Oh damn, I totally forgot to review this and Chip N Dale when I decided to shotgun them back to back in a day off work!
Uhhh, yeah, it's pretty good! DuckTales was always talked up in the late-2000's internet as one of the best licensed games around, but it fell into the chasm of one of those many widely beloved titles that I only sampled over my early years dabbling with emulators. It's not as good as people made it out to be, but hey, it's good! The music's toe-tapping goodness, the spritework is great, and the gameplay's pretty solid 2D action! Not without issues, mind, because I immediately got reminded why I never got too far in the title when the Amazon level effectively walled me to needing to grind for gold, and Transylvania was a kind of annoying slog, but it got better as it went on; a good platformer if you've got an hour and a half to kill, and its influence on modern platforming classics like Shovel Knight can't be overlooked.
Final 5 minutes of the game felt insanely tacked on though, like what the fuck was that final boss?
Uhhh, yeah, it's pretty good! DuckTales was always talked up in the late-2000's internet as one of the best licensed games around, but it fell into the chasm of one of those many widely beloved titles that I only sampled over my early years dabbling with emulators. It's not as good as people made it out to be, but hey, it's good! The music's toe-tapping goodness, the spritework is great, and the gameplay's pretty solid 2D action! Not without issues, mind, because I immediately got reminded why I never got too far in the title when the Amazon level effectively walled me to needing to grind for gold, and Transylvania was a kind of annoying slog, but it got better as it went on; a good platformer if you've got an hour and a half to kill, and its influence on modern platforming classics like Shovel Knight can't be overlooked.
Final 5 minutes of the game felt insanely tacked on though, like what the fuck was that final boss?