Epic Mickey - What Happened?
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2020
- On this episode of What Happened, we brave the perilous haunted halls of the Disney vaults, to explore one of the most divisive games ever associated with the animation giant!
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The fact that Disney had to sell a Real Human Man to get the rights for Oswald will always be THE funniest thing about this game's development.
Wouldn't be the first, last or most morally ambiguous action Disney's taken
Imagine being the exchange coing for a 70+ character that they barely used in the following years.
But it was a sports guy, so it balances out in entertainment value.
@@T-Jex Well oswald is getting his own show soon
@@infernous.. wait, really?
0:25 - You were waiting your whole channel's life to use that clip.
He used it before
On this specific episode as well.
Maybe that's real reason this whole show was made lol.
I know i was.
The way mickey runs in that clip will forever be funny to me lmao
*Looks at title*
"I can only hope he plays the fabled-"
*Plays Mickey's Wha Happun in the first 30 seconds*
"YES."
As someone who followed the development of this game closely Matt THANK YOU TO BRING UP HE BIT ABOUT THE CONCEPT ART.
People to this day still assume that was ALWAYS like it was gonna look like and keep assuming Epic Mickey was gonna be this super serious ultram grim dark thing when it really wasn't.
And that the game would only be sold at Hot Topic.
@Cyrus McWind No, Hot Topic is still a thing, somehow. My 14 year old daughter loves the place.
@Cyrus McWind Unfortunately, malls (indoor & outdoor/strip) are becoming that way. The ONLY way I could see keeping malls alive (in the short term) is having all the major and mid-major stores to downsize the current store sizes to being big enough for online order pickups & a kiosk machine (with free shipping for ordering right then & there).
@Cyrus McWind Hot Topic is still a joke even now, but in a good way. It's a store for people who normally wouldn't bother going to the mall.
magusxxx Hot Topic has kind of morphed into a pop culture store and isn’t really goth anymore- to the point where they own another franchise called Box Lunch that is just entirely Disney, anime, Nickelodeon, that kind of stuff.
I like Disney a lot and I own a bunch of their games (the entire KH series, Ducktales Remastered, Epic Mickey 1&2) and I’m surprised they don’t have more success with games. Creative, expansive worlds with a lot of heart are what they do best. That should translate to games as well.
Long story short: Disney quietly killed Half-Life 3 10 years ago
*Shakes fist angrilly* _Disneeeey_
I'm pissed
Disney always ruin everything
They killed club penguin!
I can't believe I never heard this before now. I can't believe no one has ever heard it.
EVERYONE should know about it. It's so legendarily stupid.
Did you know, Tetsuya Nomura, the guy who made Kingdom Hearts, had requested for Oswald's use in Kingdom Hearts 3, but the response from Disney was that the character would be "too difficult" to use, with no further clarification or details from Disney.
Darn, I would have liked to see "the king" talk about and/or to his (older) brother
Wait, but you don't control most characters other than Sora, Donald, and Goofy. How's that an excuse? Maybe in KH's 4.
Meanwhile smash bros just gets whatever character they want
A couple of things I want to add: Spector wasn't originally on-board with Disney approaching him to do what he thought was a "kid's game", but when Disney pointed out in a second meeting that they wanted to make Mickey Mouse relevant again, he jumped on the chance.
They also didn't realize Spector was a huge collector of old Disney memorabilia and even wrote his college thesis on old Disney cartoons.
Rabbidking Might be another reason he enjoyed working on the games as much as he did.
This sounds so funny to me
Spector: I ain't trying to make no f****** kid's game!
Disney: We'll give you Mickey Mouse
Spector: where do I sign?
Spector is such a Disney fan that he even write a few issues of the DuckTales comic book after EM2 was released.
I actually have fond memories of the Epic Mickey franchise. I love the first game, the entire concept, the narrative, Oswald was both adorable and compelling and the second game ...exists. It’s a pity that behind the scenes, the franchise was unlucky from the start. Of all the games that deserve a remake, I think the first Epic Mickey absolutely deserves a chance (with improved controls).
videoluver7 well more power to you.
Frank Welker does a great job as Oswald. That's about as much as I can say about EM2 because I never got to play it myself.
What about Epic Mickey 2 3DS? It was essentially a Castle of Illusion sequel.
