In 2016, an Epic Mickey Donald Duck-centered spinoff game was officially canceled after the publisher closed its doors. Now footage of the game has leaked online, giving gamers a taste of the Disney duck-based adventure they might have had.
Disney is an otherwise very successful and very powerful company. It owns many television networks, several theme parks throughout the world, and controls more intellectual properties than anyone can easily count. At one point Disney took a crack at the video game medium with its own in-house publishing branch known as Disney Interactive Studios. The publisher is perhaps best known for Disney Infinity as well as theEpic Mickey games which, at one point, were set to have a spinoff game centering around Donald Duck.
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Ultimately very little is known about the canceled Donald Duck game. Concept art and gameplay footage are virtually non-existent and most people would be hard-pressed to remember that the game was ever a thing. Today the character is probably best known in gaming spheres for his role in theKingdom Hearts games as the series' obnoxious mage. Thanks to Slope's Game Room, however, gamers now have an idea of what Donald Duck's solo Epic Mickey spinoff game might have looked like.
Sent to him by an anonymous fan, the footage only shows a few seconds of the game. At first Donald Duck is in what appears to be a treasure room, then walking around a city, and before ending up near a few boats with a partner who appears to be a duck with a Mickey Mouse box on its head. The actual footage of the game starts at the 18:41 mark.
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