![]() With paint, to restore the places and forces opposing him to some sort of happy order, or with thinner, to simply make the bad stuff go away. The various inhabitants and realms of the Wasteland have fallen into the animated clutches of some twisted, unpleasant characters-literally, characters-and it's up to Mickey to set things right, by any means necessary. The setup: All-around animated superstar Mickey Mouse has managed to land himself in the Cartoon Wasteland-a sort of Disney-themed purgatorial repository of forgotten, back-burnered, rejected, scrapped, or otherwise abandoned animated characters, cartoon worlds, and even theme-park attractions. And suddenly, after you've watched for a while, you start to get a coherent picture of what he's doing. ![]() ![]() In fact, watching Mickey onscreen for the first time in this game is a little like watching the work of well-known speed painter David Garibaldi (who was actually on hand at E3 to literally slap some of his patented performance-painting act onto a canvas or two): He moves and jumps around frantically, often splooging brightly-colored streamers of paint around, seemingly at random, either creating or obliterating things – sometimes both at the same time, before he picks a lane and sticks with it. All that is certain is that, whatever it is Mickey Mouse is doing as he runs and jumps around, it's energetic and colorful and world-changing and… well, kinda messy, actually, all swipes and double-jumps and brightly-hued splatters (of blue 'paint' or green 'thinner'). The first time-the very first time-you see thirty seconds or so of Epic Mickey gameplay, it might not be totally clear what's happening. ![]() Because this is a cartoon, we're letting you wield the tools of the Artist-you can paint things in, and bring them back to glorious life.” That's Warren Spector, giving an admirably succinct run-down on the paint-or-erase mechanics of Disney Interactive's forthcoming Wii-exclusive action platformer, Disney: Epic Mickey. "There have been games before that allow you to remove geometry, change geometry, destroy geometry but there's never been a game, that I know of, that lets you bring it back. ![]()
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