For me, what really stopped me from buying it was the missed opportunity of the gameplay. The paint and thinner mechanic I thought was going to be something where players could choose to be destructive or creative, which is actually a really brilliant idea, but... We didn't really get that. Or at least the version that I thought we were going to get. I was picturing Mickey being able to summon objects at will with paint or destroy things with thinner, but instead, all we got was a terrain fill-in/removal tool.
*yawn*
Perhaps the story is still worth playing the game for, but eh.
all i need is a remaster tbh
"...precisely around that time period, Disney was famous for quickly purchasing studios..." "...just as quickly shutting them down once profits started to take a dip."
Ah, the EA strategy; how bold.
A strategy not even Disney could keep up with. EA, a true master.
And now they directly work with EA to handle one of their most valuable licenses.
Fitting, isn't it?
At least Disney gave them full creative control, unlike EA
Nate Blair EA is the Disney of video games not gana lie
i personally found it interesting that warren specter didnt let the negativity get him down, and he wasnt like overly mean about the issues people had with the game. He just quietly tried to fix them and was proud of what his team was able to make even if reviewers didnt enjoy it. it shows the man is able to at the very least take criticism and knows where his attention is more better focused, and its not at calling his nay sayers names.
And he tried to take a bullet for the team...but disney nuked the company.
@@Mysticgamer At least he died with honor. (I know he ain't dead, but still)
For an odd change of pace, I actually kind of respect that little "screw Metacritic, I think we made a good game and I'm happy with it" tirade. It exudes a genuine passion for the project, especially as compared to say, I don't know, Randy Pitchford and his limp-wristed insistence that Aliens: Colonial Marines was a good game simply out of his long-standing inability to accept culpability. A difference of "I think the game is good" versus "YOU should think the game is good", if you will.
Yeah, I'm with the guy on this one. "Screw Everyone" isn't a great sound-byte but in context I get it. He did what he set out to do and a lot of people really liked it, apparently. He wasn't going to worry that others didn't. Honestly that's an attitude a lot more people should have.
nobody gets to make a perfect game, so being proud of what he managed makes perfect sense.
Matt did it, he finally used Mickey's "Wha Happun", content has peaked.
I have to say, when Epic Mickey released, I was actually intrigued by it, especially why it was getting more coverage on gaming sites, but it had that Disney and Spector name to live up too, which kinda went nowhere sadly.
I used it in an earlier vid lol
Well damn, I could I forget that! Great video as always though.
I think.... I think I might have owned Epic Mickey on the Wii...... but I cannot for the life of me remember how far I got and why I stopped playing....
Epic mickey 2 was an upgrade just because of voice lines, and not being on the wii
Kinda surprised you didn't mention how Epic Mickey 2 was essentially rushed out the door and was supposed to be a lot bigger
Unless you're planning on a Wha Happun for Epic Mickey 2 too
bbletsplays when I got that game for Christmas, I beat it in one day... it was so easy and so short
@@BeeTGM11 iirc what was released was only the first act of the game
bbletsplays I apologize but what does “iirc” stand for?
@@BeeTGM11 if I remember correctly
That's because not only did Disney want it to be a launch title for the Wii U, but they also wanted it to be released on Mickey's birthday. The sequel barely included more new forgotten Disney characters other than the three little pigs and that's one of the many reasons why it became such an underwhelming mess that led to the series along with it's planned future titles getting cancelled.
Atleast it turned out to be a great game unlike most of the games on what happend
Oh absolutely
It turned out to be one of my favorite games for the wii back in the day
Tried replaying and yeah cameras pretty rank
Still a favorite
Can't agree more, still had a happy ending in the end. There was a 3DS spin-off known as Power of Illusion i played and relatively liked it as well, granted i think it was more platforming then messing around with paint and thinner. Still a good time if you can find a copy of the game or snag it on the eShop.
Great game? Nah.
But it was better than most of the other Wha Happpun subjects.
I agree. Epic Mickey for the Wii was a fun and beautiful game. The art style was fabulous. If not for the confusing camera, it would be a remarkable game.
Epic Mickey 2 on the other side ... was unfortunately a pain
Rogerio Andrade I think epic Mickey 2 was pretty good not as good as the first one but still pretty cool and fun
oh look its my favorite game of all time.
oh what happened.
