But despite all the ramifications of your actions, Mickey’s ultimate goal - the redemption of Oswald - stays the same. Also, guardian sprites surround Mickey - depending on his paint/thinner preference - and will automatically deal with some enemies according to your play style. One that uses paint will find his strength in friends. A Mickey who uses thinner may be alone, but he's powerful. The game does present consequences for your actions. Warren Spector said he made this change after he discovered that no one really wanted to play as a mean Mickey. At one point, Epic Mickey was going to have a similar system - using thinner more often than paint would turn Mickey into a meaner, scrappier character - however, your actions will not alter Mickey. Evil deeds tend to make people fear you, and you grown horns, start glowing red, and so on. Such morality choices typically have consequences in RPGs. After bringing him back a mask, I was able to use thinner on the back of his store, sneak inside, steal the mask back, and then present it to him as if I had found an entirely new one. Using paint to guide you through short platforming sections can help you acquire these masks. During my demo, a storekeeper tasked me to bring three tiki masks to him. You can solve the game's quests using these mechanics. This opens up different gameplay possibilities: You can erase enemies, or you can use paint to turn them into friends. Thinner erases characters and certain environments, while paint creates them. Mickey’s main weapon is a giant paintbrush, which he can use to shoot paint and thinner. One could easily classify Epic Mickey as a platformer at first glance, but it contains elements of RPGs and even third-person shooters. It seems that Warren Spector hates to differentiate genres. Many of the past games he's worked on, such as Deus Ex, blended aspects of different game styles. The E3 demo included a short romp through a stage modeled after Mickey’s first cartoon, Steamboat Willie. You travel between these lands via 2D platforming sections that resemble old Mickey Mouse cartoons.
He specifically mentioned Tomorrowland, then quickly added with a smile that he probably shouldn’t have told us that. Adventureland, for example, clearly serves as the model for Ventureland. Spector told us that the game’s other levels will follow suit. Much like the several differently themed lands that split the famous theme park, the Wasteland has different sections. Its areas even directly correspond with those of the park. Think of the Wasteland as a sort of twisted Disneyland. Oswald leads them, and he's bitterly looking to take Mickey’s place as Disney’s golden child. Old and forgotten characters fill this place.
Ventureland is just a small part of Epic Mickey's world, dubbed the Wasteland. And the area Smee inhabits, Ventureland, pays tribute to rides from Disneyland’s Adventureland, which includes attractions like The Enchanted Tiki Room, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse. References to the company's characters and theme parks litter the game.įor instance, one of the first characters I ran into during the game’s E3 demo was Smee - Captain Hook’s right-hand lackey from Peter Pan. Throughout the roundtable, he was constantly bringing up artists and characters from Disney’s past that only the most hardcore fans would recognize. Spector is a big fan of Disney's animation and history, and it shows. It was easy to see the passion that he has for the project. I got the chance to talk to Warren Spector, the game's director, at a roundtable event during E3.
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