Disney Infinity, or "I'm an adult; I buy toys to go with my video games."

[mauve]

My sister is interning with a branch of Disney Interactive this year (and DAMN do they treat their employees well! Catered meals every day, a room full of free snacks, and she makes more money as an intern than I do in my full time job), and as a perk she gets a massive discount on Disney Infinity and its accessories between now and October. (Damn, the only perks I get at my office is free terrible coffee and a slim chance at getting ONE nationally-recognized holiday off per year, so I can choose whether I'd rather work till midnight on Christmas, Thanksgiving or New Years.)

I've looked at a few Let's Plays and it looks cute, but kinda easy. Granted, games don't have to be hard to be fun, but my sister and I would probably be playing exclusively in co-op. Does anyone have any experience with the game? Opinions? Tips? Is it worth grabbing for 50% off? Anyone know how multiplayer is/works? I assume we'd need to buy additional Pirates/Monsters/Incredibles figures in order to play together, as I don't think you can bring characters into playsets other than their own. (That's not very infinite, Disney!)

[Yumil]

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You get it for the toybox mode and your love of Disney properties/toys. Playsets only accept characters from that world, toybox accepts unlimited play.

[Krylo]

I've heard it's basically like Little Big Planet but Disney and not as good, with the primary issue being that you can't play characters outside of their world in playsets, and the fact that each playset costs like 30 bucks and if you don't want to be the character that comes with it that's even more.

With a huge discount it MIGHT be worth it, but the whole thing still reads to me as playing a worse version of Little Big Planet and then paying a premium for Disney Characters. Repeatedly.

Get some Lego games or LBP or something instead, in my opinion.

That's from someone who doesn't particularly care for Disney above any other company and hasn't actually had controller in hand on this, however.

[Yumil]

My real issue is that toybox unlocks are for the most part gated by leveling more and more characters. Yes you can do a cooperative toy box with someone which gives you access to their toys too, but to get everything you gotta buy everything. Plus its a slot machine on what you get.

[mauve]

Welp, looks like the Wii version doesn't actually incorporate multiplayer mode into the playset areas, only the toybox. LAME. And I'm not buying a new console just to play Disney Infinity.