Ah yes. I forgot that I am an anti-Wii fanboy. That's why I made the Smash bros. Brawl picture in my sig. I didn't click to view the full sized scans, I didn't read the article, I don't own a Wii, and of course, I hate Nintendo.

Spector's track record with 2D and 3D platformers and brawlers is of course... has he made any? He does have a track record for implementing the gameplay described in the "2 sides to every story" page. So that's kind of exciting, and like I have said, that could be a system which redeems the painting and erasing system from becoming "paint-by-numbers."

i have never come across a game that "outdid" its concept art and i dont expect that to change anytime soon.

As for the screens, i think it looks great. But i'm not a fan of mickeys appearance, specially his face, but i guess its from the very early mickeys they've drawn inspiration from.

Looks , pretty much erhm ...EPIC OMG

It is quite funny that everybody is is calling this a letdown are those that don't even like the Wii.

hum I like my but I'm a little bit disappointed. I prefer the first artwork. But we have still time to discover this game.

Oh for fark's sake. Wii is my only current gen system. SMG is my fave game of the generation, and NSMBW and SMG2 are my most anticipated games. I've been getting downright obsessive about the new NSMBW media coming out.

This game was initially hyped as Warren Spector's Mickey Mouse Mario Killer. In fact, here's an old Soriku thread about it, from May 2008:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=25674&page=1

Maybe some people are dissappointed because they are big Wii fans and big Mario fans, and this looks like less of a "Mario killer" than Bonk or Spyro.

Maybe, some people need to stop taking the word of developers. Who seriously believed that the game would "kill" Mario or be of a quality better than Mario? Also you are the exception rather than the rule. Look at every other poster who is dissapointed.

I guess the fact that this is now a game, and not a vision of a game is what let people down. It's a physical thing now, that can be analyzed and looked at.

With that out of the way, I am HYPED!

Nope. What let everybody down is the fact that the game looks A LOT like Spyro the Dragon.

And that cant be good.

"Only Red Steel 2 can save us"

I did not think the game would SUCCEED in being "better" than Mario. Maybe nothing ever has. But games in the past, like Sonic 1 and 2, DKC 1 and 2, Banjo-Kazooie, Ratchet and Clank, etc., got pretty close, and become defining games of their eras in their own right. With Disney seemingly making this a primary project for the Mickey character, and recruiting Spector and his new studio, and it being in development for 1-2 years already, I would think those are the kinds of aspirations they have. This looks more like Rabbids or MySims or anything else that publishers seem to think is "a nice little project for Wii."

And btw, if you don't take the word of developers, what do you have left? I don't mean "you" rhetorically here; all this article has is ugly screenshots and hype from Spector.