We actually heard Nick groan at this cop-out ending
When a game of catch goes horribly awry, Mickey Mouse finds himself lost in a magical kingdom, where his pal Pluto has been kidnapped. An adventure is clearly in order, so armed only with a selection of ability-granting costumes, Disney’s most recognisable character heads off to liberate his buddy and show Pete defeat. Let’s skip to the end and find out whether our rodent chum is successful in his endeavour…
Mickey stops to ponder the nature of dreams. After all, what is reality but a set of stimuli processed by your mind? The events of REM sleep may not have happened, but they were experienced as though they had, and besides, fictional events often have...
Mickey obliges, while the player is left to contemplate the experience of Mickey’s dream. The journey is more important than the destination, after all – so is there some profound philosophical insight to be gained from The Magical Quest ? No, there is...
Mickey has defeated the evil sorcerer Pete and rescued Pluto. Now he wants to go home, which is a pretty reasonable idea and a standard course of action at the conclusion of a cutesy licensed platformer. Off he goes then…
Oh heck, we haven’t done that at all. Capcom has just written the events of the game off as being a dream, the cheapest, laziest story conclusion known to humankind. They teach you not to do this at primary school, guys.
We rejoin Mickey and Pluto at home some time later, with Donald excitedly asking the pair to join him for a game of catch. Wait… Just to confirm this, we have skipped some time to reach this happy aftermath, right?