We go bananas with Retro Studios' latest monkey-filled adventure!
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is coming to the West in February and we are slowly learning more and more about the title. We want share some interesting bits with you this, as we can present you with seven gameplay clips of this highly anticipated release. Everything ranging from an underwater level to some minecart madness passes through without any hesistation and hopefully you like what you are seeing! Stay around for written coverage this upcoming weekend.
In the aftermath of Nintendo missing their projections by a mile, it feels weird to see them trying to hype this game up. I mean, they should hype it. It's a finished product and one of the Wii U's biggest games. But it really seems like an out-of-date product now.Funny, I think it feels like a game that could be played at any point in a gamer's life like Super Mario Bros., Super Mario RPG or Metroid Prime. It seems like a game that wants to give the player a challenge and thrill them with exciting levels and yes, something that Nintendo would greenlight and make no matter what the troubles of the console it appears on may be.
The sales projection news felt like a turning point. It feels like at E3 Nintendo is going to debut a new direction of sorts. Not necessarily a new console or anything like that but some sort of reaction to the bad news. It would be weird for them to just go about the same as always as if nothing's wrong. Clearly they know they have to do something.
DKC Tropical Freeze feels like it's part of the old plan, the one that has failed. Like NSMB U it's a 2D platformer. Like Super Mario 3D World it got a cold reception upon its reveal. Like both of those games it seems to have a 3DS equivalent that was released first, though at least in this case the 3DS game was a port so there will be those that already owned it on the Wii that didn't get it on the 3DS. Nintendo's assumption that this would move Wii U's would naturally come from the same incorrect assumption they made about the Mario games. So would they have started making a game like this NOW? It feels like releasing a disco album in 1980. This isn't the game to make but it has the unfortunate timing of coming out after we found out this isn't the game to make.
Of course the game is done and will probably be great so you release it. But it just feels odd now. Like all pre-release hype would come across as forced. I wonder how long it will be until we start seeing games from Nintendo that feel like a reaction to the bad news: the "new" Nintendo I expect to see.
I'm lukewarm on all the NSMB games but I loved DKCR, played it over and over on Wii, then bought it on 3DS and played it again. Am I the only one...?
I'm not even sure quite what it is about it, it just has so much more charm. Rayman, too. NSMB feels formulaic, uninspired.
