okay! i gave it a fair spin for some first impressions....
i'm not really sure what to think,the game pretty much starts in full tutorial mode
you jump with A (and double jump by pressing A twice)
waggling let you do a spin attack (suspiciously similiar to mario galaxy)
you control the camera with the digital buttons (it doesn't bother me much but i pretty much expect at least 2 reviews complaining about bad camera simply because of this)
pointing at the screen and pressing B or Z let you shoots paint or thinner... paint makes platform appear while thinner make platform disappear,this would have been a nice concept but you can only control certain platform so in the end it's more or less a "PRESS B TO CONTINUE" gimmick,for example a wall blocks your way but you can delete it with thinner! you have to cross a gap but you can make a platform with paint! rubble blocks your way but you can make it fall below by deleting the platform they stand on with thinner and then make it appear again with paint! you get the idea...
you get tutorialed by a little gremlin named gus (
apparently related to this book) and he's pretty much what tvtropes calls
an exposition fairy and oh boy it takes quite a while for him to shut up... i don't think i'm exagerating by saying he told me that waggling makes me spin at least in 4 different occasion,luckily he settles down after the first tutorialish level
the problem i have with the game is that... well for being a disney related game they sure fumbled the first bit,the only thing you get to see for the first part are pipe's,sluggage and cogs,it doesn't feel like "ruined disney world" it feels like "sewer level" actualy a fucked up sewer level because even then you get to see some theme park attraction,then you climb a mini japanese pagoda (because apparently it's the asia part) and near the end you climb a mini eifell tower (because it's the europe part) the music also sounds very sewerish
mmm... what else,hidden around the game there are pins,these are divided into bronze,silver and gold... i'm not sure what they do,so far they had no use,some of them are gotten trough doing some side-quest (for example when you reach the theme park bit,you can repair the attraction and doing so reward you with a gold pin) and other are just hidden in the level,breaking stuff around also gives you money which you can use to buy stuff
there also seems to be a morality system tough i don't really understand the reasoning behind it other than "I AM WARREN SPECTOR,I SHALL HAVE A MORAL SYSTEM!" for example on the first level,there is a catapult which holds a captive gremlin and a chest,you can decide to save the gremlin and leave the chest alone or open the chest and ignore the gremlin,machine can be repaired trough the use of paint or broken trough the use of thinner,the first boss of the game can be befriended trough the use of paint or killed trough the use of thinner and at a certain point you can skip a fetch quest by being a jerk (i did this unintentionally tough this came after a loooooooooooooong series of incredibly boring fetch quest so can't say i feel particulary sorry about it)
the point is that what you do doesn't seems to have any sort of impact (well befriending the boss gave me a paint powerup instead of a thinner powerup but that's about it) so other than a surprise ending where mickey mouse ends up murdering everybody because he broke down a machine i don't see what's the point
so far i haven't said anything good about the game but well there is some stuff i like about it,first of all... the cutscene are drawed like a cartoon and are really well done tough sadly there is no voice acting (mickey mouse speak in mickey mousish sounds...) plus i really like the plot about "sad forgotten disney character" in fact if you like disney you should give them a watch on youtube if someone ever decide to put them up
the second thing i do like a lot is that as you transiction between the 3D levels,you enter inside projector and play really shorts 2D level based on a mickey mouse cartoon,these level are awesome and i'm not sure why they are so short (we are talking 2 minute affairs at best) when the 3D part of the game is so damn happy to drag around forever and ever,cartoon used so far include
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the last 3D level i played improved a little
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it was a mountain with mickey mouse related junk scattered all around
but the music still sucked a bit
mmm... what else,what else... the game is ultra easy,mickey mouse takes 5 hits before biting the dust,health powerup are everywhere and dying just means starting from the last room you entered
the plot also involve HEARTSSSSSSSS so i can't wait for the tears of the kingdom hearts hater who wanted a matooooooooooooooor disney game
