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  • Annoying Video Game Helper: If Minnie falls into a pit, Mickey dies along with her. This becomes infuriating in Stages 2 and 3 because of the abundance of fatal hazards and how easy it is to fall into them. She makes up for it with her potential to become a valuable helper in the first and fourth boss fights (see Game-Breaker below).
  • Breather Level: Never Land. It takes place after the maze that is the Woods level and before the final and hardest level. It's the shortest level in the game and the player can easily defeat Captain Hook/Pete by making Minnie climb up the stairs and defeat the boss alone, while not taking any damage.
  • Demonic Spiders: Tweedledee and Tweedledum/Bears are a huge threat in the Woods level. Not only do they launch a barrage of projectiles, accidentally running into them will severely injure, if not outright kill you if your health is low.
  • Game-Breaker: Thanks to Minnie being virtually invincible against bosses, using her instead of Mickey makes fights a lot faster than usual.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In the North American version, Maleficent holding Alice hostage, nearly 15 years before Kingdom Hearts did the same thing.note 
  • Scrappy Mechanic: Having to rescue Minnie whenever the crow kidnaps her is also a hassle. You need to find where she is held and it's not easy because she can be anywhere.
  • That One Boss: Captain Hook/Pete at the end of the fourth level is quite difficult. No matter who you fight on either version, you will have to deal with a very difficult boss fight who loves throwing daggers at you. They are also the mid-boss of Stage 5, with no exploit to fight them with.
  • That One Level: The last level deserves a mention: You have to find your way through the Queen of Hearts/Maleficent's castle, all while dodging dangerous enemies. There's also a mid-boss fight with Captain Hook/Pegleg Pete that can make the game Unwinnable if you forget to get the key before fighting the final boss. Thanks to bosses being able to One-Hit Kill Mickey by Collision Damage, you may end up being stuck at the end of the game because of the mid-level boss respawning when you leave the screen and come back.

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