by the decision to make it a Metroidvania, such a waste.

I really like the character animations but the level art doesn't seem to match it. I wish they'd gone all in on this art style sort of like cuphead.

I was playing magical quest starring mickey mouse recently (a SNES capcom gem) and the levels are overstuffed with beautiful cartoon pixel art - all of the elements hang together to create this perfect whole. I'm not getting that feeling watching this one in action

I do not care if Disney products fail and are never made again.

@Manguy888A Yup, the Gameboy/NES/SNES games look better.

Bob Iger today:

I find Micky annoying

Younger me went to Tommy K’s Video (locally owned smaller version of Blockbuster in the Greater New Haven CT area)to rent this type of game. I’ll wait for a sale.

I just picked it up today

If it was more like Castle of Illusion, I could have been on board. I can't get into that art style.

I honestly would, if the art style wasn't that ugly. It's a shame that 30 years old Disney games look 10 times better than nowaday's

It looks really good and reviews have say it’s great. I’m in no rush but I’ll snag it in the near future.

I've already got it, was delivered this morning. Let's see how it is!

No, I’ve started taking these review scores for exclusives with a lot of grains of salt.

If a platformer isn’t going to challenge me, I’m not interested.

I don’t like getting hung up on visuals but there are indie games with hand drawn art styles that look way more alive and interesting than what’s going on here and given this has the backing of Disney it really should look much better. Graphics aren’t everything but there’s a precedent that this falls way short of IMO.

I will give it a go when it drops enough in price but I’d be more likely to buy it sooner if it matched closer to what I’d imagine if somebody said “hand drawn Disney platformer.”

Looks fun but it doesn’t look like a day 1 purchase. I still got Zelda and Pikmin in my backlog after all!

Not for me but my wife might be interested. I would have preferred classic platforming rather than metroidvania

Jeez what’s with the hate towards the art style? It looks pretty charming. It fits the charming Disney aesthetic really well.

I never really found TV video games interesting, I highly doubt I'll ever get this game but it seem like a great game to introduce younger kids to the world of video games.
I remember my first game was a Dora the explora remote controller you plugged into the TV then my dad let me play castle crashers with him and my sister.

Nope, got zero interest in Disney and the game looks too bland and simple regardless

@WaveBoy The art style is the exact same as the modern Mickey Mouse and Friends cartoon. My kids enjoy watching it. The gameplay from everything I've seen seems to remind me more of Runbow than anything else. Will probably be grabbing it here soonish.

Nope. I hate the minimalist character designs. Goofy in particular is pure nightmare fuel. I don't know how anyone could look at him and say that is good character design. I could draw him better than that. I'm also not really a metroidvania guy.

The 1940s art style could've made this game a must-buy.

My four year old and I are sitting here on my day off counting down the stops til it gets here.

@Greatluigi yup, and while I get that Mickey is kind of a weiner, his new shorts are legit great. Especially The Scariest Story Ever Told. It's amazing.

@PinderSchloss legit question, you find Sonic challenging?

@LikelySatan Lol ok I get the question, although I'm not even that big of a Sonic fan. But getting all the coins and perfect scores etc in Frontiers was a good level of challenge for me.

@PinderSchloss I'd love to like Sonic again.

@gcunit 100% that. Hopes up and then cut down at the knees. I think they get as excited as we do and unfortunately embargos make it hard to be a critic before the game releases.

Not interested since I don't like the art style. I wish the game has World of Illusion art style, I remember replaying that game over and over again back then on my mega drive

Not sure about it, I like a good 2D platformer, but the characters look really small and I'm not really into the art style. When I think back to Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion and Quackshot, I preferred the slighly grittier aesthetic to those games. I still think it looks good though, overall, and I will likely pick this one up.

Disney is a degenerate company that doesn't deserve my money. Pass!

I do hope all the buyers enjoy it to the fullest, but I'm gonna pass on this one.

I'm never against multiplayer at all in platformers, but this game seems to expect you to have a friend or two or three in order to actually enjoy this one (and I don't have anybody to play with me these days -_- ) and while I'm never against "non-violent" games, the footages I've seen doesn't seem to make this game look enticing or fun for one bit to me.

Second, I'm not in the mood right now to support Disney at all, especially given that the (recent) decisions they made showed that they simply don't care about their own IPs these days and are bleeding money as a result. Most of the live action reboots of their old franchises left me very underwhelmed (and not just because of its "new looks") and their prioritizations of agendas over story/character development are simply absurd.

And thirdly, I just bought Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara and Yeah! You want "those games", right? So here you go! Now, let's see you clear them!, both of which I'm currently pecking away at and even then, 30XX is just a few blocks down and I'm more excited for that than anything this (and all of the next) month.

just watched a gameplay video and first impression is that the player character is TINY. like, potentially hard to keep track of on the screen. why on earth is the player character so small?