Is DuckTales (NES) Overrated? - IMPLANTgames
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In today’s video I dive in and take a look to see if DuckTales for the NES is overrated. Enjoy!
"Scrooge can also duck"
Hm... so, what are your thoughts on Wayforward's remake of this game? I feel like in some ways. It actually fixed some of the issues mentioned. In the normal difficulty settings, the Pogo Jump is one button press.
The story is actually explained in game. Via voice acted cutscenes. With a majority of the original voice actors.
The levels large size has meaning. In the original, you could wonder through Transylvania for a LONG time. Or, beat it very quickly depending on the path taken. The remake however throws things needed to progress through all of the level areas. So, there's actually a reason to go and explore the whole level.
Boss patterns are much more complex. ESPECIALLY the final boss.... It's a completely different boss honestly. The only thing that's the same is how you damage him.
And finally, the ending doesn't change based on money for... a somewhat spoilery reason. Meaning there's no tedious side questing. And finally, the final level is NOT Transylvania like in the original. But, an all new level.
I played the remake without playing the original and I loved it. Still is not perfect, just very good.
I don't believe I've played Remastered for more than 10 minutes in my life and I am looking forward to giving it a proper play :) Fantastic comment as well!
The remake suffers from forcing the player to explore every nook and cranny in single playthroughs just to make them find McGuffins to proceed while sitting though way too many cut scenes. For example in the Amazon stage you have to fins eight medallions to proceed to the end. The original game had replay value because I was finding new areas that I had not noticed in earlier playthroughs. Once beating the remake all I could do is play the game at higher difficulties with the hardest forcing you to press down along with button used for the cane. After finishing the game at the hardest difficulty I was never compelled to play it again because I had done everything and seen everything.
Great video as always! DT was, and still is, one of my favorites of all time. I've owned it since 1990, and my phone's ringtone is the Moon Stage intro :D
So whenever an action is more difficult than you think it should be the game is "unpolished." I get the gripe about ducking on a moving platform but, c'mon.
I always liked this game too, but for some reason fell victim to the many frustrating things like the pogo jump not working. This made the part when you are chased by the ball unnecessarily hard.
I never did find a pattern for the spiders as they seemed unpredictable and triggering them did little. I always had to find way to get hit in a way to land safely.
There are a few parts with bad enemy placement. That damn bee after using launch pad to cross a large gap. You don't know if you have to press down, jump, or a combination of the two to get off the rope. The bee just hits me.
Also the space ducks that infinitely respond on the moon. 1 always gets stuck under a spike and you have to wait for him to bounce through.
Jumping out of a mine cart ate inputs too, so it made me nervous whether or not it would actually jump before falling into the pit.
It's an undeniably great game, but could have used a LITTLE more polish.
Great review. Well said. You nailed it.
Thanks! You are right, the space ducks on the moon are silly. I remember this being a problem when I reviewed this a couple of years ago. As for the Bee, I think I made it past the Bee safely twice on my 10 runs. I think I may have successfully pogo-jumped it just once. The other 70% of the time... damage. I do appreciate how you can recover from knock-back though. Glad you enjoyed the video!
It's not a flawless game by any means but by NES platformer standards it's one of the better examples.
Am I only one slightly bothered by the fact he's wearing red all game, but in the cartoon and even the box art, he's wearing blue? I guess I understand that a blue coat, in front blue back grounds might not be the best, although megaman got away with it.
i'm 40, nostalgic, so i can't judge this game because he reminds me some wonderful moment with my family and friend
Glad to hear it!
One of the first games I ever played when I was a small child. It will always have a special place in my heart.
This game is not over rated. Its great especially for a licensed game.Not perfect. Not a top five but definitely in the top 25 for the NES.
Totally agreed. The game isn't bad by any means, the production value and quality are there, it's just not very fun or engaging to play. There's nothing special about the style. As a kid I was thinking where are the weapons? Power ups? It's like Mega Man but with way less mechanics.
Even compared to platformers like Wizards and Warriors DuckTales is technically more polished, but I'd much rather play Wizards and Warriors for the style alone.
