[Quick Look] Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two - PC version [2014]
1Epic Mickey: Power of Two a game that destroyed Disney Game studios ... ended Warren Spector career and ... made a statement that Wiiu is not a power house console ...
Part 1 was a thing, everyone bought blind ... for one thing, it had the genius of Warren Spector, the guy behind Deus Ex 1 ... and well, people wanted deus ex...
So why was this game bad ... gameplay wise it was EPIC MICKEY 1 ... but its controls where made for Wii ... and not for a Pad with two analogs ... and this was the point , controls sucked ... when others elements in it where top notch
So what about Wiiu , well it was a port of Xbox 360 then a game developed for this console ... with terrible results ... slow laggy frames ... making the game crash ... slow to a crawl ... and even brake Wiiu ... ouch
Not to mention this game, was build around the gimmick of 2013 games ... forced CO-OP ... oh man its was bad ... I tell you ... when the second player AI was dumb as a brick ... you can see this, when I try to jump over and grab his legs , nope said the AI and jumped too high for me to grab them to get across the gap ...
Reception for this game was AWFUL ... camera sucked , coop sucked , controls sucked , games was generic ... but ok ... and sales of it where so low it was a commercial bomb... Following these financial losses, Disney made an official statement on January 29, 2013 that Junction Point Studios ... the makers of this game, where to close shop... and soon after Disney Games Studios stooped making games ... Disney was on a brink of bankruptcy .... yup it was that bad ... and then they bought LUCAS ART
ouch
so from now on , no more Disney produced games ... all are made by third parties that licensed a IP from Disney ... this way Disney will not lose any more money from this video game venture
So... now we are here in 2014 ... so WTF is this doing on PC ... well back in 2013 CD-project put a lot of money into it , translating it into Polish and Czech ... they translated the PC version ... and when the PC version was cancelled they made a Class Action Lawsuit ... and sued Disney for money , so what did Disney they given a limited PC release in Eastern European countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic to counter, this case against them back in 2013 ... but this version was only in Polish or Czech... so we are now in 2014 when Disney wants the PC master race back ... 2014 the year of all ports heading to PC ... and they put nearly all they cancelled PC games on Steam ... so yeah ... PC gets all in 2014
But is it really that bad ? No it is not , but its awkward controls that are well ....Wii controls ported over to other devices, mixed with the fact, that the Console version that should sale more has awful performance issues (WiiU)... and you get a Multi million dollar Ip... that nearly destroyed the Mickey Mouse Ip in the gaming world ... that was only saved by a third party remake of a SNES game
Again, Explain to ME what went wrong ... ggrrrhhhhhhrrrr you control with two analogues... left one is for movement, right one is for controlling two things at the same time ... you move a white cycle in a invisible square , if it hits one of its sides of this invisible square then the camera will move ... so now imagine you have to fight 3 enemies , jump,aim, move the camera ...all at the same time ... uhm yeah you can jump, you can aim ... but camera controls nope... they suck balls
Why not a button, to use the brush like in Okami or , make it like a TPS shooter ... nope invisible square aiming and controlling the camera ... and that's all
hehe yeah that's all ... control issues for a OK game that was not released in the right time slot to harness the moneys ... heck if they would made it a WiiU exclusive , fixed the performance it would sell more ... people on that console... the N fans, are shit crazy and hungry for any shit game ...