UK Charts: Disney Illusion Island Makes A Lukewarm Debut As FIFA 23 Dominates

Well to be fair NL painted an overly positive picture of the game when compared to the general consensus.

i poo pooed this game, but the more i think about it, the more i would like a multiplayer co op game like this that isnt too hard for some friends, and with characters that everyone already knows and loves 😊

i fear that everyone is "waiting for a sale," as i will probably end up doing because 40.00 is alot of dollars to me right now.

Is this Chart retail (physical) only or includes digital*

*I know for Nintendo they are only retail, just wondering about the others.

Hurts to see Fifa kicking those poor Pikmin down to 3rd

Lukewarm? That is as cold a debut for a huge company as exists. A few 1000 units in the third largest market? Legend bomb.

So many people hate Disney now. The culture war really roosted on their heads - maybe in the UK as well. I do find it odd how much more attention you give lackluster Disney games - over more worthy games.

also: wait until Hogwart's hits the Switch. It will be GTA in the UK until a new one is released.

I went ahead and bought it in the end, digitally though. It's a very relaxed game, but the visual design is a little indistinct, the zones don't stand out as particularly different from one another.

The characters are also really small much of the time, they must be tiny on the Lite. Music is good though and game moves smoothly, it's a nice game to play, even if not much is happening, and what is, can feel a little repetitive.

Disney Illusion is a major flop and it deserves to be. It looks like a cheap mobile flash game and has no challenge or variation. Cant see how this site gave this 9 out of 10, as it was in the same leuge as DK tropical freeze or Rayman legends. Its noway near that quality.

Disney Illusion Island is surprisingly addictive I definitely recommend 😊.
Looking at the chart it looks like the ps5 is doing really well

I can't help but think the Disney game would have done better if the character designs weren't so radical. There are decades of established designs they could have drawn from, even if they were trying for a Cuphead look. As it is, Mickey and Donald and friends look more like Diary of a Wimpy Kid than they do Disney cartoons!

I will get Disney game when it about 13 pounds x

For as many people who buy FIFA on Switch, I never hear about anybody playing the game or see anybody online playing it.

everything they say about british people is right

@Tryffel

Eh, I think it's a stretch to compare it to those games. Those games are traditional linear platformers whereas Disney Illusion Island is structured like a Metroidvania.

Played a little over 2 hours of it 4 players and me and my friends are diggin' the game quite a bit. I think it's especially great for those coming from the Castle/Word of Illusion and Quackshot era!

@Cashews "Culture war..." Pah. You call it culture? If a movie studio can affect your culture, then your culture was never that strong to begin with.

@Rainbowfire boring. You know exactly what I am talking about.

@Teksetter those designs are from the "new" Mickey and pals design. The cartoon is pretty decent. Kind of old Disney and Ren and Stimpy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJQdbvCMag

if you haven't seen it yet. worth a watch or three.

Like Japan, it seems the Minecraft craze will never end even in the UK.

I'll say it, it's too expensive. $40 is a lot, especially when they're competing for our money during one of the best years in gaming. $20, or even $30 would have been a much more compelling price tag.

@Olliemar28 Thanks for the reply, appreciate it.

Not surprised really. It's kind of a lame game that isn't even cheap.

Glad to see Pikmin still doing well in week 2. Just down to third isn't that big of a drop.

@Serpenterror I have little kids and everyone in their class is still way into it. It's Pokemon it will probably last another 20 years or longer. Generational evergreen - the final Evergreen Evolution.

Pikmin 4 deserves to be in the top ten for a few weeks at least. What a great game.

@Cashews I think nl is all in on the culture war. That’s why they over hype Disney stuff

I'm really disappointed with Illusion Island, it's just far too easy. I'm 3 hours in and I've hardly missed a jump. Decreasing your hearts just makes it more frustrating when you do hit an enemy, it doesn't fix the level design. Probably not going to keep playing.

Disney Illusion Island is out? Seems like this game had absolutely zero marketing whatsoever.

Mickey Mouse may be an icon but he isn't a big active franchise like Marvel or Star Wars - people won't impulse buy a Mickey Mouse game based on his name or appearance alone.

Maybe NintendoLide should be promoting Disney's Metrovania game Disney Illusion Island!

LOL at people blaming this on the cUlTuRE WaR. If the game had done well, that topic wouldn’t even be discussed, but because the game is struggling, suddenly you have validation for your hilariously bad take.

Give it a rest. There are far more practical reasons for the game not doing well. Don’t be so embarrassing.

I really want to play this game, but I have such a backlog right now on Switch and on PlayStation. I’m not waiting for a sale, the pricing feels fair. Once I’m done with Pikmin and clear an indie or two from my backlog I’ll jump on it. But at the moment I’m juggling Pikmin, TotK and the Advance Wars reboot.

For me being visually impaired the characters are too small.
I don’t think I could play it comfortably like Rayman Legends or Guaccamelee or Trine or Celeste or any other good 2D platformer.

Understandable, it's a hell of a boring game. Babies first jumping trainer. Was having a hard time even keeping my focus on it since there's never any danger of death besides having to wait for an enemy to move out of the way.

Just glad Igers weird agenda with children wasn't shoved down my throat instantly.

