{"id":19052,"date":"2019-05-27T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:58:29","slug":"duck-game-switch-ps4-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/27\/duck-game-switch-ps4-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck Game (Switch, PS4, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Every year when I go to PAX or E3, I almost always visit Adult Swim Games\u2019 booth.\u00a0 And every year they show off Duck Game, which has been on PC for a while.\u00a0 And even though it\u2019s not a new title, Duck Game always draws a crowd of both adults and kids at these events.\u00a0 Just goes to show you that just because they\u2019re called Adult Swim Games, it doesn\u2019t mean that all their games are for adults only.\u00a0 When I heard that Duck Game was going to appear on the Switch, I knew I had to review it!\u00a0 Anyway, Duck Game is a silly 8-bit styled multiplayer-centric battle-fest where you play as a duck and pick up weapons to shoot the other ducks.<\/p>\n

Each 2-D arena has weapons scattered about, and the layouts kind of remind me of Smash Bros.\u00a0 Weapons include real guns like pistols and rifles, as well as blunderbusses and silly guns like lasers.\u00a0 You can also throw bombs and use melee weapons like swords and chainsaws.\u00a0\u00a0 You can make your duck jump and glide, as well as pick up and throw objects and fire guns.\u00a0 You can also press buttons to do silly useless things like quack and flop on the ground.\u00a0 Play control is good, but sometimes I would get confused as to which buttons pick up and throw things.\u00a0 But then, I always get mixed up when games use a lot of buttons.\u00a0 If you get shot once, you\u2019re out of the game, and the last duck standing wins.\u00a0 Whoever wins the most rounds wins the game.\u00a0 You can play couch multiplayer or go online, but you have to pay for Nintendo\u2019s online service to do the online stuff.<\/p>\n

Luckily they have a single player mode for when you\u2019re by yourself.\u00a0 You walk around a basement full of arcade cabinets, and each one has challenges and missions for you to complete.\u00a0 When you do, you earn tickets that you can spend on outfits and costumes for your duck.\u00a0 The only bad thing is that sometimes the goals and objectives for these missions aren\u2019t as clear, and they don\u2019t always tell you how to use certain weapons.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still nice they included a single player mode for solo time.\u00a0 Overall this is a nice little multiplayer distraction that anyone can pick up and play, and I can understand why it draws a crowd when I see it at shows.\u00a0 I liked the 8-bit styled graphics and gameplay is solid, silly, and fun.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duck Game is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference, Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, and Use of Tobacco.\u00a0 You do pick up guns and other weapons, both realistic and silly, and attack the other ducks with them.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice much blood at all.\u00a0 Usually when you shoot the ducks, they just fall back and feathers fly everywhere.\u00a0 The other descriptors mostly refer to the hats and costumes you can outfit your duck with.\u00a0 Even though you do shoot ducks with guns, I\u2019d be OK with most any kid playing this, as it\u2019s just silly cartoony fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year when I go to PAX or E3, I almost always visit Adult Swim Games\u2019 booth.\u00a0 And every year they show off Duck Game, which has been on PC for a while.\u00a0 And even though it\u2019s not a new title, Duck Game always draws a crowd of both adults and kids at these events.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19054,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions\/19054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}