Epic Mickey 2: Power of Two review

For Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, and PlayStation Vita.

Epic Mickey 2: Power of Two is the sequal to the well beloved Epic Mickey game. Although it does have a decent story, decent character designs, and some decent gameplay, it has numerous flaws that ruin it as a great game.

Gameplay Good vs. Bad. What's good about this game is the story to the sequal makes sense as it involes the Mad Doctor lying about being a rehabilitated ex-villian, even helping fix Wasteland after it's devastating earthquake. Ortensia, Gus, and the Gremlins are not believing this and summon Mickey to help investigate. Gameplay is mostly done with Mickey as player one and Oswald as player two. You have the choice of playing just as Mickey or involving both characters in co-op mode. It seems more fun in co-op as this game is centered on playing as both Mickey AND Oswald. Mickey can either paint or erase certain objects in the game which is important for advancing such as erasing obstacles and painting assets. Oswald uses electricity and can fly like a helicopter.
What's bad here is the less pleasing controls. You may find yourself needing to use Oswald but you'll need to have another controller handy to do so. Oswald does have AI when not in use by human player but there could be times when Mickey's jumping isn't good enough for them too high ledges. Mickey can also hang onto Oswald when helicoptering but it won't last too long. Plus, camera angles just seem so out of touch. By that I mean you have to try harder to align the cameras to an appropriate angle.

Graphics on the other hand aren't much of an improvement either. For a Wii game, it's fine but for Wii U it could have made more detail to the environments. The character designs however are great and the design does give a feel of early 20th century Disney. Had this game had more polish to it's environments, graphics would be fine for more advanced consoles.

Overall, Epic Mickey 2 is very disappointing and on some instances insulting to Disney's Mickey Mouse. Epic Mickey 2 could have been a great game, especially for the Wii U but instead was filled with comprmise after compromise. Ain't That A Shame?

Final rating gets a 69/100