All these wild, imaginative experiences you can have with gaming..... yet people would rather play a bloke kicking a ball into a net😆

@Cashews
Thanks for clueing me in on that new Mickey show - I had no idea! I thought the character designs were game originals.

I still think more recognizable designs would’ve marketed the game better. 😜

It looks rubbish, I'm not surprised it's not number 1.

@Teksetter they possibly might have been trying to market the cartoon more though. The only Mickey show with the traditional mickey is Mickey's Clubhouse and that is for toddlers.

Looks like this will be a as successful as the Little Mermaid live action was. Damn Disney can’t do games these days unless it’s Kingdom Hearts.

Told you so Not surprising.

I will get the game I think, but as others have said, later on when it's on sale.
It looks cool, but it just feels a tad expensive given I got pikmin 4 for the same price.

The PS5 was heavily discounted everywhere in the uk e.g £350 for the disk version. Expect big numbers this month.

The Disney game looked boring anyway. When there's both Super Mario Wonder and Sonic Superstars with 4-player 2D platformers coming in like 2 months, I don't really see why anyone would bother with this Mickey Mouse (lol) platformer.

@Teksetter There's speculation because next year the original Mickey Mouse cartoons goes into the public domain, and by extension the original design of Mickey becomes a public domain character.

That this Mickey Mouse design for this game and the new cartoons might be Disneys way of trying to sue people when they try and use classic Mickey.

Because this design has some features of the classic Mickey like the white face but will still fall under copyright. They'll probably sue people using the public domain character, under the pretence that they're instead infringing on this new Mickey.

@Baler I'm curious about this culture war that Disney and NL are fighting. Who are they attacking?

@betterman I can’t say anything for fear of being removed again 🤦🏼☹️

@Dr_Lugae
Such intrigue! I’d heard of Mickey going into public domain soon, but never would have connected that issue with the character redesign. I thought they were petitioning for a copyright extension? But maybe this redesign scheme is their plan B, like you say.
Lord knows the mouse is lawyered up! 😅

And this theory certainly fits with @Cashews pointing out how the game promotes the new show and character sketches.

I guess time will tell!

@Rainbowfire I believe movies, tv shows, and music had driven culture for the last 40 years. However, the last 5 to 10 years is becoming more driven by social media so I think the commenter had a point. Disney has been pushing an agenda for the last few years and it is hurting them in films, in their theme park business, and now it may be hurting them in games. People just want to use entertainment to relax, not be preached to.

@SoIDecidedTo If I am the person being referenced as to making a point - I wasn't trying to make a point on culture. I was simply observing what is in front of our eyes.

Disney is placed squarely in the culture war and it is clearly hurting their bottom line. That isn't me personally drawing a line in the sand and stepping on a side - just making an observation.

It is the other people who making their own culture claims - as they so very often do. It is so predictable and tiresome.

@SoIDecidedTo I'd sort of disagree with you there. I think Disney are doing worse in general, regardless of what values to push. They haven't had a hit film since Frozen 2.

The 3D tech advantage Disney & Pixar had over other studios has narrowed. Just think of 2005 where Pixars films looked fare ahead anyone but Dreamworks or Sony (and even then they were still).

I think Disney just generally struggle in an environment where their competition is on an even playing field or are ahead of them. It's not unlike before The Little Mermaid where Don Bluth was beating them with Secret of Nimh, Land before Time, etc. Or the period before they owned Pixar where Pixar and Dreamworks 3D were wrecking Disney's 2D films.

I think attributing Disney's struggles (outside of the remakes) with their politics is giving the quality of their newer movies too much credit, if the movies were exactly the same with what you consider culture war points taken out do you really think Disney would be crushing the competition? I honestly doubt it.

The latest Barbie movie is supposed to have feminist messaging and that's doing extremely well. Notably. it's not by Disney so I suspect the X-Factor in Disney's poor performance is themselves and not their politics.

@Cashews My apologies. I was not trying to infer you were. I was just pointing out that people, do, in fact get culture from the media they consume, and was not trying to state your opinion one way or the other. I've just seen more and more boycotts of disney things since they went "woke". I'm not saying that either side is right or wrong, and again, my apologies for not writing my thoughts better. I had just woken up and thought I was stating it a different way. Whoops!

@Dr_Lugae I completely see your point. I just look at how marvel movies are doing now, and they are going down and down. And how the Little Mermaid remade did poorly (Still made a ton of money) but people automatically called others racist for not being cool with race swapping. Like in China they didn't see it, and people said they were racist for not wanting a black mermaid, but it wasn't that, they just thought it was stupid. It only made $3.7 million but then Spiderman Across the Spiderverse made $42.5 million even though Miles was the main attraction.

All in all, I'm not saying either side is right, but there are people that refuse to see anything they picture as "woke" which is why Mario SMASHED it at the box office.

I agree with the Barbie thing, but there is 40 years of pent up demand for this movie, so women were going to go see it no matter what. I've seen so many people dress up in pink to go see it. Thanks for your comment though. I guess this is enough politics for a game site, haha. I just thought that cashews has a good point that maybe it won't sell as many copies because disney no longer seems to push the same values as a lot of their buyers.

@SoIDecidedTo no need to apologize friend. Take it light

I'm just happy Pikmin 4 didn't drop too far 🙂

I wish Remnant 2 was selling better