*I CAN'T HANDLE THE HEARTBREAK AGAIN*
when i saw the notifications i was like. pleas don’t let my childhood be a lie
John Doe there was a third one for 3DS as well
@@sonicmania6753 I've played that one. it's only epic mickey in name only though, more of a sequel to castle of illusion. and I'll argue, not a very good sequel.
@@FyFanNollan e...excuse me?
@@FyFanNollan Is...Is this a threat?
Guess everyone's coming back here since today's announcement.
Imagine being to your wife like, or mom or kids or friends “I just got traded for a cartoon character” lmaoooo
The one thing that bummed me out that was scrapped in the final game was the morality system they showed in the concept models for Mickey. Do good deeds and he looks more heroic and modern, do evil and he looks more like his original rendition that looked more mouse like.
Yo Matt, here’s my suggestion for a future episode: Alone in the Dark 2008 (Inferno). The dumpster fire it was, and Atari’s meddling behind the scenes needs to be brought to light
I dunno, there isn’t a whole lot to mention that came before that, other than the game started preproduction in ‘03 and production in ‘06, where it first was showed off at E3. Other than that, there isn’t much known about the development.
@@unicorntomboy9736 maybe when Yandere Simulator releases in 2057
yeah Alone in the Dark 2008 and maybe Alone in the Dark Illumination would be perfect for the show
@@unicorntomboy9736 YanSim is still under "active" development. Before asking for a What Happened? wait until the game releases, or, (the more likely option) wait until Yandere Dev gives up, and cancels the game.
I noticed that you seem to be unsure whether to use the generic "ad break" screen or the SKULL CASCADE to denote the presence of an ad break in these videos. Personally, I think the SKULL CASCADE is far less jarring (and far more AWESOME) than the regular screen.
Agree. The ad break kinda hurts the flow.
Yeah, the cascade is especially better too when UA-cam decides to not play an ad. Without the ad, the ad break screen just seems out-of-place, while the skulls act as an actual scene transition.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actual ad on any of these videos, so I kept thinking that the “ad break” transition was some joke that I was out of the loop on.
@@icantthinkofaname1009 I get them pretty regularly. Are you using AdBlock? I usually watch UA-cam videos on my TV, where I don't really have a choice.
I actually remember this game super fondly. I have the official art book, and some of the concept art and ideas are beautiful and almost horror-esque, honestly look up the concept art sometimes and it looks almost like the Bendy series
GrundleBurger I’m hoping we get more inspired games like Epic Mickey. Hell thanks to Epic Mickey I’m planning my own 30s rubberhose horror platformer game.
The only game I have been able to play was the second sequel. I had some difficulty since I'm not yet used to 3D Platforming at the time.
Though I do own the official art book for the first one, and boy it was a joy to read through!
I know this isn't the fun "Disney traded Al Michaels for Oswald the Rabbit" story, but Michaels was looking to get out of his ABC contract because he didn't want to do Monday Night Football on ESPN instead of broadcast ABC and wanted to join his former partner Madden (you know, that guy) at NBC for Sunday Night. Iger correctly saw an opportunity to get the rights for something he badly wanted to revive and knew it would be an easy throw in for this blockbuster deal - as Oswald was practically worthless to Universal.
Disney has since included Oswald in their historic and retro ventures, so its better than him rotting away useless at Universal. It also ties up a bit of a loose end that one the most iconic character of all time is basically a rights dodge knockoff of work done for another company and used to for your own startup.
Maybe they should buy The Shield from Archie Comics next... just to be sure.
I was SO excited for Epic Mickey. Every article about it in Nintendo Power (RIP) made it sound like it had a lot of cool ideas. Not all of them made it to the end, like Mickey's appearance getting more and more sinister if you choose the evil route, but I was still pumped to buy the game. Unfortunately, I've never finished it because it was so buggy and hard to control. But I still stand behind the concepts of bringing back obscure characters and being able to corrupt/save bosses. I really hope it gets a remake!
While Epic Mickey didn’t have the “more sinister looking” feature it did have a feature where mickey would drip more and more ooze the more thinner you used and became more solid the more paint you use.
@@biscuittin4874 That’s cool albeit is still a far more inferior alternative. I’ve played this game since it released and only today after reading your comment have I noticed that. Obviously a change that takes someone outside of the game explicitly telling you it’s their is a bad change.
