Walkthrough for PS3 (not that it matters)

You can tell that the walkthrough is being played on a PS3, because the "A" button is a green circle.  On a Wii, the "A" button is a white circle.

Gameplay is the same for all platforms, unless you want to start a  "New Game".

When you get that far, ask about the differences.

Here is the walkthrough.  Like Nike's slogan, "Just Do it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46B0zElbI-c

If the YouTube walkthrough you have been viewing is not split screen, with a line down the middle, with Mickey moving on the left side and Oswald moving on the right side, then it is Single Player, with one player using one controller.  Oswald is moving automatically.

IGN  has good pages, walkthroughs, and videos.  
http://www.ign.com/wikis/epic-mickey-2

For the Written Walkthrough, when you get to that site, Press Prologue to get Yen Sins Lab
http://www.ign.com/wikis/epic-mickey-2/Prologue_/_Yen_Sid%27s_Lab

Their videos have GUIDE in red beside the beginning, and the Part #.
The YouTube video for IGN is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46B0zElbI-c

Part 2 is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYVVz49Dzgw

Part 3 is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnibaRimb6k

But, I recommend just wandering around, and taking it easy on spraying thinner.

If you play the game, you will get the hang of it better.  It is like walking or swimming, just do it.  You do not need to ever control Oswald -- Mickey presses a button to signal Oswald, and Oswald does the activity.

While in game mode, I turn up the brightness of my TV, so I can see things.

I don't know where you are, but I'll tell you what I know.

Generally, when there is a power box, Mickey stands in front of it.  The game will put up a symbol in a white balloon, telling you to quickly tab a certain button to call Oswald over, and quickly tap the same button to have him zap it.  (If you press and release the button, Oswald will fly or do other things, so barely tap it.)  (If Mickey gets zapped and says, "Hey, watch it", it is a sign that you did it right, and can move Mickey an inch to let the electricity through.)

(I have a Topic posted with all the PS3 buttons.)

In the castle, on the bottom floor, you have to paint pipes, conduit, or wires between the generators, and above the generator, to get the electricity flowing.

When the center pole drops steps to climb, people try to power up the generators on top.  It does not work.  On top, you just go out the archway, to the chest on the balcony, and jump/spin down.  If you keep spinning while falling, you do not get hurt.

On top of the Ice Cream Parlor, there are pipes on both sides of the generator that need to be painted, before you can power up the power box on the third side.

SOME  THINGS  cannot ever be done -- and some can be done later.

Your post on "I've got a question" talked about "moving a generator".

I call those movable things "fireworks bombs" explosives.

You open the cabinet that they are in by pressing and holding A to grab the Mickey Knob on the side.  While holding A, you move to pull the handle out, and open the doors.

Go to the fireworks, and hold A while moving to drag it where you want.

Standing near it, press the "call Oswald button"

When he arrives, the game will signal you to have him zap it, to start the fuses and explode it.

You do not need to move Oswald, you just press a button that tells him to come here, and press a button to have him zap it.

I'll say this again:

Stand at a power box and quickly tap a button to call Oswald over.

Tap the button indicated, and Oswald electrifies the power box.

YOU  NEVER  NEED  TO  PLAY  AS  OSWALD !!! 

Oswald has an Artificial Intelligence that responds to buttons Mickey presses.

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I know the cubes AND the where they need to go, that your're talking about.  You run into them twice, so here's general information. 

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"GENERATOR  CUBES  IN  AN  UNDERGROUND":

You can get near them and grab them, holding down "A" and pushing or pulling them places.

You can move them a little ways by putting "FAIRY  DUST" on them, like in  "OsTown", if you've been there, yet.  (Do you have fairy dust?)  You sprinkle fairy dust on them and spray them with paint to move them.  The platform needs to be nearby.  Oswald only helps activate the power box and the platform to get it nearby, but you do not need two players or to play as Oswald.

When generator cubes get near the edge, put it between where you want it to go, and where you are, raise it with fairy dust, and move it onto the platform by spraying it with paint.  The paint spray pushes it.

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ELECTRIC  BOXES:

Oswald can electrify electric boxes, like I mentioned before -- Mickey stands near it and signals Oswald, and signals him again to electrify a box.

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PLATFORMS  THAT  SPIN -- WITH  GEARS

Several places in the game there are platforms that spin, but you want them to stop in a horizontal position, so you or the "generator" can get across.

Paint the gear to make them spin.

Thin the gear to make them stop.

It may take several times to get the hang of it.

Position the Generator Cube so you can spray paint it straight onto the platform, without painting the gear, and making it spin.  When it landson the platform, jump on and move it close to the edge, so you can get behind it, fairy dust it again, and move it with paint.

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1)  If you jumped down to the ledge, jump off, and you reappear on Mean Street.

