Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

Epic Mickey, as a game, is good fun. Painting and/or thinning the world around you doesn’t ever get too complex, but the story and world are so intriguing that you’ll most likely be able to overlook the simple gameplay. Things do get a bit harder to swallow for those looking to complete the game, as it requires multiple playthroughs to do so (at least 3 supposedly), but even then, that’s far from a deal breaker.

Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, however, is one of the worst remasters I’ve played in quite some time. It doesn’t appear to matter what console you’re playing it on, there’s sputtering, crashes, and bugs aplenty across all versions. There’s even a game breaking bug that makes it UNBEATABLE, occurring right at the end of the game as well. I happened to encounter it during my play though, and spent half an hour replaying what I already had so as to avoid it. Truly disheartening to see what was otherwise a great game brought down by issues clearly wrought by crunch.

When people bring this game up they always talk about what it could’ve been. But if you look at it for what it is you might end up loving it as much as I do.

I never played the original Epic Mickey game on the Wii and in all honesty I do not know a lot about the Mickey Mouse games. I can tell you from what I played that this does seem to stay very true to the original.

I had a lot of fun playing this. I did not expect two 'genres' of gameplay in one game. The third person action adventure and side scrolling platformer levels impressed me, the use of the paint brush is a simple but fun concept.

Cutscenes being based on the cartoons I liked a lot. The side quests are fetch quests but they serve their purpose, and if you like a lot of hidden collectables then this is a game for you.

The dislikes I had about the game is the lack of help for the misleading side quests. I also encountered an 'endgame' bug where the final boss level doesn't load.

so I had to find a way to 'unbug' it. If you encounter this I'm sure they'll be a solution online. I am surprised that a game breaking bug like that made it past playtesting but these things happen unfortunately.

Final Verdict. From what I've seen Epic Mickey Rebrushed is a faithful adaptation from the original. I enjoyed my time playing, despite the fetch quests and endgame bug. It's absolutely awesome, I strongly recommend.

Rebrushed is the perfect love letter to the original

It’s as fun, smooth and even better then original Wii game

They remade this game from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5 and they even made a better camera system

Rebrushed is my favourite game in the series, adding new mechanics to make it more enjoyable

Best game by far

I wanted to play the og version for so many years so you can imagine my happiness when the rebrushed version was announced.

It is a fun game even tho very basic (and I hate Mickey but whatever) you just paint or you delete stuff...that's all. I got through two bosses. They were fun but ultimately it's always the same you either use paint or thinner on them and voila you won. I appreciate the variation of enemies. A lot of nowadays games could take notes and learn stuff.

Well now to the bad stuff: bugs...bugs, bugs, bugs...the subtitles during cutscenes are sometimes way too fast I dunno if people who have English as their first language manage it but I really don't (and I read fast believe me). The camera is occasionally really all over the place and makes some jumps very close to giving me a heart attack. The collectibles are meh (really???? Collecting pins???? Where all look the same except some of them are gold, others silver and some bronze???). Anyway...I could look past all this but...To progress the game I need sparks to get sparks I need to finish side quests and explore and stuff...to explore I need to get to different location than Mean street...but every single time I try my game crashes...so okay I bought the sparks after grinding for money for an hour...but guess what? Right the next quest is going back to the mean street/another place to get or buy stuff...and guess what? I once again can't leave the fricking mean street...which means I'm unable to finish the game no matter what I try to do...

I don't care how adorable the game is, how fun it might be...if you give me a game breaking bug it's automatically a bad game for me...hence the rating.
I'm around 5 or 6 hours in and I refuse to even look for the solution online, that's how pissed I am...

Ugh