I felt a touch of vertigo a couple of times! I even found myself on the edge of my seat in several sections that presented virtual “dizzying heights” with cliffs and voids. The entire game is filled with eye-popping color and immense detail. Some of them present amazing atmosphere with clouds, fog and rain. It’s hilarious to see them in futuristic and pirate gear!
The Spatters have a particularly enjoyable personality and I found it funny that they appear in themed costumes in the various segments. The new characters and enemies created for the game are also really fun. I’ve always been extremely fond of Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow, and they both make appearances throughout the game. It’s also great to see old Disney characters being used again and Epic Mickey gives them all new life. It’s great to see them both together in the same world. They’re just a lot of fun, and it’s great reliving these old cartoons from a first person POV.ĭisney character history is also honored by the appearance of Mickey Mouse’s predecessor, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It’s a game mechanic that I found particularly Disney geeky. Throughout the game there are several really cool interstitial 2-D platforming games that replicate sequences from a variety of Oswald and Mickey Mouse cartoons. The paint/thinner mechanic is part of one of the game’s design themes that includes an early Disney staple: cartoons. Mickey can also use paint to turn villains “good” (if enough is used), or use thinner to destroy them. Throughout the game, Mickey can collect paint and thinner, and by using a brush that he carries, Mickey can fill in missing portions of the environment with paint or he can make portions of the environment disappear using thinner. Always being fascinated by a "parallel universe" it might be interesting to give the game a different spin seeing what it would be like if Mickey did have a dark side :)Įpic Mickey gives you a way to make choices through the use of a cleverly themed game mechanic that is pure genius: paint and thinner. I don’t know if this is typically true of this type of exploration game, but in Epic Mickey there are usually a couple of ways to do various tasks and I usually tried to accomplish the task without resorting to destruction or virtual violence. I found that I loved “being” Mickey (and that's saying a lot being a die-hard Donald Duck fan) and I made decisions that affect the outcome of the game based on my feeling that Mickey is always a “nice guy” and would always do the right thing. One of the game’s smartest design decisions was to allow you to actually portray (“play”) Mickey Mouse as you explore the game world. Most of all, Epic Mickey is a true Disney geek’s dream come true. The worlds of Epic Mickey are decidedly cool and incredibly fun and new yet still very retro.
Epic Mickey has taken the Disney worlds that we all know and love and warped them into three-dimensional visions of a familiar, yet slightly skewed, Magic Kingdom. But the version of the environment that actually wound up in the game is just as stunning. I knew that it was likely that the original concepts would morph during the design process (the original art was, in many ways, quite extreme) and they did. I immediately got the game upon release and finally was able to make some time to check out this awesome game! The leaked drawings presented the intriguing possibility that the game would offer a spectacular “out of the Disney norm” environment.
I’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Epic Mickey since the game’s earliest concept art appeared on the internet in late 2008 – early 2009.
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