Halloween is just around the corner, and for the Duck’s final Rare Scares post, it’s about time we dialed the spook-meter up a notch. Donkey Kong Country 2 is one of my favorite games, what with the pirates and the awesome team of Diddy and Dixie, not to mention my favorite world of the game,…
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Rare Scares: A Mysterious Encounter in Conker’s Bad Fur Day
This next Rare Scares post focuses on a game I don’t believe I’ve ever discussed before, Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Having missed my chance to purchase this game on the N64, I finally ended up buying the Live and Reloaded version on the XBox. The reason I never speak of this game is because it…
Rare Scares: Creepy Sounds in Creepy Castle
The Duck’s newest Rare Scares illustrates just how much one’s own imagination can be their worst nightmare. Seeing as today’s post focuses on Donkey Kong 64, it should come as no surprise that the specific world I have in mind is Creepy Castle. I have had an increasingly rocky relationship with this game, as the…
Rare Scares: The “Unforgettable” King RedEye
In video games, boss fights are often meant to be an epic affair where our heroes face off against a foe that is, more often than not, super powerful, huge, or both. For these reasons, only the most memorable of boss encounters can be chosen for our Unforgettable series, as we simply can’t pick them…
Rare Scares: The Spooky Mumbo Portrait in Mad Monster Mansion
For October of 2018, we’re going to be focusing on Rare Scares, a delightfully spooky series that’s all about the scarier moments in Rareware games. To start out the Duck’s own posts on the topic, I thought it was only fitting to discuss something that has haunted me since ducklinghood. It’s creepy and just a…
The Collector’s Mentality
This particular post is something that I wrote…a long time ago, but never got around to publishing until today. It involved a question that arose about my gaming habits while I was replaying Kirby 64 several years back, and I thought it was about time I finally got around to voicing this question out loud…
Star Fox Adventures and Some Deep Thoughts
I often feel as if video games double as a means to time travel. This is true of many things, like the hard strawberry candies that never fail to transport me back to my childhood, when my parents and I used to visit my great grandmother. Memories are a powerful thing that can make the…
Comparing Crash Bandicoot 1-3
After many long hours of platforming peril, both delightful and frustrating, the Duck has finally completed the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. And almost with 100%, too. While I was able to get 100% in the first two games (minus the relics), I was not able to get the final gem in the third game. …
The Duck Finally Plays Crash Bandicoot
(Note: I know I’ve already written posts about playing Crash Bandicoot…I simply forgot to publish this until now….) The Duck’s mission to experience all the classic games I possibly can has been mighty successful these past several years. I’ve played such beloved SNES titles as Super Metroid, EarthBound, and Super Mario RPG. I’ve even caught…
VIRTUAL BASTION 