If you have fond memories of hunting down bunches of bananas and KONG tokens, you'll be happy to see that the Donkey
Kong Country formula remains unchanged.
For less experienced players, this is an absolute godsend; what was once a bright and colourful yet deceivingly devilish platformer is now much more accessible to those new to the Donkey
Kong Country formula.
Not exact matches
You may be familiar with the
formula of a Donkey
Kong Country titles, but luckily for us all, Tropical Freeze will satisfy most with a polished side - scrolling experience that will keep us wanting more.
Retro Studios seems to have largely stuck with the
formula that made Donkey
Kong Country Returns a solid title, while improving on almost every aspect.
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My expectations were even exceeded, however, as Donkey
Kong Country: Tropical Freeze pushes the
formula forward in interesting new ways while at the same time delivering tight, challenging, familiar gameplay.
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.
While DKC purists might be put off by the change in the
formula of the traditional games, Donkey
Kong Country Returns is an excellent comeback to what is considered one of the best game series of the SNES era, as well as a nice entry point for people who never played the original games.
Retro Studios did a great job bringing the fun of DKC back with Donkey
Kong Country Returns, but with Tropical Freeze, Retro Studios seems to have mastered the
formula.
The Donkey
Kong series hasn't really done much else to truly revolutionize itself as of late, apart from a couple of odd bongo - based spin - offs, which does nothing but show how tried and true the
formula that permeated Donkey
Kong Country was.