Why Disney Infinity Is Crack (In The Best Of Ways)

Want to build a snowman? Perhaps you want to release the Kraken? Maybe your dream was to create your very own Halloween town as you gazed upon the spiral hill in the distance? If any of these sound appealing to your Disney-oriented mind then Disney Infinity is the game for you! Likewise, "be prepared" to spend a pretty penny.

A couple of months ago, my gal got the Disney Infinity starter pack for her 360. In case you weren't aware of what the starter pack consists of, it basically hands you the game disc, the game base (which is where you house your figures to play), as well as three starter figures. We sat ourselves down and played through the incredible introductory level. That's all it took for me to go out in the world and spend two-hundred dollars on figures and power disks within the first week. Yes, you read correctly, I threw some big bucks to expand a Disney game. A twenty-five year old man, buying an Elsa and Jack Skellington is not as embarrassing as you think. I'm a '90s kid, I cried through Lion King in theaters when Mufasa died (ermagawd Spoilers). I love Disney and the Disney corporation knows that. Insert their flawless business marketing here. Much like their ingenious "Disney Vault" concept for their animated movies, they have a similar concept for this game. As previously stated, they give you three starter figures with the appropriate world to play with. However, if you want to play multiplayer within the story mode, you can only do so with characters of the same world. For example, Jack Sparrow is one of the beginner characters, therefore, a small trip to a nearby store and 12.99$ later, we returned home with Davy Jones. As a result, madness ensued on the raging seas upon the Black Pearl. Dear Zeus, this game is fun.

Likewise, they also have the concept of power disks which are character upgrades based on a ridiculous number of classic and modern Disney movies. You want to ride around on Angus from Brave? Maybe you want Mickey to use Stitch's blaster? Then pump yourself up and buy a butt-load of blind bagged power disk packs. With three series that cover most of the Disney classics, it's a bit ridiculous but oh so fun. The problem is that the bags only contain two disks each and I'm at the point where we constantly get doubles. There are chase clear orange and red disks that are "rare", but I've gotten three of those rare Dumbo disks. I really hate Dumbo, this hasn't helped. Stupid elephant, thank Ares that Tantor (the cooler Disney elephant) is a power disk.

I probably haven't said enough to convince you as to why I think this is one of the best games I've ever played despite how pricey it is. Let me break it down for you my would-be Disney-lovers. Options, the game's key feature is that there's so much you may do. There's a mode that allows you to play a pretty decent story for certain movies such as: Pirates of the Caribbean, Monster's University, The Incredibles, Toy Story in space, Cars, etc. Additionally, it has the Toy Box option, which allows you to create your very own world with an incredibly huge and detailed world-builder system. In this mode, you may roam around with characters who don't have a world in Disney Infinity yet—characters such as Vaneloppe from Wreck-it Ralph and even Sorcerer Mickey from Fantasia.  Power disks further allow you to customize the world with textures and skydomes from those same movies. Furthermore, you can download fan made worlds for free. A lot of these are absolutely great as well as challenging. My gal and I have spent hours designing our perfect Disney world. In her mind, everything needs to be Sugar Rush themed while I keep trying to dump Halloween Town rejects across the world. The exciting thing is that there's so much more that they can do with this game. It's got a great feel, plays excellently, offers a variety of options and has incredible attention to detail. I can't count the amount of moments we've spent daydreaming about future playset releases and characters. There's a serious lack of classic playable characters and I've got the feeling that they're waiting for the perfect moment to unleash them. I'm sure they've got Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Alladin, Hercules and Lion King in the works. They could even supplement their already released characters with more, such as an Oogie Boogie and Sally for Jack.

With their announcement of Disney Infinity 2.0, it's hard not to be excited about all the new improvements. Level cap raised, skill trees for all the characters, Marvel themed aspects, oh boy, it's going to be an expensive next few years. Whoever dreamed of having Iron Man tag team with Lightning Mcqueen? No one and that's why it's amazing. It's a dream scenario that you never realized you wanted. So far, they've announced the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man. I hope they squeeze in the X-Men and perhaps some more obscure characters. Okay, forgive me but I've got to go build a magma surrounded Disney castle with turrets and candy cane trees. Fare thee well Disney fans, feel free to sound off on what characters YOU would wish could make it into the Disney Infinity roster.