Quest for the Golden Duck

Genre: Arcade

Players: 1-4 Competitive (Local)

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Review:

Quest for the Golden Duck is a top-down Arcade-style maze game, comparable to Pac-Man. You’re wandering through a maze, avoiding enemies, and trying to collect all the pellets gold pieces to complete a level.

This game does do something a little different in that, in addition to a “power pellet”-like power-up, there are also power-ups that freeze enemies or make your character invisible. And there are multiple kinds of enemies that all have different movement patterns. Beyond that, this is just… Pac-Man.

So the question then becomes, does this game do a good job with the formula? And I would say… sorta? For the most part, the game is fine, although some of the level designs are frustratingly restrictive, and not conducive to this sort of game.

As for the visuals, they’re cartoony but fine… save for the levels themselves, which are depressingly bland, especially when held against the Pac-Man games’ neon aesthetic.

In the end, Quest for the Golden Duck is a decent but largely unspectacular Pac-Man clone, no more, no less.

tl;dr – Quest for the Golden Duck is a decent but largely unspectacular Pac-Man clone.

Grade: C

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This game has been nominated for one or more of eShopperReviews 2019 Game Awards:

Runner-Up: Laziest Copycat

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