Epic Mickey Rebrushed potential Ideas and QoL changes

[Captain Gus]

So with the announcement of Epic Mickey Rebrushed, it has got me wondering what sort of things they could include to make the experience of exploring The Wastelands more fun. Now things like Camera control and movement are most likely getting fixed, so I have compiled some things that some of the other issues the community has had with the original Epic Mickey (in no particular order):

-Pins and Upgrades
In the original release of Epic Mickey, Pins didn't really serve any purpose in the game than a shiny collectable or marked what choice you did.

With how Rebrushed is giving Mickey more diverse actions in exploration and combat, I think now pins should be used to unlock upgrades to give more variations on play style. Like a bigger ground pound, making paint and thinner stronger, more health, etc.

Now as for where you can get the upgrades, I think the Museum on Mean Street is a perfect place for it. In the Original game, it didn't serve any purpose besides a quest or two. Now I would imagine now Laralee (The Museum Owner) would give Mickey upgrades in return of him giving pins he finds, so she can display them at the museum.

First starting off with Bronze pins for easy (Like 5 bronze pins for a health upgrade) but as you unlock more upgrades, they will cost more rarer pins like silver and gold.

-Skipping Projector Levels

Now while the Projector levels are fun, when it comes to backtracking and doing quests that span the various hubs of the Wastelands, it can get very frustrating. Now already this can work since in the Japanese version of Epic Mickey, it gave you the option to skip the projector if you already did it, saving a lot more time and much less of a hassle doing quests.

-Morality/Story/Quests
Now for those who have played the original, the morality system was underbaked. While somethings were nice like the music changing or certain cutscenes play different, most of the story, interactions with NPCs, and even the ending are barely changed.

What should be done is make your decisions have more of an impact on the world/story. Make the NPCs of the hubs like Mean Street and Ostown be horrified and scared of Mickey when he uses thinner on important characters like bosses or chooses more bad options in quests like leaving the Animatronics without their bodies or dropping the safe on Moody will have the NPCs hate Mickey to the point they set up Bloting and Bettlework Traps for him to fall into.

Meanwhile with using Paint on bosses and picking good options for quests like bringing Oswald the Locket of his Girlfriend back to him or bringing the Courage Badge back to Louis in Bog Easy, NPCs will be more enthusiastic and be hopeful, even giving Mickey a lending hand in Restoring the Wasteland like making more platforms in Thinner rivers to help traverse the area. Even with things like the Shop Keepers. Doing good choices and paint will make items less expensive while choosing bad choices and thinner will make items more expensive or even not allow Mickey to buy anything.

-Guardians/Hint System
The last issue I can gather is of the Guardians. While their function in combat is nice to instantly turn a blotling into an ally, using it for finding your way around an area is a bit redundant. A majority of maps have easy ways to tell where to go and what to do, making their function to seek areas pointless.

What I think their other function now should be to give Mickey hints on what to do for quests in an area he is in. Depending on which Guardian he has at the time can lead him to the good or bad option for the quest.

And that is all I can compile for potential ways to improve on Epic Mickey Rebrushed with these ideas. If I missed anything, please do add into the comments and share. If we want Epic Mickey Rebrushed to see massive improvements from the original, now sounds like a good time to suggest some changes.

[Lanani]

Interesting suggestions. Some of these have already been asked for by others as well (e.g projector-skipping, extended morality system).

[FallAnimal]

Now all we need is a wii controlller that can connect to pc and works with this game, and im all set :)