Cant believe nintendo power lasted that long. Last issue i ever saw was about pokemon fire red/leaf green.
after hearing about what Disney did to Propaganda, Blackrock, and Junction Point i'm starting to think a acquisition deal with Disney could be just as disastrous for your company as EA or Activision.
i'd rather not give Disney any ideas, i know both EA and Activision have done shady and/or underhanded things in recent years, but i'd rather not encourage Disney doing something shady and/or underhanded themselves.
It's so sad that the world of this game, this really exciting world of scrapped Disney ideas, is stuck in limbo now. I loved Epic Mickey. They should make this a movie or a TV series.
I'm not gonna lie, I'd love an Epic Mickey Collection for the Switch. I never got to play the original releases and I want too.
I would probably just want the first game the second game was actually really bad but maybe they could take some elements from the second one and put it in a remake like costumes and multiplayer with like a googi version of Mickey
@@crryan5974 Like a remaster! I never hated it, but I was younger. It would be nice to see this game expanded upon!!! The ideas were really cool and there was some of the BEST concept art ever.
@@crryan5974 I enjoyed both
Well….
5:51 You know, concept art aside, I remember Spector in interviews promising a WHOLE lot more than just "wanting to bring Oswald back". I remember him hinting at things like Scrapper Mickey, how he wanted Disney to "scare children" again, a play choice system that had more bite than the finished product had. He would always talk such a big game on how big and grand and dark it was gonna be, so for him afterwards to pretend like he never said those things, that what we saw we never where gonna get and imply that it was those excited who where at fault for having high expectations sounds like a huge "DODGE" to me on his part.
I know that last line doesn't make much sense, I'll edit it once I find the right words.
0:37 Ngl, this Yen Sid looks much better than the one in Kingdom Hearts. KH Yen Sid looks creepy af.
How many are here after the Rebrushed announcement?
Me
The WHAT
@@thewiseoldfox we getting remake
@@cannongod6523 oo
4:08 OMG laughing Ed *must* become a fixture of this series from here on out.
I remember seeing an interview for kids he did for this game, where he mentioned slipping in 0451, a "reference from his adult games". RIP
@@drakkenmensch It's expanded to almost every immersive sim, whatever the hell that genre name means.
Those skull transitions look really sick, but feel awkward and empty without any accompanying SFX. Maybe a slew of cascading xylophone notes because they're skulls knocking together.
I guess they took your advice
12:05 I'm currently watching through What Happened backwards (largely for convenience with the playlist) and this is the one thing doing that that stands out as not having aged well at all... Somehow doubt that Disney would trust them with this after this game featured here
Despite all, the games did manage to bring a dedicated audience, and thanks to this recent trend to focus on the early stages of animation thanks to games like Bendy and the Ink Machine and Cuphead, more and more people are growing even fonder towards Epic Mickey. And that's pretty epic.
Epic Mickey 2, from what I’ve heard, is actually good on, surprise surprise, the wii. Probably why all the other platforms suffered - that and the fact the mechanics of the original were built for the wii.
Those leaked concept images for the game still seriously terrify me, particularly the black and white sketches.
So... Disney remembered they had a game.
To be fair, Disney has been regularly releasing alot of old 16 bit Disney games as of late, and I'm also 90% sure this remake/remaster was in works years ago (as stated in this video) but then completely scrapped and taken away, and given to another studio.
Knowing now how the XIII remake turned out.... yeah maybe it's better if we don't get the Epic Mickey remake.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Im here cause of the remake
And so are you
And now 4 years later, an Epic Mickey REMAKE was announced instead of that rumored remaster
... Matt. You only made this video for that one Mickey Mouse clip, didn't you? Respect though.
There was a part you missed about the disasterous release of Epic Mickey 2 that I figured I should throw out:
A ton of it had to be reworked. And I don't mean the camera/voice stuff. A lot of the praise people gave the original was for how detailed and layered the story was in regards to both character personalities and the history of Disney animation, and the sequel was going to do that, ending in the return of The Blot, a battle in Toontown from Roger Rabbit, and Oswald getting his own heart and having a choice to leave and be loved because of... well, the fans... or stay and keep the world safe.
Unfortunately, someone leaked the plot, and turned it into the cliched mess we got today, killing the franchise and Junction Point.
