One of the best memories I have with this game was playing it with my (at the time) 8 years old cousin, as he called Donkey Kong "GRAMPA" because to him he looked like our grandfather..... I dunno where he saw the similarities but I love that memory.
Country Returns is great: it's a awesome revival of the series after DK went in sort weird places throught his "bongos-junglebeat-kingofswing" phase. It takes the magical atmosphere of previous renditions of DK Island and adds a new twist to hit, creating incredibly memorable environments for a 2D platformers (especially the sunset levels: those are gorgeous).
As a game it's way tougher compared to your other platformers on the Wii, but it never feels unfair: it's a great balance between challenges that makes for really enduring and fun to revisit levels.
The secrets are as great as the ones from the first games, and the flow goes own for almost all of the worlds. Some specific levels I absolutely love have to do with swarms of spiders constantly chasing you into an endless tunnel, canyons full of unhinged fossils, and everything that has to do with Rambi, cause Rambi is the GOAT
The bosses are also really neat. They are nothing extremely memorable, but they are mostly fun in terms of designs and gimmicks.
My only gripe with this game is... the overall lack of older DK characters: Diddy and Cranky are back, but for the rest of the memorable cast, apparently Retro Studio didn't want to "steal" Rare's ideas so they came out with new villains and settings.
WHich is kinda fair, but also the results are not endearing: the Tikis are not really a memorable part of this game, especially compared to the Kremlins, and the rest of the allies are either completely absent or turned into item shops (Like Country returns did Squawks dirty, I loved that guy in DKC2)
Overall a great platformer, and the perfect title to make a lot of people return or jump into the franchise.. I just feel like it misses a lot of the charm and overall creativity of previous titles. Still a great time.
(BT TIki Tong's plan SUCKS: dude literally sacrificed all of his allies to create a pair of hands that breaks in 2 hits: dude is an idiot why is he allowed in the Nintendo theme park?
Country Returns is great: it's a awesome revival of the series after DK went in sort weird places throught his "bongos-junglebeat-kingofswing" phase. It takes the magical atmosphere of previous renditions of DK Island and adds a new twist to hit, creating incredibly memorable environments for a 2D platformers (especially the sunset levels: those are gorgeous).
As a game it's way tougher compared to your other platformers on the Wii, but it never feels unfair: it's a great balance between challenges that makes for really enduring and fun to revisit levels.
The secrets are as great as the ones from the first games, and the flow goes own for almost all of the worlds. Some specific levels I absolutely love have to do with swarms of spiders constantly chasing you into an endless tunnel, canyons full of unhinged fossils, and everything that has to do with Rambi, cause Rambi is the GOAT
The bosses are also really neat. They are nothing extremely memorable, but they are mostly fun in terms of designs and gimmicks.
My only gripe with this game is... the overall lack of older DK characters: Diddy and Cranky are back, but for the rest of the memorable cast, apparently Retro Studio didn't want to "steal" Rare's ideas so they came out with new villains and settings.
WHich is kinda fair, but also the results are not endearing: the Tikis are not really a memorable part of this game, especially compared to the Kremlins, and the rest of the allies are either completely absent or turned into item shops (Like Country returns did Squawks dirty, I loved that guy in DKC2)
Overall a great platformer, and the perfect title to make a lot of people return or jump into the franchise.. I just feel like it misses a lot of the charm and overall creativity of previous titles. Still a great time.
(BT TIki Tong's plan SUCKS: dude literally sacrificed all of his allies to create a pair of hands that breaks in 2 hits: dude is an idiot why is he allowed in the Nintendo theme park?