Ultimately, Disney Illusion Island is a pleasant time. It's the perfect first Metroidvania game for folks who never played a game within that genre and it's a more than relaxing time for long term fans of the genre, making it still feel refreshing. Where Disney Illusion Island loses a few points though is its simplicity. The lack of combat initially wasn't that big of a deal to me, but as you spend more time with the game you realize that this game definitely could've had it. Towards the end of the game is where you specifically begin to feel that frustration. I understand that these are Disney characters, but they could've at the very least had some sort of magical ranged weapons or up close weapons given to us at the end of the game to allow us to kill some of the enemies you encounter in the later portions of this game. It's super annoying to constantly die or have a long term run brought to an end because of multiple annoying ranged enemies stopping your momentum. Like, they could've given us anything to make it a little less annoying to get through certain parts of the game and it wouldn't have taken away from the overall experience or intention of being a platformer Metroidvania family friendly game.

Really though, this is the perfect first stepping stone for a potential mini franchise from these developers. There's definitely things they could've added or changed, like gatekeeping Fast Traveling until the literal very end of the game which was.. a choice to say the least but even despite its flaws, you can see just how much love was poured into this game by these developers. Unfortunately though, despite the passion put into this game, Disney Illusion Island still left me with one final thought: I wish this was a bigger budget experience. I wish this was a new Epic Mickey game or at least something that allowed this game to have more depth because really, this game's over simplicity stops it from being a legitimately fantastic game. Hopefully these developers get a second run at a Disney game because this first game was good enough, however, a second game from them could actually be great.