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Disney Gamer's Highlights:
Where's My Mickey?
Developed by: Creature Feep
System:
iOS, Android, Windows Phone,
Windows 8, Blackberry
A few months
ago, I talked about Hidden
Mickey Monday's Alex McVetty's
favorite game,
Where's My Water? In that
article, I stated that it is
Disney's most successful mobile
game to date thanks to gameplay
that is easily accesible, yet
allows for enough challenge that
makes it very addicting. Such
was the game's success that now
we have two official spin-offs:
Where's My Perry? Starring Agent
P from Phineas and Ferb, and the
subject of today's Gamer Tuesday
article, Where's My Mickey?

The very first
thing to note about Where's My
Mickey is that this new game
based off of the new Mickey
Mouse shorts that have been
airing on the Disney Channel as
well as the Disney website. If
you allow me to go on a tangent
for a bit, these shorts have
already become some of my all
time favorites as they take the
beloved characters we know and
brings them back to their
cartoony roots thanks to stories
that are edgy, witty and
endlessly hilarious in their
irreverence. It gives Mickey
Mouse back his old mischievous
personality from the 1920s and
30s, and I can't wait to see
more of it.
That is
important to know, because
Where's My Mickey bases its
whole concept around the stories
of the shorts. The game is
composed of five animated
'episodes,' each featuring
around 20 levels, where Mickey
needs water in order to
accomplish a goal. For example,
in one episode, he is at the
beach setting up a lemonade
stand and sell lemonade to the
thirsty beach goers. But when he
lacks the means to make
lemonade, ie water, he sets out
to try and find it. The gameplay
then consists of the player
guiding the water to its final
destination, and thus Mickey's
goal in the episode is
completed.
I think this is
a very brilliant way of
incorporating story and humor to
the gameplay. It succeeds in
extending the story of the new
cartoons while successfully
incorporating it into the
gameplay. In other words, the
gameplay serves as a way to a
mean within the game world,
which is whatever it is Mickey
needs in that story. It also
allows for the rest of the
supporting cast, such as Goofy
and Pluto, to play roles within
the story.

Gameplay wise,
Where's My Mickey retains the
challenge and accesability seen
in the original Where's My
Water. Players use their
device's touch screen to create
paths that allow the water to
flow through with no problem. As
the level progresses, the
challenges grow to include more
obstacles that interrupt the
flow of water. Simply put, it is
classic gameplay in the same
vein as the old arcade games of
yesteryear.
Where's My Water
provided us with simple gameplay
that is quite enjoyable without
sacrificing challenge. Where's
My Mickey is mainly an alternate
take of that gameplay, one that
uses the brand new animated
shorts as a spring board to make
itself appealing to a wide
gaming audience. And that is
enough, in my opinion. Where's
My Mickey is brimming with the
same personality and charm of
the new cartoon shorts while
still being about the gameplay.
It is a successful marriage of
gameplay and license that should
make any Disney fan try it out
on their own. In that manner,
they will be supporting the very
creative but classic side of
Disney.