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chuckroIn 1989, one of the best games for the NES was, surprisingly, a media tie-in game called Ducktales, in which Scrooge McDuck used his cane to pogo-jump on enemies and retrieve treasures. 25 years later, an updated remake of that game was released.
They add more plot and a prologue / tutorial area; and each cutscene is fully animated and voiced. There’s a lot of “blast from the past” going on here, because they stayed true to both the original game and also very much to the cartoon series. Each area gets a full plot and areas are each more distinct: The Incan Rainforest has eight coins you need to collect to progress; Transylvania has you rescuing the nephews and retrieve pieces of a spell; the Himalayas have you retrieving part of your plane so you can reach the boss fight.
Complaints: I want a real, physical controller. The virtual buttons drive me nuts—I died more times to “slipping” off them or not being able to hit them fast even (due to lack of tactile feedback) than I did to any dirty tricks or traps. Also, what they didn’t add to the remake was a quicksave / autosave of any sort. If my tablet went to sleep (and subsequently froze) when I was most of the way through a stage…and welp, back to Duckburg! I wouldn’t be bothered by this on a console, but on the Android version is this totally necessary.
I was playing on Easy mode, which gives you infinite lives, enemies only do half a heart of damage, and it’s easy to miss, but they added a minimap to the pause screen that shows you where to go. Apparently on medium mode you have limited lives and take a full heart of damage from each hit and need to fill in your own map; and on hard mode there’s no map and fewer extra heart containers you can find.
I am perfectly happy that they didn’t stay true to the original with the inclusion of infinite lives and restarting from the beginning of the screen you were on, with all your money intact. Because the original game’s insane knockback, especially when you’re in the air? That’s replicated perfectly.
Overall: This is a very fun bit of nostalgia and still a particularly strong platformer game. But play a console version, not the Android one—your thumbs will thank you.
They add more plot and a prologue / tutorial area; and each cutscene is fully animated and voiced. There’s a lot of “blast from the past” going on here, because they stayed true to both the original game and also very much to the cartoon series. Each area gets a full plot and areas are each more distinct: The Incan Rainforest has eight coins you need to collect to progress; Transylvania has you rescuing the nephews and retrieve pieces of a spell; the Himalayas have you retrieving part of your plane so you can reach the boss fight.
Complaints: I want a real, physical controller. The virtual buttons drive me nuts—I died more times to “slipping” off them or not being able to hit them fast even (due to lack of tactile feedback) than I did to any dirty tricks or traps. Also, what they didn’t add to the remake was a quicksave / autosave of any sort. If my tablet went to sleep (and subsequently froze) when I was most of the way through a stage…and welp, back to Duckburg! I wouldn’t be bothered by this on a console, but on the Android version is this totally necessary.
I was playing on Easy mode, which gives you infinite lives, enemies only do half a heart of damage, and it’s easy to miss, but they added a minimap to the pause screen that shows you where to go. Apparently on medium mode you have limited lives and take a full heart of damage from each hit and need to fill in your own map; and on hard mode there’s no map and fewer extra heart containers you can find.
I am perfectly happy that they didn’t stay true to the original with the inclusion of infinite lives and restarting from the beginning of the screen you were on, with all your money intact. Because the original game’s insane knockback, especially when you’re in the air? That’s replicated perfectly.
Overall: This is a very fun bit of nostalgia and still a particularly strong platformer game. But play a console version, not the Android one—your thumbs will thank you.
