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Disney's Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers

Dec 13, 2000

Port of Disney's Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers

3.34 average rating based on 220 ratings

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Goin' Quackers begins with Donald Duck, Gladstone Gander, and Gyro Gearloose watching television reporter Daisy Duck discovering the mysterious temple of the evil magician Merlock. As she tells the story, Merlock discovers Daisy and kidnaps her. His arch rival Gladstone sets out to find her before Donald, who decides to use Gyro's new invention, the "Tubal Teleport System", to track down Merlock and Daisy. However, a piece of Gyro's device is missing, and to get the machine working again, Donald must go on a journey to recover it. Along the way, he must compete with Gladstone, reverse the spells that … More
Goin' Quackers begins with Donald Duck, Gladstone Gander, and Gyro Gearloose watching television reporter Daisy Duck discovering the mysterious temple of the evil magician Merlock. As she tells the story, Merlock discovers Daisy and kidnaps her. His arch rival Gladstone sets out to find her before Donald, who decides to use Gyro's new invention, the "Tubal Teleport System", to track down Merlock and Daisy. However, a piece of Gyro's device is missing, and to get the machine working again, Donald must go on a journey to recover it. Along the way, he must compete with Gladstone, reverse the spells that Merlock put on Huey, Dewey, and Louie's toys, and defeat several bosses, including the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell. Less
Release Dates
Dec 13, 2000 (North_America)
PlayStation 2
Dec 22, 2000 (Europe)
PlayStation 2
Mar 25, 2002 (North_America)
Nintendo GameCube
May 03, 2002 (Europe)
Nintendo GameCube
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How Long Is Disney's Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers?
Main story: 2.5 hours
Total completions: 3
tylerisrandom
tylerisrandom gave Jun 16, 2021
tylerisrandom gave Jun 16, 2021
Quacktastic
This review is for the Dreamcast version

Donald Duck, looking peeved

This game (or at least the Dreamcast version I played) is pretty easy, very repetitive, unapologetically derivative of Crash Bandicoot, and only modestly more visually advanced than a PS1 or N64 game.

But this era of 3D platformer is my comfort food, so I had a lot of fun playing it. The bosses are silly, the music and animations are pretty great, the unlockable costumes are cute and it doesn't overstay its welcome. It's also pretty interesting that this version was built on a modified Rayman 2 engine (even sharing a few of that game's sound effects).

Nobody_Important
Nobody_Important gave Apr 7, 2023
Nobody_Important gave Apr 7, 2023
Duck Bandicoot
This review is for the Dreamcast version

I played both the PC version and the Dreamcast version, both are actually the same game in everything. I highly recommend the Dreamcast version, the PC version will crash on modern PCs for no reason.

This was my very first Crash Bandicoot game, despite that it isn't a Crash Bandicoot game. It plays exactly like the first games, you move forwards or to the side across a level, dodging hazards, you have an attack button with some delay, you can collect items that allow you to unlock extra stuff, etc.

The good

The music is good but most of the songs are forgettable. The level 1 music is probably the best song in the game.

The controls are responsive and function well. You should be able to make jumps and fight off enemies quite easily, sometimes you may misjudge distance or time a jump poorly, but it is mostly the player's fault.

The voice acting is good. It has most of the cast from the old Ducktales cartoon, they do a decent job here despite that they barely have any lines.

The graphics are decent for their time. The models look somewhat dull but considering this was made using Early …

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I played both the PC version and the Dreamcast version, both are actually the same game in everything. I highly recommend the Dreamcast version, the PC version will crash on modern PCs for no reason.

This was my very first Crash Bandicoot game, despite that it isn't a Crash Bandicoot game. It plays exactly like the first games, you move forwards or to the side across a level, dodging hazards, you have an attack button with some delay, you can collect items that allow you to unlock extra stuff, etc.

The good

The music is good but most of the songs are forgettable. The level 1 music is probably the best song in the game.

The controls are responsive and function well. You should be able to make jumps and fight off enemies quite easily, sometimes you may misjudge distance or time a jump poorly, but it is mostly the player's fault.

The voice acting is good. It has most of the cast from the old Ducktales cartoon, they do a decent job here despite that they barely have any lines.

The graphics are decent for their time. The models look somewhat dull but considering this was made using Early 3D technology, they look quite decent.

The game has a lot of attention to detail and references to the Donald Duck shorts. If you change Donald's outfit some of his animations change when he is idle, when Donald gets hurt he becomes invincible and can hurt enemies while he throws a tantrum and after his tantrum ends his animations become completely different.

The bad

The attack is kinda useless. His punch attack has barely any range and if you don't time it right the enemy will hit you right after the hitbox is gone; I highly recommend you to make Donald get hurt so his punch changes to his tantrum attack which has better range and better hitbox.

The game is quite easy even for his target demographic. The game is very easy to beat because it is quite forgiving, you will rarely get hurt and it is very easy to farm extra lives. The only levels that gave me trouble were the time attack levels because they give you very little time so any mistake will cost you the level, the desert level was complicated because it was very easy to fall to the lava and it is a bit hard to aim the turret at the final boss to hurt it.

It plays exactly like Crash Bandicoot, so you won't find anything new here.

Overall

Donald Duck is a very good Crash Bandicoot clone, I highly recommend it to people who want to start playing platformers in 3D or for people who are Disney fans.

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MantaOrlando
MantaOrlando gave Apr 25, 2025
MantaOrlando gave Apr 25, 2025
I loved it.

And still loving it now. It's a rip-off of Crash Bandicoot, gotta admit that. But for Disney standards it's still one of, if not the most fun I've had as a kid playing a game and completing it as an adult. It's dumb fun and I'm all here for it.

smokingfliege
smokingfliege gave Nov 29, 2016
smokingfliege gave Nov 29, 2016
Great Jump'n'Run

In German this game is called "Donald Duck: Quack Attack" ... who knows, why. Anyway, I like this game a lot! As a big fan of the Crash Bandicoot franchise this game was really fun to me when I was child. And it still is. Thanks to this site I just noticed it´s also available for Gamecube. This is going to be ordered. :)

paranthapa42
paranthapa42 updated their status Oct 10, 2022
paranthapa42 updated their status Oct 10, 2022

Just beat Donald Duck Goin’ Quackers on PlayStation 1! Donald is safely back with Daisy. Great game. The third world was the toughest.