With modern graphics and controls
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:
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.
Aside from remade art, and improved controls, Rebrushed will expand on Mickey’s platforming moveset, adding a “dash, ground pound and sprinting”,according to its Steam page. The remake is being handled by Purple Lamp, the studio behind recent Spongebob Squarepants remakes likeBattle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated.
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.
