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Deep down we all knew this was going to be a letdown, no?

http://www.edge-online.com/review/ducktales-remastered-review/

The choice of graphical style took the rose tint right out of my glasses. I'd rather have the original on Virtual Console.

That's a review by somebody who doesn't actually like the original though, isn't it? And it sounds like they've slapped nicer visuals over exactly the same game, so it's no wonder the reviewer found it a letdown

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Sticking to the original is the sensible move, the reviewer suggests they should've taken more liberties but that would make it a new game and people are always wary of modern updates and would await the review scores. Whereas by just doing a re-release we are secretly just ignoring that Edge review and remembering all the 99% or 100% reviews it would've gotten back in the day and how much excitement there was at school about it.

Because of that I'm dying to play it to see how I find it, if I get really frustrated and don't play it for long, that's fine, that's what happens when you play old games.

Win win.

Take my money.

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Ranting Robots loved it - that'll do for me.

It's paid for on Steam anyway - so too late now. Buyers remorse coming up?

I only paid 9 quid for mine and I'm not expecting a fun modern, friendly hand holding platformer. I'm expecting something from the dawn of time that'll rip off my nuts and feed them to the dog... with tarted up gfx.

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The twist is that you do so with a pogo stick, which naturally allows you to reach higher platforms than a regular jump will allow, and to bounce off enemies, destroying them in the process. It’s a deliberately awkward device at times, but crossing large gaps with consecutive springs off leaping enemies is as effortlessly entertaining as ever. Pity, then, that you’re more often forced to negotiate cramped environments with spiked or enemy-lined ceilings.

"Pity, then, that the game is occasionally difficult"

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We're not becoming one of those forums where we start defending a game against bad reviews before we've played it ourselves, are we? Because that'd be a bad thing. (Yes I know it's a remake so we kinda have played it.. but it's a remake that has added in cut scenes that pretty much everyone doesn't like and changed level layouts in many places, so has potential to be worse.)

I was looking forward to this, and pretty much had the points allocated for when it eventually turns up on XBLA. The numerous dodgy reviews have downgraded it to 'play the demo first', and the points are now earmarked for Castle of Illusion unless I like said demo of Duck Tales.

Hooray for compulsory XBLA demos, I guess!

(Wonder if they'll be phased out for Xbox One too... sounds like it, given they've said there's just one marketplace. Anyway. Sidetrack.)

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Part of the problem now is that reviewers are a lot younger than us (well, some of us) now. 22 year olds reviewing remakes of games that came out years before they were born, when they grew up with the Xbox 360, will give a completely different viewpoint to us playing it.

I'm not a fan of the original, and I thought this was fantastic fun. It's amazingly short though. I love the look of it as well. Why they didn't do the Castle Of Illusion remake like this I'll never know.

The Castle of Illusion remake is being done like this, isn't it? By Wayforward too, I thought?

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Part of the problem now is that reviewers are a lot younger than us (well, some of us) now. 22 year olds reviewing remakes of games that came out years before they were born, when they grew up with the Xbox 360, will give a completely different viewpoint to us playing it.

The Castle of Illusion remake is being done like this, isn't it? By Wayforward too, I thought?

No it isn't, it's by Sega Of Australia. It's looks okay, but it's not a patch on Duck Tales (at least in terms of looks, I've not played it yet).

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Part of the problem now is that reviewers are a lot younger than us (well, some of us) now. 22 year olds reviewing remakes of games that came out years before they were born, when they grew up with the Xbox 360, will give a completely different viewpoint to us playing it.

We could just kill all the youngsters and force all games journalists to have been playing since at least the 8-bit era.

Hell it would even improve games journalism.

Get off my lawn.

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Part of the problem now is that reviewers are a lot younger than us (well, some of us) now. 22 year olds reviewing remakes of games that came out years before they were born, when they grew up with the Xbox 360, will give a completely different viewpoint to us playing it.

I hadn't given that much thought before, but it does make sense. And explains why professional opinions are increasingly at odds with my own.

How depressing though! Too specialist* even for the specialist press.

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I hadn't given that much thought before, but it does make sense. And explains why professional opinions are increasingly at odds with my own.

How depressing though! Too specialist* even for the specialist press.

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This is something I've mentioned in the retro thread, but Dekay makes a very good point, so I'll say it again here. When you read certain reviews nowadays it's clear that a lot of reviewers simply aren't aware of certain games - either because of age or ignorance (or maybe it's just not deemed important).

There were a lot of reviews of Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow at the time saying it was a great game, but not a real Castlevania game, despite the fact that it's structurally very similar to part 4. It's like no one had played any Castlevanias before Symphony Of the Night, so Lords seemed totally foreign to them. There are loads of similar examples as well. Bioshock being amazing and unlike any other first-person shooter (when System Shock 2 already did it first and better) Mass Effect 2 getting praise for continuing the events of Mass Effect, despite numerous Japanese games doing it first. (Mass Effect 2 arguably did it better, but it was still getting plenty of kudos for supposed innovation).

There are plenty more examples I'm sure people can think of, but those are ones I particularly remember as a reader and it becomes hard to trust future reviews from the same places. There's no real way around the problem though as most people in their mid to late thirties aren't going to (or won't be able to afford to) work on a games magazine/website writing reviews. All you can really do as a consumer is find reviewers, magazines, or websites with similar opinions to your own and stick with them. Or simply use the collective hive mind of somewhere like Rllmuk. I never would have realised how amazing Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger was for example, if I hadn't of followed the praise found here. It certainly made me want to play the game more than any review I had read at the time did.

Of course, I could be just talking bull shit. After all I gave Lego City 6/10 and people here love it.

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