Summary: Not much has been added to the Nintendo
Switch rerelease of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, but it still deserves a place in your Switch library
Not exact matches
They're mostly games from years ago,
rereleased on the
Switch.
Rumours have remained strong about certain Nintendo games possibly set for a
rerelease for a while now — Wii U titles that didn't find as large an audience as they deserved on that struggling console but might find a new lease of life if improved and put out on the
Switch.
In the last few months, the Nintendo
Switch release schedule has been filled with ports and
rereleases of Indie games...
Nintendo's marketing strategy of
rereleasing slightly altered versions of critically acclaimed Wii - U games for the
Switch continues on with the re-release of Donkey Kong Country:
I'd rather have Clash of Ninja Revolution 2/3 or Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 on the
Switch (as much as those would be much more niche) and I've been hoping Bandai Namco can just
rerelease those (perhaps in a collection too) and the SEGA / Sony published Bleach games on other platforms.
I for one, will eagerly await the arrival of DQXI on the PS4 and also the upcoming
Switch version, especially if it includes the goodies Japan got with the DQ I - III ports getting
rereleased to celebrate.
This is why despite all the hate they will end up
rereleasing a good chunk of the Wii U's first party games if not most of them by the end of the
Switch's lifespan.
Nintendo's marketing strategy of
rereleasing slightly altered versions of critically acclaimed Wii - U games for the
Switch continues on with the re-release of Donkey Kong Country:
In the last few months, the Nintendo
Switch release schedule has been filled with ports and
rereleases of Indie games that already exist on other platforms.
Nintendo's marketing strategy of
rereleasing slightly altered versions of critically acclaimed Wii - U games for the
Switch continues on with the re-release of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the
Switch.
In fact, you could replace every mention of the Wii - U in that review with «the Nintendo
Switch» and it would still be almost completely applicable to this
rerelease, with one minor caveat.
However unlike Mario Kart 8: Deluxe, Tropical Freeze does not have a bevy of DLC or additional content to include with the
rerelease, with the only addition to the
Switch version being an «easy - mode» now available from the beginning of the game.
Putting aside opinions on Nintendo's insistence to
rerelease Wii - U games for the
Switch, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze remains one of Nintendo's best modern platformers, and the
Switch version is objectively better than the Wii - U version, even if that is simply due to the inclusion of Funky Kong's easy mode.
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2017 marks the dawn of Nintendo's latest piece of hardware, the
Switch, and with it came the announcement of a
rerelease of Mario Kart 8, with an abundance of changes to the original game.