Epic Mickey Is an Epic Asshole
Man, I’d forgotten what a prick early ’30s Mickey is. So let’s watch the intro to the Epic Mickey game and get this straight — Mickey breaks into another world and Yen Sid’s house, fucks with a mystic artifact he has no idea how to use or what it’s capable of, fucks up an entire mystical world in about 30 seconds, creates the Phantom Blot, and, as soon as everything is good and fucked, runs home with his tail between his legs to let someone else clean it up. Christ, what an asshole.
That said, I’m still not sure about Epic Mickey. it might be fine, but it just seems like the whole game is a gigantic missed opportunity from when Disney backed down on making the twisted, dark game that was originally envisioned. That’s the game I want to play. This, I’m not so sure. Thanks to Mike T. for the tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.