I'd say this is why the remaster alone is quite unique, as it uses hand drawn sprites for all the characters and enemies and really stands out artstyle wise
Couldn't agree with you more on this. As someone who didn't play it when it came out (I was playing Genesis way more at the time) I never really got the buzz around it. Many more entertaining platformers imo.
so it came out before your time...pretty much explains it
One of the better NES games. Not overrated at all IMO.
Fuck off. The Little Mermaid and Darkwing Duck should be getting more recognition than this crap.
Seek out a mental health professional right away.
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So pressing down and a button is "too complicated" for the pogo jump....lmao. yeah it was so difficult 10 year old me beat it the first day I had it....sorry but anyone with even mediocre platforming skills can breeze through this game in less than 30 mins, and that's exploring everywhere....this game is a classic and a masterpiece, but difficult in any way it is not.
Honestly, I think this game is similar to most other NES games - if you want the best experience, play on emulator with save states.
It is overrated! Pogo jumping isnt really that fun. And you die and lose all your money might as well reset the game and start over.
17:15 "Scrooge looses fortune..."
I love duck tales and im 39. One of my favorite games! I bought the android remake, excellent game!
No. It is not. Laser like precision, I beat this in elementary school.
I don't like the word "overrated" because every person experience and rate the games in a different way, there is no correct way to do it and the word "overrated" seems to suggest that there is a correct way and people is evaluating the game in the wrong way.
Still I think you have a point, but usually it's possible to find better words to describe it. In this case I think a better word would be "idealized" or longer but most clear "remembered better than it was".
I've been hesitant to use the word overrated for a while now but decided to get over my fears and just do it :) If I was more clever I would come up with something better haha ;)
No. DuckTales is a great fucking game and the music is amazing.
DuckTales 2 was way better imo
1. The dictionary definition of overrated still doesn't do us any good because it's completely qualitative. You need to quantify what you're talking about, like give us someone's ranking of NES games and say you think it should be ranked behind platformers A, B, etc.
2. The hitbox and scrooge don't line up on purpose. That's part of the difficulty in the game, you need to bounce on the pogostick, not on his foot. It's not "unexpectedly clipping" a platform, it's missing the appropriate pixels, which I think is a good way to add difficulty yet make it easy enough for my 8 year old self to master.
3. The ducking on platform fall is a bug/glitch/bad physics but a minor one you quickly learn not to do.
4. Obviously it's not invincibility but rather invulnerability. Again, this is you mistaking how you think the game should be with how the game is.
5. The spiders and placement of the platforms was obviously intentional, though a little funny that they're just about the hardest thing in the game.
6. Those boulders not in the right spot? Here you go again confusing intent with mistake. And if I'm recalling this correctly after 20 years of not playing it, some of those "misplaced" boulders can trigger diamonds if you hit them away from the enemies they are distracting you with.
7. So the rams are hard to kill...remembering (or quickly reacting) enemy movements is basically a part of all platformers at the time.
8. Collecting enough money for the good ending was part of the fun and challenge. It added a different and longer playthrough style, something many platformers in 1989 didn't have at all. As for the bad ending, that is a pure novelty type of easter egg. It's sad that you would include either of these in your reasons for why they game was overrated as I think the developers should get a lot of credit for putting them in. As for going back to Transylvania, in 1988 when this game was being developed they didn't exactly have a lot of memory space in a cartridge. DuckTales is a 90 KB game whereas Dragon Warrior 1, made in the same year, is 80 KB if my sources are correct.
In my opinion, it's far more original in design (despite the Disney theme) and music than metroid and megaman. And more mechanically complex with better maps than SM1 and 2 - all platformers that are typically ranked ahead of Ducktales on "official" rankings. I'd say it's nearly impossible to call the game overrated compared to other NES games.
We all like it due to the moon song.
3:50: HA! Duck...
No, the game is not over rated.
So you're saying the rat is erRATtic?
This pogo key combination was carried by Shovel Knight and it's the reason I didn't play it so much.
It's different in Shovel Knight, because in Shovel Knight you can only use it over enemies and in Duck Tales you can use it everywhere, so in Duck Tales is used more often and it's also much more powerful. That changes the game feel a lot.
I don't think Shovel Knight is worse, they decided to not make the pogo jump that powerful because that would take away the focus from the other weapons, but it's not a replacement of Duck Tales.
