Topic: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

[that Baby guy]

I've got more now, of the other four banners we missed.  I need to upload and talk about them, but they're closer up than these.  It's definitely based on Disney Land in a lot of places, but does a park have Sleeping Beauty's castle in addition to Cinderella's?  One almost definitely featured that.

As far as the whole thing goes, there's a grand total of 16 Epic Mickey banners in the hallway, eight being the Mickey Mouse style ears with concept art, and eight being some other kind of rendering with harder to see concept art, Oswald, Mickey art, and an enemy.  I've got a little bit of those, too, but they're less interesting.  It'll be some time before they go up because I'm not a miracle worker, but I'll provide a link if I find anything compelling when I do get it there.

[SilverGrey]

Are you SURE that's a castle in that one?  Looking at it, I see a warped Mattherhorn, which again would be Disneyland.  Disneyland has Sleeping Beauty Castle and Disney World and Tokyo Disney have Cinderella Castle.  I'm curious to see the others when you have them up.  I'm such a Disney nerd that it's like a seek-and-find game trying to figure out what they've twisted around.

[that Baby guy]

The one from yesterday isn't a castle.  I didn't get to retake a close-up of it, but I found Cinderella's Castle, or someone's castle, at least.  The gallery is up here.  The new feature's up, as well, talking about the new pics I took.

I would not be opposed to a game where you traverse an altered Disneyland, including angry or altered guests in the form of Disney characters.  After going to the parks so many times, I'd love a chance to take out some sort of revenge =P

[SilverGrey]

Ah, okay, much clearer castle now.  It's really tough to say which castle that is.  It's too tall to be Sleeping Beauty, and the turrets are the wrong shape to be Cinderella.  It actually looks the most like Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant which is the castle in Disneyland Paris.  Quite possibly it's meant to be a mash-up of all the current castles.

The red photo that you say could possibly be Town Hall, if you look to the far right of the building with the columns, you can see the round greenhouse that's to be found on the right side of the Magic Kingdom Haunted Mansion.  So that image could possibly be a mash-up of both Mansions.  It's a little unclear from that one if the round greenhouse is attached to that building or not.  I can't really tell.  The next photo with the ship in the background, but still red, that actually looks like a mash-up of Disneyland Mansion and Phantom Manor, the Mansion of Disneyland Paris.  Disneyland Mansion has the columns, but Phantom Manor has the Victorian style with the tower.  The pirate ship and Mansion appearing together makes sense because in Disneyland they are in the same land, which is New Orleans Square.

I love the last image with the tea cups!  Most especially cause you can see Oswald to the right, and then Mickey running off to left, over by the clock tower and the infamous It's A Small World.

Fantastic photos.  I am so excited for this game!!!

[Stratos]

Now that you mention 'It's a Small World', I am excited to see this games interpretation of both the ride/theme and any musical remixes. Remixes of that song would be pretty sweet.

[SilverGrey]

Now that you mention 'It's a Small World', I am excited to see this games interpretation of both the ride/theme and any musical remixes. Remixes of that song would be pretty sweet.

I agree, I'm really curious to see how much of the game world is like the parks, since that seems to be what all the art is showing.  If they do use the park music, I wonder if it will be altered enough to be recognizable still or not.  They do this on the Haunted Mansion ride, the whole ride there is only one song, played at different tempos, but you don't usually realize it unless you're listening closely.  The other thing I wonder is if they're going to use the parks as inspiration, which park are they going to be mimicking?  They're laid out similarly, but there are differences.  I also wonder how many of the rides they're going to be able to at least show, some of them are so popular (like the Mansion) that we've seen them several times in the artwork, but other rides (such as Snow White's Scary Adventures) probably won't appear, I would guess.  As long as the Mansion and the Jungle Cruise appear, I'll be pleased.

[broodwars]

Man, so much Disney geek-age.  It's nice to see other people who are into this stuff as much as me.   
 
Really looking forward to hopefully see Nintendo show this game off today, considering it's their only notable Wii 3rd party support right now (aside from DQ X, and who knows when Square will get around to that) that I can think of.

[Mannypon]

Wow, Epic Mickey actaully looks amazing.  So far its the highlight of Nintendo's presentation IMO.

[Caliban]

Yeah Epic Mickey looks awesome. I'm one to not like Disney at all, specially their newer stuff, but this game changes it all.

[Mannypon]

Yeah, I wasn't much of a Disney fan either while growing up, stuck mostly to Looney Toons.  The part that really got me was how you'll be able to return to old cartoon episodes for some side scrolling action through the actual film lol. 
 
I'm really suprised there was so much 2d gaming at Nintendo's conference presentation.  It really did good to bring everyone back to their roots.  So long to 2d gaming being dead lol.

[Mop it up]

I really didn't have any expectations of this game being any good, mostly because I didn't want to end up disappointed. But the brief bit that was shown at the conference was pretty amazing.

[broodwars]

I really didn't have any expectations of this game being any good, mostly because I didn't want to end up disappointed. But the brief bit that was shown at the conference was pretty amazing.

Indeed.  The visuals had a certain Kingdom Hearts flair to them.  Could have done with another environment or two to see something other than a dark jungle.

[BeautifulShy]

Anybody got a video?

[Mop it up]

Just the E3 trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o3hRlEY7Pc

EDIT: Oh wait, found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNd7s3hm3Vg

[Caliban]

Here's an interview with Warren Specter done by IGN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIXyl4DcQ4

[BeautifulShy]

Ah thanks for the videos!

This will probably be my most anticipated title.

[Toruresu]

What's so good about this is that it's still an exclusive to the Wii.

[Adrock]

I was genuinely irked by that first video because it was a whole lot of nothing. I like what I see in that developer's trailer. The game is shaping up to be something special.

[Mop it up]

What's so good about this is that it's still an exclusive to the Wii.

How does that relate to the quality of the game?

[Adrock]

It keeps developers focused on making the best game possible, rather than attempting to make 3 versions work. I guess that technically doesn't have much to do with Wii exclusivity. I'm glad there's just one version of the game though.

[Caliban]

What's so good about this is that it's still an exclusive to the Wii.

That, and it doesn't include any emo characters from Final Fantasy.

[that Baby guy]

I've got some serious footage, ten minutes of nearly completely gameplay, but it'll be a pain to upload.  Looks good, but there's item fetching, which severely disappoints me.  I'm going to be spending more time harassing the people while we're there, but I had to make the Rock Band 3 appointment at 12:30.  I'll try more tomorrow.

[Adrock]

Item fetching... ugh, when did Rare start developing this game?

[Stratos]

What's so good about this is that it's still an exclusive to the Wii.

That, and it doesn't include any emo characters from Final Fantasy.

That is why we have Warren at the helm and not Square. This is really what Kingdom Hearts should have been.

[ShyGuy]

The storyline for this game is getting me hyped.