Spyspotter
Since: Aug, 2013
11/05/2014 00:00:00
I agree. It gets very repetitive after a couple of hours. The game is essentially a loophole itself: Wasteland is supposed to be a place where forgotten Disney characters reside, yet it is filled with Disney characters and rides that are anything but forgotten.
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Warren Spector Presents: So Okay, It's Average Mickey
When I first heard about Epic Mickey, I was thinking a 3D platformer that returned Mickey to his Crazy Awesome Jerk Ass ways in a dark, destroyed world couldn't be anything but epic, like the title promised. The dark steampunk concept art only helped fuel the hype train on which I found myself. Well, I was wrong about that. It's a good concept, yes, but flawed and repetitive gameplay (not entirely unlike the issues that would plague Disney Infinity in the future) render it an unrewarding, tepid slog of a game that had me quit the game and leave it alone for months at a time, which is tantamount to heresy for my (admittedly pointless and neurotically motivated) principles—no, identity—as a gamer; no doubt a result of my living with about one new game a year for the first ten years of my life. It don't happen a lot, is what I'm saying.
The game is, plain and simple, completely unrewarding. There are a few memorable ideas such as the Oswald and Walt statue and generally Oswald's story as a whole, as well as cameos from Disney rides, characters, and even past Disney-licensed video game.. My favorite thing is the resurgence of the woefully ignored Horace Horsecollar, whose new private dick characterization is pretty much the only thing I can safely agree is "epic." But those are short moments of fun and creativity, like stars in a sky otherwise consisting of uninspired, poorly designed platforming and underwhelming boss fights.
And worst of all, the game doesn't save any progress you make in the process of either "creating" or "erasing" objects and things with your magic paintbrush. Leave the area, and it snaps back. I've been a part of electric shock-based pavlovian therapy sessions that feel more rewarding than this game. Oh well, at least the pointless pins you get for completing sidequests is good training for the mountain of disappoint of the Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMIX (speaking of which, there's a game that actually did Disney licensing right!) limited edition pin. Two steps forward, one step back, eh Nomura?
Despite his admirable vision, Spector's amateurish implementation of even the most basic platform gameplay suffuses and weakens the entire experience, until you're left with something that utterly fails to bring that most base of video game pleasures: fun.