anyone else getting epic mickey?
I personally wasn't that impressed with epic mickey back when they showed it a E3, but I watched the reviews from IGN and Gametrailers and BOTH sites compared epic mickey to my favorite platformer of all time! Banjo-Kazooie!! today I ran over to gamestop and preordered ^_^ and now i can't wait till tuesday, this is going to be AWESOME!!!!
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I am also a semi-disney fan.
I am also looking really forward to Kirby Epic Yarn and DKC Returns. Other platformers with their distinctive own style. I love Nintendo's creativity.
Kids: Daddy can we play some Epic Mickey?
Dad: AWRAWRAWR! Epic Mickey is MINE to play! MINE. Go outside you little pricks!
Kids: But Daddy...it was our Christmas present.
Dad: OUTSIDE! >grabs shotgun BOOM! BOOM!
I also have a friend who is very wishy washy when it comes to consoles, but she's considering getting a Wii for Epic Mickey alone, which is pretty impressive.
Warren Specter knows his shit. You have to respect that. In many ways, this is the Disney game for those who appreciate and love the history of Walt Disney. Every screenshot makes me squeal like a schoolgirl with glee whenever I see a background element or character from the earliest parts of Disney's creative history. This game is going to be, at the very least, an incredible interactive tour of the Disney archives, and that's good enough for me to make a Day 1 purchase, especially with the prevalence of Oswald(whose cartoons I've loved for years now).
I couldn't agree more... i've been watching gameplay and there are sooooo many characters that i've forgotten about... the mad scientist guy, the sneaking ghost guy, and quite a few others... i'm positive that every time I move a corner i'll be running into another piece of nostalgia
on another note, i've never seen an oswald cartoon, any idea where I can watch them?
Nah, just kidding. Though I don't have a wii, so I won't be buying it. It's a shame, too, because it actually looks better than Kingdom Hearts, in my opinion.
Not sure what to expect though, as I've never really played anything like that on the Wii before. All I have are things like Wii Play, Wii Sports, Wii Fit... basically the games that come with the hardware!
actually it has been proven mickey can work well in a dark world filled with disney characters already. Kingdom hearts anyone.
This game has many similarities to that such as mickeys heart playing a key role.
However, it is nothing like Banjo Kazooie (or Tooie) at all to me...
Kingdom Hearts doesnt count as a mickey mouse game. Ok I gues not the first one since he gets probably less than a minute of screentime, but in all the others he plays a pretty good role.
I second Dashing's Motion.
Honestly from what I played at Pax it was a delight, I like the old cartoons, and thought it was very Nostalgic from the get go. The controls were a little clunky but I just passed it off as a demo.
Dammit, I need a wii.
And no it's not me, there was mostly Books and CD's on my list.
Sure. There's a lot wrong with the game in my opinion.
Firstly for me at least the largely empty and uninteresting environments are a real turn off. Sure there are many recognisable elements but they're all quite sterile and not combined in any interesting way and other than those classic objects the environments are nothing but uninteresting walls and corridors reminiscent of old platformers that en lieu of having interesting environments with natural boundaries just close everything in.
Movement is alright but clunky. It has the worst camera of any platformer I've played in a long time and movements don't blend so there is noticeable jumps in animation between actions. Plus the transition between movement and painting while moving isn't smooth and just feels sloppy. The wii cursor is also the jerkiest I've ever seen it. At first I thought something had gone wrong with my home setup so I quit and loaded up SMG2 but it was perfect, Epic Mickey just has a really jerky pointer.
Other than that the game constantly holds your hand and tells you what to do. Walk up to an item to interact with? The game pops up with a message suggesting that you should interact with it and how to do it. Of course that's fine when the game is teaching you... this isn't the first time though, this is infact the 8th time you've done this exact same thing. Exploration and discovery is constantly killed and interrupted by the game just telling you useless information most of which it has already told you.
The binary choices you get in the game (hmm should I tick off a box for the good ending or bad ending? Decisions decisions) at least early on are just as poor. Before you can make a choice the game tells you you're gonna make a choice, how to make that choice and what those choices are... It's less like playing a game and more like reading the worlds lamest choose your own adventure.
I'm sure the last two issues I brought up disappear later in the game but once I wanted to punch Spector for creating this abomination I stopped playing.
Graphically the game is pretty middle/lower range on the wii. I can't for the life of me work out what other people see in it. Even if you are just turned on by dark Mickey compare it to Kingdom Hearts, a much older game on a lesser or at least equal system. Epic Mickey is just dull.
So basically my issues with the game come down to
Poor control
Boring gameplay
Handholding game design
Generic uninspired levels
Dull visuals
From the people I know who like the game most of their enjoyment comes from the story and their attachment to the period of animation. I didn't think much of the story myself but if it grabs you it apparently keeps adding enough to motivate you. And as for the nostalgia factor it wasn't enough to make me overlook the poor quality of everything else.
Some of the reviews I've seen have described it as a decent platformer with some wonky issues that still manages to be fun. Which is what most people say about Psychonauts. Which is a plus as far as I'm concerned because Psychonauts is one of my favorite games ever.
Not that I've found. I think after that art came out it was revealed that it was for the pitch Disney was given and not from the actual game's pre production.
Put it this way I play Pyschonauts a few times a year. I've got at least 4 copies with one of them signed by Tim. Epic Mickey has nothing similar to Psychonauts.
That's a crying shame. I've always had a soft spot for steampunk, and mixing that with Disney seemed like a brilliant way to "darken" Mickey without alienating the young'ns.
Besides, reviews compare it more like a modernised N64 plataformer which makes me happy, sicne pltaformers have been pretty rush-pased these years (except DKR which is both rusha nd slow paced).
Camera: sucks
Everything else: awesome
And like every game that gives you choices I'm finding myself going the goody-two-shoes route already. I just can't bring myself to be a jerk.
Pfff goody too shoes. Im going to play this twice, first time my first reaction to what happens, second time all jerk.