2)  If you are inside, and cannot get out, quit the game completely.  Maybe even turn off the console.  Then, you may restart on Mean Street.

3)  If you know of a way to save your games on a card, you might want to do it periodically, so if you run into a glitch, you will have a place to revert to.

The game gets easier and more fun.  Even after you see the crredits, you will  CONTINUE  to explore and play.  You will find ways to  warp to areas, without all the struggle.

DIRECT  ORDER:  No matter how frustrated you get, NEVER, ever  "DELETE" the game you are on.  Even if you want to start over, do not go the "delete" route.

This may sound confusing, but, the PS3 and XBox only has  ONE  GAME  SLOT  for Epic Mickey 2.

When you turn on the console and choose Epic Mickey 2, there are 3 things you can do:

1)  CONTINUE

2)  NEW  GAME

3)  DELETE

If you continue, you continue what you were doing, but appear at a certain point in that area, not where you quit.

If you press  "NEW  GAME", it looks like when you first started, but, you have kept all the pins and trophies that you got before!   With  NEW  GAME, you have to start in Mickey's bedroom, and do all the bosses and chores again, but you have a chance of getting Challenges that are mutually exclusive in other runthroughs.  Even if you are not interested in the Challenge to Repair all the Train Stations versus the Challenge to Destroy all the Train Stations, there is no reason to lose the pins and trophies you earned.

If you  DELETE  the game, you lose everything you worked so hard for.  Why?

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You're going to get killed at least a hundred times.  I still get killed when the camera moves during jumps.

Did you arrive here using a projector screen in the round Rainbow Falls Control Room?  If so, here is what I do.

When I enter the cavern, drop a watch.

I run up to the big purple spladoosh, and run right, so I will be out of the way when it explodes.

If you are really hurting, you can spin a gold crystal for something.

I go to the statue that is to the right of the spladoosh and button it was on.

KEEP  HITTING  WATCHES  WHENEVER  YOU  CAN.

On platforms behind the statue are two broom sweepers who will throw buckets of thinner at you.  So, drop a watch, set your anvils, and drop an anvil on one.

Move back, so you don't get hit.

When the timer is up, drop a watch, move closer, and drop an anvil on the other.

(I have a hard time pointing at their heads and dropping the anvil exactly, so it takes me several tries.)

Now, you can paint the rest of the platform you are on -- with the statue.  (You cannot paint something you are standing on, so you may have to move back to paint it all.)

From the platform you are on, double jump to the dark-gray platforms, that look like a peanut from where we are, but are really two platforms close together.

Jump and climb, and paint platforms, around to the far side where there is a huge angel carved in the wall.

When you paint the last platforms, move quickly to get on solid ground, because a couple sweeping-brooms will come out and throw thinner on you.

I fight them by getting close, spinning them, and thinning them.  You can also spin them off a cliff.  Just keep spinning and thinning.

Next to that platform is a projector screen, that will take you to the next area, called Disney Gulch.

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Later, you can warp back to the area from the North Mean Street Cinema, using any projector screen you have already used.  That way you do not have to fight all this to get here again.  When you come back, you can explore downstairs, where there are DEC manhole covers, on both sides.

IF  YOU  ARRIVED  IN  THE  CAVERNS  VIA  A  DEC   MANHOLE  COVER:

Look into the middle of the fire maze and see a red chest.  Next to that chest is a special handle that turns off  ALL  THE  FIRE  FOREVER!!!

If you are looking from the manhole to the fire, to your right is a well where you can become yellow invincible.  Then, you can slow time with a watch, walk to the chest and handle, and turn off all the fire -- except there are two enemies - robots with red buttons on their head that you need to jump on and fight, until the spatter inside pops out and you spray him.  (You do not have enough time or space to drop a TV for him to pop out and watch, while you spray him.)

The thing about the well that you are going to jump into, is that it is gray rock, like a lot of other gray rock, and it is behind yellow crystals.  So, you have to spin or thin the crystals to get to it, and thin them all to get it to flow yellow ink.

Know where you are going, and walk slowly with the ink, to the red chest.

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With the fire gone, continue across to a large platform, with another robot enemy.  Jump on his button, and kill the ink spatter inside.

When you turn the handle on that large platform, a smaller platform rises, so you can jump into the mouth of the devil statue, and go down the DEC  manhole into Disney Gulch, just a little lower than the projector screen you will have arrived through if you did the previous post.

A  THIRD  SCENARIO -- when I have replayed to get something, and ended up on the upper level of the caverns (upper level is Angel, lower fire is Devil).  To me, this is the easiest way to get across.

Arrive on the upper level.  Explode the Spladoosh by going near it and moving far enough away that the explosion does not hurt you, but close enough that he does not go back to sleep.

Go near where the Spladoosh was, and look down at the fire falls.  Helicopter with Oswald down to the large area to the left of the falls. 

