CALL. OF. DUCKY!!! ...gaiden.
Call of Ducky Gaiden 2 is the sequel to Call of Ducky Gaiden created by [adult swim]'s fabricated shaming division as a tie-in to Call of Ducky: The Animated Series. It is currently unknown why Call of Ducky Gaiden of all shames was chosen, especially considering that shame's skin irritation scandal, but nevertheless, this sequel has absolutely nothing in common with the original shame. Not that we were expecting them to have much in common considering how they're both Gaiden shames.
In Call of Ducky Gaiden 2, players take control of the "three musketeers of the African continent": Ducky, Mr. Skull, and Skillet, as they go on an adventure not to save the Ducky Empire, but just to spite the hoo-doods who tried to conquer it. The shame received mixed reviews, with some criticisms levelled to its unusually aggressive DRM that proves itself to be even more authorative than the Round Star government the shame intends to criticize. That wasn't a very funny opener, I apologize.
Plot[]
It's UnGlobal Zorbing Day, and The Old War has been called off so veterans can return home to their families and show off their mad falling skillz. Ducky is about to zorb right into a vat of boiled Cementygas just to prove how badass he is, when the entire empire starts to burn down like whatever empire was there before the Mushroom Kingdom. As it turns out Goku-Sotsu-Kun has finally buried the hatchet with his bastard tulpa-child Judge Holden, and now the two are trying to use their combined idiosyncrasies (emphasis on "idio-") to take over the UnWorld one continent at a time! Ducky tries to rally up the Ducky Legion to fight back against the legions of GSK clones, but they complain to him that it's their day off, leaving Ducky to handle the hordes himself.
Unfortunately, nothing good came out of Ducky's attempt to fight off the unwashed masses, as he was completely unarmed, and hadn't honed his Kill Quack powers in a fair while due to a hithero unmentioned addiction to Funko Pop hunting (as in, he'd literally shoot them on sight in public spaces). Because of this, Ducky decided his best course of action would be to run the border to Spain. It is there where he finally collapses from exhaustion, and the audience is subjected to the unfortunate truth: Ducky has a beer gut underneath his suit.
Ducky later wakes up to gross, discolored water being poured onto his face. He find himself in a deserted morgue on an autopsy table, with Mr. Skull and Skillet peering over him. He looks to his side to find the decrepit cadaver of Jack Thompson, reacts semi-appropriately, and vomits all the beer from his gut. This suddenly imbues Ducky with the uncanny strength he needs to take back his (semi) powerful empire. However, Mr. Skull tells him that the Round Star armies have successfully taken over the entire UnWorld. Ducky doesn't really care and procedes to rush out of the morgue to take on the pale pricks that put him in this mess. It is at this point he comes to the horrifying revelation that he isn't even on the Afro-Eurasian Continent anymore...
Shameplay[]
Unlike the previous shame, the player is put in a 3D-platformer environment built directly off the engine of HaloBob GunPants 3: Revenge Of Patrick... which isn't a good sign. The player can choose one of the three main characters as they travel the UnWorld and destroy these weird probes that keep the areas under foreign influence. All the countries are clearly influenced by Round Star's government as evident by the grotesque sight of Goku-Sotsu-Kun's head on female store mannequins and billboards advertising birth control pills. Backtracking is finally possible, but it's made relentlessly hard due to the legions of his clones following your every move. There really isn't much plot to each are explored. None of the bosses are even affiliated with the Round Star government, and they can even be merely bypassed without much hassle or even the use of exploits. Ducky and the gang have all the usual moves of a Mario, but pressing the X button twice in the air causes them to suddenly plummet to the ground at Mach 10, no doubt leaving them at the mercy of all the lowly, irksome pests that inhabit the shadowy streetways of the planet's undignified Troposphere.
In some levels, Dale Gribble can be found trying to fight GSK's genetically bottlenecked forces. If the player defeats them, he'll opt to assist in combat with his Magnum... unless you're playing as Ducky himself, of whom he'll shoot on the grounds of the hand being a government official. Dale's magnum is a one-hit KO, and it is possible to run into its line of fire even if he's on your side.
