Developer : Disney Interactive Studios
Release date : November 26, 2010
Synopsis :
Epic Mickey is a 2010 platform game developed by Junction Point Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios while Nintendo published the game in Japan for the Wii. The game focuses on Mickey Mouse, who accidentally damages a world created by Yen Sid for forgotten characters and concepts and must save it. The game features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and originally owned by Universal Pictures; The Walt Disney Company gained ownership of the character in 2006. The game also marks the first time that Mickey and Oswald appeared together.
Epic Mickey was part of an effort by Disney to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by placing less emphasis on his pleasant, cheerful side and reintroducing the more mischievous and adventurous sides of his personality, focusing on the idea of depicting him as an epic hero. It was directed by Warren Spector, who collaborated with Walt Disney Animation Studios in conjunction with the project. The game was announced in October 2009, and released in November 2010. The game received mixed reviews from critics. Successors to the franchise include Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two and Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion.
Mickey Mouse, out of curiosity, enters Yen Sid’s workshop through a mirror in his house and discovers the model of a world resembling Disneyland that Yen Sid created for things that have been forgotten and the tool used to create it – the magic paintbrush. Fiddling with the brush to make his own self-portrait, Mickey accidentally creates the Shadow Blot. Panicking, Mickey quickly tries to erase the monster by throwing thinner onto it, but spills more paint on the model in the process. Upon seeing Yen Sid approaching, Mickey quickly tries to clean up the mess, but in his haste, spills thinner onto the paint spillage as he flees back to his house, while the Blot, having survived Mickey’s attempt to destroy it, enters through a portal created by the paint and thinner mixture and takes control of the ruined world from its first resident, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
After many decades of fame following the incident, Mickey had forgotten all about it until what appears to be the Blot enters his home through the mirror and abducts him into the ruined forgotten world, now named by this time as the Wasteland. Oswald all the while had his will and mind twisted from years of hiding and his jealousy of Mickey’s rise to fame, unaware of the enigmatic Mad Doctor, who was formerly loyal to Oswald before siding with the Blot, and the Blot’s plan to steal Mickey’s heart, which they plan to use to escape Wasteland as the world’s inhabitants lose their own hearts when they are forgotten and they are unable to leave because of this. However, Mickey frees himself before they can succeed and scares off the Blot with Yen Sid’s brush, forcing the Mad Doctor to flee.
Gus, the leader of the Gremlins, who primarily serve as mechanics in Wasteland, helps Mickey escape out of Dark Beauty Castle, which the Mad Doctor was using as a hideout. Mickey also discovers that he was soaked with some of the Blot’s ink. During his journey through the Wasteland, Mickey is guided by Gus and becomes armed with the brush, which allows Mickey to spray paint and thinner that can be used to erase or paint in toon objects and fight Blotlings, the Blot’s spawn, and Beetleworx, the Mad Doctor’s evil creations. After traveling through the gremlins’ village, he makes it to Mean Street, where Wasteland’s inhabitants mainly reside. After locating Oswald at his sanctuary in Mickeyjunk Mountain, he reluctantly agrees to help Mickey escape. To do so, they go to the Moonliner Rocket at Tomorrow City, but Oswald discovers that the Mad Doctor has stolen essential parts from it to use for his evil plans, so Mickey goes to collect them. He retrieves the first part after defeating the corrupted Petetronic, an incarnation of Pete based on Sark from Tron, the next after defeating an animatronic version of Captain Hook in Ventureland, and confronts the Mad Doctor in the Lonesome Manor. After defeating him, it is revealed that he turned himself into an animatronic, which will allow him to survive the Blot’s revolt before he is sent flying after Gus removes the last rocket part from his hovercraft. After acquiring all the parts, Oswald has Mickey help repel a Blot attack on Mickeyjunk Mountain.
Once the threat is neutralized, it is revealed to Mickey that the Blot that he had just battled, along with all of the Blotlings Mickey had encountered, were only drippings of the real Blot. Oswald reveals that he and his girlfriend, Ortensia, attempted to seal the Blot away in the bottle of thinner from Yen Sid’s workshop, but Ortensia was blighted by the monster in the process and entered an inert state. When Oswald attempts to officially be friends with Mickey, Mickey confesses to him that he was the cause of the Blot’s existence and Wasteland’s current state. Oswald loses his temper and accidentally damages the cork sealing the bottle shut, allowing the Blot to escape from its imprisonment. The Blot threatens to kill Oswald and Gus if Mickey does not allow it to take his heart. Mickey yields his heart to the monster, who then proceeds to further destroy Wasteland before moving on to Mickey’s world to wreak havoc there.
After thwarting the Blot, Mickey, Oswald and Gus attempt to use the rocket to reach the monster, but end up crashing the rocket into Dark Beauty Castle after it absorbs its paint. The group make their way to the top of the castle, where they defeat the Blot’s forces before it captures Oswald and Gus, forcing Mickey to enter the monster’s body to save them. The three successfully manage to destroy the Blot with a paint-laden firework display from the castle and Mickey regains his heart before escaping back to Yen Sid’s workshop. With the Blot destroyed, Wasteland begins regenerating and Oswald reunites with the restored Ortensia. As Mickey returns home, Yen Sid enchants the mirror to show Mickey the positive outcomes or consequences of his major choices in the game and allow him to communicate with Oswald one last time, the duo now bonding as brothers. Afterwards, Yen Sid seals the mirror to prevent Mickey from re-entering his workshop and causing any more mischief.
Not long after the mirror is sealed, Mickey discovers that he still has some of the Blot’s ink in him, leaving the possibility he may still be able to reach Wasteland.
Source : Wikipedia
