@TomMcShea @markml99 @Verenti Assuming this is an issue, how could it be addressed without affecting the integrity of the original game?

One also wonders how you would rate the classic Super Mario? Games were purposely designed to have minimalist mechanics in those days.

This may be partially due to technology limitations, but it was also the aesthetic of the time, influenced by the popularity of arcade games. If you look at arcade games both then and now, they're extremely repetitive. The roots of consoles is in the arcades.

A lot of people today still see value in this aesthetic. I'm not even saying Duck Tales is the best example of this aesthetic, but it's something you seem to have a blind eye to.

Games like Mario and Pac-Man may have very simple mechanics, but they're immortalized in such a way that no modern game ever will be.

Back in the old days, if you wanted to play games with depth, you played PC games. If you wanted to play games that gave an "arcade feel" then you played console games. It was that way since the days of Atari.

What happened with modern games is you see elements from these two species merged together. That started happening around the mid-90's. So now you supposedly have the best of both worlds, but a lot of people still find something missing from the old days when games had a more pure aesthetic to them.

@TomMcShea @RoachRush Obviously, that's not true. I think a good argument can be made that fans would be disappointed in the game if the developers thought like you and modernized the game mechanics.

And the fans would have every right to be mad if they bought a game called "Ducktales: Remastered" and it was nothing like the NES original they remember.

Your bigger argument seems to be that most games from the 90's shouldn't be brought back.

@Verenti Many would argue that Tom McShea actually has lower standards, because his main argument is that the game should be easier than it was intended to be.

I think why people are outraged by his review is that it's one thing to take a couple points off because the game isn't everyone's cup of tea, but McShea went overboard and his review is of low quality.

Imagine if you were reviewing restaurants, and were sent to an authentic Chinese restaurant to review there food, but it so happened that you didn't like Chinese food. It would unprofessional for you to write a review that essentially says that you're giving the restaurant low marks because its food is too authentic and you didn't find cheeseburgers on the menu.

Sure, everyone is entitled to their opinion and it's all subjective. If you don't like Chinese food, you don't have to spend your own money eating there. But you probably shouldn't be writing a review about a much anticipated Chinese restaurant either. The professional thing to do is to refuse to write the review in the first place, or if you're forced to write a review, give an average rating that focuses on things less controversial than "I went to a Chinese restaurant and didn't like it because they served me Chinese food"

I think that's the perspective people have about McShea's review. He could have bowed out by saying, "Hey, the graphics are good and this is a faithful restoration but not really something that appeals to me" and given the game a 6.5 or 7. Instead, he not only disses the game for being old-school, but by being so vindictive about it, he is essentially dissing people who like old school games.

@Xristophoros @Sharon Duck Tales as a cartoon would certainly hold up to anything for kids on TV today, that's for sure. The only reason I can imagine that kids wouldn't be as exposed to it today is because Disney is over-protective of their properties, unlike Warner Bros, which has been pimping classic Looney Tunes for 50 years.

@ggregd @andrescapo_ He did, and this is a legitimate concern. Unfortunately, since his review focused on other more subjective issues, it's impossible to discern how much to take this seriously. Are we talking Sonic 4 bad?

This game is going to be double-nostalgia, because it faithfully combines elements of both the NES game and the original TV animation. That's a factor that's not being taken into consideration in this review. People who were fond of the cartoon but never even owned an NES will buy this game, given the amount of effort that went into tying it with the source material. It even has the original voice actors.