I think I would have appreciated this game more if I was familiar with the show or the original NES game this is meant to be a "remaster" of (this is much closer to a remake imo), since I don't really know any of the characters or background story. I still enjoyed my time with this one, though; its hard to go wrong with a short and simple classic platformer like this one.
Although I said the game is simple, I definitely don't mean it's easy. There's a few other reviews here talking about how tough this game can get, but wow this game was WAY harder than I ever expected. Nothing wrong with a challenging game, especially since this game's so short it'd be over in like 4 hours if it wasn't difficult. I'm just shocked that it was this difficult since it seems like an easy stroll of a game from the whole tone of it. I think part of what made this game such a tough time for me is that Scrooge's movement never felt all that natural to me. He doesn't control badly, but he just feels sluggish and floaty. It took me a bit to get used to the weird windup he has to do with his cane to hit in front of him and his signature pogo jump just reminded me of how bad I am at playing with Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. Admittedly, much of that is a skill issue on my part, but man Scrooge's physics and movement was just not doing it for me in the levels where you have to make a mad dash to survive. It doesn't help that you only get two lives (technically three because this is one of those games where 0 technically counts as a life). I also really felt the lack of checkpoints with how much stuff you'll have to be redoing each time you get a game over, which was absolutely infuriating with the final level considering that its a pretty long level where you need to beat a boss and two different "rush to the end or else you die" segments. Took me a lot of memorization to do that level.
I just want to make a brief (for my standards anyway) paragraph here about the visuals and music. The music is wonderful, but the graphics were...very odd. I know this game came out in 2013, but the 3D does not blend well with the 2D parts at all and its very distracting. I kinda wish this game was fully 2D in that really charming art style it already has, sort of like a Cuphead or Wario Land Shake-It, but I also understand that those games were very difficult to make in part because of that stylistic choice so I can see why they didn't want to do it.
Overall, I did enjoy my time with DuckTales Remastered, but it was a surprisingly tough game. I enjoyed the difficulty for every level except that final one; I know I never want to replay that again. 3.5 stars from me. If the game didn't make me replay the entire level from the beginning after getting a game over, I'd bump it up.
Although I said the game is simple, I definitely don't mean it's easy. There's a few other reviews here talking about how tough this game can get, but wow this game was WAY harder than I ever expected. Nothing wrong with a challenging game, especially since this game's so short it'd be over in like 4 hours if it wasn't difficult. I'm just shocked that it was this difficult since it seems like an easy stroll of a game from the whole tone of it. I think part of what made this game such a tough time for me is that Scrooge's movement never felt all that natural to me. He doesn't control badly, but he just feels sluggish and floaty. It took me a bit to get used to the weird windup he has to do with his cane to hit in front of him and his signature pogo jump just reminded me of how bad I am at playing with Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. Admittedly, much of that is a skill issue on my part, but man Scrooge's physics and movement was just not doing it for me in the levels where you have to make a mad dash to survive. It doesn't help that you only get two lives (technically three because this is one of those games where 0 technically counts as a life). I also really felt the lack of checkpoints with how much stuff you'll have to be redoing each time you get a game over, which was absolutely infuriating with the final level considering that its a pretty long level where you need to beat a boss and two different "rush to the end or else you die" segments. Took me a lot of memorization to do that level.
I just want to make a brief (for my standards anyway) paragraph here about the visuals and music. The music is wonderful, but the graphics were...very odd. I know this game came out in 2013, but the 3D does not blend well with the 2D parts at all and its very distracting. I kinda wish this game was fully 2D in that really charming art style it already has, sort of like a Cuphead or Wario Land Shake-It, but I also understand that those games were very difficult to make in part because of that stylistic choice so I can see why they didn't want to do it.
Overall, I did enjoy my time with DuckTales Remastered, but it was a surprisingly tough game. I enjoyed the difficulty for every level except that final one; I know I never want to replay that again. 3.5 stars from me. If the game didn't make me replay the entire level from the beginning after getting a game over, I'd bump it up.