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Why oh why is the original game not in this! I downloaded Ducktales for the NES on my PC through...means...and played it a bit and it is great! Platforming is precise, music is great, visuals are great. Only thing I can rate it down on at the moment is having to start all over again when you get a Game Over.

I played this on my brother's Wii U yesterday and it convinced me to buy it for myself. I've played through the intro stage, Amazon, and Transylvania.

It's very enjoyable! I love how they made it still feel like playing an old-school NES game in the way the levels are designed. At times, a few elements in the stages are a little strangely or arbitrarily placed, but that's similar to how the NES game was anyway. The cutscenes are cute and enjoyable to see play out (every stage really does feel like its own "episode"), but I wish there was an option to simply have no cutscenes at all instead of having to manually skip them upon replays.

The music is well-done overall. I did think Transylvania was a little too intense and rock-ish (like NoName was describing), but Amazon (my favorite song in the original) was as enjoyably catchy as ever, and had a nice extended solo session.

The backgrounds are okay, but the sprite work is excellent as usual. Scrooge and the gang all look great.

I'll echo the aching for an unlockable NES version! It'd be the perfect final unlockable for this game.

I picked it up but have yet to play it. Maybe I can get around to it this weekend.

What's with the freezing in this game? I hope they patch it soon.

@TriforceBun

In-game? Never experienced it other than when I was checking the leaderboards...

But it's something Capcom has addressed and they are working on.

It freezes every time I check out some of the leaderboards on the main menu, and other players have it freeze after some levels.

So I beat the game tonight! All in all, it was a good time, and I quite like how it wrapped up. I gotta say, though, they really run the Moon theme into the ground. It's a song that's referenced almost as much as the main DuckTales theme, and it really doesn't have much to do with anything in the game. So there's no reason it should be referenced in the stage select, the Himilayas, of all things, and then again during the ending DuckTales theme in the credits, which has no other level songs. Oh, and then AFTER that, it has its own full piano version for the second half of the credits! What the heck, guys?? One callback would be more than most songs in the game get, but FOUR? Wayyyyy too much Moon.

I've always preferred the Amazon theme anyway.

EDIT: It also plays in the intro to the prologue stage. TOO MUCH MOON! MOOOOOOON

@TriforceBun
Yup, I have the same Moon Theme complaints, as mentioned a page back. It really got on my nerves.

As for freezing, I am in the same boat. I can't check the leaderboards without the buzz of death.

The theme to the moon stage is one of the best video game songs ever. It's an amazing tune, and fans (well, most fans) love hearing it. Remixes, reprises, whatever. That's why it's referenced so often. People wanna hear it.

@GameDadGrant

I get it, and as much as I like it, it was a bit of overkill.

Still, I thought the new tunes were all awesome. Every one of them.

It just seems awkwardly crammed in to me. The stage doesn't have any greater narrative significance than the rest of the levels (in fact, I'd argue Transylvania is the plot-critical area if anything), so it's just kind of inappropriate for the theme to sneak into parts of the game that have nothing to do with the Moon (like the Himilayas). I dunno, it's kind of a weird pet peeve; the game also does this with the DuckTales theme itself, but it works much better with that due to it being the series' anthem.

Just to play devil's advocate, but the Gusty Garden theme from Mario Galaxy was peppered in a lot throughout the two games wasn't it? Probably not as much as in DuckTales but I remember hearing it a few times in Galaxy 2 because it was just such a popular song.

@PogueSquadron

Sort of, although SMG1 had it in the credits theme and in that stage, so it felt sort of like the game's unofficial theme song in that sense. And it did show up in a couple spots in SMG2 (notably the intro stage), but still not nearly as much as the Moon seemed to show up in Remastered. I guess it helps that I really like the Gusty Garden theme, but either way, it felt like more of an established "main theme" even in SMG1 than the Moon song ever did.

SMG also has a multitude of stages whereas DuckTales has six. You could go a long time playing SMG without hearing Gusty Garden.

Very true. I dunno, I guess I'd have to play the whole game to see if it really bothered me. From what I've heard I'm inclined to think I'd like the unity of the music, but you're all right, if its in there too much it could feel a little too much like a fan remixing a song and throwing in the Moon theme simply because it's popular.

If anyone was waiting for a disc to take the plunge, it's launching on Wii U, PS3, and 360 on November 12 for $19.99.

ludist210 said:

If anyone was waiting for a disc to take the plunge, it's launching on Wii U, PS3, and 360 on November 12 for $19.99.

Dang it. I wish I knew about this in advance.

@TriforceBun

I'm not sure they knew the demand for a disc-based copy would be so high. I'm okay with keeping it digital though.

Bit on the digital version tonight, on sale for $7.49, down from $15.

Good thing; I can't justify paying $15 for what is basically an NES game.


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I wouldn't have paid $15 for Ducktales Remastered either. It's fun but it's a short game that many of us have already played before. Great trip down memory lane though.

Thanks again Ploot! Loving it so far. Just have to finish the last level.