What!!?? No way!! DuckTakles isn't overrated woo-oo :) grew up playing Game Boy version so I couldn't get used to NES pogo-jump.
I read this was simplified on the GB but I don't own it. Glad to know it's true!
Disagree. I beat this game when I was 5. It wasnt too hard, and the Pogo was a very intuitive mechanic imho.
Trump Tales woohoo!
The only Disney video game I ever played that didn't suck. Too easy and not big enough to be an elite NES title. Nevertheless a good NES game to be remembered. Shovel Knight is one of the very few retro games that surpasses nearly all 8 bit classics and is largely based off of Ducktales. I hated Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, terrible game. Overrated and depressing to play.
The only Disney game that doesn't suck? You clearly have not played The Little Mermaid or Darkwing Duck, which are much more better, challenging and innovative than DuckTales ever was.
@@theimmortalvk9273 Little Mermaid isn't challenging at all. Now Darkwing Duck that 's a game we can agree on.
I do feel that this game is FAR from overrated. It's definitely a masterpiece. I never had any issues with the pogo stick attack though.
Right on!
@@implantgames Actually, this game was close to number one in famiclone territories, particularly in Russia. Sadly, RPGs and battery-backed games we were devoid of, but we had many japan-only games, and Disney licensed titles from Ducktales, Chip 'n Dale and Darkwing Duck to Jungle Book, Aladdin and Lion King that came late in the NES lifespan enjoyed a great popularity.
The lion king never was on the NES
@@rogeranimates3357 Lion King was on NES in Europe.
I used to own it. It was crap
Oh ok
being a kid when this came out, i dont remember it being the shining classic that it's regarded as today - it was just another game
Totally agree. Top 100 but not top 20
True. I borrowed it from a friend. Beat it the same day. Probably beat it again and returned it.
It's a fun game but for me too short and easy to be considered top 20 material. I rather play Darkwing Duck, Flintstones or Tiny Toon Adventures.
Yeah I think Ducktales NES is a little overrated. It’s a good NES game, but I think it gets a bit too much attention and praise. Little Nemo NES is an underrated Capcom game.
The Little Mermaid and Darkwing Duck are a hell of a lot better and much more challenging, and should be getting a lot more praise than this overrated turd.
Darkwing Duck, yes definitely!
Little Mermaid, challenging? No way!
Goddamn those are some pretty graphics. The game just oozes quality right from the outset.
Some of it is really quite good!
I agree with this review. Those spider enemies are the bane of my existence. When it comes to DuckTales, it's probably my least favorite of the DuckTales games. The Remaster however, fixes several issues with the original in addition to adding new meaningful content, and while the cutscenes aren't everyone's cup of tea, I'll take long cutscenes over glitches. I still like the game quite a bit, though, but I prefer the very underrated sequel.
Thanks to you now I'm calling everything a side quest :D As for DuckTales, I didn't realize how bad the collision detection was until editing the video. Combined with the finicky pogo jump and I just can't help but find the game underwhelming. I look forward to playing the Remaster and seeing how the pogo and collision issues have been improved.
implantgames check your controller the pogo is seamless. I've owned this since it came out.
Remastered? REMASTERED? What has this world come to. I want to slap you silly sir! Slap you silly in the face! You don’t understand how awesome a game like this was, back when the NES was our system.
@@hectormedina2205 Mega Man 2, Bionic Commando, Rolling Thunder, Lifeforce, Flying Dragon, I can name a ton of better games than this overrated trash.
@The SQG Review Show: Remaster??? Tel me you are a Zillenial without telling me you are one. The remaster cannot hold a candle to the NES game and if the original is too hard, then practice more. It was one of the first games I beat as a kid!
Maybe it was just me, my brothers and sister but when we watched the cartoon we didn't think "can't wait for the game to come out so we can play as old Uncle Scrooge". The game woulda been much better if you play as Huey, Dewey, Louie or Webby
Great perspective. I understand the frustrations with the pogo jump and it has cost me lots of lives. I still love this game regardless. I'm a big fan of exploration in side scrollers or any type of action/adventure game.
Thanks!
