So many things wrong here...

User Rating: 3 | Disney's Donald Duck: PK PS2
So I have had this game in my collection for quite a long time and it practically just sat on my shelf for the longest time with me just scratching my head at the concept and the universal panning of the game. Now, I realized itd be a kiddy title, but you know, I had some fun with other Donald Duck titles, and the fact that this one had a unique concept to me you know? I figured, "Hey, this looks interesting, Disney's take on a dark comic book game with the humor of Donald Duck, this could be fun!" As you guessed by reading the score I've given, I was most certainly wrong.

The first majorly notable problem is the game's camera which basically works in a way to utterly make you extremely furious. Everytime you want to do anything it just over corrects itself to an uncomfortable position and does so everytime you move from place to place. It not only makes you furious combined with some unresponsive platforming, but really makes the game really hard to enjoy. Aside from just the camera, the main gameplay is essentially extremely boring. What I could classify this as is a basic third person shooter with awkward platforming and forced humor. Your main weapon is a laser gun that shoots pretty fast and makes short work of most enemies as long as you keep targeted. The problem that lies here is the fact the lock-on sequence isn't smooth like something out of Legend of Zelda, its ultra frustrating, and will likely get off what you want to aim at if you try any simple jump to the side to try and dodge their attacks. This makes combat really frustrating, and frankly the bland shooting really isn't greatly improved by the miniscule amount of powerups you get. The platforming, again is really tedious, as the camera in the game is your biggest enemy. Still, jumping and maneuvering still finds a way to be completely tedious seemingly on accident. I only died a few times from the actual enemies, but the falling damage (thats right FALLING DAMAGE IN A GAME THAT UTILIZES PLATFROMING A LOT) and the clumsiness of jumps just make falling into pits of whatever easier than anything, and when you're first starting its hard to get really. This purple goo stuff throughout the game hurts you, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out but it kills you on touch. So you could just be jumping around, and because of the clumsy mechanics, hit the goo and die again, and again, and again. I mean the saving grace here is that there are checkpoints. You essentially go around collecting coins that are always in plain sight and use them to essentially purchase checkpoints. I don't like that, but my main nitpick is the checkpoints being so far apart especially in a game specifically designed for kids. Thanks to your terrible game, these kids are going to fall and fall and fall and start awhile back from where they were, beautiful. Other than rescuing some annoying sounded scientists, the simplicity of jumping, shooting, and collecting coins remains the same and remains in all its horrendous beauty, and essentially never gets any better, and to only make matters worse the story is practically non-existent. So, basically, you're Donald Duck who is some security guard at some building thats never explained, who falls asleep on the job and dreams about his loved ones teasing him. So, out of nowhere he decides he wishes he was a superhero, and then some green hologram guy is just like "okay, theres a bunch of aliens trying to invade, stop them." And thats essentially a good majority of the story. Oh and guess what? In addition to changing Donald's costume to look more like a hero (I have no problem with that), he also changes Donald's voice as well, his VOICE! You know, that thing that makes Donald Donald?! And the voice they choose isn't even heroic, so the point of that is unknown to me, especially some of the humor that could have been drug out using his real voice. There's some humor in the miniscule amounts of cutscenes there are in this game, but 99 percent of it is extremely unfunny, and to make things worse, the voices don't even match up with the lips half the time. The graphics are okay, and the game can resemble a decent game at times, but everytime you think for a second the game "isn't bad" the tedious and boring enemies, the bland backgrounds, and everything else I mentioned earlier make it impossible to reccomend to anyone other than collecters and Disney freaks. It could appeal to children around the age of 10 or a little younger, but there are certainl better options.