Then, exit the way I said in the previous post.  You entered on top and exited on bottom -- which completes a task.

Even though the game tells you you are 10% done, you are really 25 to 33 percent done (the first of three bosses).  The game designers threw in a bunch of running around like a chicken with its head cut off -- that you can do if you  CONTINUE  after you see the ending and the credits run.

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THE  FIRST  BOSS -- THE  DRAGON

USE  WATCH  SKETCHES  TO  SLOW  YOUR  OPPONENTS!!!

While you are getting used to the game, the easiest way is to thin the dragon, then thin the spatter who is in a compartment inside his stomach panel.

If you crossed the JUNK bridge and started on the bottom floor, you will have to thin the dragon down there, and run up some rock-ledge steps to the right / zag back and up to a solid metal ledge.

If you went through a projector at the first place you came to from the train -- Jiminey Cricket's Tongue Projector Screen -- you will start the Dragon Boss on the top level, skipping half the Boss.

(You may want to run along that top platform, past enemies, and jump to a little ledge that has a little, shiny lunch box.  It will not be there, later.)

An amusing thing is that, on the upper level, the dragon's fire breath does not hurt you.

The head-butting spatters hurt you, and re-spawn if you kill them -- so just ignore the dragon, completely thin all of the  THREE  roof supports,  AND  spin the head-butters when they get close to you.  (A head-butting spatter comes to you, pulls his head back, and hits you with his head.)  Spin them, and thin the supports, repeat, spin spatters and thin supports.  More health and thinner cans will appear on the ledge or gears laying there that you spin -- or thinner will appear on your meter after a bit.

When I was thinning the supports, I made it so there was a thinned blank area in all three of them, which would make them fall in the real world, but I found that I had to thin every speck of each one.  Then, the ...

AFTER  THE  FIRST  BOSS, before you follow the walkthrough through the projector screen to do the things in the swamp called BOG  EASY, get some money and go through the projector screen to VENTURELAND, and buy an  ANVIL  sketch.  It will help you to drop anvils on enemies, even in Bog Easy.  (It just dawned on me that I made a mistake when you were in Rainbow Caverns -- about dropping anvils on enemies, when you didn't have anvils, yet.  Sorry!  But, you did fine, spraying them.)

Also, TVs that you buy in  BOG  EASY  are great to drop in front of enemies, to watch or have them electrocute themselves.

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General Explanations:

All the systems are exactly the same for playing the game. (After the game is over, the Wii has 3 game slots, and the PS3 and XBox have "CONTINUE" to get more goodies and explore, or you can go back to start a "New Game".)  But all the scenes and gameplay are the same for all three systems.

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Using blue paint on the Dragon Boss is the harder, good-guy solution, that makes the Dragon be your friend.

Using thinner on the roof supports, and having the roof fall on the Dragon Boss is the easiest way to get through the game the first time.

Do either one to get a pin, and the opposite pin appears in the pin trader.  (Happy Dragon Friend vs. Mad Dragon Enemy)

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After you finish the game the first time, if you want to mine for  ALL  the trophies or challenges, you can come back here and follow this link to a Trophy Guide

PS3 Trophy Guide and Roadmap - Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two - PS3Imports.org

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THE  TWO  PROJECTOR  SCREENS  TO  THE  FIRST  BOSS

After the caverns, you came to the Old West or Disney Gulch, that had an old-time saloon.

Then, you took a train ride to the second half of Disney Gulch.  There on the piece of land, where you landed, are wires on the ground to paint, and a rope railing to thin with steps to a box that electrifies something.  What you go through is a "red carpet" mouth.

OTHERWISE, maybe using all three spheres in the container on the first part, you can jump off that piece of land, across things to get to the far side of the gulch -- past the rope to a dish, the top of a hat and a tennis racket and a landing with a sweeper and get on a moving comic book to another landing with a projector, where there is also a Mickey Mouse Alarm Clock.

I think there are 6 places in the game that have two ways to go to the same place:

Like from Ostown back to Mean Street; Like from Rainbow Control Room to Rainbow Caverns; Like from Rainbow Caverns to Disney Gulch; Like from the second half of Disney Gulch to the Dragon Boss; Like from Fort Wasteland to The Floatyard; Like from Wonderland to the Second Boss.  The game has many ways to go.  And, ways to warp back using the Mean Street Cinema, while plalying around and exploring after the game is over.

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After you have used a projector screen once (playinng through the 2-D cartoon), you can go to Mean Street Cinema and get there, again.

Or, from a projector screen that you have used, you can stand in front of it, and spin the gear about four times.  When it stopps showing the title of a cartoon, and simply shows Mickey surrounded by rays of gold and white, you can then use that screen to immediately warp back to Mean Street Cinema. 

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P.S.:  You are doing fantastic!  Once you got rolling, you really went fast and far.