Do you remember the Disney character Horace Horsecollar? How about the phantom blot? What about Disney’s original star character, Oswald the lucky rabbit? Well that’s why there’re in a place called wasteland.
In Disney’s Epic Mickey Wii video game, the sorcerer Yen Sid created a model in his workshop using a magic brush, paint, and paint thinner. The world was filled with characters and Disney rides that were forgotten or removed. Mickey uses his mirror as a portal into yen Sid’s workshop. He finds the model, and the items used to make it. He makes a blob of that looks like a shadow version of himself. He puts more paint into it and as it gets bigger it becomes a monster, a monster known as the phantom blot. Mickey dumps the bucket of thinner on it in an attempt to fix everything. Yen Sid starts coming back to investigate what all the noise is about. Mickey panics, puts the brush back in its spot, and runs back to the mirror. The thinner that was poured out fell on the wasteland. The blot used the hole burned by the thinner to enter it and recover. The wasteland by the toons’ perspective was a giant ultra deluxe retirement home/ community. Then the thinner disaster happened. Most were wiped away towns were ravished. Oswald, the original resident and king, went into hiding as the blot took control of waste land. Years later, the blot conspires with the mad doctor and abducts Mickey through his mirror and drags him into wasteland.
In the game you’re given to different weapons, paint and paint thinner. One represents good and the other evil. You’re also given choices to be good or evil. For example, a gremlin is captured and put on a catapult. There is a treasure chest on a weight sensitive trigger. The gremlin looks mad enough to destroy the catapult. If you take the treasure, the gremlin is flung to a galaxy far far away. If you save him, he destroys the catapult and the treasure in it. As you probably guessed, doing good will help you in the game, but makes things go slower, doing bad will make it harder, but faster.
There is also extra stuff you collect in the game. In shops you can buy concept art. In the side scrolling levels you can collect film reels, if you collect every part from a movie, you can watch it in the extras, you can also look at various pins you have. The only down side is the camera being awkward. People say it’s a platform game, but I don’t see it as a platform game. To me it’s an adventure game with platform elements. There are still plenty of copies left, so once you have one, (if you want one) be prepared learn A LOT of Disney history. Everything in this game is recycled.
