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I keep telling myself "maybe I'll be less negative in these writeups", and honestly, Ducktales Remastered tried. It tried really hard. I'd have to pull out ye old emulation to see if it was an accurate recreation of the NES game, but it sure as heck felt a lot like it... at least as far as level design goes.
Let's just say I have quite a few... issues with how jumping and rope-type objects interact in this game, and that by the end I was cussing like someone playing a Mario romhack. I'm certain the problem is my own lack of skill, at least to a 80% margin of error; either way, I sucked bad enough that the endgame had me starting to rage out even on the easiest difficulty, where you get thankfully infinite lives.
(I tried to play this on the medium difficulty at first. I regret this because when you continue from the start of a stage, you have to sit through ALL the cutscenes again, or have to pause to skip them. Either way, it's kind of a cumbersome thing when you only have three lives and very few ways to increase them.)
Either way, it is what it is. The voicework can seem a bit unenthused, and poor Alan Young was showing his age (may he rest in peace), but it was a remake of an NES game for a modern crowd. It wouldn't be too bad for five or ten bucks, and I could see someone even getting the full $20's worth out of it.
In other words, even with its flaws, it was still enjoyable enough as a game. Definitely a passing score, whatever that entails.
Let's just say I have quite a few... issues with how jumping and rope-type objects interact in this game, and that by the end I was cussing like someone playing a Mario romhack. I'm certain the problem is my own lack of skill, at least to a 80% margin of error; either way, I sucked bad enough that the endgame had me starting to rage out even on the easiest difficulty, where you get thankfully infinite lives.
(I tried to play this on the medium difficulty at first. I regret this because when you continue from the start of a stage, you have to sit through ALL the cutscenes again, or have to pause to skip them. Either way, it's kind of a cumbersome thing when you only have three lives and very few ways to increase them.)
Either way, it is what it is. The voicework can seem a bit unenthused, and poor Alan Young was showing his age (may he rest in peace), but it was a remake of an NES game for a modern crowd. It wouldn't be too bad for five or ten bucks, and I could see someone even getting the full $20's worth out of it.
In other words, even with its flaws, it was still enjoyable enough as a game. Definitely a passing score, whatever that entails.
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I'm looking forward to finally getting to this.
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