There was some concept art floating around for an Epic Donaldfollow-up as well, specifically designed around the comic book version of the character (so it'd include stuff like Duckburg as the locale, and Gyro Gearloose as an NPC). Shame it never came to be since Donald is way cooler than Mickey.
Who's here after the Rebrushed announcement? :D
what a great video! I loved Epic Mickey, and at times its sequel. Yet I do hope somewhere in the near future will have a remaster of both games on a pack for all systems in a nice polish and fixed problems it has before. Not to mention it has a 3Ds game thats a lot of fun too called Epic Mickey Power of Illusion! I sometimes play that game out that gives in the old school 8 bit Mickey games I play in my childhood.
Power of Illusion was good but way too short, and the paint and thinner mechanics felt tacked on.
Today, 8 years after its release, I learned there was an Epic Mickey 2.
I remember seeing the concept art. I was absolutely disturbed by It, and yet wanted more
Needed a refresher on this tale after today’s Nintendo Direct
It better be there.
Mickey: "Wha happun?"
THERE IT IS
I owned this game when I was a kid. I remember making my best friend kinda jealous just by owning it. Since she was a huge Disney fan. I also remember being mesmorised by that image used for the GameInformer issue on it. I still have some fondness for it.
I didn't expect to be hit with a truckload of 2000s nostalgia the day after Valentine's Day.
Oh boy, can't wait for the eventual System Shock 3 What Happened.
I actually love this and the sequel!
It was these games that got me hooked onto learning the histories of disney's animated films; or films in general.
I love learning the who, what, when, where, how and why!
The concept art definitely had me expecting something like...Breath of the Wild, but everything's Guardian-level terrifying and if you screw up then beloved characters die forever. I thought we'd see these familiar characters deal with panic, spite, selfishness, and mourning -- and possibly have a commentary on what happens when you slap a friendly face and a pair of mouse ears on a machine that's begging for death.
The fact that it ended up being a pretty normal platformer was a bit disappointing.
The game is still really dark though
Im really holding out for the remaster. Epic mickey has one of my favorite setting and concepts for a game. I NEEEEEEEEED that art book. It wouldnt take much for it to be great too! Just fix the camera, add a few more things to the paint and thinner mechanic to expand on it, and maybe buff the whole “””””moral choice”””””” system.
A "What Happened?" with Resident Evil 6 would be good. They seemed to really bank on RE6 being a slam dunk after the success of RE5 but it just wasn't. I remember it dropping in price mere weeks after being released. It had so many issues and that weird bit where they pushed the release date FORWARD which I never see happen.
i mean its still their 3rd best selling game of all time. i feel maybe umbrella corp or operation racoon city would be more fitting for our boy to cover
RE5 and 6 are two of the best selling RE games though
I am aware that, overall, RE6 sold well in the long run. But Matt's done "What Happun?" videos on games that were financially successful but didn't fare so well critically. RE6's backlash in terms of quality is part of what influenced the more return to horror form seen in RE7.
"Eponymous Mouse"...excuse me? you had the perfect opportunity to say "Eponymouse" and you missed it!
Yeah. Im good.
"What happened?" They made a great game that I still consider one of my favorites to this day.
Happy to hear you were one of the people who really enjoyed it. Doesnt mean it didn't have a fucked developement that lead to the closure of a studio.
@@MattMcMuscles Mr. Spector's career post-disney sounds like a trainwreck. This man must have done something in his past life to lose out on a Half Life and System Shock project after getting bodied by Disney of all things.
Man clearly sounds like he has his mind in the right place but damn...hope System Shock 3 actually comes to fruition. For his sake
Matt McMuscles, you can blame the train wreck that was Epic Mickey 2’s development cycle for that.
Ion Storm didn't make System Shock, that was Looking Glass.
The creator of this video seems to be fundamentally confused about who made what.
I think he said people *involved* with Ion Storm, not Ion Storm itself - since Spector was with Looking Glass, then Ion Storm, he's not technically wrong?
Whatever happened to the games, I’m just glad it brought Oswald back into the spotlight again. He’s always been my favorite Disney character
I loved the first one. I have a hacked Wii in the basement and loaded up both on there. My 10 year old twin boys are totally head over heels for them, especially the second one as they can co-op. In fact, one of them is kind of obsessed with Oswald and is even going as him for Halloween this year.
