![]() ![]() NoE: Collectibles are a big part of the Disney experience - is there any sort of bonus or collectible side to Disney Epic Mickey? Gremlin Gus is the character who acts as your conscience, who understands the world really well and helps to guide you through the experience. He plays, I call it ‘Mickey’s spirit guide’ - he’s like Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio or the mouse who befriends Dumbo. You’ve got Gremlin Gus, who’s a real character created by Roald Dahl and Walt Disney. I held the storyboards from that movie in my hands and I just fell in love with those characters, so, it’s really kind of an honour to include them. Disney and children’s book author Roald Dahl (who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) created these characters in World War II way back when, Disney were working on a movie featuring them that never got made. Personally, I’m really psyched about the Gremlins. WS: There were a lot of characters waiting for audiences to remember them. NoE: Are there any ‘forgotten’ characters from long ago that you are particularly pleased to have included in the game? So when Mickey’s mischief accidentally results in the devastation of his world, Oswald obviously has another reason to resent Mickey! Instead the idea of the game is that the power of his imagination brought them to Wasteland, which Oswald ruled and made into a nice place where characters could wait until audiences were ready to embrace them again. Used to set the scene for the story, the latest trailer for the new game includes a musical introduction from the previous game's villain, The Mad Doctor - who promises everyone he's now a reformed man.A lot of the game is about how characters want to be loved by an audience: when audiences leave them behind, like when black and white versions of characters are replaced by coloured versions, I couldn’t imagine Walt Disney just thinking of them as gone and forgotten. Don't worry though - you won't have to join in with the singing. The sequel plans to take this morality system a step further and actually even affects the songs that appear in the game. ![]() In the first game, how you behaved changed how the residents perceived you, depending on whether you used your paint to make wasteland a better place and helped people out with their problems, or shot thinner everywhere and were generally a bit of a roughneck. Aside from being used to solve the many puzzles you'll encounter on your journey, the paint and paint thinner can also be used against enemies, to either persuade them to join your side, or exterminate them - and, in an interesting twist, your actions will have consequences later in the game.Īs with the previous Epic Mickey game, Epic Mickey 2 promises to make use of a concept known as 'playstyle matters', where you can tackle the game's challenges however you see fit - which in turn will influence how the story pans out. By making clever use of his 'weapons', Mickey can make bridges and ledges appear, leading the way to the next part of the level - or he can use his paint thinner to remove things, like gears in machines, to help make his way through the level easier. Once again armed with his magical paintbrush and bucket of paint thinner, Mickey heads off to uncover the truth behind the Mad Doctor's reformation and reappearance. But not long after accepting the Mad Doctor's peace offering, Wasteland starts to suffer - which is when Oswald's friend and advisor, Gus the Gremlin, along with Oswald's girlfriend/wife Ortensia send out a plea to help to Mickey Mouse. Supposedly defeated in the original, Epic Mickey 2 opens with the Mad Doctor reappearing, claiming to be a reformed man, as he offers his services in repairing and restoring the land of Wasteland. Set a few years after the previous game, Epic Mickey 2 once again takes place in the Cartoon Wasteland - a world where abandoned ideas for cartoon characters live alongside similarly thrown away concepts for rides for the Disneyland parks, which is a much happier place, without the tyranny of the evil Shadow Blot and Mad Doctor, who'd attempted to capture Mickey in the first game in an attempt to escape from the Wasteland. Yes, you did read that right - instead of long, boring cutscenes, we'll have singing pantomime villains, and musical showdowns galore - and with the release of a new video showing the intro to the game, we now have our first glimpse of quite how it's going to work. He may be one of the world's most iconic characters, but for the upcoming co-op platformer Epic Mickey 2: The Power Of Two, the talented mouse looks set to try his hand at something a little bit different, by taking part in a game, that, while it plays out a bit like the Lego games, is also a full blown musical. ![]()
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