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<\/a><\/p>\nIt seems like a no-brainer \u2013 put two great things together for one even greater thing. It should have gone together like peanut butter and chocolate. Unfortunately, it’s more like peanut butter and hamburgers. It may work for some people, but the majority of folks will just find it unsatisfying.<\/p>\n
‘Epic Mickey’ starts out with a nice animation that takes pieces from a few different Mickey cartoons and combines them into one. It tells the basic story, which is that Mickey accidentally destroys a world by spilling some paint thinner. Yes, that’s our hero.<\/p>\n
Mickey gets sucked into this world, a place set aside for forgotten cartoon characters, and must quest through untold dangers to get back home.<\/p>\n
The first problem comes right at the concept. Setting the stage in a world full of forgotten Disney characters just seems like a flawed premise. I’m a pretty big Disney fan, but there are some here that I don’t recognize at all, and most of the characters in the game don’t mean anything to me. If interacting with ‘Clarabelle Cow’ or ‘Horace Horsecollar’ is a big deal for you, then you’re the audience this game is searching for.<\/p>\n
It would be significantly better if any of the characters had voices, but they don’t. This just seems like a missed opportunity, especially for characters with a larger role to play. Adding some voices to the cut-scenes would have made for a much better experience. In fact, “missed opportunities” seems to be the name of the game for ‘Epic Mickey’, because they’re abundant.<\/p>\n
In the first stage, you’re tasked with finding some folks that are trapped, after which you must defeat a boss. Pretty standard stuff. What makes it interesting is that you’re trekking though the “It’s a Small World” ride, going from country to country defeating foes and rebuilding structures. Throughout the level, there isn’t even a hint of the music that made the ride famous, though the boss fight does include a touch of the theme. The soundtrack could have been so much more than it is.<\/p>\n
That wouldn’t have mattered at all if, when I finished the level, I had restored the ride to its past glory. It would have been such a great reward to ride the normal ride after I fixed it, but there’s nothing of that sort.<\/p>\n The same goes, sadly, for the rest of the attractions featured in the game. I was ecstatic when I reached The Carousel of Progress, which my parents and I once got stuck on one part of for an hour straight. (I knew the future family script by heart by the end of it.) ‘Epic Mickey’ creates these great set-pieces that absolutely fail to pay off.<\/p>\n That’s one of the biggest problems with ‘Epic Mickey’. Whenever I beat a level, I was immediately thrust into the next one. I didn’t get to explore the areas I completed, and I never got the sense of accomplishment that\u2019s supposed to come at the conclusion of each chapter of the game.<\/p>\n ‘Epic Mickey’ also incorporates moral choice into gameplay, which is a neat add-on for most games, but just feels out of place in this one. Anything besides the “good” choice just feels wrong. It’s not what Mickey would do.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n