Disney Epic Mickey

Forum Post: Re: Which should come first: Epic Mickey or Kingdom Hearts 3?

D Farris — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:03:00 GMT

I thought Epic Mickey was an epic disappointment. Mainly, I think the "problems" with the game stem from its foundation platform limitations. Imagine what this game could have REALLY looked like, if it had been coded for the PS3 or the XBox 360. In addition, the Wii controls added to the overall frustration with the game. The camera controls were, in my opinion, about the worst I've ever experienced and the use of the 2 Wii controller devices made the already poorly designed combat just that much more wonky and irritating. Trying to aim the nunchuck to spray the paint / thinner, all the while moving around quite quickly away from the enemies, while at the same time trying to point the separate Wii wemote at the enemy was just too complex and way too difficult for a game like this. The game's concept was brilliant, and the attempt is to be commended, but the final product just did not measure up to my expectations. If the developer cares, I whole-heartedly suggest the next Epic Mickey 2 game be developed to take advantage of the power in the PS3 or the XBox 360, while also taking advantage of the simpler, one controller device to control the game. Epic Mickey really could have been something to savor and remember, but alas, it just ended up a poorly designed, clunky, irritating, and annoying game that was, at least for me, a real let-down and a major disappointment.

Blog Post: Not exactly the power of the brush were looking for.

jordanthegamer — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:29:00 GMT

We haven't seen our beloved mouse since the days of the Gamecube,so is Epic Mickey the title we've been wating for? Kinda. I broke down the review Gameinfomer(ish ) format.

Sound:It's creepy that none of the charcters have voice acting,but this is wiped out with Music From boss battles and stages.

Graphics:In simpler terms,Disney detailed every bit from the world to the charcters.

Camara:If you can't stand the camara in Kingdom hearts re:coded,don't bother with this game.

Entertainment:This will keep you entertained for hours

Blog Post: Not as bad as they say

person — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:42:00 GMT

I was warry about pruchasing this game after reading GI's review, but I bought it, and was very plesantly suprised. The game plays well, and the story and presentation values are amazing. I didn't encounter many problems with the camera, as many people reported. Overall I thought it was a really fun little game, and I look forward to the possibility of a sequel in the future.

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File: Reiner And Phil Play Epic Mickey

Phil Kollar — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:50:00 GMT

Watch us play the early areas of Epic Mickey while discussing Mickey Mouse, karma, and Super Mario Sunshine.

Blog Post: Meh

luke johns — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:27:00 GMT

I like IGN's and G4tvs ratings better 8.0 and 5/5 these wre both put together for gameinformer score currancey

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http://g4tv.com/games/wii/62858/disney-epic-mickey/

Blog Post: Epic Mickey Review

Andrew Reiner — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Epic Mickey is Junction Point’s thank you letter to Walt Disney. The life’s work of this legendary creator is on display throughout the game’s museum-like worlds. As Mickey’s adventure unfolds, he bounds through the black and white cartoons that put both him and Walt on the map, explores Disneyland’s most recognizable landmarks, and even takes a second to gaze wide-eyed at a bronze statue of Walt.

As a tribute, Epic Mickey hits most of the right notes. After soaking up the nostalgic sights and sounds, I tracked down and watched old Mickey cartoons. Thanks to this game, I’ve developed an appreciation for Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit. For those of you not up to speed on Disney trivia, Oswald is the first character created by Walt. Due to copyright issues, he was shelved and forgotten until his revival in Epic Mickey.

Watching Mickey and Oswald interact is one of the game’s most surprising allures. Mickey is mischievous, yet ultimately innocent. Oswald is the exact opposite. He’s bullheaded, and most of his dialogue expresses a harsh cynicism. Though they only share the screen mostly toward the end of the adventure, it’s worth the journey for Disney devotees.[Excerpt]

The game begins with Mickey sneaking into a wizard’s workshop and accidentally spilling paint thinner on a miniature world. As the thinner spreads, Mickey is pulled into this peculiar land. He sees that it has been turned into a wasteland, sapped of its life and color. After spending a few minutes here, Mickey realizes that he’s standing in a twisted version of Walt’s greatest creation, the Magic Kingdom. The residents of Main Street are miserable, the rides in Tomorrowland are malfunctioning, and Mickey’s accident is to blame. He has to clean up the mess, and the task won’t be easy. The thinner has taken on physical form, and continues to corrupt the land.

