HOLY SHIT DISNEY
So, there's a new game coming out for the Wii in about a year or so.
Yes, North heard about a game while it's still in its early developing stages. It's the apocalypse!
Anyways, this game's initial name sounds like it's gonna be called Epic Mickey. So we're getting back into our old nostalgia days and such?
It already sounds like it's living up to it's name. Just...not in the way we originally expected.
When you find this as the cover art, seems like something's up. It doesn't look like that happy-go-lucky world I remember...
A bit of poking around reveals a darker story~. Apparently, long ago, Mickey came to visit Yen Sid (the sorcerer from The Sorcerer's Apprentice, if you don't remember), and accidentally at the same time stumbled across a world that the sorcerer had created for the long-forgotten Disney characters. Mickey enters the world and has a little bit too much fun-he spills paint and thinner everywhere. He hastily tries to clean up before Yen Sid notices, and then quickly escapes. Years later, Mickey comes back and finds that the world has become a wasteland ruled by The Phantom Blot (a relatively tame villain in the old cartoons and comics, originally a thief dressed in all black), who has become a monstrosity of ink and thinner thanks to good ol' Mickey. So, of course, Mickey's gotta go and fix what he's wronged.
Hell, this game already wins for making his sidekick/helper/antagonist Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. For those who don't know, he was Mickey's predecessor, the former mascot of Disney before he was bought by NBC/Universal back in 1929-ish. (Disney got him back in 2006 by trading the rights to video sportscaster Al Michaels from ABC/ESPN to NBC.) He originally had a personality rather similar to Mickey's (and they even look similar, which makes sense considering that Mickey was intended to his expy). However, his time being forgotten (and basically abandoned-he's the first inhabitant of Yid's world) in the other world and fighting the Phantom Blot (and losing) makes him rather bitter and distrusting-and for good reason.
The game pays homage to the old days in more ways than one-Mickey's been regressed to what he used to be in the old black and white cartoons-a mischievous, courageous, kinda-sorta hero who really doesn't know the meaning of the word stop. Depending what you do with your Karma Meter (yes, there is alignment in this game), you can become a Lawful Good (Hero Mickey, the hero that we see him as nowadays), Chaotic Good (Scrapper Mickey, closer to his mischievous thirties counterpart), or Neutral Good (Wastelander Mickey, a sort of middle road).
So anyways, you go around with a magic paintbrush to erase and repaint the corrupted inhabitants and parts of the levels. Basic concept, right?
Well, somehow, they're making it darker. I mean...one of the levels is going to have the background of It's a Small World...backwards. I'm not shitting you. Hell, the one piece of released music I've found wavers back between bouncily cheerful and darkly sinister and foreboding...and it works.
And then I stumbled across some early concept art. Namely this. And this. And this. And this. And this.
And, heaven forbid, THIS.
I shat bricks.
It didn't help that I found it near midnight.
I only have one coherent thought after this.
Goddammit, Disney, don't screw this up.
Yes, North heard about a game while it's still in its early developing stages. It's the apocalypse!
Anyways, this game's initial name sounds like it's gonna be called Epic Mickey. So we're getting back into our old nostalgia days and such?
It already sounds like it's living up to it's name. Just...not in the way we originally expected.
When you find this as the cover art, seems like something's up. It doesn't look like that happy-go-lucky world I remember...
A bit of poking around reveals a darker story~. Apparently, long ago, Mickey came to visit Yen Sid (the sorcerer from The Sorcerer's Apprentice, if you don't remember), and accidentally at the same time stumbled across a world that the sorcerer had created for the long-forgotten Disney characters. Mickey enters the world and has a little bit too much fun-he spills paint and thinner everywhere. He hastily tries to clean up before Yen Sid notices, and then quickly escapes. Years later, Mickey comes back and finds that the world has become a wasteland ruled by The Phantom Blot (a relatively tame villain in the old cartoons and comics, originally a thief dressed in all black), who has become a monstrosity of ink and thinner thanks to good ol' Mickey. So, of course, Mickey's gotta go and fix what he's wronged.
Hell, this game already wins for making his sidekick/helper/antagonist Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. For those who don't know, he was Mickey's predecessor, the former mascot of Disney before he was bought by NBC/Universal back in 1929-ish. (Disney got him back in 2006 by trading the rights to video sportscaster Al Michaels from ABC/ESPN to NBC.) He originally had a personality rather similar to Mickey's (and they even look similar, which makes sense considering that Mickey was intended to his expy). However, his time being forgotten (and basically abandoned-he's the first inhabitant of Yid's world) in the other world and fighting the Phantom Blot (and losing) makes him rather bitter and distrusting-and for good reason.
The game pays homage to the old days in more ways than one-Mickey's been regressed to what he used to be in the old black and white cartoons-a mischievous, courageous, kinda-sorta hero who really doesn't know the meaning of the word stop. Depending what you do with your Karma Meter (yes, there is alignment in this game), you can become a Lawful Good (Hero Mickey, the hero that we see him as nowadays), Chaotic Good (Scrapper Mickey, closer to his mischievous thirties counterpart), or Neutral Good (Wastelander Mickey, a sort of middle road).
So anyways, you go around with a magic paintbrush to erase and repaint the corrupted inhabitants and parts of the levels. Basic concept, right?
Well, somehow, they're making it darker. I mean...one of the levels is going to have the background of It's a Small World...backwards. I'm not shitting you. Hell, the one piece of released music I've found wavers back between bouncily cheerful and darkly sinister and foreboding...and it works.
And then I stumbled across some early concept art. Namely this. And this. And this. And this. And this.
And, heaven forbid, THIS.
I shat bricks.
It didn't help that I found it near midnight.
I only have one coherent thought after this.
Goddammit, Disney, don't screw this up.