Mickey wakes up strapped to a table by an evil scientist and a character called Oswald, who we later discover was pretty much the king of Wasteland before the “Thinner incident”. The painting is now a shadow of its former self and patrolled by the Shadow Blot and his Army.
Several months pass before the Shadow Blot jumps through the mirror, abducting Mickey and taking him back through and into the magical painting (Wasteland). Mickey then legs it back through the mirror and into bed before he can get caught. Mickey then splashes paint around inadvertently creating a Shadow Blot, a kind of dark monster and proceeds to knock the thinner over onto the painting. As Yen Sid packs up for the night leaving his paint, thinner and magical paintbrush out (something every parent would have a complete fit about) our curious hero decides to investigate further. Mickey walks through the mirror and sees that Yen Sid is busy creating a world for “things that have been forgotten” with a magic paintbrush that appears to bring this world to life. The story opens when our loveable mouse wakes up in bed before investigating what turns out to be a magical mirror which leads to Sorcerer Yen Sid’s workshop. So the question becomes is it Epic Mickey or Epic Fail? Read on to find out. Just before Christmas, Disney Interactive Studios released Epic Mickey on Nintendo Wii as part of a wider effort to rebrand the character and add to the aforementioned classics. The truth, though, is that within this catalogue of past appearances there are some genuine classic games, not least the Sega MegaDrive trio of Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion and Fantasia. It is perhaps a little odd then that despite this illustrious back catalogue Mickey Mouse is often seen as a poor man’s Sonic or Mario when it comes to the world of console gaming, with his games often being overlooked for the latest effort by Sega or Nintendo. As Walt Disney’s flagship character, Mickey has appeared in over 100 films spanning more than eighty years and around thirty video games across every major home console since the 8-bit days of Sega Master System and NES. Mickey Mouse is arguably the single most recognisable cartoon character across the globe.
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