Despite the amount of positivity you're able to give for the review of this game, I completely disagree with "DuckTales" on the NES being overrated because it's an 8-bit platformer that is still enjoyable to this day, even if any of the flaws you mentioned were fixed in the remake "DuckTales: Remastered" that was released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii U. I also don't believe in "looking through the game with a nostalgic lens" because that sounds more like pessimistic nonsense when it comes to playing older video games that can still be enjoyed; Otherwise, I would be allowed to say the same thing towards people who enjoy games such as "GoldenEye 007" and "Final Fantasy VII" (both of which I am not a fan of, BTW).
@Tom Ffrench No, I don't like the Final Fantasy games at all because they're a bit too slow and grind-y for me to enjoy, and the characters also don't appeal to me that much as well.
It speaks to the quality of your videos that I can disagree on almost all of your conclusions and still thoroughly enjoy watching. Thanks for the perspectives
Did you ever get to the part where you say whether or not the game is overrated? I watched like 40000 minutes of basic game-play and level descriptions before I got too bored and I guess if it was in there it just slipped by. Maybe add a link in the description box to where you get to any sort of point, TIA!
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I'll have to respectfully disagree on this one. While yeah, some things of the game could be better, for what it's worth, I think it's good. Now granted, do I think it's worthy of a top 5 in best NES games? Nah. I think DuckTales is good and just that. But to me, it's not overrated. Although then again, i'm not usually a big fan of that word for the most part since it seems like a cop out response that could be replaced I feel. That, and most of my experience with people using that word, lets just say some people can be douches about it.
I did like the review still but there are some things I do disagree with.
I don't think the word overrated is bad by itself. The problem is that people often use the word to mean a game is bad when they didn't like it but most people did. Overrated just means a game gets more praise than it deserves. So if most people think a game is fantastic when it's really just good, it can still be overrated.
If Ducktales 2 didn't exist, I wouldn't call Ducktales overrated; the original game just cannot hold a candle in comparison.
Angel Molina Since it’s all subjective, doesn’t it negate the whole point entirely?!? It all depends on your experience the game if you feel it’s overrated or not......
I doubt even AVGN would call this game overrated. It's awesome for its time.
As a kid I beat this on the first day (luckily we borrowed the game from a friend or class mate instead of buying it for 50 bucks).
It was OK, at the time I thought the Amiga Duck Tales game (The Quest for Gold) was a lot more interesting.
The Mega Man games, Darkwing Duck, Little Nemo. I would pick those game over DuckTales any day.
And for a quickie I even prefer Adventures in the Magic Kingdom.
You can hold down & b and continually pogo. It's not hard to execute.
I always thought the pogo jump was better executed on the Gameboy version.
Huey and Louie’s shirts are only the same color due to computer memory limitations. The system could only draw a certain amount of colors onscreen at one time. That’s why in earlier Nintendo video games the sprites usually only have 2 or 3 colors (and why Luigi’s mustache and hair are green in Super Mario Bros.) Companies eventually found ways to work around that “3 colors per sprite” limitation by creating characters composed of 2 separate sprites (Mega Man’s face and body are separate sprites for instance, creating the effect of a full sprite with 5 colors. This may become obvious in earlier installments where sprite flickering is more prominent. Mega Man’s face may seem to flicker off-sync with his body)
The game is okay, but I don't understand how people love it so much, especially when games like Little Nemo are rarely ever talked about.
The game is nice, but not one I would give a 9 or 10 out of 10. So I think it is over rated.
Before I watched, I would say that you are crazy, but, after watching, I think you hit it right on the money.
No joke, I actually think Donald Duck going Quackers for the ps2 was quite a decent platformer. Challenging too.
Yes it is overrated 16bit Disney games are superior.
Great video with spot on analysis. Was just playing the game and noticed how annoyed I got with the pogo mechanics. Will try to finish it, but i'm not nearly enjoying it as others seem to. Thank you for sharing your views.
I think the complaints in this video are reaching.
