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Trying DuckTales 2 for NES, dumped from the Steam version of The Disney Afternoon Collection using the game-extraction-toolbox and run in the emulator Mesen, on Easy difficulty with an infinite lives cheat--which in this game can actually get you stuck.
I did not finish this game and I'm not going to.
Capcom's first DuckTales game for NES, produced by some of their current or future superstars, was a joyful romp through colorful stages with gorgeous sprites and amazing music. Four years later, some unknown bunch at Capcom apparently turned out this thing, with a ton of obnoxious extra mechanics (inventory, shop, hooks to hang from, switches to drag, rafts to shove--the "fun" never ceases lemme tell ya), horrific sounds, dull colors, lots of clicking through bad dialogue that's supposed to explain the terrible extra mechanics to you, loads of punishing platform sequences--with slowdown!--and not nearly enough checkpoints, so if you get bopped mid-jump by one of the cruelly timed super-respawny boring enemies into one of the many, many death pits, you'll probably have to replay half the stage to get back there so you can fall in the death pit again. You need certain items from some stages to progress through others, but you might not know that until you get there and are stuck. NEAT.
As in the first game, Nintendo's name has been scrubbed from the boot screen of this Disney Afternoon Collection version of the NES ROM.
(Figured out afterwards that with those first two high treasure boxes I couldn't figure out how to reach in Mu, you just club rocks into them to hit them. : P Busting the bigger one gets you to Gyro who gives you a certain upgrade--but not the one needed to get past the place where I got stuck, which is indeed not on that stage according to a walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9EgOt2gAuw . ; PPP) |
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