By Adam Smith on November 5th, 2012 at 1:00 pm.
There short videos have been attempting to promote Epic Mickey 2 since we last looked at the game and here they are gathered in one place. I can’t believe Warren Spector has managed to incorporate quite so many Star Wars characters and settings into the game in such a short time since the acquisition. The AT-AT boss fight looks absolutely stunning. That’s all in my head, of course, but crossovers are surely inevitable. Kingdom Hearts is the obvious bet, but will Spector develop a Star Wars game? Alec says ‘Tatooine Underworld’. I’ll go with Deus X-Wing.
Non-lethal playthrough possibility confirmed! Actually, I’m guessing that Mickey only ever knocked enemies out – I doubt there’s a kill count at the end of each level.
Here it is revealed that Mickey can choose to thin the world “to nothingness”, which sounds like something an angry god would do. Accidentally knocking over a can of thinner and hearing millions of tiny voices crying out in terror, then suddenly silenced.
If you squint really hard you can see a Deathstar reflected in a glob of paint about fifteen seconds in. And I really do mean squint hard – hard enough to turn your eyeballs into diamonds.
05/11/2012 at 13:11 pupsikaso says:
Spelling inevitably as inevitable is also inevitably inevitable.
05/11/2012 at 13:14 pupsikaso says:
You know, with the camera angle like that you can’t really see the paintbrush really well. So all you can see is Mickey take a leak at everything in different coloured piss.
05/11/2012 at 13:23 phelix says:
Can…not…unsee…it….
05/11/2012 at 13:20 totallymike says:
I’m waiting for the chance to see Cloud and Anakin Skywalker in an angst battle. Duel of the Whining Teenagers
05/11/2012 at 15:21 Aerothorn says:
Cloud is not a teenager. /pedant
05/11/2012 at 15:27 Haplo says:
Tidus and Anakin, however…
05/11/2012 at 13:50 Mordsung says:
I’m still holding out for the Disney vs Marvel vs Star Wars fighting game.
It would actually be an awesome game if they made all the Disney characters the most violent ones.
05/11/2012 at 14:17 warthog2k says:
X-Wing vs Street Fighter?
05/11/2012 at 15:13 melnificent says:
X-wing vs Last starfighter
05/11/2012 at 17:40 Surlywombat says:
Forget star wars (though the prospect of Hulk ripping off Jar Jar’s eyestalks does have some appeal), they also brought Howard the Duck, time for Donald to give him the kicking he deserves imo.
05/11/2012 at 17:48 Temple says:
Closest I got so far
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2012/11/taiwans-nma-studios-takes-on-the-disney-lucasfilm-merger-has-everyone-fight-to-the-death
05/11/2012 at 17:49 Vandelay says:
Forget about just Star Wars, what about Purple Tentacle in a fighting game? What are the rights issues with Sam & Max? A psychotic rabbit fighting Yoda would be incredible!
05/11/2012 at 18:49 Rikard Peterson says:
S&M are owned by Purcell. (Both copyright and trademark are his, according to the text on the Telltale games.)
05/11/2012 at 22:56 Gap Gen says:
WALL-E is now a SHIV, etc.
05/11/2012 at 14:20 DXN says:
I find myself having a very crotchety attitude to this, and Kingdom Hearts. Alla these characters belong in the 1940′s, goddamit; everything about their design is completely of that period, and they’ve only gotten more and more anachronistic and out of place as Disney has forced them into newer and newer contexts to perpetuate their branding and copyright. I honestly find it quite creepy… these new incarnations are people that SHOULD NOT EXIST. Their existence is all fucked up, but they’re insanely chirpy about it. Augh.
05/11/2012 at 15:20 MrLebanon says:
I’m guessing you never played Kingdom Hearts? I thought they fit quite well in the unique environment
05/11/2012 at 18:23 CapeMonkey says:
That kind of sounds like the plot to Epic Mickey 1 – not sure if that self-awareness makes it better or worse or not different at all though.
05/11/2012 at 20:41 Dances to Podcasts says:
Wait… this isn’t part of the Star Wars derail?
05/11/2012 at 14:38 welverin says:
I find it amusing that at the end of each video extra platforms were added to the row of boxes displayed.
05/11/2012 at 17:32 Urthman says:
I’m looking forward to earning +5 Dark Side points every time you use the thinner and +5 Light Side points when you use paint. Also, Micky’s eyes and tattoos should glow red if he gets lots of Dark Side points.
(And by “looking forward to,” I mean wincing.)
05/11/2012 at 20:10 Zogtee says:
So, when is this out for the PC, then..?
05/11/2012 at 21:04 Venkman says:
At some point in the last 15 years, Disney was considering an animated series starring Horace Horsecollar that basically addressed what you’re saying. Although for the record, the characters are more ’20s-’30s than ’40s.
06/11/2012 at 00:19 belgand says:
I was at Disney Land a few months back and they already are awash in Star Wars stuff. Primarily it’s due to having Star Tours there, but they’ve taken that as license to sell a wide variety of Disney/Star Wars cross merchandise (e.g. Jedi Mickey pins and the like) around the park. If you also count the Indiana Jones rides it seems like you wouldn’t even know they hadn’t owned Lucasfilm all along.
06/11/2012 at 00:31 melnificent says:
Epic Campaign
Disney is running an extensive PR campaign across gaming, consumer, parenting and kids titles. Epic Mickey 2 will also see a three-month long online campaign focusing on its digital media partners and there will be six-sheet coverage on digital screens in major shopping centres across the country.
That is all…..