Imaginary Tales
By: Michael (@DragmireG)
Every week we’ll be recommending you a game and either an album or movie to check out. This week I’m recommending Imaginary Heroes and Duck Tales
Imaginary Heroes
The eldest and best-at-everything son of a family decides to commit suicide and in the year that follows we see how a suburban family and those near them deal with this event.
Despite the dark setup, a good portion of the movie is comedic, making it essentially a dramedy. While the event shook up the Travis family, the ways in which they try to overcome it land them on strange journeys. Life goes on to be humorous even in the most trying times and we see this film can go from strange and funny to sad and touching at any moment.
The young, at the time, director is fortunate to have an eclectic cast that includes notable actors like Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels that brought this story and the suburban family dynamic to life. The film’s shifting tones never stays long scene to scene and it isn’t a heavy film to endure because of it, despite the premise. It’s a small well performed film that can remind us of the thin line between tragedy and comedy.
- Duck Tales Remastered
- Developer - WayForward
- Publisher - Capcom
- PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360, PC, iOS, Android
- Rating - E
The late 80s and early 90s TV was home to several cartoons from Disney. Chief among them was Duck Tales based on the duck universe stories of Carl Banks. Scrooge McDuck is the richest duck in the world and despite that he goes globe-trotting looking for adventure and ways increase his wealth. He gets help from secondary characters and he and his money is often the target of rivals and villains alike. And that is the premise of the game as well. You get to pick which part of the world you would like to go to find ancient treasure in order to make Unca Scrooge richer. You’ll be helped by friends and hampered by foes.Before Crapcom became a thing, Capcom used to make several well-made NES games based on the Disney cartoons of time. This remaster shows a lot of fan love went into this. The art, despite the 3D and 2D mishmash, is heavily influenced by the cartoon’s style and most of the voice casts reprise their roles from the cartoon in order to bring this game to life and make you feel like it’s one long episode.The game itself is a competent but challenging platformer. You can use Unca Scrooge’s cane in a variety of helpful and lethal ways: strike objects, hurt enemies, pogo jump. Etc. The old bosses and levels return, but expanded. If the retro difficultly is too much, that can be tweaked as well.I recommend this game mostly to fans of the show, but if you like decent NES platforming or if you ever wanted a chance to play as rich old duck, then get ready for a nostalgia tale.