Epic Mickey: A Forgotten Masterpiece 

you know i had to rewatch this video when i saw the announcements

What's hilarious is that I immediately thought to come to this video and tell you the news, turns out you caught wind of it as well!

Today is a EPIC day, epic bros!

And I was just about to ask if ur head exploded😂😂

​@@TheOneBluek U No it Bro 🖌

Wow that's amazing

thats so wholesome

Oh my goodness I am so happy for you. This is amazing, I love when things like this happen. This is what makes the world stay together- the few people who try to brighten the days of other people, even if they don't know it. I'll also say I'm quite jealous of the special stuff you got lmao

Awww

my faith in humanity is restored

Not to mention, they likely got much darker than what normally would be allowed as a byproduct :V

​@@higueraft571 Makes sense if they wanted to get as dark Disney would permit. Nothing quite like a flying leap, am I right?

Adventure Time did the same thing with episode title cards

@@thefreelancequeenyeah, like the enchiridion title card, right?

@@vincentleonard3797 Bro imagine the conversation Disney: Hey how is the concept art going The dev team: Pretty good check out this eldrich abomination i drew Disney: wtf man it's a kids game

Interestingly in the novelization destroying the music destroyed the clock tower

@@supercamborg4218 There was a novel? I know there was a comic about it.

@@daelen.cclark yeah there was a novel. I got it when I was young

I love how they also make up for the fact that they all look the same by giving EVERY SINGLE NPC a name. Well, almost, but that’s still pretty damn impressive.

I know! This is why I love well thought out games like this

Pastra, could you delete that comment cause i suspect its a one of em scummy links

Yeah this was one of the first games I’ve ever played from my memory

Yeah, I saw this in my notifications and nearly had a heart attack

Mee too , The same way

I LOVE THIS GAME Never finished it BUT STILL

That eye thing at the very beginning of the game was the stuff of nightmares.

I remember being frightened when seeing Mickey die in the game as a little kid. Just watching him melt into a puddle scared me away from the game for a while.

I could not play this game as a kid. Way too scared.

I kept trying to play it, but the blot dragging Mickey away and cutscene where the machine tries to remove his heart with a plunger always terrified me

While I had a higher tolerance to scare factor since I was raised on saw and dead space, I remember the clock tower scaring me a little with its freaky face and especially the music

Exactly! both games definitely deserve a remaster

The second game needs a bigger do-over, incorporating stuff like California Adventure and putting more of a focus on stuff after Walt.

tbh I would love to see a Epic Mickey with the inclusion of the Scrapper and Heroic Mickey like I honestly wish they added those also because I love how Bastard looking Scrapper Mickey is

the remake is real omg 😭

Ask, and you shall receive! They really did notice the swell of interest over time. It’s kinda funny you have a KH pfp since I distinctly remember being so butthurt that KH got so much attention as a kid and EM got way less. Now I don’t have to be upset anymore lol

Relatable

Same here

Same

I never finished it because my old WII broke with the disc inside. I'll need to buy it again someday

It's hard beating bo1 nova 6 gas campaign level mission on easy when you're little

Me!

nope

I only found this video because I was listening to that one theme where you get the brush in the second game. W theme though

Same, instantly thought of this video when I saw the announcement but pushed it off because I knew he would find out easily!

It’s getting remastered?!?! That’s so good! Does anyone know when or what console?

I heard it's a full-on remake instead of just a remaster. Either way, WE ARE SO BACK.

@@dingusmcgrimpus2973 whichever it is, I am so excited for it!!!

Honestly I agree the remakes we are getting for the switch in its last year is great

Yup, the clock tower is from “It’s a Small World”

There's a reason for that. The clock tower was driven mad by the song constantly repeating.

@@TheRPGNerd I can't blame the poor guy!

If I ever get my hands on it, I'd love to cover it

I remember my brother and I playing the sequel a few years ago on our Xbox. We never completed it, and since we don't use the Xbox anymore, I doubt we'll complete it anytime soon.

I had the original, but my young-ish self who wasn’t used to gaming couldn’t get past the first stage 💀

@@Pastraspec Be warned that the Oswald ai is HORRIBLE, so play it with a friend if you can

@@Pastraspec I think I have an Xbox 360 version I don’t use anymore

people think this game is bad?

@@aarondun8981 maybe some do but What I meant is that most people didn’t/and still don’t know about.

@@silvaguy7059As a lifetime fan, admittedly it isn’t very well designed in a lot of places. It’s to Mickey Mouse games what Sunshine is to Mario. Amazing World building and an interesting premise with some questionable design choices.

You must be excited now it’s getting a remake on the switch, I know I am!

@@TKmeh you have no idea how happy that made me!

@Kurtis no just no

Same! I remember playing as a kid and being terrified

@@itsumigaming1640 what is it and do I want to know?

dokapon kingdom is... now that's an experience

@@chaos1187 Indeed. It's one of those games I wish I could erase all memeory of to play again like it's my first run of it. Another is Xenoblade Chronicles.

Oh wow Dokapon kingdom!! I almost forgot about that game, me and my siblings would always play it, with me usually being the thief class. They weren’t too happy about it bc they knew I’d just keep going over their spaces to steal their stuff 💀 pretty sure my sister was the most competitive, wanting to get the most towns and yet being extremely unlucky. I haven’t played it in ages but now I feel like I should, it was such a fun game!!

