All the challenging ground-pounding, barrel-blasting, side-scrolling mine cart action from the Donkey Kong Country series is back along with a bushel of new game-play elements and features. And now, there are four playable characters! Dixie Kong is back to join the adventure as a playable character alongside Diddy Kong, and for the first time in Donkey Kong Country, bearded old hero Cranky Kong joins the adventure with his bouncy cane. Any of the three can buddy up with Donkey Kong, and each character offers a different gameplay experience. On their journey to reclaim Donkey Kong Island, Donkey Kong and his friends travel across five islands with a variety of stages that include underwater areas and frozen environments.
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it's hard but not in the same way as the snes games or a megaman or ninja gaiden in that's it fun to conquer, since even when you complete each platforming challenge consecutively there's a distinct lack of forward momentum that a fast platformer ought to have to be "fun"
it's just kind of repetitive
it's just kind of repetitive
No other 2D platformer has blown me away in the way that Donkey Kong Frozen Ape. I was pretty young when I first played this, so I struggled a lot, but I was so determined to finish this game that my brother ended up helping me out.
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Beautiful graphics! The gameplay was awesome too! You can jump, roll, slam, duck, swim, climb, bounce, swing, float, fly, and more! With a partner on your back you gain two more hearts and gain a special ability, attack, and screen clear which would kill all enemies on screen and replace them with something useful. The world's were unique! Autumn Heights, Bright Savannah, and juicy jungle with juice and jello! There were also some classic worlds; sea breeze cove with water levels but also wind to deal with! Lost Mangroves was the first and it had all the classic elements plus some amazing surprises with the environment! Drop down platforms, vines, hanging from grass above! Then the final world is all fost which changes how bouncing platforms work and adds breaking platforms, and more.
There are also many special levels that do something really surprising but only in that one level. There's a Sea breeze Cove level that's underwater as usual, but then it's dark and you can only see silhouettes of everything! There's a Savannah level that is jumping across animal puppet heads that is awesome! There's jello to bounce through in one level in Juicy Jungle, there's a blizzard level with fast paced platforming in the final world(Donkey Kong Island) which is frozen over by the bad guys. There's falling leaves to platform across in Autumn Heights. A fire starts in Bright Savannah! There's an octopus to contend with in Sea Breeze Cove! A factory with chopping and spikey berry picking to dodge through in Juicy Jungle! Tornados in Brights Savannah! A sawmill to kart and boat through in Autumn Heights!
There are also amazing bosses! They all require you to memorize their move sets! They are all different animals just like previous Donkey Kong Country games! There a seal that slides and throws fish, an owl that swoops and throws feathers and strong wind your way, three baboons that a so much fun to face co-op!! and will swing and bomb in many ways, a pufferfish that.... sucks and blows both literally and figuratively.. I hate this boss... He puffs up so large you can barely avoid him!, a polar bear that swings a hammer and flings ice in many forms!, and I Walrus that charges you and uses ice and lava! He fires ice squids and lifts lava, and shoots ice dragons!! He also requires you to throw enemies at him as he tries to avoid and it's hilarious!
There were a few annoying things like the game doesn't explain well that you can clear all of the enemies on the screen by pressing L or R. I didn't use it the whole game because I didn't know about it until the end. Also it doesn't explain that you need to continuous press X or Y or make the rino run! That caused a lot of deaths. These were minor and didn't cause too much trouble overall. The ability to visit the shop and buy lives helped make up for this so much!
Besides these things there's also mine Cart levels, rocket riding levels, rino riding levels, and barrel blasting levels in each world!
The most fun part of the whole game is the co-op with my 6 year old. She loves gaming with me and we had so much fun playing this game together as she learns to play and we laugh together!!
Beautiful graphics! The gameplay was awesome too! You can jump, roll, slam, duck, swim, climb, bounce, swing, float, fly, and more! With a partner on your back you gain two more hearts and gain a special ability, attack, and screen clear which would kill all enemies on screen and replace them with something useful. The world's were unique! Autumn Heights, Bright Savannah, and juicy jungle with juice and jello! There were also some classic worlds; sea breeze cove with water levels but also wind to deal with! Lost Mangroves was the first and it had all the classic elements plus some amazing surprises with the environment! Drop down platforms, vines, hanging from grass above! Then the final world is all fost which changes how bouncing platforms work and adds breaking platforms, and more.
There are also many special levels that do something really surprising but only in that one level. There's a Sea breeze Cove level that's underwater as usual, but then it's dark and you can only see silhouettes of everything! There's a Savannah level that is jumping across animal puppet heads that is awesome! There's jello to bounce through in one level in Juicy Jungle, there's a blizzard level with fast paced platforming in the final world(Donkey Kong Island) which is frozen over by the bad guys. There's falling leaves to platform across in Autumn Heights. A fire starts in Bright Savannah! There's an octopus to contend with in Sea Breeze Cove! A factory with chopping and spikey berry picking to dodge through in Juicy Jungle! Tornados in Brights Savannah! A sawmill to kart and boat through in Autumn Heights!
There are also amazing bosses! They all require you to memorize their move sets! They are all different animals just like previous Donkey Kong Country games! There a seal that slides and throws fish, an owl that swoops and throws feathers and strong wind your way, three baboons that a so much fun to face co-op!! and will swing and bomb in many ways, a pufferfish that.... sucks and blows both literally and figuratively.. I hate this boss... He puffs up so large you can barely avoid him!, a polar bear that swings a hammer and flings ice in many forms!, and I Walrus that charges you and uses ice and lava! He fires ice squids and lifts lava, and shoots ice dragons!! He also requires you to throw enemies at him as he tries to avoid and it's hilarious!
There were a few annoying things like the game doesn't explain well that you can clear all of the enemies on the screen by pressing L or R. I didn't use it the whole game because I didn't know about it until the end. Also it doesn't explain that you need to continuous press X or Y or make the rino run! That caused a lot of deaths. These were minor and didn't cause too much trouble overall. The ability to visit the shop and buy lives helped make up for this so much!
Besides these things there's also mine Cart levels, rocket riding levels, rino riding levels, and barrel blasting levels in each world!
The most fun part of the whole game is the co-op with my 6 year old. She loves gaming with me and we had so much fun playing this game together as she learns to play and we laugh together!!
Pretty great
Donkey Kong: mamaco gelado é por enquanto é o melhor jogo de plataforma 2D que já joguei, level design perfeito, a gameplay fluída e precisa, a direção de arte estupidamente no ponto e ainda chamaram o Davi sabido (David Wise) de novo para fazer a trilha sonora. Retro Studios no seu auge, pena que nunca mais fizeram um jogo depois dessa MASTERPIECE.
9/10
9/10
truly classic. So lovingly crafted that I would say that most mario games don't hold a candle to it. Mario Wonder is the closest theyve gotten to this level of quality in 2d platformers and even then, this game blows it out the water. Would love another entry in this franchise, but Donkey Kong is stuck in the freezer right now (no pun intended) so i don't know when I'll see my favorite gorilla again.