The camera is janky, but that's true of a number of otherwise great games. I REALLY hope for a remaster!
12:05 *YIKES*
yup lol ua-cam.com/video/R6pn-DQZmOM/v-deo.html
I love these. Would love to see one on grabbed by the ghoulies
Wait was that a bad game!? I loved it soo much as a kid
I actually did an essay on Oswald for copyright. Disney drew and created Oswald, yes. This was actually before he was THE disney, with just the theme parks in MIND still. He had designed Oswald to be the first Mickey, in a sense, to carry him to fame. To have this design as like THE face of Disney's future, like mickey mouse.
What happened was Disney, being super inexperienced, basically lost the rights to Oswald, stolen right under him. This was all accidental from the beginning. He went to companies that would say "yes!" to making Oswald kinda a big deal. Walt, having no lawyers or show running experience, SIGNED a contract and just agreed to hand over Oswald. Thinking that basically a show and mascot was going to be made of his original character, and he'd sit back and enjoy the cash flow. Well, at the time the corporation that he SIGNED too went "oh? you don't have any lawyers? and like...we have your consent AND drawings and design...This is ours now"
They literally ROBBED him of any fortune and fame OVER oswald PERMANENTLY. Disney, obviously furious AND betrayed, legally or not. Could NOT obtain Oswald as the corporation had done everything to blindside him and legally lock Oswald as theirs. They had stolen his first and only design of walts current work and legacy.
Walt Disney HURRIES back to his wife, and with a lesson learned, asks what character he should name the next one? She says "Mickey".
I absolutely adore this game, it’s one of my favorites and deserves way more recognition, the art style, soundtrack, gameplay, everything about this game was great. The ONLY big thing holding this game back was the wonky camera, I really hope a remaster or some kind can be a thing in the future!
There were fundamental problems with the creative design of Epic Mickey, we were promised a game that would focus on the forgotten parts of Disney canon, instead we got Peter Pan and Tron. And while the premise for a Forgotten World is excellent, it was mishandled. I love Pete, but he shouldn't have been in the game, he's not forgotten. The explanation that "Oh, there are like 30 different Petes because they are all from differ shorts that individually got forgotten just doesn't make sense because it begs the question of why there isn't dozens of forgotten Mickeys, Donalds, Goofys, etc then" but they just really wanted to play with that Mickey/Pete rivalry, which creatively is an example of lack of discipline. The game had SO much potential but it squandered it.
Started playing Epic Mickey for the first time in years a few days ago. It's a pretty solid experience. But I do agree with the complaints about that camera and the paint and thinner mechanic with the Wii remote feels a bit clunky at times.
Lets all cry about the loss of greatness that was epic Mickey games
Also Disney interactieve games
I still miss nightmare Ned
I still want the game promised by that concept art of EPCOT in ruins.
I miss Spectrobes
@@elemomnialpha Finally a man of quality.
This was my favorite video game growing up looking back at it I noticed there where a lot of flaws with the gameplay but what really made me enjoy it was the story and concept including the art style of the cutscenes and Oswald's character. Heard rumors of a remake of epic mickey including a spin-off series with Oswald really hope they're true!
0:27 i swear you only did the episode for this bit
I absolutely adore the Epic Mickey games! It's so sad that Disney Interactive fell through because there are so many great games they could continue to make. I'd love a remaster of these games so much!
The concept art for this game was straight up horrifying...it was like those creepy abandoned by Disney theories come to life.
Epic Mickey is the best example of how story, atmosphere and presentation can make a game great despite some gameplay problems (it's actually in my top 10 favourite games)
4:38 imsorryjon
Imagine the sound of that mechanical monstrosity. All those characters quotes overlaping under screams of pain
Given the news about Disney wanting developers to reinvent their IPs earlier this week, this video came out at the exact right time.
Great work as always!
Epic Mickey will always be one of my favorite 3D platformers, just because of its charm, art, music and even its gameplay!
"Disney was famous for quickly purchasing studios, and just as quickly shutting them down when profits started to take a dip." Hmm, now where have I heard of that before?
Remember this scared the shit out of me when I was 7. Screamed and ran out of the room during the opening cutscene. Couldnt look at mirrors for months.
EDIT: got my age wrong. Oops
So I am not the only one? Well... Coraline also helped a lot in my case.