Epic Mickey clings tightly to one cool gameplay gimmick – Mickey’s ability to apply paint and thinner to the environment. Channeling a little magic like he did in Fantasia, Mickey wields a magic brush that can spray mighty streams of both paint and thinner. Paint revitalizes objects. Thinner removes them from the world. With one flick of his wrist, Mickey can transform a dilapidated house on the verge of collapse into a pristine work of art that shines with life. He will also be forced to temporarily remove objects from the world to gain access to areas that will help with the repair. For instance, spraying thinner on a rooftop will give him access the interior of the building. When his task is completed, he can restore the building with a blast of paint.

Junction Point uses this paint and thinner mechanic to create a variety of clever puzzles and combat scenarios. Objectives are rarely clearly telegraphed, which leads to paint and thinner being tossed around liberally. The hunt for solutions is the heart of Epic Mickey’s gameplay. One spray of thinner could reveal a secret area, and a blast of paint could reanimate a machine that changes the complexity of the entire level.

While combat encounters are few in number, most of the foes Mickey squares off against demand different attack strategies. Blotlings, creatures infected and/or created by Mickey’s thinner disaster, melt into a puddle if you pour thinner on them or become docile if you splatter them with excessive amounts of paint. Beetleworx enemies require thinner to expose their weakness, but can only be finished off with a spin attack by Mickey. Some enemies roll at you, forcing Mickey to leap into the air, and quickly spin around to establish another steady stream of thinner. No matter what creature I was squaring off against, the battles proved to be exciting tests of skill and precision.

All of this spray functionality is handled beautifully on the Wii remote – just aim and shoot. Fans of Super Mario Sunshine should feel right at home.

While offering exciting propositions for both combat and exploration, the entire experience is plagued by an uncooperative camera. As Mickey strafes around an enemy, the camera could catch on a wall, causing it to lose frame of the action, or freak out to the point that it’s impossible to gauge what is going on. The platforming segments, which send Mickey up perilous towers and across moving contraptions, are marred by the camera tracking, sometimes locking in a position that blinds you for the next jump. The camera can be realigned and the player can also zoom into first person, but sometimes the game just won’t let you alter the angle. Frustration abounds in almost every world. This is a shame, as the worlds are teeming with well-hidden secrets, such as body parts to construct bizarro versions of Donald, Goofy, and Daisy. With the camera working against me, I often felt the secret wasn’t worth the effort. Death often means you have to start an entire level over again.

As much as I loved the artistry in the worlds and the general vibe of the game, many of the missions Mickey is sent on are the very definition of mundane. Miserable talk-intensive fetch quests periodically rear their ugly heads, and challenges like “shoot the glowy bits on seven passive thinner tentacles” do little to get the blood pumping. As imaginative as the worlds are, the quests feel tacked on, and sometimes come across as time sinks to extend the length of the adventure. The end result is a game that offers fun gameplay mechanics that are sapped of life due to the mind-numbingly boring nature of the quests.

The power to restore or destroy directly affects the land and slivers of the story. Within almost every mission, Mickey's actions can have a positive or negative effect on the kingdom. Both choices bring different results, much in the same vein as the Fable series. If Mickey is heroic in his crusade, his physical appearance becomes that of a stalwart knight. If he does everything he can to darken the world, the thinner corrupts his body to the point that the color from his skin drips off of him like a leaky faucet.

Unfortunately, most of the choices don’t hold much emotional resonance. This is largely due to the limited amount of time given to the characters and world. Sorry, cow lady, I know I ruined your garden, but you look just like everyone else in this world, and your five word plea wasn’t enough to convince me otherwise.

I got a kick out of the side-scrolling levels, which turn Mickey’s oldest and most memorable cartoons into fun (albeit challenge-free) platforming sequences, but getting to them meant slogging through the larger worlds. Epic Mickey goes out of its way to show gamers Walt Disney’s body of work, but rarely fires on a level that turns this beloved content into exciting gameplay.

File: Junction Point Dives Into The Disney Archives

Jeff Cork — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:58:00 GMT

Here's a look at how research can pay off in game development.

Blog Post: 10 Things You Should Know About Epic Mickey

Andrew Reiner — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:50:00 GMT

Disney Epic Mickey is only a few weeks away from release, and it's time to get equipped with the biggest features that shape the upcoming Wii-exclusive. We've gathered together ten central ideas that lie at the core of the game. Put on your mouse ears, and dive in.[Excerpt]

Oswald
Did you know Walt Disney created another little animal hero long before he dreamed up Mickey Mouse? Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was Walt Disney's first cartoon superstar, but few remember the character in the wake of Mickey's great success. Epic Mickey is the first time these two characters are together in an adventure.

Side-Scrolling In Style
Many of Mickey's classic cartoons are incorporated into Epic Mickey as side-scrolling mini-levels that connect the game's larger 3D worlds. These stages almost come across as a love letter to Mickey Mouse and his creator Walt Disney. Of the cartoons featured, you'll run into stylish side-scrolling recreations of Steamboat Willie, The Mad Doctor, and many others. Along with E-Tickets, you'll find a cartoon reel hidden in each of these levels.

