Disney’s Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse Full Game Review
I remember playing this Disney game as a very young kid and feeling a real sense of overwhelming in the game. As an adult, it’s really easy to navigate what seemed like a labyrinth of a mansion to young me, but the experience is still incredibly enjoyable.
In Disney’s Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse, you play of course, as Mickey Mouse. The start of the game shows Mickey asleep in his bed, when the magical mirror in his bedroom tempts part of his soul to enter it. Do we know if it’s really his soul? No clue, there’s nothing explained, leaving most of what goes on up to the interpretation of the player.
Mickey’s soul enters the mirror and he finds himself in a room with a door on each side, and a large mirror in front of him. This room introduces Mickey to the first of the Ghost’s tricks. As you enter one of the doors, you find yourself returning to the room right behind where you exited. You try again and find yourself right back where you began once again.
As you continue to loop through the room, a second Mickey Mouse appears chasing behind you. This second Mickey is the Ghost playing around with you. Despite seeming malicious, the Ghost is really just bored and looking to make a friend to play with.
Mickey sees himself sleeping through the mirror and decides it’s time to return home, which causes the Ghost to panic and break the mirror, sending 12 pieces scattered throughout the mansion. The Ghost laughs and runs off, and you’re left with a magical Star Crystal that gives you your first trick point.
And with this, the game has begun and you’re free to begin exploring the mansion!
Exploring The Mansion
From here out, your goal is to collect eight of the twelve missing mirror pieces to let Mickey return home. Mickey must navigate throughout the mansion and unlock its secrets to find and collect these mirror pieces. You as the player, must walk around the mansion playing the point and click game and find what secrets are hidden in each room.
As you progress, you’ll be presented the opportunity to perform tricks that have results that happen because of them. These tricks are required to find the mirror pieces, so going through the mansion and collecting the Star Crystals is required, though you don’t need to find all ten of them to beat the game.
In addition to finding the twelve mirror pieces and ten Star Crystals, there are various toys and plushies scattered throughout that can be collected. Some of these are found by completing simple tasks, like Minnie’s Bow in the Tea Room that’s earned by completing both tricks and returning to the room. Other’s are much more difficult like the Five Hats that can be unlocked by completing 100% of the game. These collectibles aren’t necessary to progress at all, they’re just neat little collectibles that appear in Mickey’s bedroom after you finish the game and return home.
The Mansions Mini Games
Throughout the mansion you’ll encounter various mini games that play like real games, in contrast to the games Point and Click adventure design.
The first of these games is the airplane mini game. In this mini game, Mickey hops into an airplane and chases after the ghost while dodging bubbles and flying through rings. Your goal is to shoot down the ghost with your bubblegum turret so that Mickey can awaken back in the mansion and continue exploring. It’s super short and simple, but pretty fun.
The next mini game is short escape game where you run from the haunted sword that chases you down a near endless hallway. In this game, your goal is to avoid being hit by the sword, while dodging falling objects that chase you throughout the hallway. The chairs and other objects float over you and try to fall onto Mickey while the sword continues to swing behind him.
The next mini game you encounter, and my favorite of them all, is the Guitar mini game. This mini game puts Mickey on stage and makes him rock out like he was playing Rock Band! Your goal is to play the notes on screen as they hit the rhythm input. This game can be somewhat challenging, but once you’ve got the rhythm down it ends up being super satisfying to play well!
The fourth mini game is TV mini game. You find yourself back in the common room near the start of the game with a TV after you plug it in and find the remote. This TV also lets you watch unique animated short videos that only appear in Disney’s Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse. They exclusively portray what’s going on in the game and do not reappear in any other game or show!
For the mini game however, Mickey falls asleep and dreams of himself on TV…dancing on a cake! This game is super simple. Similar to the guitar game, you have to time your inputs to the rhythm of the music, creating a Just Dance format mini game!
For the fifth mini game, we’re going to the fridge and getting sucked into it. This time, we’re going to be snowboarding down a huge mountain that will teleport us back to the second hallway in the game where we find the eleventh mirror piece.
This mini game is a simple snowboarding game. Your goal is to make it to the bottom of the mountain before the time runs out while running over snowmen. What did the snowmen do you might be wondering? Who knows, but Mickey hates them and wants to run them down.
Did you know that Mickey Mouse can Hadouken canonically? Well it stems from this games last mini game. In the final mini game, Mickey Mouse must destroy barrels as the Ghost throws them at him. To destroy them you have two options. The first is to uppercut them as the barrels bounce over him. The second, and cooler option, is to hold the A button and throw a charged Hadouken at them to blow them up!
Disney’s Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse Conclusion
I really enjoyed this game as a kid, and as an adult, I still think it’s a really pleasant game to sit down and revisit. You don’t need to think or really even know where things are. You just explore and figure out what’s going on inside of this huge mansion that seems to continue expanding on and on.
At the start of the game after you’ve explored a few rooms, you open up into a large foyer with two balconies and three more doors to go through, each branching off into larger areas of the mansion. You continue through those large areas and you’re greeted with more large areas. The foyer goes to the cellar, which goes to the clockwork tower, which goes to another separate tower, which leads into a large library and the other side of the mansion is just as large. It’s a great adventure to sit down and play for your first time, even if it is just a point and click game.
There’s a lot to do in the game, and fortunately enough, not a deplorable amount of backtracking. The game really is just enjoying the mansion for what it is and having fun while doing it. You don’t need any particular skills or real ability in the game, you just look around and explore. The game offers you a fair bit of gimmicks and silly interactions and doesn’t try to sell itself as more than what it really is, and I think that’s really great.
This game was definitely made with an easy difficulty for kids in mind which means that when you play through it, you just don’t ever really get stopped at any point trying to work out what to do. The gameplay flows and doesn’t have any slowdown, and conversely, any real points where it speeds up.
It’s simple, it’s short, and it’s enjoyable. This is one of those games that I think most anyone would enjoy without thinking about it too hard, or expecting too much from the game.
