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• gamedeal user

  Aug 24, 2023

  --- Atrocious hit detection. This is especially the case with the world 2 boss and to a lesser extent world 1 boss. In the case of regular opponents, traps, and the final boss, the problem exists, but it's not that bad. -- Very short game. Only 12 levels. - The game supposedly supports the pad, but it is buggy and practically impossible to play. It is better to use a keyboard. - The level design has quite a few flaws. * Average music. + Nice graphics, I like this style. + The duck can swim to hidden places in the water. I am disappointed with how underdeveloped this mess is. I once played "PC Mario" created by this author and it was a better game.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 23, 2017

  Charlie the Duck is a remake of a 1996 side-scrolling platformer with the same name and developer. You can find a about over 10 minutes of gameplay with commentary here: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRu-iKdupII] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRu-iKdupII [/url] You control Charlie the Duck. The goal of the game is simple, progress through 3 Worlds, each make up of 3 stages and an additional boss stage. Movement is simply left and right, with a jump. Some of the water that Charlie can swim on are portals to hidden areas - pressing down will take you to an addition zone on the stage so you can collect additional coins and diamonds. It is prudent to check all the water parts as I found some stages include multiple hidden zones. You can play with keyboard or controller - but I found that sometimes while using the thumb stick to move on my xbox controller that Charlie would just keep walking in the direction I was pressing, even after releasing it. All I could do is put him up against an obstacle in the game and wait for it to stop. I have not had this problem with other games, so I do not believe it is an issue with my setup. Using the D-Pad on the controller to move seemed to avoid this problem. I thought sound effects were fine, as was the music. The graphics are a 16 bit style, and the background is layered to give visual depth. Gameplay wise, its an adequate platformer which (at my skill level) I found challenging enough. Thankfully when I died I could continue from the start of the world stage I reached. This was appreciated as I died A LOT on the 1st boss. But it does take away from the replayability of the game, I don't see myself playing it again after I have completed it. I was torn on recommending this game. Gameplay wise its fine, but I feel the price at release is too high given the amount of content in the game. It took me a bit over 30 minutes to complete the 1st world. If that continues for the other 2, then I will be finished in an hour and a half. For $6.99, that is a limited amount of play considering I don't feel there is much replayability. If you are interested, I recommend waiting for a sale before picking it up, at a cheaper price I would recommending if platformers is your preferred game. If you do decide to buy this game, just a tip for fighting the first boss (the fish). You need to jump on his eyes, closer to front of his body instead nearer to the spikes on his back to score a hit.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2017

  Alot of fun with charming graphics and music, if you enjoy platformers this game is a must. With lots of secrects and hidden passages I had alot of fun exploring to earn achievements. I hope others have the opportunity to enjoy this game like I did.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2017

  The first time I played this video game was in the 1990s, when I was four or five years old. Today, after twenty years, I finally made it past the big fish - only to be killed by a small caterpillar. You win again, game, but give me another twenty years and I'll get to level 3. Just you wait and see!
• gamedeal user

  May 29, 2018

  This was my first game ever that I played on my first Windows 98 PC back when I was 6~8. After almost 20 years, I was able to pass the first boss. I AM recommending this.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 22, 2019

  Definitely not worth 7 bucks. It's a rather simple Mario ripoff without powerups and mediocre level design.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 4, 2020

  I'd like to recommend this but there is a big flaw. So first off the graphics and sound are great. Also the developer has fixed the games difficulty a tad for this version. The old Dos version is way more difficult but don't think what you got here is any better ;). The biggest flaw in this game is when it comes to the bosses and the hit detection. You will be lucky if you beat the first 2 bosses. Spoiler the last boss is easier then the first two bosses. The fish was some what hard but I found to get a hit on him you have to wait until the boss moves down to make the hit. As for the second boss being the bird you'll be lucky to make any hit you kind of just have to guess it. Now for the final boss you may lose a few times but you'll eventually get it. I beat him with full health and you maybe able to do that with the first boss but no way the second. To me this was for nostalgia but that's all it is for. Once you beat you'll probably never go back cause of its high difficulty and the achievements should be way to hard to get so if your a achievement hunter have fun ;). I just can't honestly recommend this to my friends unless you're into games with high difficulty something like what the Amiga brings but kind of worse :/.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 10, 2020

  "Partial" controller support is right, there's constant issues with it, such as me being forced to move backwards for a very long period of time, and having no momentum after some jumps, and up on the analogue stick being bound to jump. Until this game gets more fluid control methods for gamepads, i don't think i'll touch this one for a while.