Epic Oswald, Epic Mickey

[hadesbabe]

So, earlier this week we went on an Epic Mickey pre-order binge.  The game, the strategy book, the special paint brush controller-- oh, yeah, and a Wii.  I confessed to the store manager who was helping us that we're getting the console just for that game, and she said she is doing the same thing.  She play tested it in San Antonio and has been on

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[technomage]

This may the be shove that finally gets me to buy a large flat screen for the living room. After all, the Wii in our house is mine.

[hadesbabe]

It's a pretty wonderful game. Warren Spector treated the characters and source material with a great amount of respect. Really cool aspect-- you can unlock two b&w cartoons, one with Oswald (so kids can see he really was a cartoon star) and one with Mickey (so kids can see that he was a cartoon star before he was a corporate icon).

I cried at the end.

I also accidentally melted Oswald once, which was, bar none, absolutely the most disturbing thing I've ever done or seen in any video game, ever. EVER. I lost a couple of hours of playtime to roll back to a previous save point so that I could tell myself it never happened. :P I'm such a pathetic geek.

But the game is great, no mistake. It actually competes on equal footing with Fallout: New Vegas for my gaming time, and that's sayin' somethin'.

(Re: your Wii: The kid down the street thinks we're "super cool" because we have a bank of game consoles and no kids.)