actually, because im once again replaying the rebrushed version of EM, seeing all the lil details here and there and comparing it to the og game mentally, and having collected a good chunk of the new concept art, i got Thinking....
in the past, for years my favorite zone was the pirates/ventureland zone. that was mostly because of my side special interest on anything pirate, and how captain hook was my favorite disney villain for that same reason, but after rebrushed... now it definitely is the dark beauty castle in the final part of the game. and funnily enough is because of pretty minor changes in the grand scheme of things
or well. in my opinion, it actually reveals what epic mickey Would've been, given a more—maybe not really "modern" but more like taking in what epic mickey Is, it's essence and the main ideas, and Expanding on it fully
kinda what they did with the clock tower fight too! adding new things happening in between what people who have played the first game already knew, but ranking up the difficulty for a new audience too
a specific idea i have to do that in other parts of the game too, is actually with another boss fight, but this time being the captain hook one:
and because im having trouble explaining it in other ways, here's the full lead up and the fight concept from my head to fully illustrate.
first, we start in a modified skull island area—that is in the eye of a storm like im pretty sure is in the new game too?—but instead of having to just go to simple mini islands around the skull to free smee's boat with paint anchors, is some sort of bigger machine connected to something holding the ship down. tho, i dont have it Fully figure it out yet, i just know there's now one new shipwreck, deep in the sea of thinner that is gonna be accessible after moving something Inside the skull, revealing some sort of weird, impossible ravine opening up the sea, and is going to have a paint-thinner bomb for the animatronic machine too besides the Thing for the ship
after that, the path opens and Now mickey can go after hook. but... is not gonna be as easy as just showing up this time.
there's two pieces of concept art that i always liked in the loading screen of that boss that half inspired this, one of them being this—
—in the version of epic mickey that only exist in my head so far, the first phase of the battle with hook starts at sea, finding a way to slow down the jolly roger either with paint of thinner, like in the second image
then, once the jolly is slowed down and you can Get in it, enter hook with his monologue and trapping you in the jolly. and the thinner routes for this are Fairly the same—one being crashing hook against falls until he falls apart or throwing him down to the crocodile—but it still has some parts of the paint route, that is where things get Really interesting
like. in the new game it was made even more obvious how certain parts and hanging platforms were hanging on Nothing, very visible at times, and. well yes, is a game, that can happen for the gameplay, but there's missed potential in there—
mainly because instead of already having those platforms there, in my version captain hook sees you climbing up instead of fighting him, goes on another tiny monologue and very literally Unfolds the jolly roger, extending the mast where the fairy is up, making the boat bigger and with some holes to the thinner sea below, unfolding Also other machinery—Anything to make it as tricky as possible for you to climb up. And now also has full control over the ship and how the parts move, specially the now actual hanging platforms, and make it a Fight for you to get to the fairy
like, this not only would've Looked cool, but takes the original boss fight in the original game as a base, and expands on it, like i said and like other parts of the game already did
and i love the rebrushed version to bits, but. in my head i would've been so much better, i can see it reaching for that better that i have been dreaming of for Years, and now...
honestly, when i learn how, i would make it a reality. some day,,
(and in that note, ask me about epic mickey Please. i have so many thoughts about changes and details i wish i would add, but idk how to even Start talking abt them..... or well, maybe this is a start, but where do i go from here—just. give me a location or an specific boss n i'll tell u abt it o(-( )
