I've been slacking on my movie attendance despite desperate cravings to see Tron Legacy and True Grit. Even if I did get to go see them, it would be too late by now to review them since they have been out for awhile. Oh well...I do have something to review now and it's a video game. Now begins the video game review series called Voltage and games shall be reviewed as such: Low Voltage, Minimum Voltage and High Voltage. That's pretty easy..
Disney's Epic Mickey is deceptive. I put it into my Wii console thinking that it was going to be easy-breezy fun. I couldn't have been more wrong. Epic Mickey is not a children's game. It's dark, it's challenging and it's addicting.
The story starts off in Yin Sid's (from Fantasia) domicile where he created an alternate universe/theme park called Wasteland for all of the forgotten Disney characters to live. The forgotten characters range from Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Captian Hook, various forms of Pete (there was a Pete from Tron) and Wasteland's leader Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Well, mischievous Mickey disrupts all of their lives when he accidentally spills paint thinner all over Wasteland and created The Blot. Mickey is sucked up into this world (eventually) and must save the crumbling Wasteland with the power of paint or paint thinner before The Blot and The Mad Scientist steal his heart. That's the gist of it all.
The storyline is as good as any Disney film should be, and your actions with the paint and paint thinner and choices on how to go about the various missions truly do make a huge difference. The graphics are superb as you traverse Mickey's old black and white classic short films and other parts of what really is the Magic Kingdom we all know and love. I'm speaking of The Haunted Mansion, It's a Small World, Space Mountain, Main Street and other important Disney landmarks. However, it is the events towards the end that frustrated me. I literally took one step forward and five steps back...over and over again. Despite the frustrations, I still had a lot of fun playing Epic Mickey. This game has enough deep Disney magic and meaning in it that it caused me to choke up when I finally reached the end.
Epic Mickey is High Voltage.
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