Merely annoying, thanks to some odd camera angles and button controls, is the fact that jumping from here to there can end Mickey in the drink or tumbling off a precipice more often than not. There are a few holes in this mouse game’s cheese. It also lends itself to some fun bits in the musical sections. It’s a small detail that ends up adding a lot of charm. I should also note that all the characters talk this time around. A twist on the franchise formula is that Oswald and Mickey travel side-by-side through this whole adventure, turning a single-player game into one that can be shared at any point with a friend or family member. (See, exactly like those Jedi lightsabers!) Oswald totes a fancy remote control that uses electrical zaps to recharge sputtering machinery. Mickey once again has his magic paintbrush that can shoot paint or thinner to battle baddies or impact the world around him. They encounter references to classic cartoon characters ranging from Captain Hook and Cinderella to Prince Charming and Pete’s Dragon. Like its predecessor, Epic Mickey 2 has our heroes repairing things, solving puzzles, and working with a number of crumbling animatronic versions of pals like Goofy and Daisy Duck as they make their way through a variety of Disneyfied worlds. And the mouse and the rabbit quickly set off to get to the malevolent root of the problem. She calls out for a little more help from Mickey. Oswald quickly welcomes the Doc’s newly turned leaf, but his kitty cat girlfriend Ortensia isn’t so easily convinced. He’s so sincere about it, in fact, that he breaks into joyous song every time he pops up with something to say. This time, though, a baddie from the last game, the Mad Doctor, steps up to forswear his past diabolical ways and promise his help with the rumbling problems. That doesn’t mean, however, that it’s all happily ever after.įor some reason, earthquakes are tearing Wasteland asunder once again. But this time around, it one for all and all for one for the two of them.

Mick and a black-and-white tooney named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit were sort of at odds in that game. Of course, it was then up to Mickey to defeat everything bad and restore order. He jumped through a magical mirror, messed up a sorcerer’s handiwork, and just like that set a plague-like entity loose in a place called Wasteland-a magical toonworld based on classic one-reelers and iconic Magic Kingdom attractions. In the first Epic Mickey, our little red-shorts-wearing rodent pal kinda got himself in trouble. And he certainly fights like one in Epic Mickey 2. After Disney bought up LucasArts, you probably heard the rumors that Mickey Mouse is a Jedi Knight now.

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