Only real criticism I have is at 19:43. You can't claim "hit the enemy, still too damage". Your pogo-cane was nowhere near the enemy. Scrooge hit the enemy all right, with his face! You should have taken damage there, you missed the damn enemy. I see people making this complaint a lot with old games. Just because you're in an attack animation doesn't mean you touching the enemy should count as a win, You need to hit from the correct side of the hit box. So no, this complaint isn't valid.
this comment section is completely bonkers. you answer "is it overrated" perfectly reasonably - of course it is. this game is far from perfect. for perspective: i'm a Duck Tales speedrunner and regularly beat the game in about 7m30s. you're right on about the pogo controls being pretty wack and the hitboxes being nonsense. the fact that i or others are able to compensate for it and master it does not make it "ok" by any means. even at my level, it's still not entirely predictable and the pogo stick sometimes just doesn't deploy. i can't for the life of me figure out why this is a two-button move - deploying it while moving forward is a pain in the ass
i love the game to death, but it's absolutely overrated. returning to Transylvania three times and following the same route to the boss two of those times is especially half-baked. there's no reason for it to play out this way aside from "gotta ship the game"
it's an absolute charmer of a game but to call it a masterpiece and a 5/5 or 10/10 is missing the mark in a big way and is a perfect case of letting your enjoyment override legitimate criticisms. is it so hard for people to admit that it might be a 4/5 or 8/10? lord knows that's still better than the vast majority of the NES/Famicom library.
"Scrooge can also duck"
Did anyone else find that funny?
A few did ;)
As with many things and video games, today's young gamers are on a hyperventilation hype train all the time. Of course the moon theme is great. Duck Tales as such was and still is a very good platformer to pick up and play any time. On hardest difficulty it offers quite some challenge. Overrated? Possibly yes. But still a good classic.
The game is good, but it doesn't compete with other good platformers of the time (Castlevania, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, etc). The game is very short (and relatively easy) and the problem becomes more pronounced once you memorize the levels (and the shortcuts). The correct thing would be that no shortcuts had been added and that to go to the boss you had to search for objects just as you did in The Moon.
Random note about the Pogo controls, Duck Tales Remastered had the option to "easy pogo" making it a simple button
As a kid I always liked DuckTales 2 and Chip N Dale 2 more than the originals.
i'd have to say that Chip n' Dale 2 is far superior to the first game
Both games are superior to their original, not unlike Megaman 2
To STALE MEME: Agreed, the second game has better-looking graphics and is more challenging to play in single-player mode. :)
I love this game, but one thing that always felt kind of cheap is how they make you go back to Transylvania twice. When the game is only five levels long to begin with, recycling levels feels a bit rushed and unimaginative.
The traveling back to Transylvania thing made me think perhaps this game was rushed. I can't help but feel like a few other Key Quests were made for other areas but then really completed. I can't find any evidence to support this... but when exploring the levels I couldn't help but get that vibe.
I would disagree on the game being overrated. Just finished it today. It has flaws, but so does Megaman or Mario. Considering that NES really lacks the games that aren't NES hard, Duck Tales truly is a shining classic of NES games.
Great review though. Keep up with the great job! :)
DT maybe overrated but your grips about ‘oh, the pogo jump is so difficult.’ And ‘It’s too too easy of a game AND enemies respond inconsistent.’ Dude...this is kinda a good video. Use your skill/talent/whatever to not sound like a professor silly-arse. (I am)Not a subscriber yet.
Not overrated at all. It's def a "Top-10" NES game, for sure...I do hate the constantly-respawning enemies that respawn no-matter what, though it's a minor gripe.
I've only played Ducktales 2, but I can't rate it less than 10/10. The gameplay is just so much fun and the animations are (dare I say it?) adorable.
Here's a good test... if you ever managed to get good enough with the pogo jump to find the secret treasures without knowing anything about them then you probably love the game; It's nothing to do with nostalgia, it's an in game reward feature. If you don't like pogo jump mechanics period... like cutting out of a pogo jump mid way to make a precarious landing... then you probably don't like the game.
Probably a bit overrated. Great graphics and music, but a little wonky gameplay here and there with the pogoing and hit detection. Also its too short and too easy.
The remake by Wayforward is really nice, save for the ridiculously hard end segment of the game.
You can spend your money to get the bad ending. Just have a multiple of 3,000,000 and spend it all right before/during the dracula duck fight
Boulders? I always thought they where lettuce heads... Now you can't unsee it.
