Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Ducktales Remastered for the Wii U (PS3, XBOX360, & PC too)

Ducktales Remastered is a remake of a old classic NES title "Ducktales" made by CAPCOM in Sept. 1989. With the help of WayForward, CAPCOM released this version for 4 systems in Nov. 12, 2013. I played it on the Wii U, so this game will be reviewed under that system.

FUN: If you remember the classic NES game as well as the Saturday Morning Cartoons, then this game will bring Nostalgia overload. When they Remastered the game, they change little to nothing about it. The controls are still great, the music is still memorable, and they even added Voice Acting that bring childhood memories of the cartoons back. FUN - 2.

REPLAY: This game doesn't have much replay value. However, it is so simple ad enjoyable for many players that replaying the levels for the humor and music is still fun. On top of that, on your first playthrough, you are not able to find enough money to be able to buy all the gallery items to unlock everything. The good news still, one the game is beaten the first time, all the stages are unlocked for you to pick and play. REPLAY - 1.

STORY: It all starts off with the Beagle Boys breaking into Scrooge McDuck's Money Vault. You play as Mr. McDuck as you are going through your Vault battling the Beagle Boys with your only weapon, your cane. Within the Vault, you find you Nephews Huey, Dewey, & Louie trapped by the Beagle Boys.

After rescuing your Nephews and saving your Vault, Scrooge McDuck finds a Treasure Map leading to 5 different places with 5 highly valued treasures. It up to you as Scrooge McDuck to find these treasures to make yourself even richer! STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: There's not much differences in this game nor are there any original content. This is a remastered version of the classic NES title. However, there are a few changes. The most major change in this version is the last level.

In the classic NES title, they had you replay one of the past levels as the final level. In this game, they added 2 new levels, The Vault as a opening level & another one just for it to be used as the final level. Another change is that the game actually has Voice Acting. The NES version had it's limitations, so they couldn't do any voice acting. The comedy between Scrooge McDuck and LaunchPad will have you laugh time to time. With the Wii U tablet, You are able to keep the map displayed as you play the game on the TV. The last add-on is the Gallery. The Gallery can only be unlocked when you spend your founded new cash on the items. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 2

DIFFICULTY: This game actually has 4 different difficulty settings; Easy, Medium, Hard, & Extreme (only unlocked by beating the game on Hard). Each difficulty setting has it's own set of rules. There's also a mode called Hard Pogo (for your cane, since you use it as a pogo stick). The controls are simple and easy to use. However, a newbie can have trouble at times with the jumping from rope to rope and jump distances. All these issues can be annoy, but you soon get a hang of knowing how soon enough, so you will learn fast. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 9.

There you have it! Ducktales Remastered for the Wii U! I highly recommend this Nostalgic Trip for anyone who wants a cheap, simple, but fun game. Until next time, this has been Benjamin P. Parker aka The Nintendo Rater.

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