Ducktales: Remastered PS3 Reviews

History of Ducktales

In 1987, Disney Television Animation made the TV series called "Ducktales", which was released at September 18, 1987. It's based on Disney comic book "Uncle Scrooge" made by Carl Barks and it became one of the most known Disney TV series of all time. It featuring lot of the great characters in the cartoon shows, catchy theme song, very adventurous cliches, and it has tons of good sense of humors what makes this TV show more memorable. It is later made the feature film called "Ducktales the Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp" was released in August 3rd, 1990. Ducktales has lot of their merchandise, such as comic books, VHS and DVD, Toys, and of course the Video Games.

In 1989, Disney Interactive Studios brought the game "Ducktales" for NES, and it is the first Disney game by Capcom to develop the game. It is the 2D Adventure-Platforming game, which involves Scrooge Mcduck as playable character traveling around the world to collect treasures and became the world's richest duck.

The game is well known for unique levels, tight control, highly challenged gameplay, and it has the best soundtrack on the game. It received positive reviews from the critics, and it is the commercial success, which sold million of the copies becoming Capcom's highest selling titles for their platforms.

It is later releasing the sequel called "Ducktales 2" for NES, was released in 1993, as the last game for NES's lifecycle and it wasn't successful as the predecessors, due to lower sales, but still has the great gameplay and some good levels.

In 2013, Disney Interactive Studios and Capcom announced the remake of original NES titles called "Ducktales: Remastered" was released in August 13th, 2013 as Digital release, while the Physical disc released in November 12th, 2013.

Ducktales: Remastered PS3 Reviews

Ducktales: Remastered is the 2D Adventure-Platforming game for PS3, X360, Wii U and PC, Developed by Wayforward Technologies, and Published by Disney Interactive Studios and Capcom.

It is a remake of the original NES title, that this game is plays like the original, but with tons of improvements for this game. It added more variety of the game is featuring more presentation with story developments and featuring original voice cast from the TV series, colorful 2D graphics with hand-drawn characters models and 3D modeled levels, better gameplay with easy pogo jump, map screen for easier difficulties, 2 extra levels are introduced for this game, and finally you get to unlock stuff from gallery options.

This game follows the same story as the original NES, but it added more storytelling for the cutscenes. It's about Scrooge Mcduck set his adventure by traveling around the world to collecting treasures and outwitting his rival Flintheart Glomgold to become world's richest duck.  

I really liked the story in the game. It brings up very good presentation of the story development with great characters, extending more plots and some funny moments in the cutscenes is what makes "Ducktales" so interesting to watch.

The gameplay is plays very good for the player's controls. Your character have abillity to jump by using pogo sticks is very useful, which lets you jump multiples times, but you can jump on enemies, objects, and hazards by using pogo stick. You can also hit objects by swinging the pogo sticks like a golf club sticks. The levels are pretty amazing for 2D platform games because I really like finding secret places in the levels, collecting treasures, and some important items are fits the purpose of the game. I really enjoyed the boss battles because it's makes the game more challenged and fun to play. You can select the choices of the memorable levels from the original game, such as Amazon, Himalayas, African Mines, Transylvania, and of course the Moon is one of the best level in the game. What I like about the game is going inside the money bin area, where you can swim around the money coins for fun are the coolest thing in the game.

The graphics is looking fantastic with great hand-drawn characters, smooth animation, some decent visuals and colorful details are just like the TV series. It's by far one of the most outstanding graphics that brings the wonderful presentation for the game.

The music and sounds has really catchy theme music and the 8-bit style for most of the levels are quite sounds awesome. It has superb sound effects with modern 8-bit atmosphere and I say the original voice cast from the original TV show did a spectacular job for most of the characters, which really makes the game well done.

The special features has unlockable stuff from gallery, and 2 extra levels that has introduction and final boss levels are the great features for the game.

Advantages

Classy 2D gameplay style

Fantastic hand-drawing animation

Awesome theme music

Brilliant voice cast

Great story and characters

Money and Treasures in the game

Disadvantages

Short game length, which takes 5 and 6 hours to complete.

Final Verdict

Bottom line....

Gameplay 8/10 - Well played controls and great levels with full of challenge.

Graphics 9/10 - Fantastic hand-drawing style and colorful animation with full details.

Music and sounds 8/10 - Awesome theme tune, especially levels as well. Superb modern 8-bit sound effects and excellent voice casting for characters.

Special Features 7/10 - Unlockable stuff from gallery options and 2 extra levels.

Overall 8/10 - This is one of my favorite Disney games of all time. In my opinion, Ducktales: Remastered is far better than the Original NES titles because this remake offers a lot of variety in the game with excellent presentation of storyplot with cutscenes, characters with voice cast featured, fun gameplay with great levels and very detailed graphics is what makes the game so good. If you are the fan of the original Ducktales for NES, then this game is for you to try.

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