E-Tickets Can Buy You Goods
Anyone who went to Disneyland before 1982 will recall E-tickets. The coveted tickets offered access to the best attractions in the park. In the Wasteland world of Epic Mickey, E-tickets are a collectible resource that can be used to purchase any number of things around the world. There are shops in the main hub town of Mean Streets. There you'll be able to increase your maximum health or buy other collectibles that you missed along the way through the action levels. Alternately, E-tickets can buy your way through missions that are too time-consuming or challenging. Many missions offer a "buy-out" from an NPC in the world that lets you bypass the challenge and keep going with the game.

Are You Good Or Evil?
More than almost any character action/platform game that has come before it, Epic Mickey offers the ability to shape the experience to your style of play. Do you want to save those cute little gremlins? Or do you want to catapult them into the sky in exchange for some money? Paint in the world to fill it with color and life, or drain it with thinner? Missions offer definite good and bad paths. More than that, being a good guy is usually a lot harder than taking the easy way out. Want to play the game on "Hard" mode? Try being a nice guy the whole way through.

Know Your Enemy
Blotlings are made of paint and thinner and can be fought with those same liquids. If you pour excessive amounts of thinner on a blotling, it will melt and die. if you pour on the paint, the creature will become friendly, and will no longer engage you. Another enemy type called the beetleworx are animatronics, much like the robots found in many of Disneyland's rides. To defeat these foes, you'll need to use thinner to melt away their armor, then use a spin attack to damage them.

Unlockable Cartoons
One of the coolest extras we've seen in a long time is the ability to unlock classic, often rare, Disney cartoons to watch in their entirety. Lots of people have seen the Steamboat Willie cartoon that saw the premiere of Mickey Mouse. But have you seen any of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's incredibly rare early films? They're here for you to check out, offering a glimpse of why Disney animation was the gold standard throughout the 20th century.

The Entire World is a Warped Version of Disneyland
Keen eyed observers will note that the Wasteland through which Mickey must travel is almost entirely a twisted recreation of Disneyland. From It's a Small World to Splash Mountain to Sleeping Beauty's Castle, the Wasteland is filled with homages to the original Disney theme park. Layered on top of the park environments is a constant flow of cartoon iconography and Disney memorabilia. Taken together, the game is a virtual smorgasbord for Disney fans hungry to see their favorite characters and places in a new light.

Paint & Thinner
If there's one thing that sets the gameplay of Epic Mickey apart from other games in the genre, it's the paint and thinner element of gameplay. The magic paint brush that Mickey wields lets him be good or bad, as we mentioned before. But it's also a fundamental tool for moving through the world and interacting with its characters. A bridge may cross to a far away platform, but you'll need to paint it in before you can progress. A gear may keep a platform spinning, but you can thin it out to make the platform a stable place onto which you may jump. By aiming the Wii remote at the screen, players are able to change entire elements of the game world, or attack enemies that stand in their way.

Reconstructing Mickey's Friends
As Mickey explores a twisted version of Disneyland, he'll run into dismantled animatronic versions of his friends, Donald, Goofy, and Daisy. When Mickey first runs into them, they are all just heads on pedestals. One of his quests is to find their body parts, which are hidden within the game's many worlds.

The World
Epic Mickey's world is divided into hub towns and theme-based environments consisting of multiple zones. In the towns, Mickey can enter shops, converse with village folk, and take on a number of optional side quests. The theme-based environments will be recognizable to Disney fans, and many of the sights and sounds on display are inspired by the parks rides and iconic characters.

File: Epic Mickey Characters Video

Tim Turi — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:54:00 GMT

In this video the creators of Epic Mickey chat about the legacy of characters like Mickey, the Gremlins, Pete, and even some long-forgotten black and white toons.

File: Disney Epic Mickey Gameplay Trailer

Jeff Cork — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:37:00 GMT

Here's another look at Junction Point's Mickey reboot, feature some tantalizing gameplay shots.

File: Junction Point On The Importance Of Story

Meagan Marie — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:03:00 GMT

In the video below, Junction Point staffers explore the importance of story in Disney Epic Mickey, starting with an interesting tale of how the collaboration came to be. Check out the trailer below, narrated by industry icon Warren Spector and peppered with new footage from the pending title.

File: A new trailer for Disney's Epic Mickey

Matthew Kato — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:58:00 GMT

A new trailer for Disney's Epic Mickey

File: PAX Disney Epic Mickey Screens

Meagan Marie — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:38:00 GMT