Works with their own YMMV pages:
The games:
- Adaptation Displacement: Due to the show not airing in years and the comics still being fairly obscure, DuckTales Remastered was probably a lot of younger gamers' first exposure to any DuckTales media before DuckTales (2017) premiered.
- Awesome Art: Remastered has some fantastic hand-drawn animation, especially the bit where Scrooge has to wrestle free of a Venus flytrap.
- Awesome Music:
- The Moon, one of the greatest songs on the NES, possibly even more famous than the game itself for how awesome it is. It is so popular that it was even worked into the 2017 DuckTales series, With Lyrics!
- The music in DuckTales: Remastered turns the classic tunes into awesome remixes, along with some kickass new songs:
- Money Bin has a happy-go-lucky feel to it, fitting for the start of an adventure. Its 8-bit version ain't too shabby either.
- The Moon is an even more badass rendition of the already badass theme. The piano version is also great.
- Transylvania's theme is electronical Rock, and quite spooky, but then it becomes FREAKING DUBSTEP at one point of the track in. It's as hilarious and awesome as it sounds.
- The Amazon has a nice, tropical adventure-kind of feel.
- The African Mines now has a jazzy-feel to it.
- The Himalayas shifts between a playful adventure tune and a rock solo.
- The Boss Theme takes the original and gives it more bombastic edge.
- The entirety of the final level is full of this: Mount Vesuvius's theme has an extremely climatic vibe to it, which espically fitting considering it's That One Level status and the boss it holds, speaking of which, we are then treated to the brand, spankin' new Final Boss Theme for Dracula Duck truly does the boss justice. It's as bombastic, frantic, and tense. And after that, we are treated to "Dime Chase", which is frantic, intimidating, and tense. Oh, and the 8-bit versions of the level theme and Dime chase are also awesome.
- Money Bin
- The Moon
- Critical Dissonance: The remake's rather divisive; several critics savaged it, but most players and many YouTubers loved it.
- Disappointing Last Level: The last level of the game is... Transylvania. Which you had to go through twice before, and it's exactly the same as it was before. The remake fixes this, as the last level is replaced by Mount Vesuvius, aka Magica's lair.
- Fan Nickname: If YouTube comments are any indication, many call the electronic segment of the Remastered Transylvania track "Duckstep".
- First Installment Wins: The second game's problem isn't so much it being a bad game as most gamers just not being aware that it exists (it was not released until early 1993, by which point the TV show had been canceled and many gamers had left behind the Nintendo Entertainment System for the Super Nintendo). Aside from that it's usually acknowledged to be a decent sequel, albeit not quite as good as the first.
- Good Bad Bugs: In the Game Boy version, if you can nab one of Mrs. Beakley's ice creams before they appear on the screen, it doesn't refill your life, but instead acts as a "red" diamond, giving you $50,000! Grabbing all four nets $200,000, and you can scroll her off the screen to come back and collect again, and it's an easy way to get tens of millions of dollars by sacrificing a few lives in the African Mines for easy money!
- Hard Levels, Easy Bosses: The levels can border on Platform Hell whereas the bosses have very simplistic and predictable patterns.
- Heartwarming in Hindsight:
- The remaster reuniting the entire surviving cast of the 1987 series for one final sendoff feels especially poignant yet moving now that Alan Young, June Foray, Chuck McCann, and Russi Taylor are no longer with us. Additionally, with the involvement of Jason Marsden and Eric Bauza in the game, both of whom have been involved with the show's reboot, it also comes off as something of a Passing the Torch moment to the next generation.
- The Moon theme was worked into canon in the reboot, as a lullaby Della Duck wrote for the triplets.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Brentalfloss did a 'What if the Moon theme to DuckTales NES had lyrics?', at one point explicitly saying it sounds like an ending credits theme. Come Remastered, the Moon theme gets a rather heartfelt piano cover in the second half of the credits. And even more so when the reboot of DuckTales features the Moon theme with lyrics by Della Duck to her kids as a lullaby.
- It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A lot of critics threw this accusation at Remastered, saying that choosing to marry modern visuals and storytelling devices with 1989 gameplay was a stupid idea, and that Disney and WayForward should have made a completely new game from scratch.
- Memetic Mutation:
- DREAM AND FRIENDS Explanation
- The Moon theme is also a bit of a meme due to how incredibly awesome it is. Also helped when the 2017 DuckTales made it canon.
- Moral Event Horizon:
- In the remake's storyline, both Evil Sorceress Magica De Spell and Evil Counterpart Glomgold were pretty much the cartoony villains like they were in the series. But if the former's kidnapping Huey, Dewey, and Louie and the latter's teaming up with Magica's side the whole time wasn't bad enough, there's them letting the boys be killed by Dracula Duck.
- Dracula Duck himself crosses it by trying to kill the boys.
