{"id":26080,"date":"2025-09-22T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26080"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:14:58","slug":"d-u-c-k-dangerous-ultimate-cartridge-kidnapper-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/d-u-c-k-dangerous-ultimate-cartridge-kidnapper-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"D.U.C.K. Dangerous Ultimate Cartridge Kidnapper (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A group of duck friends finds an old game cartridge and decides to take it home and play it.\u00a0 But when they do, an evil spirit emerges and traps them in the room and forces them to play games to make it out alive!\u00a0 This game is a take on WarioWare, where you play small mini-games in succession.\u00a0 But instead of games that only take seconds to play, these are a bit more involved and may take a minute or longer to beat.\u00a0 And most are imitations of arcade and console classics, from titles like Namco\u2019s Tank Battalion or Game & Watch to Rhythm Heaven!\u00a0 The game is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The game has several modes for single and multiplayer.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t able to try the party modes since I don\u2019t have as many opportunities to play games with others like I used to, but there\u2019s a lot to offer there so that\u2019s good.\u00a0 There are modes for single players as well, like a story mode, a mode where you can play each game you\u2019ve unlocked to earn medals to unlock goodies, and an endless mode.\u00a0 The story mode is divided into chapters where you play as each duck friend.\u00a0 Every duck has to play ten mini-games in succession, with a boss game at the end.\u00a0 You can play with several difficulty options and you must get through all ten games without losing lives.\u00a0 You get five to start, and you can choose to skip a game for a life.\u00a0 And on the easy mode, you can even skip the boss game, too, if it\u2019s too hard.<\/p>\n

The main problem I had with this game is the pacing.\u00a0 WarioWare works because the games aren\u2019t usually that good, but you only spend three seconds or so with them so it\u2019s not bad.\u00a0 Here you have to spend a minute or more, where you can pinpoint the flaws of each game easier.\u00a0 The instructions for each game aren\u2019t written very well and the text is too small, too.\u00a0 After a while, the game loses its luster and isn\u2019t that much fun.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather just go play WarioWare instead.<\/p>\n

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

D.U.C.K. Dangerous Ultimate Cartridge Kidnapper is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Violence.\u00a0 Many of the games imitate arcade classics where you shoot things, and there are bug guts and such, too.\u00a0 I caught a few things the ESRB didn\u2019t, like mild language in some of the games like the bomb diffusing one, and alcohol references in the bar themed games.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of duck friends finds an old game cartridge and decides to take it home and play it.\u00a0 But when they do, an evil spirit emerges and traps them in the room and forces them to play games to make it out alive!\u00a0 This game is a take on WarioWare, where you play small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26080","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\/26080","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=26080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26082,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions\/26082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}