AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Looks nice.

Here's a history of Mickey Mouse, for those of you not well-versed in that subject:

http://gameinformer.com/games/disney_ep ... mouse.aspx

It gives some hints about who will be in the game as well. Like the Mad Doctor from the 1933 cartoon of the same name. I remember that guy from another Mickey Mouse video game, Mickey Mania.

Sorry for the double post, but here's a MAJOR update on this game, including stuff from Game Informer:












http://www.gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=100611

The characters and ideas all look cool and interesting, including seeing Pete in there, but apparently, the story isn't exactly what EuroGamer made it out to be - that is, instead of Oswald unleashing the Phantom Blot on Mickey's world, Mickey accidentally unleashes the Phantom Blot on Oswald's world. Mickey returns to this word and is captured by the Mad Doctor, from the 1933 cartoon of the same name. He escapes and then... Well, it's kind of up to you from there.

Yes, it seems this game, like many others before it, has this whole "moral choice" theme where you can either act like a good hero or an evil jerk. No offense to the guys making it, but this idea has been played out so many times, it's actually ridiculous to see it here. But then again, I think they were trying to play to how Mickey used to be. I mean, have any of you actually seen Steamboat Willie? He was kind of a bastard, mostly due to abusing animals. In a way, he's kind of like what Donald Duck basically is now, so I guess they wanted to incorporate that into this game. Still, you can choose to be a good Mickey or a bad Mickey, though it's yet to be seen if things can only go either way.

Wasn't the Mad Doctor just a dream? Oh well.


But ... it's by Warren Spector. He made Deus Ex. We know he can pull stuff like this off successfully.

Are there any bigger versions of those scans?

MY MAGAZINE HAS NOT ARRIVED YET RAAAAAAGGEE

There was, but when I checked where I originally found there, they weren't there anymore... Sorry.

Oh, what's that? Epic Mickey isn't a dark and nightmarish game like you all thought it was? It's actually a pretty colourful and cartoonish game? Oh, and who was it that said it'd be that way from the start of the thread, hmmm?



As for morality... it depends on whether they have it so that your overall morality matters, like some sort of good vs evil progress bar, or whether they just have it so that it doesn't record how good or evil you are, just that your choice in a certain action can have direct influence on another event.


Also, I do have one close-up scan:

We all thought it would be? Really? Oh well, whatever makes you pop flyin', I suppose.


Well, judging from that scan (thanks, by the way. Looks like an interesting game so far), there seems to be a progress bar; after all, Mickey seems to change appearance depending on your actions.

But, you know, there's one thing I found to be a bit strange:

Right, excuse the double post, but I found some more scans. They're not quite as good as the one Plasma posted, but readable nonetheless.

Page 60.
Page 61.
Page 62.

63 is the one Plasma already posted.

I may be forgetting, but I cannot recall a game which ever executed the "Be the good guy or the bad guy by your choices ingame" thing very well. It always felt forced.

In fact, based on Plasma's post, it sounds like yet another game where you have to deliberately play the game poorly and without skill in order to become "the bad guy." AKA, smash your way through puzzles instead of solve them, and don't collect hidden hard to find items and powerups.

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But I do agree with the developer guy, what with the whole "Mickey Mouse has no personality anymore." Even as a child, I tended to think of Pluto, Goofy, and Donald as being much more interesting characters.

For a loose definition of 'anymore'. Mickey never really did have much of a personality. His entire thing was that he was bland enough to be relatable to by anyone.

Like Mario and Link, right?

Maybe you can relate to a short, chubby Italian plumber in overalls, but I can't really see myself eating a mushroom, jumping, punching bricks and going "HERE WE GOOOOO!"

If you don't do it then I will.

No. They're just mute, so that you imagine yourself as them better, and so that your own personality doesn't conflict with the player character's personality (GTA4 was chewed up and spat on by that problem). Mickey does have a personality, it's just... bland.