- Most Wonderful Sound:
- The Moon theme is widely, and rightfully, considered to be one of the greatest level songs in video game history, and it's a major source of Sweet Dreams Fuel to boot. The version with lyrics from the reboot is, if anything, even more so.
- The jingle when you collect the level's treasure.
- The Moon theme
- Narm Charm: The engrishy ending for the prototype version of the first game. Scrooge tells his nephews that the one thing more important than the treasures he found is "Dream and Friends". Remastered references this for a heartwarming A Winner Is You effect upon beating the hardest difficulty mode.
- No Problem with Licensed Games: The NES game is very much in the running for being the best example of this trope; the game actually became a classic and is considered one of the finest games made during the 8-bit era, by Capcom or anyone. Its sequel is rare, but had similar reception. In modern times, it's ranked up along with GoldenEye (1997) and Kingdom Hearts (which is, interestingly, another Disney property) as an example of a licensed game done right. Hell, Game Informer and EGM have both placed it at #2 of all-time... In fact, as it says on the game's page, the game is so popular it got an HD remake.
- Obvious Beta: DuckTales 2 is noticably less polished than the first game. It also has Launchpad and Gyro addressing Scrooge as "Uncle Scrooge" just like the kids, an error present in the prototype version of the first game.
- Pandering to the Base: Remastered with its references to the popular Moon level theme in both the level select theme, and the ending credits music (which is the TV theme song, followed by a piano rendition of the Moon theme), and with the ability to play the game using the original 8-bit music from the NES game.
- Paranoia Fuel: In the sequel, after getting the treasure map piece for Niagara Falls and getting busted out of the resulting trap by Bubba, Bubba drops the line "One of the treasure boxes is a trap that can lock you up!" Despite no such box existing in either version, you can potentially go through the rest of the game wondering if this so-called "trap" box does indeed exist.
- That One Achievement: "Look Ma, No Spats". This achievement has you getting to the other side of the underground section of the Amazon, using only the pogo jump. While this was fairly easy to do in the NES version, ''Remastered decreases the amount of length between the top and the bottom, making this really hard to do, especially when the PC version of the game is running slowly. Did we mention the section is also littered with thorns?
- That One Boss: The Golem Duck in the second game partially hinges on luck to defeat given the randomness of where the boulders fall, as they very often will fall onto Scrooge and deplete HP. Many a player has Rage Quit after consistently losing purely by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- That One Level:
- The last section of Mount Vestivus in Remastered. It requires very precise plaforming, which will most of the time lead to your downfall. Toppled with the fact that you lose a life if you fail to reach the top in time.
- The Amazon and the Himalayas are considered the hardest of the initial five stages due to their higher concentration of annoying enemies and precision platforming than the others. The latter's snowdrifts that get Scrooge stuck if he lands in pogo position and Frictionless Ice platforms over Bottomless Pits often accompanied by Ledge Bats don't help matters.
The Comic Books:
- Broken Base: The Boom! Kids comics. Many fans disliked the "Rightful Owners" saga for its plot, its artwork (which was redrawn from the original style) and its continuity errors. Some didn't like the idea of Scrooge being confronted with the fact that he was less than honest in some of his treasure hunts, and therefore should return some of these to its original owners, because it would betray the franchise's spirit of treasure hunt in favor of Political Overcorrectness. Others appreciated the idea, but some felt it was poorly executed and ended up being a disservice to the theme.
- The DuckTales comics in general: are they as good or inferior to the episodes? Can they be considered canon? Are they comparable to the classic comics?
- Can't Un-Hear It: It's not hard to hear the voices of the original cast in their respective characters; particularly fan-favorite Alan Young's voice in Scrooge and Russi Taylor as Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby. Comics translator Joe Torcivia commented, in his tribute to Russi Taylor, that it was always her voices that came in mind when it came to putting the right words in the mouths of the triplets and Minnie Mouse.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Minima de Spell, Magica's niece from the 1991 story Dime After Dime. Despite only appearing in one DuckTales story, she was one of the few DuckTales original characters to regularly appear in non-DuckTales stories, and also inspired one of the original characters of the reboot.
- Fanon Discontinuity: "Dangerous Currency" was disowned by fans, especially of Darkwing Duck comics, due to its many contradictions to the DW comic canon, and being published without the approval of The Walt Disney Company.
- Likewise, many fans couldn't fit Rightful Owners into the DT canon due to its many continuity errors and overall poorly handled plot and drawing.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Doofus being brainwashed and threatening the heroes in "The Gold Odyssey", considering what he becomes in the reboot.
- In the same issue, there's the Disney Death of Scrooge and the nephews in the cliffhanger, when Launchpad believes that the brainwashed Doofus killed them. It's sadder now that Terence McGovern really has outlived both Alan Young and Russi Taylor.
- So Okay, It's Average: While the Boom Comics have a fair amount of detractors, many think they're still enjoyable enough, Continuity errors with the canon and artwork redrawings aside, not to mention being the last goodbye to the original DuckTales team before the reboot aired up in 2017.
