Disney's Donald Duck Adv@nce!*#

The Good
There are several nice signs of this remake of the GBC version being shown. The cutscene artwork has now been brushed up with better choice of colour and texture. The levels themselves have much better and bigger layouts, which sport brighter colours and a generous amount of detail, but perhaps not enough tilesets. Gameplay is fairly easy with responsive controls and the same spot on camera view. Sadly this is where the fun ends.

The Bad
The game takes the major flaw straight from the GBC version, which is the same lazy narrative writing between cutscenes, with no room to fix them, just when you had some animation from the PS1 version make a few seconds of appearance. At least it does spare us the bad claymation graphics. And then there's the uninteresting music tracks from the GameCube/PS2 version.

Because this is not a straight up carbon copy of its Game Boy Color counterpart, new problems arise starting with the HUD which is invading your screen space at the top rather than fixed on a bar at the bottom. Sounds during the gameplay get increasingly repetitive and annoying taking overlaying the music tunes, it's almost like a bad techno remix. And finally the most important thing missing from this game is boss fights (except Merlock), so you won't be fighting the Beagle Boys or Magica de Spell. All in all a total letdown.

The Bottom Line
The game isn't too different from other known platformers like Zool. At this point Ubisoft may have had enough of porting and updating "Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers" altogether, because this last port really has nothing new to show, maybe even less than the PS1 version. It is hard to recommend this version over the GBC version and vice versa. If the game was done as a 3D isometric platformer similar to "Spyro: Season of Ice", then it would have been okay. There's a whole better variety of handheld Disney games out there.