Honestly the game is cool. It sucks it never got the true treatment it deserves. The only problem I had when playing was the camera (god it sucks) but it wasn't enough to keep me from playing. I remember being terrified of this game as a kid, literally only because of the opening haha

@@TheRPGNerd Lol nice, I was afraid of the clock tower as a kid

I've always loved this game to bits and pieces... But yeah, by the time I was finishing my 3rd playthrough (yeah, seriously), I was just wondering about the things it could've done better. I could say that the choices between being good or evil are rather minimal for the plot... but Mickey isn't an evil character. At worst, he's just impulsive and mischievous. Although there could've been a better incentive to actually ponder between making a "good" choice and a "bad" choice. The fact these are usually so paper-cut clear does make it less interesting. I mean, why use thinner on a pump, which you've been told it makes the thing work shoddily, when paint is obviously the much better option? And the rewards you get with the paint path are usually way better too. The only incentive for such is merely to see a second playthrough of the game, which isn't bad... but it is a little uninspired. And let's be honest, making the thinner path always the bad path, and the paint path always the good path is a little basic. Sure, one is a tool of creation and the other of destruction, but they're just tools. Like folks usually say, "it's the choices that make the man, not his tools", or something like that. Using the thinner cleverly for restoration, or paint in an equally clever way for destruction, that would've been hella creative! They did it well for the platforming and obstacle traversal, why not for the choice making? Now, I didn't mind the extensive side quests, it actually gave me a lot to do as I kept going through the game, and they were a good incentive to explore!... but one thing I don't like is the fact you can't freely revisit older areas in the game. What, you actually didn't manage to find an important item in Tomorrow City, or Tortooga, or the Lonesome Manor? Welp, tough luck, see ya on the next playthrough, chump! Sure, you can buy _some_ items, like the animatronic parts, but these are expensive as heck. Now, this could work as incentive for being thorough with your exploration... after you notice this fact for the first time, by which is then a little too late, which still kinda sucks. I just don't see a natural explanation to why we just can't... go back to the damn thing. We can visit the hub areas, why not the areas they connect to? They're not much of a hub if they don't serve as the hub to something at all times. And this is all why the World of Gremlins, as fantastic as it is in terms of visuals, content and exploration... still ends up feeling super disconnected from the rest of the game. You revisit Mean Street a lot during the game, it's the main hub. Yet you don't return to the World of Gremlins even _once._ Not even during the last part of the game, where you revisit all hub worlds and almost the entirety of Tomorrow City. So... was the World of Gremlins just a lengthy "tutorial"? Just a transitional area? It kinda sucks you can't go back... especially since it also has a proper village. And then there's the stuff that was cut. No, I don't mean the concept art. I mean the areas that were conceptualized, some even being developed, but didn't make the cut. Wonderland, an area based on the vast cut content from the Alice in Wonderland movie! We could've seen the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon, the Jabberwocky! Maybe some of the characters that only appeared in a series of comics that were a direct sequel to the movie, does _anyone_ even know these? They had Humpty Dumpty and the White Queen, and more! How about the other cut area that also made it into the game but we never play through, the Beanstalk Factory? I'll be honest, I don't even know what area of Disneyland parks was that one supposed to be inspired on, but for it to make it into promotional material, even the intro cutscene of the game? It had to be something big, even if the level was never made. Disney Gulch, based on Frontierland, another one (though that one appeared on the sequel, but... well, y'know, it's the sequel). And there's other ideas that didn't fit with the final story and setting but could've inspired cool stuff! An underwater kingdom ruled by an older design of Ursula, that could've been dope! I'll always love this game, don't get me wrong, but it's because of my love for it that I wish it really could've been the best version of itself! That it could be looked at fondly more consistently over the years, rather than as "the game that could've been"!

@@renasilkwood224 heh, I remember being terrified of that one too. I wasn't even aware it was based on a real attraction, as I had never gone to a Disneyland park before.

AGREED❤❤❤❤❤

i cant wait for it to come out

wonder when they'll announce a release date. hopefully it isnt cancelled before then.

It’s really a Wii game at heart they didn’t have to port it everywhere

​@@evanberry396 Its not a port, its a from the ground up remaster

Game def had the concept art to lean more into horror that’s for sure. I think they got a nice compromise between scary and not traumatizing children in the end at least

Well this game did terrify me ngl 💀 AND traumatized me a little.

Pastra’s covered yume nikki which isn’t technically horror, the upturned which was a horror comedy game. Him branching out a bit into covering media that isn’t really horror but still gives us some fun dark qnd spooky vibes just feels natural.

While the remake isn’t being made by the same company, I do hope the old dev team can be involved in a way

Sometimes, with all of the corporatism surrounding Disney and a lot of their… less ethical decisions (cough filming the Mulan remake in a location with internment camps cough), it’s hard to remember that even though the executives might not care about anything other than the dollar sign (that and their approval on social media), most of the people behind the work itself truly put their heart into it. Rewatching stuff like older Pixar films and realizing how mature many of the themes were, watching flicks like Fantasia and just staring at how incredible the animation is, as well as stuff like looking at this game’s lore (which is surprisingly dark, even for the tone this game already has) and concept art for it not only takes me back, but lets me bring that to the present with a new appreciation for it. The world isn’t all doom and gloom, and this game actually reminds me of that, and I respect it for that.

Yes, i think two videos back

So uhh, good news