Eurogamer has revealed the first details for the recently announced Epic Mickey Wii-exclusive from Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios.

Sort of like a dark twisted Captain Rainbow, Epic Mickey revolves around the forgotten stars of Disney past, led by Walt Disney's first creation: Oswald the Rabbit. These forgotten characters, rides, and unknown cartoons are cast into a dark void when nobody starts to care about them anymore. The fame and fortune of later creation Mickey Mouse has stewed Oswald's jealously pot for years until now, where he has finally decided to act. Oswald unleashes The Phantom Blot on the current Disney world, and it's up to Mickey to stop him and clean up the mess, armed with artist tools that will help him traverse the ink-ridden world.

A source close to Disney has let slip the first details of Warren Spector's new Wii game, Epic Mickey, to Eurogamer.

The choice of platform, incidentally, boils down to Mickey's tools - paintbrushes, erasers, thinner, pencils and other artist tools - being mapped to Wii remote gestures.

But let's rewind a bit.

Epic Mickey is a tale about the 'forgotten' Disney stars: the rides, the characters, the lesser-known cartoons. When nobody any longer cares, they are cast into a dark void; a forgotten world of broken machines and bitter personalities - a bit like Sid's bedroom in Toy Story, but without the friendly furnishings.

Akira_EX via eurogamer.net »