Ducktales is never overrated on the NES.
it's a masterpiece.
No it isn't. The Little Mermaid and Darkwing Duck are miles better.
Agreed. Great controls, graphics, music, everything. The ability to choose levels was great as well. One of the best games for any console.
Is Ducktales overrated. No, not ONE. FREAKING. BIT. The game is damn near 2D perfection.
I could bounce on my cane all day
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I was wondering, how will you decide whether a game review should be an episode of "Is It Still Good?" or "Is It Overrated?" I imagine games that are in the "Overrated" series would be the super famous ones like Ducktales, while the ones in "Is It Still Good" are the ones that got good reviews but don't get brought up all the time, like Scaler or Darkwatch.
In all honesty I just didn't want to read another "of course it's still good, what is the point of this video?" comment. Although the comment section has been far tamer than expected which makes me want to revisit some other NES games. The creative juices are flowing :)
implantgames I can see your point. If you need any suggestions for “Overrated” videos, let me know.
Haha, don't hold back! What classics do you find overrated?
I think Super Mario 64, for one. Don't get me wrong, it's a great game, and still one of my all-time favorites. But people online seem to think that no other 3D platformers are nearly as good as Mario 64. As far as collectathons go, I think Banjo-Kazooie and Jak and Daxter surpass it in certain areas, both gameplay and presentation-wise. I think that most of the people who think Mario 64 is the best 3D platformer ever either A. think they have to feel that way because it was revolutionary, or B. don't really enjoy platformers anymore but have fond childhood memories of Mario 64.
It's still better than the original Sonic by about a mile.
That's a low bar to clear.
I’ll take The Little Mermaid over DuckTales any day.
It is a good game but one thing that really annoys me about it are the horrible, unnecessarily complicated pogo controls. Turned off the game more than once because of that.
Please review Blinx: The Time Sweeper for the Microsoft Xbox.
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Someday.
Ducktales 2 has always been the strongest game between the two, it just so happens that most kids never got around to play it, which doomed the game to be forgotten.
Much like Megaman 2, it improves upon the original in every way.
Samuelpothier yep, only thing worse about it is the ost
It's still a decent enough OST, nothing too terrible.
And it's nice the final boss as a unique theme.
Dunno, I find DT2's OST to be more enjoyable than the first. Both have great compositions tho, they're practically equal in quality if you give points to each BGMs, then compare the total point counts with each other.
I've always heard "DuckTales 2 isn't as good as the original" but now I'm starting to think that "common" wisdom might not be so true...
Guess we'll see in your next video, amirite?
I know what you mean. Even if you limit the competition to other licensed NES platformers by Capcom, Little Nemo blows it out of the water. It's a good game, but just that.
Did this dude really just say the pogo jump is too complicated because you have to push down and B?
Duck Tales was one of the funnest games around back in the day and NOT overrated!
And then we ask…is Ducktales 2 underrated?
This game is a source of some of the fondest memories for me. Is it overrated? I`m going to vote no :)
Great game amazing soundtrack very fun. Not overrated at all
Yes, it IS overrated.
Cutscenes did not make this game better that was the worst part of the remaster.
I'll still go back to it at least once a year to beat each level (which I always play from top to bottom). I thought the remaster was well-done with the additional story elements and voice acting, though I still prefer the original.
the remaster is an insult to the NES original
Duck tails is rad
How could duck tales hero hit king slime since he has a vault full of gold coins
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I adored this game as a kid used to try n fake illness to stay off school to play it
I tried to play it once and I felt it off for Scrooge's pogo jump and other mechanics, it was after I played the Remastered remake that I feel them more comfortable.
Yeah I would say that the remastered version is better than the original
I never realized how different the remake is. ALL of the bosses changed, did you ever realize that?
I guess all of the NES library that is considered great is overrated. The best thing about this game is anyone can play it for fun or a challenge. To master it or to just pass it.
There is no challenge. WTF
Nitpicky af
I never really liked it. Why he can bounce about like a lunatic on a pogo stick? Cheap gimmick.
How is the main method of attack and traversal in a fucking platformer a gimmick? That's not what that word means. "Oh, Link swings his sword? What a gimmick!"