Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed – THQ Nordic’s promising remake of legendary designer Warren Spector’s flawed but lovable 2010 platform adventure – launches for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 24th September this year.
The original Disney Epic Mickey, developed by Spector’s Junction Point Studios, launched for Wii back in 2010 – plunging Mickey Mouse into a wonderfully inventive, and surprisingly dark, world of corrupted theme park attractions and long-forgotten Disney history.
Inevitably, it never lived up to its deliciously twisted concept art, but it did feature a unique magic paintbrush mechanic – enabling Mickey to paint and erase items in the world to solve puzzles and assist his traversal – plus surprisingly involved questing, including a lightweight morality system. Epic Mickey is arguably also single-handedly responsible for introducing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit back into the public consciousness, so it gets points there too.
Yes, it had its fair share of clumsy platforming segments, but I still loved it for all its weird, Defunctland vibes – and developer Purple Lamp’s remake is the perfect opportunity to fix up some of those rough spots and let the rest of it shine. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen, but publisher THQ Nordic has now revealed more of Rebrushed’s overhaul in a new release date trailer.