18 Facts About Epic Mickey

Epic Mickey is a 2010 platform game developed by Junction Point Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios while Nintendo published the game in Japan for the Wii.

Epic Mickey was part of an effort by Disney to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by placing less emphasis on his pleasant, cheerful side and reintroducing the more mischievous and adventurous sides of his personality, focusing on the idea of depicting him as an epic hero.

Epic Mickey is primarily a platform game and allows players to use their own solutions for getting through the levels.

Game's key feature is a magic paintbrush, which Epic Mickey wields, that has the ability to draw or erase objects using paint and thinner.

Epic Mickey is able to materialize objects from sketches, which have various effects.

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However, Epic Mickey Mouse's fiddling with Yen Sid's paintbrush causes mass damage to the model, turning Wasteland into a post-apocalyptic landscape.

The land is tormented by the Shadow Blot, a monstrous being which Epic Mickey accidentally created using the brush and is loosely based on the Phantom Blot, an antagonist to Epic Mickey in the comic strips created by Floyd Gottfredson, as well as the Mad Doctor.

Panicking, Epic Mickey quickly tries to erase the monster by throwing thinner onto it, but spills more paint on the model in the process.

However, Epic Mickey frees himself before they can succeed and scares off the Blot with Yen Sid's brush, which had fallen into Wasteland, forcing the Mad Doctor to flee.

Epic Mickey discovers that he was soaked with some of the Blot's ink.

Epic Mickey makes it to Mean Street, where Wasteland's inhabitants mainly reside.

Epic Mickey retrieves the first part after defeating the corrupted Petetronic, an incarnation of Pete based on Sark from Tron, the next after defeating an animatronic version of Captain Hook in Ventureland, and confronts the Mad Doctor in the Lonesome Manor.

When Oswald attempts to officially be friends with Epic Mickey, Epic Mickey confesses to him that he was the cause of the Blot's existence and the Thinner Disaster.

Oswald and Ortensia land in Mean Street while Epic Mickey is sent through a portal that takes them out of Wasteland and back to Yen Sid's workshop.

Epic Mickey's chance came in 2006, when television sportscaster Al Michaels expressed interest in joining NBC to call play-by-play for Sunday Night Football, even though he had just signed a long-term deal with Disney-owned ESPN to continue on Monday Night Football.

Epic Mickey receives a character redesign in this game, which attempts to give him a "retro" look, and the game uses an animation engine to replicate the stretchy athleticism of cartoons.

An early idea for the game was for Epic Mickey to adopt an angrier look when he was played in the "scrapper" manner; this idea was dropped after Spector decided it changed Epic Mickey too much from people's perceptions of the character.

Epic Mickey received "mixed or average reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic.