Is this game that bad?

It is too difficult for a 5-year-old -- or even a 10-year-old
I am an expert, genius gamer, and there are feats that cannot be accomplished. (I have finished the game several times, but some things cannot be done!!!)
The game has technical glitches.

The game doesn't make sense, and there are intentional, mean-spirited obstacles.
The game was cut in half, so you buy half a game as EM2 and then have to pay again for EM3 to complete the game and get Mickey back home and Main Street back together, and water in the OsTown fountain, etc.

Maybe they ran out of time before the holidays, and put out an unfinished game. Or, maybe halfway through they decided they could divide the game -- leaving many strings hanging, and many NPC's statements not belonging in the game.

For the last five years I have had annual passes to Disneyland, and have done the Hidden Mickeys, but not once did I remove paint from the buildings or jackhammer the street to see if there was a Mickey underneath. Maybe only one out of 20 thinnable spots have something. We just run around like a chicken with its head cut off -- just to make them laugh at what they can do to us.

I bought it, even though I had watched a 30-minute demonstration on the Nintendo Channel, shown to about 8 middle-age men.
The expert whose game was videotaped and edited had played it before, and he still had trouble double jumping or barely making the double jump. The men wanted to know what would happen if the player could not do a trick. The oblivious promoter showing the video just said, oh, everyone can do it, you just press A twice.
They were asking how the man knew to do those things -- like which paintings to paint and where to go. The oblivious demonstrator said you would figure it out -- but some of those things would never occur to the audience.

The reflection on the TV screen showed the audience sitting there with their arms crossed over their chest, and nobody smiled or enjoyed any of it.

In Epic Mickey 1, we could get excited at things we recognized. In EM2, it just feels drab and unhappy -- even the electric parade had no joy.

There is no way to complete all the challenges and quests, because some are mutually exclusive -- there are 2 ways out of the fort and the float area, and if you use one strategy, the other method is blocked forever -- which means you cannot get credit for going that way.

The non-playable characters are so unpleasant.
The ad says you can play either Mickey or Oswald, but you can only play Oswald if you get somebody else to play Mickey.

katydiddd posted...

Aiming paint and camera control were horrendous in EM1. People posted that they hoped EM2 would be better. No Luck !!!

What do we know about why Epic Mickey 2 is only part of an unfinished game, and we are going to have to pay full price, again, for EM3 if we want to finish it?

Posts by others brought up many questions about whether Disney just ran out of time to get the full game out for the holidays, and truncated it without being able to clear up the loose ends, OR, if, at some point in the middle of making the game, Disney decided to put out a game in two parts, to make more money. There are too many anomalies to think that it was planned on being a trilogy before they were into the game and had characters and situations having us try to do things that cannot be done.

Customers ended up with half a game that the basics can be done in a couple hours, and Disney threw in tedious side quests to make people thin out hundreds of buildings and jackhammer roadways to search for Hidden Mickeys.

1) Of course, the biggest proof that EM2 is an incomplete game is that Mickey is still in Wasteland, with forgotten toons, instead of being back in his house in Disneyland, where he started the game, greeting children and making cartoons. The game has no ending.

2) The narrator says at the end that Oswald & Mickey do not know what lies ahead, but together they can conquer it all.

3) After the credits, the Petes kidnapped a gremlin into Mickey’s Service Station Cartoon screen to Adventureland. I followed – to no avail.

4) The OsTown Fountain does not have blue paint/water that should cover up the turnstile. We should be able to use the transportation tubes that are under the turnstile to transport up, or someplace.

5) After the credits roll, when you say pause, it states to keep exploring Wasteland. Soon, it changes to “Epilogue: Work together to use the turnstile and open the way forward.”

6) The place is still in turmoil, with all the characters worried.

7) Gremlin Jamface says, “Strange, it looks all fixed, but still receives no power.” (This is after I fixed all 6 undergrounds.)

8) Three Jamaican women talk on Mean Street about reuniting Main Street and fixing Dark Beauty castle.

Your post makes no sense at all. None of that, not a single point, means the game is incomplete. It means they are planning a sequel.

When kingdom hearts ended with Riku and Mickey trapped on the other side of the door and no one went home, did you complain the game was incomplete?


Also, one of your previous posts said something ridiculous about not removing paint from the buildings in real life Disneyland while looking for hidden Mickeys, which is pretty much proof enough that no one should ever take anything you say seriously again.