Gunducky Industries++ (PlayStation 4|5)

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Gunducky Industries++ (PlayStation 4|5)

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TRASHFALL FINAL III: THE THIRD IDIOCY (PART X)
GUNNED DUCKY YOU'RE A TURD
YOU MAKE SHMUP TIME BAD AND WORSE


We've already familiarized with The Voices Games and their trash like Ascendshaft.
Well, they're back with more of that. I'm talking Gunducky Industries++



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It's like StarFox...If StarFox was a turd about shooting rubber ducks.

Gunducky Industries++ (pronounced "Plus-Plus") is an improvement of their Third View shmup Gunducky Industries. The gameplay, if there's something about it to be mentioned, is to destroy the indicated number of purple glowing enemies while avoiding damage or death. Although those are optional, but still essential to obtain the trophies on their respective stages. The game lacks of a score indicator, killing all the shmup concept of this game, reducing it to a trashy avoid and survive game where ocassionally you'll be facing a boss, 'cos there's not too much bosses in this game and that's where you might have some fun as it requires to take down "cores" pretty much like the flying fortress of the Master System version of After Burner, and that's all what's available to say about the gameplay.



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Believe me, I didn't saw that one coming!

Along with the emptiness of gameplay, the game is plagued by a swarm of flaws. The first of them is clearly the controls. While the Left Analog Stick moves the ship, the Right Analog Stick acts like the sterring control, making the ship move pretty much like a helicopter, but even more sluggish. Second, there's no Speed control. Anyone who've played etiher After Burner II or StarFox knows perfectly well that navigating through narrow spaces require the player to be able to reduce his/her speed in order to avoid crashing. This game doesn't do that, and combined with the controls, doing the wrong move in the small tunnels will result on instant death. Another problem is the weaponry of this game. Your only weapon is this single shot, and without a sight, power ups to increase its width (StarFox's Twin Laser for instance) or a lock-on missile system (After Burner, Galaxy Force, G-LOC Air Battle) destroying enemies will be a real chore. Especially when they're hidden on sharp turns and this will lead to the worst of all problems: Surprise Collisions. In River 2 this is the most common and most obnoxious flaw. Just when you try to avoid a crash with a wall, you'll be crashing with a mechanical bee, losing precious energy just because the enemy was hidden precisely at the same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel where you were doing exiting the sharp turn. Naturally, your objectives of clearing a stage unharmed and killing all the purple enemies on the stages are basically impossible due to the problems mentioned here. As a result, picking this game for trophies is a crap shot, resulting in a waste of money.

Graphics are basically in the absolute levels of pathetic, as we have polygonal terrains with grass and block textures that feel like a bad PlayStation game or worse; the Atari Jaguar with the infamous Aircars and Cybermorph. Like Skylar's "Where did you learned to fly?", we should ask The Voices Games "Where did you learned to make a shmup?". The music while cheerful in the River segments, it becomes easily repetitive and boring, being the Ruin levels the only good theme that tries to pull a Keiki Kobayashi (Ace Combat) style, which is by far the only good song, and good thing of the whole game.


GUNDUCKED CURIOSITIES-- (Minus Minus)
- The major improvement over the original was the "Fixed" trophies.



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There's no way to disagree after what we've saw.

In the end, we have the perfect example of how NOT to make a StarFox / After Burner clone with bad controls, almost unavoidable traps, throphies that are a joke and horrible graphics. If this game is a "Fixed" version of the original Gunducky Industries, then there's waaaaay too much to fix. Really, The Voices Games needs to go back and improve the gameplay.
Do yourself a favor and avoid this game. You'd be better off if you dust off your SNES and play StarFox instead.



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Cruel(teared) gameplay.
Cruel(teared) graphics.
Cruel(teared) player sanity.
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