Comments on: Review: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:34:22 +0000

That ‘Eye of the Tiger’ level is legitimately amazing!

By: Ethan 'Ethos' Pipher

Ethan 'Ethos' Pipher — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:42:56 +0000

It feels like if the Rayman series hadn’t returned in such visually-appealing, creative, and challenging form, there would be more of a place for Donkey Kong, but as it stands, I think its thunder has been effectively stolen.

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:40:57 +0000

Using old franchises is fine, but you do need to at least put an original spin on them.

By: James 'Gyme' Pagel

James 'Gyme' Pagel — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:16:57 +0000

@Lusipurr: Hasn’t that been the problem with Nintendo’s Wii U efforts all along? They keep trying to recreate the magic of the SNES but the results, while good games, have a “been-there-done-that” feeling to them.

Maybe this is the real reason that they release shitty games on the Virtual Console more often than not, they don’t want people to catch on that they are just re-releasing SNES classics. That being said, I still plan to buy Tropical Freeze.

By: Nate 'Bup' Liles

Nate 'Bup' Liles — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:38:59 +0000

Lusipurr, that’s a good question and I’m not really sure if I have an answer to it. Maybe just the fact that you can use any of the other Kongs instead of being limited to strictly one of them would be good motivation?

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:56:22 +0000

I am in no way related to Cranky Kong.

I know that these are solid games, but I don’t see that they are better in any way that the original SNES release of DK Country.

You say that they are good for fans of the original SNES games, but my question is: are they better? Is there *really* a reason to play these, instead?