Ducktales Remastered Review
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brendalaPlease forgive my incompetence at drawing Duck characters. But I just had to express my love for them in art form!
I've beaten this game twice already. I bought a PS3 just so I could play it and it was worth EVERY PENNY!! It's like experiencing a lost episode of the original cartoon!
If you love Ducktales, Disney, old school gaming, and/or beautiful hand-drawn animation, BUY THIS GAME NOW! The sprites are GORGEOUSLY animated and replicate both the look of the cartoon and the feel of the 1989 video game flawlessly. And, for all the people who just want to experience the story without the sadistic old-school NES difficulty, there's an Easy Mode available to play.
And yes, the iconic money bin is a mini-game that you get to swim around in! :)
RANDOM GUSHING!!!
---The new music is appropriately epic and fun. But there is an option to play with the original 8-bit tunes for all the purists out there. And the soft piano remix of The Moon that plays over the ending credits is just beautiful. It seriously almost made me cry!
---The sprites are hand drawn and animated. And they look AMAZING! The little animations have so much character that I often found myself doing things like letting Scrooge get caught by a killer plant just so I could watch the animation of him smacking the plant around to free himself.
---The replay value comes in the form of unlocking things by buying them with the money Scrooge collects in the game. And the stuff you get to collect is more pretty artwork and music. This made me happy! :)
---Best of all, all the surviving voice cast returned and they sound fantastic. Special props go to Russi Taylor (the actress behind Webby and the nephews) because she still sounds exactly the same as she did back in the day. Just....wow.
Most of the replacement actors do very well. I didn't dig Fenton's new voice (though the actor sounded better as GizmoDuck). But I'll cut the new actor some slack considering how unique the original voice was and how hard it is to parrot another actor's sound.
The replacement that surprised me the most was Mrs Beakley. She was voiced in this game by Wendee Lee. Yeah, Faye Valentine is playing Scrooge's chubby, elderly maid (and she emulated the original actress so well I didn't know she had been replaced until I saw the credits)
As for Alan Young, he may sound noticeably older than he did in the original cartoon (understandable considering he's now 94-years-old). But when he needs to sound enthusiastic, he sells it. And his Scottish brogue still sounds like perfection. And I absolutely love the idea of Scrooge (the most badass old guy character ever) being played by a guy who is awesome enough to still be working well into his 90s. And June Foray (who is the same age as Alan Young) still rocks at playing cackling villains. But June Foray's awesomeness is a surprise to no one.
In short, BUY THIS GAME AND BUY IT NOW!!!!
It's hella fun. And if it sells well, maybe we'll get a remake of the equally awesome 1989 Rescue Rangers NES game. And I want this to happen more than you will ever know!! ^_^
I've beaten this game twice already. I bought a PS3 just so I could play it and it was worth EVERY PENNY!! It's like experiencing a lost episode of the original cartoon!
If you love Ducktales, Disney, old school gaming, and/or beautiful hand-drawn animation, BUY THIS GAME NOW! The sprites are GORGEOUSLY animated and replicate both the look of the cartoon and the feel of the 1989 video game flawlessly. And, for all the people who just want to experience the story without the sadistic old-school NES difficulty, there's an Easy Mode available to play.
And yes, the iconic money bin is a mini-game that you get to swim around in! :)
RANDOM GUSHING!!!
---The new music is appropriately epic and fun. But there is an option to play with the original 8-bit tunes for all the purists out there. And the soft piano remix of The Moon that plays over the ending credits is just beautiful. It seriously almost made me cry!
---The sprites are hand drawn and animated. And they look AMAZING! The little animations have so much character that I often found myself doing things like letting Scrooge get caught by a killer plant just so I could watch the animation of him smacking the plant around to free himself.
---The replay value comes in the form of unlocking things by buying them with the money Scrooge collects in the game. And the stuff you get to collect is more pretty artwork and music. This made me happy! :)
---Best of all, all the surviving voice cast returned and they sound fantastic. Special props go to Russi Taylor (the actress behind Webby and the nephews) because she still sounds exactly the same as she did back in the day. Just....wow.
Most of the replacement actors do very well. I didn't dig Fenton's new voice (though the actor sounded better as GizmoDuck). But I'll cut the new actor some slack considering how unique the original voice was and how hard it is to parrot another actor's sound.
The replacement that surprised me the most was Mrs Beakley. She was voiced in this game by Wendee Lee. Yeah, Faye Valentine is playing Scrooge's chubby, elderly maid (and she emulated the original actress so well I didn't know she had been replaced until I saw the credits)
As for Alan Young, he may sound noticeably older than he did in the original cartoon (understandable considering he's now 94-years-old). But when he needs to sound enthusiastic, he sells it. And his Scottish brogue still sounds like perfection. And I absolutely love the idea of Scrooge (the most badass old guy character ever) being played by a guy who is awesome enough to still be working well into his 90s. And June Foray (who is the same age as Alan Young) still rocks at playing cackling villains. But June Foray's awesomeness is a surprise to no one.
In short, BUY THIS GAME AND BUY IT NOW!!!!
It's hella fun. And if it sells well, maybe we'll get a remake of the equally awesome 1989 Rescue Rangers NES game. And I want this to happen more than you will ever know!! ^_^
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Date: 2013-08-26 10:22 pm (UTC)April/Yoshi's mom texted me, asking me to try to get a hold of you. April/Yoshi's in the ICU. No specifics other than found collapsed on floor. I don't know if you have contact information or need it. If you need it, contact me via gmail (same username) or Facebook/Twitter (same username, my consistency is sickening but useful) whatever method is easier for you. LJ's hard to watch, so my response to comments/LJ messages is likely to be slow, if at all.
Again, delete/moderate this comment at your discretion as it's clearly off-topic from ranting about this (very awesome) game. :P