Disney Delights

SPOILER ALERT If you don't want anything Epic Mickey related spoiled for you, don't read this post!

As a gamer and Disney fan, I knew that I had to play Epic Mickey at least once. I bought the regular game, not special collectors edition, along with the guide about a week later. Some people don't like getting the guide calling it cheating, but for me, I see it as an opportunity to experience the game to the fullest as I know I can get pretty hot headed if I don't know what to do or miss something. Horrible right?

Well I just want to go off on a mini rant of a recent experience while playing Epic Mickey. And since the section I'm in is near the end of the game, I felt a spoiler warning was needed. I decided to pick this game up after not playing it for about a month. I started in the library and made my way to the ballroom. I went through the first time and helped fix the organ (which took only a few tries) and was nearly done when I noticed a gremlin on the pipes of the organ. I took the guide books suggestion and used all my remaining anvils to try and reach the little dude. Quickly running out of them and still wanting to reach the guy, I restarted the game thinking that it would keep the good ending (helping the organ) but reset the anvils. It did, but also reset the good ending so I had to do the challenge again which I didn't mind.

After I finished the mini game I accidentally erased one of the keys. The organ shouted at me that the keys were his very soul and that I would feel his wrath if I continued. intrigued, and knowing that I could restart if I did something "evil" I continued to erase the organs keys one by one. And yeah, the organ was NOT happy, and sent a new Beetleworx that I had never seen before, not to mention blocking my path up the pipes that I had worked hard to clear. I laughed and restarted the game to renew my "good" side.

To my surprise, and utter disappointment, the game chose to keep the BAD side of what I did. Yes I know I did it to myself but this is not the first time that the games inconsistency has cost me.

Back tracking a little, in Ostown, there are several things that need to be painted and thinned out to continue with your journey. After painting and thinning for a good amount of time, I left Ostown to go back to Mean Street, only to find all of my hard work undone. Fast forwarding to Lonesome Manor, I was in the Library with Madame Leona and was nearly done with everything when my health points dwindled and I "died" (don't think that's the right term but oh well!). Once back in the library ALL of my work was gone. It's nothing a few minutes couldn't fix, but it was still irritating to say the least.

So now I'm in the ballroom, staring in disbelief that 1, I now have to spend 1000 E Tickets to get Donald torso (A reward from the ghost in Bog Easy that wanted Mickey to appease the organ) and fight a Beetleworx that doesn't seem to want to go away anytime now. And last but not least, I still can't reach the gremlin that started it all.