I was expecting American McGee's Alice but with Mickey and less.... you know, fucked up. Goddamn it. Disney was cool for a while. It coulda been a contender....

I remember seeing the screenshots when they came out and I was massively disappointed. It just seems kind of...empty. And kid-friendly.

That is a bit disappointing. It sounded cool.

Such a shame. Check out that last screenshot in the slideshow. It reminds me of Bubsy 3D.

If a 3D platformer reminds anyone of Bubsy 3D then something is going wrong somewhere along the line.

That is what I feared would happen when I read that it was for the Wii...

I wonder how many games have concept art that starts like this and ends up like that.

Well shit. Can we just blame this on the game being on the Wii?

Woah, woah, woah, is this what's being passed off as a Wii-game these days? It looks like PS2!

It looks like a generic platformer featuring Mickey Mouse for Playstaion 2!

EPIC FAIL

Don't blame the Wii, blame the fact that Disney has to Disney-fying everything until it's a soul-less piece of crap.

I can only hope that those are leaked images and that they are early development, when they just wanted to get the level designs right and make sure the AIs weren't bumping into walls. The cave shot looks good, and is close to what I wanted to see the whole game made of(twisted, running-colour variations of older properties), but still not as awesome as the art work prepared me for.

*hugs* i am sad too :(

@Ramone: Disney-fying an original Disney property? Oh yea, those bastards should burn.

You are being way too harsh. It is obviously early development. Better shading is going to make the game look much better.

I'm sure the shading and whatnot will be improved. What I fear isn't is the actual artwork. I'd be fine playing a game with a cool concept but so-so graphical renditions of it. Hell, I grew up on the 8 bit nintendo. But not the other way around.

here's my take

the concept art made me have hope that there might actually be a good game with mickey mouse in it, but the slideshow brought me back down to earth. the target audience ain't gonna want a bleak dark mickey game, which would have been cool, no they want it kid friendly bc that is what disney and mickey as well as the wii seems to aim for. its a shame though, disney always loses a large chunk of fans around puberty but at the same time gains new ones automatically at birth. it's like they know this and can get away with this shit

As a wii owner, I can say that the graphics can be way better than that, so if that is what they are giving us then they aren't even trying.

fuck disney.

I really want to like this game because of the story, but these screen shots don't give me much hope for the game. Like others are saying it looks like a playstation 2 game. Hopefully the graphics improve, but as it is now epic mickey does in fact equal epic fail......

Btw, doesn't it kind of look like that mid-stage boss(?) is made out ouf Donald Duck's car?

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Yeah, I'm a little bummed about it too. Even more bummed that it was originally planned as multi platform and then they decided to focus on the Wii. Something tells me that with the extra processing power, it would have looked more like the concept art.

Yeah...this is why I wasn't getting my hopes up. Kingdom Hearts had better art/graphics than that.

Should they try, yes, they could make this look better on the Wii. There are Gamecube games that look better than this, graphically, and the Wii is certainly more powerful.

I'm sitting in the "it's probably an early build, it'll probably look cooler later" camp. The Kingdom Hearts games had better graphics than that, and those were certainly about as dark as this plot looks to me... Anyway, I'm still hopeful!

I will look better then that when it is finished I think, and there is a lot more darkness to the game then you can see int he slide show, I mean you can be a bastard in the game and make mickey look like a rat.

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The fact that it's on Wii means nothing. Resident Evil 4 (even though it isn't exclusively a Wii game) is awesome on Wii, as are many other adult games.

Oh well, I didn't really get my hopes up because I realized that this was Disney that we were talking about. Where the hell is Kingdom Hearts 3? And if they make another Organization XIII game I'm burning down buildings.

And what is up with the graphics? It looks like a early Gamecube game.

Honestly, it makes me think of Super Mario Sunshine on the GameCube more than anything else...

Which isn't bad, because that game rocked... but having already played Sunshine, I can see how, if the gameplay is similar, it'll just be redundant...

The game is early in development, it doesn't look like they put much dark gloss or detail in any of it, calm down people.

I dunno, I still think it looks pretty cool. Yes, it looks more "kiddy" than before, but Spector says in the GameInformer article that he was going for a mix of "dark" and "cute". I must reiterate: Reserve full judgment on *anything* until you experience it. Doomsaying helps no one.

I'm gonna chalk it up to the Wii. It just can't really produce the graphics that would have done this justice. This thing look so atypical of platformers of last gen it hurts.

Oh well, at least I still got Mario Galaxy 2 to look forward to.

This game isn't even going to be released until 2010 according to Destructoid. Link for proof, just in case. So yeah, this is definitely not finished product. At any rate, graphics do not make the game; I can think of plenty of awesome games with shitty graphics and shitty games with awesome graphics. Yeah, it'd be great if this game had both but if it's a bit lacking in that department when it IS a finished product, it doesn't matter as long as the game is fun to play.

And if it's kid-friendly... well, this is Disney. Most of their products are geared towards children and teenagers. The rest of us are peripheral consumers. They're glad we're here and buying, but if we get huffy about it and storm off, they're not gonna lose any sleep because we're not the target demographic, just a kind of bonus.