Those enemies with the buckets scared me as well I could barely get past the boat ride
I remember when lots of people in comments sections would call barely scary material "creepy as fuck" or "nightmare fuel"; wait, that was today.
Things like this (and many others) always seemed rather tame to me.
Same😂
Ok
In what 3 days I’ve seen new videos of Epic Mickey, something’s happening here
The good ending
Aladdin SNES Genie wheel music at 2:00! One of my favorite platformers!
I remember when that concept art was leaked and the game was first announced. Looked so promising.
Loving this series Matt! Any chance of you covering 'Other M' in the future?
I worked at Disney During the development of Epic Mickey. This is a pretty good Mini-documentary about the game however one key thing has been omitted. The original concept and all of the corresponding inspirational artwork that everyone loves came from our internal Think Tank at BVG and was created by Interns. I was a producer that managed concepts with the Think Tank. Warren and Junction Point had nothing to do with the initial concept or getting the game through the greenlight process. Sean Vannaman, the writer of the first season of TellTales The Walking Dead was a critically large part of the initial concept, design, and pitch to the Disney Executives to get the game in production. We spoke to dozens of dev studios, Junction Point was pretty much the last developers to be brought on and they made lots of changes to the initial concept, none for the better in my opinion. Epic Mickey had a shot to be something special...but Junction Point was the wrong studio for the game and they wound up making a very forgettable "platformer". It had so much more potential than what was created.
Yup, Matt used the Mickey "wha happun?" clip. That's it, show's over, pack it in, we can all go home now. We've peaked. Future online media will never surpass this.
Matt, I greatly appreciate you working in cuts for the ads. It makes your content flow way more naturally as opposed to other channels where ads just break up the content often times right in the middle of someone saying something. I swear I've only ever seen one other channel do what you do. So huge props to you for making such engaging content that is not only fun and interesting to watch but also works around the ad system to make it feel natural. Keep up the amazing work!
I hope Walt Disney is Happy with having Oswald back
Oh just wait until you hear the news
0:27 I’m so glad you used this clip:D
My son has both games and enjoys them. He likes Oswald so much because of this game that when we went to Disney World he got Oswald ears not Mickey ears.
GameStop also had the Mickey paint brush and Oswald's remote so I got those to give the game a better feel.
I remember reading and looking at all the concept art of epic Mickey in magazines I never wanted a game so bad it looked like a twisted dream come to life, I wish it would’ve turned out how I imagined but it happens
"Looks like a high end Super Nintendo game"
It's incredible what haters will say to sound edgy.
I love your What Happun series bud. Made my day.
I loved Epic Mickey 1 and 2 honestly. The sad negative spiral of modern times kills most of the fun
Happy you liked them. Still didn't mean there weren't flawed games that didn't live up to their potential.
This was cool, this is my first episode of this series that I've watched, I"ll have to check out some of the other episodes, keep up the awesome work Mr. McMuscles :)
There also was a 3ds title that crossed over with the castle of illusion mickey games
You tried Malice yet? Argonaut's platformer that ended up being the final nail in the studio's coffin?
As someone who watched The House of Mouse on Disney Channel, the fact that "the blot" was a main bad game in a major game was fun to see.
Warren Spector sounds like a really good boss to have. The guy is a household name among a certain demographic of gamers But in any interview It's always 'My team did this' or 'we thought this would be good' or 'I am immensely proud of what my team has made' Like what is the opposite of a glory hound? He seems incapable of taking full credit for anything.
Not only this series needs to make a comeback or a remastered but also feature Oswald more often In DLC.
I'm honestly shocked Disney hasn't used Oswald in many new productions since they bought him, You would figure now that they have the rights to him again he would be a new friend for Mickey like Donald and Goofy or something along those lines. They traded a real person for him.
@@chaosdirge4906 He might be getting an animated show on Disney+
Come on Matt me boy, we all want a Gex What Happened?
That thing was going to have a freaking toy collection, for crying out loud. And the Development of the first game was pretty funky
My heart stopped when I saw Epic Mickey as the topic of this Wha Happenned video. This game was a big part of my childhood, I had it on my Wii and I loved it
I loved your use of The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse music throughout this video. I played an unhealthy amount of that on SNES when I was younger, so it felt really good to hear its soundtrack while learning wha happun. Thank you for making this.