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Best platformers of all time donkey kong country portable#

Playing through the game again on Switch was a pleasure for me. They’re all creatively marvellous and you’ll need to go through multiple sequences in order to beat each boss, making them a genuine challenge. Each boss is introduced with a beautiful cutscene, before a lengthy battle ensues. The boss battles shined when I played this game four years ago, and I was reminded with just how good they are, allowing me to enjoy them just as much this time around. The game gets difficult quite early, so I found it refreshing to be able to put my Switch in rest mode and come back to it effortlessly.

Best platformers of all time donkey kong country portable#

It’s perfect to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time, and it looks and runs fantastically in both portable mode and in docked mode. When it comes to the Switch, you’ll struggle to find many games that are better suite to the portability of the console. There’s some familiar tunes here, but also a bunch of new songs that are certain to get stuck in your head as you play through the game. Tropical Freeze’s soundtrack by David Wise was one of my favourite parts of the game on the Wii U, and it still delights four years later on the Nintendo Switch. With the level design being a little subpar, the characters being forgettable and it not having the charm of other games in the series, but thankfully Tropical Freeze still oozes polish from start to finish. Whilst I was a fan of Donkey Kong Country Returns on the Wii (and 3DS), it did feel a little bit soulless. Diddy is great for getting across long distances, Dixie is great at getting a little boost to reach high places, and Cranky is great to pogo across spiked areas. Each character has specific benefits and you’ll require all three of them to easily collect all puzzle pieces and K-O-N-G pieces throughout the levels. The use of all three characters takes the platforming in this game beyond what we’ve seen previously in the series. Donkey Kong along with his four friends, Diddy, Dixie, Cranky and Funky (we’ll get to him later), are here to provide even more frantic platforming goodness than we’ve seen in the past.

The artwork is stunning and the level design is still fantastic. The simplicity of the gameplay, with the challenging placement of platforms and enemies was addictive throughout each of the games.Fast forward 20 years and not much has changed with the release of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. The original Donkey Kong Country Trilogy were my favourite games growing up.