Haunted carnival strings swelling into something that sounds like Disney went through an emo phase and came out stronger. Epic Mickey on the Wii took the House of Mouse somewhere genuinely dark, and the score followed it all the way down.
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"Dark Beauty Castle" exists in multiple layers, Paint, Thinner, Neutral, each version shifting the mood depending on how you played. That mechanic alone makes this soundtrack worth studying. "Mad Doctor's Lab" does the same trick, bright and curious in one version, sinister and warped in another.
The "Main Theme" carries this weight of forgotten things, old cartoons and abandoned characters given one more shot. You can feel the Wii-era ambition in every arrangement. If you ever wondered what a Tim Burton Disney game would sound like, someone already answered that in 2010.