Personally, considering what the game is and who it's probably supposed to be for, I'm fairly impressed with this early build. They've got a year more to work on it and I want to see where this goes. Okami with Mickey Mouse in a weird dark(ish) world? That's got my attention.

Way too much whining up in here. The game looks fine. Did you really expect it to look JUST like the concept art? Has any game ever looked like its concept art? It's in early stages of development and isn't due until this time next year. Have you seen anything Mickey related that's this dark, even if it isn't as dark as the art? No, you haven't, this is fine. What you're failing to realize is that the man behind System Shock and Deus Ex is running the show, and if you can look at his track record and think "durh, this sucks!" you have issues.

Epic Fail, but no surprise when they announced it was a wii exclusive. Can't remember if it was TR or Kotaku who said that there was a plot-related reason Mickey's face isn't shown in any of the concept images, but from the screenshots he looks completely normal?! Massive disappointment.

Its too early to tell but everyone had this billed as a steampunk game or some such shit and as cool as thay would have been its not. The goofy pic we saw a while back IS I repeat IS the model of goofy you find in game. Its gonna be fun. The story is complex and not all sunshine and roses, there is a darker side to the game and I think it has the potential to be epic, just not final fantasy VII epic

Epic Sad Face :(

Sweet! Finally a new game for my N64!

I, for one, will give Diz the benefit of the doubt. Reserving judgment until something more substantial (like a game) is available.

The game still revolves around Oswald wanting Mickey dead. That's enough for me.

that's procedural (programmatic) polygon shading with no texture art yet.
just wait. it's early development.

Hate to say it, but I said that this wouldn't be all that...Uncle Scrooge should have opened up the money bin on these bitchez if they wanted a great game...

Look, I love the Wii, but in all honesty, anyone who is surprised by a Disney game about its flagship character on the Wii being sugary sweet and inoffensive, then GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK!

Well, these screenshots are all from the Small World level. And an early build at that. And Spector has said it gets darker as it goes on. And the karma system that gives you the option of being the asshole Mickey from the early cartoons sounds good.

I'll reserve judgement for now. I'm willing to bet that the graphics will improve throughout its development. And I love the Wii, so I'll probably end up getting it even if it doesn't come close to the amazing concept art.

Don't you get my hopes up no more, Disney.

SpiderHyphenMan, that part of Kingdom Hearts 2 had me wanting to kill somebody. AAARRRGH now it'll be stuck in my head foreeeeevvvvveerrr. Thanks, Phil. I wouldn't have known how to beat the Hydra if you didn't tell me 20,000 times to get up on his effing back.

As for people hating on the Wii, it is capable of much better than that. Take a look at Muramasa or A Boy and His Blob. Hopefully the game will look a lot better when it comes out, but Disney can be...unreliable.

I want EPIC ANDY PANDA for gods' sake.

It's IN DEVELOPMENT for a reason people. It's not close to being finished, so just calm down.

On the robot in the first and second picture, am I the only one that thinks it looks like Donald or Mickey's car with the giant lasers from Lilo and Stitch and a Hades Head Hood Ornament?

A Wii game that looks like crap? Imagine that!

First off, WRT. Ahem..

I am fairly certain that as a game, the final product will probably be a subpar experience, or at best, an "adequate" and serviceable platformer. The concept art was friggin' _mindblowing_, and I was expecting something along the lines of the original Kingdom Hearts, Mk II. What a (predictable) letdown, Disney.

The slideshow looks like a goddamn PS1 game.

I second WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS

Concepts art/cars always look better than production. Hence the concept part.

Another system quality that Marvel may have to help Disney out with. But who knows? Disney may still have time to work on the production of the game

Epic Mickey is going to be in development for another year, isn't it a bit too early to write this game off?

ITT people who don't know what prototyping is

Why the fuck would you expect good graphics this early in development? That's like looking at the raw footage of a fight scene from Iron Man 2 or something and saying, "YEP. I knew it'd be shit. Doesn't even have explosions or nothin'."

This article kind of changes my mind again, makes the game look awesomer.

http://www.gamesradar.com/wii/disney-epic-mickey/preview/the-11-things-you-need-to-know-about-epic-mickey/a-200910291215659086/g-2009102811119630063

"The slideshow looks like a goddamn PS1 game."

You obviously haven't seen a PS1 game.

I don't play (or buy) as many games as I use to, but I was so ready to go grab this based on the artwork and premise. Should have known it would be too cool for Disney.

EVERYONE.... shuuh... shuuh. This game more than likely has AT LEAST a full year in development...hell, if you read in a recent interview with Warren Spector, one of the headliners on the ign wii channel), they didn't even add lighting effects yet.

Oh, and if ANYONE is unaware.... Warren Spector, the main man behind this, is the same one that was behind Deus X and Thief (both of which have, at the very least, cult hits).

looks just like psychonauts.

why does everyone rip off schaeffer?