Comments on: Who’s Excited For Epic Mickey?

By: malek86

malek86 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:12:06 +0000

Being italian, this is quite an interesting game for me. Disney characters are popular here – it's one of the few countries where the weekly issue is still very successful (though granted, it's losing pace a bit nowadays). Things are also a bit different. Many characters have been created here, and consequently only really used here. Also, in the italian stories, the Phantom Blot is definitely not “forgotten”, having often featured in many stories, both recent and old. then again, a lot of old characters are often used here.

Of course, the continuity is different, and the game is supposedly american-made, so I won't expect to see any of the italian characters here.

By: TurkeyPotPie

TurkeyPotPie — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:54:27 +0000

I like Scrooge as well, but Donald (at least the Donald of the old Barks comics pre-Scrooge) was no wimp. I never followed the cartoon Donald much though, perhaps he was more of a wimp there.

I'm cautiously looking forward to this game. Mickey morphed into this really bland, wholesome character once he became the face of Disney. I'd like to see a return to his character from the early cartoons, or the Gottfredson comic strip version of Mickey from the '30s. Now that was an adventurer!

By: bigmac996

bigmac996 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:11:03 +0000

I'm seriously stoked for this game. I'm an animation student and this is like a dream come true! I love the whole dark steampunk look, and how oswald the lucky rabbit is mickey's nemesis! SO CLEVER!

By: Ereek

Ereek — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:45:43 +0000

I love Scrooge, too! I never really liked Goofy, but loved Pluto.

Scrooge needs an Uncharted-Tomb Raider-style game.

By: QBasic

QBasic — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:43:02 +0000

Hard to get really EXCITED, per say…about something we only know like…2% of.

By: ndjn3979

ndjn3979 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:40:06 +0000

Who IS excited about this game? I'm curious.

By: QBasic

QBasic — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:32:11 +0000

Or better yet, a messed up version of Perri….Rixerp!

Nyooooo!

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:21:05 +0000

You wait and watch. It'll turn out to be Oswald's nobody, Xoswald.

By: denpanosekai

denpanosekai — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:00:35 +0000

There are more Canadian siliconera readers than you think.

By: TheCleaningGuy

TheCleaningGuy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:52:29 +0000

That's what I'd figured, but I'm interested to see how Disney's marketing machine conveys that.

By: Asura

Asura — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:14:49 +0000

I think the audience is people who enjoyed Disney films/cartoons as children and now grew up.

By: Saturnus

Saturnus — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:41:45 +0000

yesyesyesyesYESYES! This game looks ridiculously cool

I wish it was PS3 though lol, no worries I guess…

By: NickyD

NickyD — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:31:53 +0000

Hah! Probably why it caught my attention. “Dirty minds think alike?” I don't think that's quite how the saying goes… but…

By: JeremyR

JeremyR — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:13:54 +0000

I've always preferred his uncle Scrooge. Donald always seemed to be kind of a wimp (a hard to understand one at that), whereas Scrooge was a man (er, duck) of action and an adventurer. Really like a hero of one of those old serials or pulps, a regular Duck Savage.

By: malek86

malek86 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:12:06 +0000

Of course, the continuity is different, and the game is supposedly american-made, so I won't expect to see any of the italian characters here.