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Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed brings Warren Spector’s platformer to PC for the first timeWith modern graphics and controls
With modern graphics and controls
Image credit:THQ Nordic
Image credit:THQ Nordic
Epic Mickey, Warren Spector’s action-platforming love letter to early period Disney, is heading to PC more than a decade after its original Wii exclusive release. It’ll arrive asDisney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, a “remake” with modern graphics and controls.
Here’s the trailer, which recreates the original opening cinematic from the game:
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed | Announcement TrailerThe announcement trailer for Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed.Watch on YouTube
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed | Announcement Trailer
Epic Mickey sucks its titular character into the Wasteland, a crumbing world of forgotten Disney characters like Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Players are armed with a magic paintbrush that can change the environment, spewing out paint to rebuild parts of the world or turn enemies into allies, or spewing out paint thinner which destroys the world and wipes away enemies entirely. The story, world and music then change and adapt based on your playstyle, giving you character upgrades that fit your style, and a more downbeat soundtrack if you were a world-erasing fiend.
Epic Mickey has a mixed reputation, for fair and I think unfair reasons. Some of the criticism of it is directed towards lackluster platforming and camera problems, which is legitimate, and the kind of thing a remake can hopefully resolve. At least some of the criticism stems from people wanting Warren Spector to go make something more akin toDeus Exinstead of a family-friendly Wii platformer, however.
“A lot more people saw eye-to-eye with the vision than didn’t. Mickey 1 is the best-selling game I’ve ever worked on in my life. Mickey 2 [released 2012] is the second-best-selling game I’ve ever worked on in my life,” said Spector. “I have more fan mail and more heartfelt fan mail from more people of different genders and ages than I’ve received for every other game I’ve worked on combined. Disney fans loved the games, and there are a lot more Disney fans than you might think. So on that level, from a commercial standpoint, I don’t consider them failures.”
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed doesn’t have a release date yet but is aiming for 2024.
