Stumbling through Ducktales

[davidn]

This idea is actually picking up! I've got a queue of games I'm planning to do and everything now. This time, it's Ducktales, for no reason at all, obviously. In this game, unlike most millionaires, Scrooge McDuck jets around various countries and steals their treasures directly with his own hands. Or he would if I could ever get anywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvByrWrtRY4

This one's a little longer than the last two at 22 minutes, though I only discover how to effectively play it in the last five of those. It will be either hilarious or excruciating if you've played it before.

The choice exasperated moment probably comes at 7:10, but the general level of it stays high throughout the entire effort. Thank you for fuelling that, ravenworks!

Comments

[igorium.livejournal.com]

Discovering such controls by yourself can be a very rewarding experience when you have only one or two games to play.

BTW, lack of manuals and amount of effort put into discovering controls are the reasons that create cult of PC games in ex-USSR in early 1990-es. That and low amount of games that were available.

Metaphysics of this phenomenon are covered here: http://www.popuw.com/pocp.html :)

[davidn]

Prince of Persia is actually interesting to bring up, because for the longest time I had no idea about the controls for that either! I could move around, but for the longest time I couldn't escape from level 1 because I had no idea that Shift was used to attack, walk, cling on... I got up to the first guard by a string of coincidences, and it was a major revelation when I suddenly hit him for the first time.

And that sounds an absolutely fascinating concept for a story, particularly as he picked that game for it... I'm looking at the Google translation of the short story, though it doesn't quite convey it as it must have been intended.

[igorium.livejournal.com]

There is an official translation, I thought the link lead to it

[igorium.livejournal.com]

Some pages are here in google preview
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774837.A_Werewolf_Problem_in_Central_Russia_and_Other_Stories

[davidn]

That's amazing - I'd really love to get hold of the rest :) The way that it describes elements of the game so casually within the normal world makes it read bizarrely like the computer game sort of... fanfiction that I wrote in primary school when we were given vague creative writing tasks.

The choice of the name 'Sasha' was also an intriguing one, just for the reason that there's a guitarist in Helloween called Sascha Gerstner who I've always thought has a bit of a Sands of Time-era Prince of Persia thing going.