Quick Look: Disney Epic Mickey

Wow, this really looks great. The art direction is fantastic and the gameplay seems engaging as well. My only complaint is the lack of voice acting. It really could have given this game even more depth and personality. But regardless, it seems worth experiencing. The Wii is definitely offering some great games this fall between this, DK, and Epic Yarn.

So it's a mediocre platformer with nice art direction..
I don't get where all the hype came from really.

That intro is fucking heavy. 
 
The concept is fantastic, but the implementation of paint/thinner is way too restricted and narrow. It's obvious that you can't dynamically change everything, but they should have masked it more. 
 
Also, the the way Mickey "leaks" reminds me of Princess Mononoke and its demon monsters.

Protect your ears and get high, Gremlin Tiestow is gonna make you fly. 

nice you mentioned who framed roger rabbit such an awesome movie

"I gave her the Epic Mickey and now she won't return my calls."

I was worried people would shit on this game for no good reason.  Granted it doesn't really take that much of an innovative approach, the game is at least a competant platformer and utilizes a great artstyle and story conceit.
 
The quality later on is predicated on how much hand holding and impact the choices you make have.  Honestly reading these comments I feel like people have never played a video game before.  This is what platformers that people love have been for years.  That may be a valid criticism but not strong enough to dismiss it entirely.
 
I also don't get where people have this notion of what this game should have been.  I was super excited to see more of this game after E3 this year which is pretty much the same game now.  This game was never sold as anything but this.  Everything else is people's imagination.
 
The only thing I can't stand is the hand holding as an adult and I bet for a lot of children would be problem as well.  Beyond that I find no reason to complain here.  I can see it being a breeze of a game to enjoy your way through and enjoy the art style.
 
Hey if reviewers say the game drags and/or holds your hand too much then fine.  But honestly the game so far is not better or worse than what a platformer should be honestly.  It goes to show that people who think a game fails if it's not a 9.5 or 5 star game still exist and still suck.

" So it's a mediocre platformer with nice art direction.. I don't get where all the hype came from really. "

This really looks cool. It's seems like they've some how created an even more interesting world out of Disney's character's. And I don't even like Disney that much.

Besides the horrible name, this looks amazing, especially the art direction. Not even a big fan of Mickey Mouse or Disney, but I am a fan of amazingly done artwork.  As somebody has a lot of friends who work with this engine, what they've managed to do with it is even more incredible.

The last Mickey game I played was the one the SNES (the Magical Quest or something like that), and that was fun. Curious to see how this one is.

I'm not so sure what I think of this game. Then again, I'm hardly part of it's target audience.

This does, in fact, look surprisingly epic... I might have to dust off the Wii for this one...

I am legitimately shocked that this game does not have voice acting throughout. Otherwise, looks like it could be a fun platformer, though the beginning from this QL is a step-by-step, hand-holding drag. Surely once the game opens up it will be better, but I'll wait to hear what reviewers say.

don't define the epic mickey, that's disgusting.

"Epic Mickey." Sounds like an alcoholic bottle size invented by college kids.

This looks like American McGee's Mickey, design-wise. I'm ok with this.

I don’t know if you can draw parallels to Gilgamesh exactly, but what I think is really fascinating here is that Mickey, and by extension the Disney company is not being portrayed as anything like the good guy. Every reason the Wastland is fucked up is Mickey’s fault. He cast off these characters in his rise to power, and he placed them in this destroyed state. This game forces him to directly come to terms with everything the Disney company has lost. Its heart, its soul, everything. I’d say that’s well worth the price of admission. I can only wonder how the story is going to be resolved.    

cool game !  if i had a wii i would get it ! at some point anyway.....

I will never forget Gilgamesh...

Wait, so this game is about how Mickey is a jerk for screwing up the Wizard's work and got all the fame? Mickey is such an Epic FAIL.

dull!

Is there a reason its not called Disney's Epic Mickey?

That game looks really boring...

" Is there a reason its not called Disney's Epic Mickey? "

Man... all that text for go here and do this... when the game opens up and gets more abstracted, I'm sure it'll be great, but it's a painful start.

Thanks for staying silent for the intro. It was a lot more enjoyable to watch.

my biggest problem with playing the game is that it is in SD. The game looks great so just port it to the ps3 and it would be even better.

Yo son! I heard you like manually retexturing objects in game and Super Mario 64! So we put Super Mario 64 ....e.t.c

Back in the day, Disney Parks made you buy packs of tickets for each ride.  You only got so many tickets per packs and the best rides were "E".  I remember those days and that was in the late 70's early 80's at Disney World in Florida, so they still had the ticket books only a few decades ago. 
 
They might have chosen text over voice because it will be easier to port to the Japanese market.

How is a 38 minute video a quick look?

That Thinner reference that Jeff busted out had me rolling. 
 
Anyway, this game is a big cock tease for someone like me who loves (older) Disney stuff but does not have a Wii.  Pleeeease be ported to an HD console for the love of god!

Looks like a pretty good Wii game... for a Wii!

It's like a sex move you try on your girlfriend. 

a quicker look than the 1 hour+ quick looks they've had recently.

Hey, it was actually almost 38 full minutes of gameplay, it almost took as long before you got to see any gameplay in the GT5 Quicklook.

"That's rough mickey mouse but you a hardcore dude" 
 
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The longer the QL the better in my opinion.

the music is very good

I like paint thinner so this is clearly a game for me.

Mickey's a real DICKHEAD

For everyone saying that they should port this to the 360/PS3, you are being very optimistic cause I highly doubt they would put much effort into uping the resolution on a game developed in SD quality. If they wanted to do a proper HD port they'd pretty much have to redo all of the graphics and that would take much more time than they'd be willing to give. Of course I could be completely wrong considering I have no game industry experience, but if it were this easy to port to an HD console then NMH: Hero's Paradise would've been out a lot sooner

" Mickey's a real DICKHEAD "

that intro is pretty epic, mickey.

" That game looks really boring... "

That looks pretty decent.

I hope there will be an Oswald franchise soon!  (though it's alreaddy fact that he will get his own place in Toontown Cali! )