As you progress through the game you can collect stars that fill up your trick meter. The only break from this comes in the way of the “trick system”. Sometimes it’s a visible action, but things often seem to take far too long.

Often when you click something, Mickey will go through some absurdly long animation where he conveys that he’s thinking. If you move the cursor on any area of the screen that will cause an action, the cursor lights up or changes appearance (doors cause the cursor to turn from a hand into a door, for example). From here, you progress through the game by clicking on things. The game starts when Mickey gets up in the middle of the night and enters the mirror on his dresser (it’s clear that he’s dreaming the entire game). The gameplay itself is primarily point and click via a dynamic on-screen cursor.

As a game for kids, especially young ones or kids with little experience playing video games, Magical Mirror is above average though. That’s not to say that adults couldn’t enjoy the game, but I suspect that the number of adults who can will be very limited. Unlike some games that simply have a graphical style that some would associate with children’s entertainment, Magical Mirror also has gameplay that is squarely aimed at youngsters. If there was ever a game that deserves the “kiddy” epitaph, Magical Mirror is it.