All - time classics such as Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Donkey
Kong Country feel just as great now as they did 20 years ago, and games I missed out on as a kid, such as Secret of Mana and Super Castlevania IV, were a delight to play.
In many ways, from the whole «animals with attitude» angle to Donkey and Diddy's mid-air somersaults and rolls / cartwheels along the ground to blasting at high speed from one barrel cannon to the next, Donkey
Kong Country felt very much like the answer to Sonic the Hedgehog that Mario could never truly be.
Not exact matches
No other video game has
felt like such a thrill ride from start to finish, nor packed more personality and awe - inspiring moments than Donkey
Kong Country Tropical Freeze.
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I personally enjoyed the underwater portions myself, as they seem to replicate the same sort of nautical
feel that came from the original Donkey
Kong Country levels.
I'm not sure about this but Retro Studios did a great job on the Metroid Prime games (though I don't play them as much nowadays) and Donkey
Kong Country Returns (fun great game but it didn't have that same
feeling like the old ones).
Donkey
Kong Country Returns is not a Retro Studios reinvention, but an invigoration that may be just as surprising for its ability to both replicate the Donkey
Kong Country style of old and to make it
feel mostly fresh on the Wii.
This should
feel familiar to fans of Donkey
Kong Country, but even if you haven't played in a while, or missed Donkey
Kong Country Returns, DK and friends have some new abilities.
The HD graphics are stunning and each level masterfully reflects both the classic design and
feel of older Donkey
Kong Country games while upgrading and opening them up in gorgeous 3D.
Despite using the Donkey
Kong Country name it
feels like it is targeting a different audience.
With the launch of Donkey
Kong Country Tropical Freeze on Nintendo Switch, now
felt like the right time.
There have been several reports in Hong
Kong, China, Japan and other Asian
countries related to the exam - induced psychological problems, suicidal
feelings and fear of exams — according to publications by Suen & Yu (2006), Hesketh, Ding & Jenkins (2002), Zeng & Le Tendre (1998).
This platformer
felt like it was supposed to be something else originally, and they just slapped a Donkey
Kong Country skin on it at the last minute.
As result most likely the
feel that the European / American audiences get from the jokes in the Donkey
Kong Country series are very different from what the Japanese version provides.»
Michael: There is a legacy and a
feel to the Donkey
Kong Country franchise that we
felt important to keep.
I also
felt that the potential for the collaborative genius of both David and Kenji Yamamoto would result in some simply amazing composition work, in the end, this is exactly what happened and the new compositions in Donkey
Kong Country: Tropical Freeze are absolutely wonderful.
Whilst I was a fan of Donkey
Kong Country Returns on the Wii (and 3DS), it did
feel a little bit soulless.
Donkey
Kong Country Returns does its best to recreate the
feelings one
felt when first playing Donkey
Kong Country, but unlike New Super Mario Bros. before it, it constantly experiments with new tricks and changes to the old formula.
Despite using the Donkey
Kong Country name it
feels like it is targeting a different audience.
However, this is the only disappointing aspect of Donkey
Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Switch, as this remains one of Nintendo's best modern platformers and one that
feels right at home on the Switch.
In the Hangover, we're threatening violence over Donkey
Kong Country Returns 3D, not
feeling the rush of the recent StarCraft II expansion, Heart of the Swarm, and are thoroughly satiated by Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack.
Since I missed out on seeing Donkey
Kong Country, I
feel a bit sad about not experiencing it.
While I extensively enjoyed the Donkey
Kong Country series on the Super Nintendo, Diddy's
Kong Quest in particular is quite spectacular, I've always
felt fairly alienated by its following as for some ineffable reason, I didn't enjoy them nearly as much as the status quo.
Whatever personal gripe that overstayed its welcome or minute element that
felt omitted, Tropical Freeze bombastically rectifies all of my personal uncertainties with the series and rightfully fills the void of understanding Donkey
Kong Country's true brilliance.
It made me really
feel like a Donkey
Kong Country professional and surprise why I ever referred to as the unique difficult.
Christmas Day that year was spent with equal time of Super Mario 64 and Donkey
Kong Country 3, and while it
felt strange to dip back into the Super NES when the brand new future was sitting next to it, it was clear that DKC3 was something special.
The game immediately
feels like Donkey
Kong Country, right from the start — even if Diddy
Kong is more of an accessory than an actual playable character.
Though the Animal Buddies were fun in Donkey
Kong Country, their inclusion
feels far more integral in Donkey
Kong Country 2, with entire levels being dedicated to their mechanics.
Ah Donkey
Kong where have you been all these years, 2010's Donkey
Kong Country Returns never truly
felt like a Donkey
Kong game to me.
Those fears were given a swift punt in the balls when Donkey
Kong Country Returns proved to be a beautiful, addictive and (most importantly) hard platformer that
felt very much like a modern day take on the 16 - bit trilogy.
The music, composed by Rare's then in - house composer David Wise (Donkey
Kong Country, Battletoads, Wizards & Warriors), is a fun soundtrack with numerous catchy chiptune rock jams that, with its crunchy instrumentation and harmonizing melodies, will
feel right at home with fans of Wise's 8 - bit work.
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