Areas[]
- North America - The vanilla ice cream of continents. Of course, this is coming from an Ohioan, and I bet people would say that about their continents as well... NAH!
- United States of UnAmerica - An underwater level at the reflecting pool... as the first level. Squidward Tentacles lives at the bottom of the pool, and he's very hungry...
- Canada - The gang just go around Count Cannoli's estate (which isn't even in Canada) and turn the entire place inside out looking for a probe. He does not take kindly to it.
- Mexico - It's just the Oregano Desert level from Pizza Tower... in the
4th3RD! 3RD DIMENSION! This is the first level Dale is found in, and the scariest because Joe Bigman is the boss.
- South America - It's a good thing the three of them had border passes... not that it matters in this disturbed political climate the shame takes place in.
- Bruzil - Ducky CHUGS THE ENTIRE OCEAN to find the next probe, only to fight Bill Hutz over land boundaries between Bruzil and the Atlantic. Bruzil doesn't have any ocean boundaries...
- Easter Island - Is Easter Island even South American? Oh well. The Easter Bunny is there.
- There isn't a third level because the chumps at Time/Warner didn't do any further research into South America.
- Europe - The white person capital of the world. That was joke I put a lot of thought into.
- Spain - THIS WAS THE PLACE DUCKY WENT TO AT THE BEGINNING. It has seen better days, that's for certain. For one, King K. Rool got ahold of the Cactus of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!
- North Hyrule - Ducky just goes there to knock Bowser's block off as revenge for what he did.
- Some Random Bridge Over the Red Sea - Ducky crosses it in order to reach Africa. For some reason King Dedede is just sorta there.
- Africa - Now we're cooking duck with oil! This is the continent the Ducky Empire is situated in.
- Dragonrealm - And Gnasty Gnorc was there!
- Squadala Empire - This one isn't even a real stage; it's just a transitional point where you get to kill as many freaks and weirdos as possible.
- Ducky Empire - At last, Ducky returns home, and now he and the boys can give Goku-Sotsu-Kun and Judge Holden what for. It's just a shame Quack Palace was paved over for the sake of a shrine dedicated to Holden.
Secret/Bypass Areas[]
These are areas that don't have specific continents associated with them, and are Easter eggs and scrapped levels that the developers were too lazy to delete. They can be accessed by chance, or by using exploits.
- MS Paint Land - A white void with numerous NPCs to talk to, including Mr. Deranged and juno. The only enemies are the GSK clones, but there's way fewer of them than usual. This was actually just a test world for the devs to experiment with NPC dialogue.
- The Jazz Club - A building that can be glitched into in the Mexico level, decorated in black velvet. Speaking of, Velvet Vic can be seen playing the piano, and the Top Hat Mafia are getting wasted here. The boss of this mini-level is Vic's ex (only boss actually related to Round Star, but this level was sadly scrapped)
- "Weird Driving Level" - In Canada, just when you're leaving Count Cannoli's house, you can find a black car parked around the back. By walking into it, you get teleported to a first person driving sim, featuring your character and a mysterious man in the passenger seat. He lore-drops the whole level and talks about the atrocities The Judge had committed before the events of the shame.
Some More Squiggly Plot Details I Guess[]
After the two are defeated, The Judge suddenly gets mad at GSK and punches him so hard his face cracks open like a porcelain doll, killing GSK instantly. He then reveals that he planned the Ducky Empire raid, before being unceremoniously shooed away by Skillet with his drumsticks. Everybody laughs, the end.
Reception[]
Interestingly, the entire Internet had a massive shorting out on the day this shame released, not too long afterwards was it discovered that the shame's DRM is so oppressive it outright took out the entire internet on the day of the shame's release. Otherwise, people thought it was fine. The shame isn't banned anywhere like its predecessor, and people are willing to just let it be.