Not as awesome as I would've hoped, but a good game nonetheless.

User Rating: 7 | Disney Epic Mickey WII
By macabre190788 | Review Date:
This is one of the games I've been looking forward to the most, I grew up with Disney, here in Scandinavia, Donald Duck is the most popular comic book, and has been since 1948 and is currently published weekly. Mickey Mouse is featured in the comic book frequently but his popularity is not as big as Donald's, even so, I watched some old Mickey Mouse short cartoons, among them, my favorite short titled "Runaway Brain", which I'll get to later, and I have fond memories of playing Mickey's Magical Quest for the SNES and GameBoy Advance, it's still the best Mickey Mouse game in my opinion, but anyway, I decided to check out Epic Mickey, huge expectations, did it disappoint? Mmmmmhhwwweeeellll......actually, it's a good game and all, but it's not a classic new exclusive Wii title like some people have hailed it as. You play as Mickey in sort of a twisted Disneyland thats been warped by a shadow blot that Mickey unleashed, set to make things right he'll fight enemies, help out forgotten friends and save this world. Oswald is a character I honestly never heard about, and the story here is really neat, though some of these characters in the game are hardly forgotten as they appear weekly in a best selling comic book, but I guess they may be relatively unknown in America.

The game is quite dark in tone, Mickey has appeared in darker material before, like the aforementioned "Runaway Brain", which has horror elements, one character dying and getting his skin ripped off his skeleton and such, Disney has pretty much denounced said short, and in the intro in this game they seem to ignore it completely, pretending like the "Prince and the Pauper" was the last theatrical Mickey Mouse cartoon, there may have been a reference to "Runaway Brain" near the end, but anyway, I'm glad they went a darker route with some creepy monsters and three well known characters have been torn apart by robots and you need to find their bodyparts in order to rebuild them. The story and style is great, so what about the gameplay?

The gameplay focuses on platforming and puzzle solving with some combat. None of these are truly excellent but are decent enough. The one thing that plagues all of these and the entire game is the camera, it stinks, absolutely lousy, it doesn't ruin the game, but it's a bit of a hassle to deal with it especially when you're looking for various secret stuff, the quests are pretty lame, run around and find stuff and bing it back basically, the controls on Mickey are okay, but it feels like he's sliding around sometimes, jumping works well, fighting enemies is not very fun, you can erase them by using thinner or make them join you by painting them, the only other move Mickey has up his sleeve is a spin attack, though you'll rarely use it as it's pretty ineffective on enemies other than robots. Some boss fights can be fun, like the Tron level with Pete. Using paint and thinner and choosing who to help and not decides the outcome of the game, I finished the game in 9 and a half hours and got a decent ending, not perfect, there were a few sad faces in the crowd, but hey, Mickey saved their world at least. I won't go back to get a perfect ending.

Epic Mickey is a good game, it's not as awesome as I would've hoped and this christmas there are better games, even on the Wii console, so I don't know, give it a rental I say and then decide.

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