Interactive Entertainment and Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two from Disney Interactve.

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However, Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two earned a disappointing 59% on aggregate site Metacritic, which to many publishers is a proverbial nail in the coffin.

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Disney Epic Mickey, from Disney.

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We have all sorts of pens and photo mode and all sorts of stuff that just really allows you to customize the experience and make it what you want it to be to tell your story, which is what the Disney Epic Mickey games are all about.

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The game maker scours the Disney archives when developing each new Epic Mickey game.

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Or Spector might have spurned Disney and sought crowdfunding for Sleeping Giants, the epic fantasy game he mothballed to take on Mickey.

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